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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:28PM (#18636657)
Google Desktop. I haven't yet seen a good, cross-platform alternative to search within documents on my PC, with a browser interface.
Re:AWS US East is experiencing high error rates on several services
on Sunday September 20, 2015 @09:12AM (#10247374)
You still depend on some provider. Or, are you talking about multi cloud installations ?
Re:Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
on Saturday August 08, 2015 @11:21AM (#10027478)
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
Re:Introducing the New Yahoo Mail
on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:18PM (#4906225)
I use Yahoo Mail and pay $20, so I can create temporary email addresses. I know there are other free temp email services, but I like to have it one place, makes it easier to search as well.
Re:Introducing the New Yahoo Mail
on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @12:55PM (#4905701)
Looks much better, but did you find a way to disable notifications ? I didn't see any settings menu.
Re:Kasparov and Thiel: Our dangerous illusion of tech progress
on Thursday November 08, 2012 @08:56PM (#4760879)
So, does that mean singularity won't happen anytime soon ? :-(
Re:Panorama picture of Mars
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:49PM (#4358269)
Except Foveon cameras. http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=69
Re:Another free course: Model Thinking
on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @01:44AM (#3289389)
Here you go...
http://thinkmentalmodels.com/page67/page67.html
Re:Amazon Prime’s new killer app: Kindle books by subscription
on Thursday November 03, 2011 @01:33AM (#3190461)
You can do this from Kindle.. Go to Kindle Store and then to Owner's Lending Library. There are categories and subcategories and books are sorted by bestselling
Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:32PM (#3050409)
I think touch is useful, if you browse a lot. Using keyboard to navigate links is hard.
Re:Two thousand years in one chart
on Sunday September 11, 2011 @12:53PM (#2984137)
Cheap hydrocarbons made all the difference in the 20th century. Whether this growth will flatten or slow down, we will wait and see.
Re:Cobra effect
on Friday July 08, 2011 @04:45PM (#2744023)
Sounds to be the same as "The law of unintended consequences"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences
Re:Google+ Demo
on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:33AM (#2708518)
Go here, accept the conditions
https://www.google.com/accounts/MultipleSessions
On the right top menu, Switch Accounts, sign in to second account, (may need to accept conditions again). At this point, you will be able to switch back and forth, between the two accounts
Re:Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?
on Friday May 13, 2011 @02:08AM (#2543741)
Re:The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @11:28PM (#2465136)
http://robertjhastings.net/
The true joy of life is the trip, not the destination
Re:Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich
on Saturday January 29, 2011 @12:41PM (#2155840)
Why not charge a toll depending on traffic ? As the traffic increases, the toll increases (and vice versa), which will keep the lane fast moving. Not my idea, someone has already implemented this.
Re:Few hours left for grabbing a free premium Licorize account
on Friday October 01, 2010 @11:08AM (#1747252)
I don't see a link to free premium. How do I get it ?
Re:If you had money to invest in tech stock, which would you choose?
on Saturday September 25, 2010 @05:18PM (#1727892)
MSFT
Their free cash flow last year was $22 bn and their enterprise value is $177bn, which gives EV/FCF of slightly above 8.
Re:Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client
on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:46AM (#1708985)
Great app. Can you please add a "Read later button", that will save it to Instapaper/ Read it later/ Delicious/ download to SD. (the option of where to save could be configurable). Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: when is Google Instant coming to my GMail search?
on Saturday September 11, 2010 @07:15PM (#1682596)
But then, the amount of data that you search in gmail is a drop in the ocean compared to web search.