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Re:Amazon Instant Video on Apple iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:07PM (#4917472)
Macworld recently wrote about this: http://www.macworld.com/article/1168038/playing_amazon_insta...

As others have commented, it's a licensing issue.

One workaround is loading the Amazon Video Player in Safari on a Mac, then mirroring the display on AppleTV. Looks best in full screen mode.

Re:Secure Shell chrome (killer) app on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:28PM (#3911282)
That's right. But Secure Shell also knows how to connect to an HTTP-to-ssh relay.
Re:Secure Shell chrome (killer) app on Monday April 30, 2012 @04:12PM (#3911187)
One use case would be ssh over http. Corporate proxies often disallow ssh traffic.
Re:Dive into Responsive Prototyping with Foundation on Friday April 27, 2012 @10:14AM (#3899108)
Looks like Balsamiq Mockups.

http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

Re:Building and implementing a Single Sign-On solution on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @01:03PM (#3798518)
Any thoughts on Atlassian Crowd?

http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/overview

Re:Jelastic - Holy Grail of Java Hosting? (user review) on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:17AM (#3724276)
Their documentation looks a lot like Heroku Dev Center. Anyone know if this is an open source wiki?
Re:How Y Combinator Started on Friday March 16, 2012 @12:01PM (#3713841)
It's hard for people to realize now how inconsequential YC seemed at the time. I can't blame people who didn't take us seriously, because we ourselves didn't take that first summer program seriously in the very beginning.

I attended the "How to Start a Startup" talk in 2005. I remember going home and reading pg's website, the whole thing, cover-to-cover. Later that year I met Steve Wozniak at the first Startup School held in Cambridge. Woz, Chris Sacca and pg left a lasting impression on me. I had never witnessed that level of information density and knowledge sharing. Amazing to look back at those humble beginnings. Always grateful for YC and the HN community.

Re:Apple releases Ipad 3 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @03:21PM (#3676977)
Looks like the iPad2 is available for $399 now.
Re:Stop Launching Shitty MVPs in Competitive Markets on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @01:03PM (#3320163)
I think the author makes some important points. So I visited Groove and tried to sign-up. This is what I got on Chrome in Mac OS X.

http://i.imgur.com/fBnYl.png

Re:Marco Arment on the new Kindles on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:29PM (#3049748)
Doesn't seem fitting to end the post with affiliate links, after criticizing Amazon for offering ad supported versions of the Kindle.
Re:Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @11:14AM (#3048227)
Interesting. Found some more details here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2#silk

Re:Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @11:01AM (#3048146)
Interested to see what type of web browser they ship on these new devices.
Re:Rails 3.1 shipping with CoffeeScript on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:16PM (#2442924)
Jose Valim commented on the commit:

This is going to be in your generated Gemfile only. It can still be swapped, removed or replaced as everyone is used to do when it comes to prototype/jquery.

Re:Salary negotiation for engineers on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @11:15AM (#2437532)
Absolutely. Would love to read more about your thoughts on negotiating contracts.
Re:Salary negotiation for engineers on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:36AM (#2437367)
The five tweets:

1) Salary negotiation for engineers in 5 tweets: Never, ever reveal past salary information or your salary floor. #salarynegotiation

2) Every number in your contract is subject to negotiation. Hear otherwise? They're lying for advantage. #salarynegotiation

3) We are all businessmen here. Insecurity will not be rewarded with karma. Competency will not be viewed as greed. #salarynegotiation

4) Always have a counteroffer. Always have an option to walk away from the negotiation. #salarynegotiation

5) It is a seller's market now for talent. If they don't budge, firm handshake and wish them well in their search. #salarynegotiation

Re:Imagine K12 on Friday March 18, 2011 @11:48AM (#2340781)
This reminds me of SchoolTool - http://schooltool.org/

It's a project conceived by Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu project founder.

Re:Today, Web Development Sucks on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @01:31PM (#2166609)
Google built the GWT so they didn’t have to write code twice, but I don’t want to be stuck in the Java world or be forced to learn the whole GWT and make any open source buddies of mine learn it too.

Groovy/Grails works well with GWT. Idiomatic Groovy looks more like Python than Java. Another possibility is Vaadin, which is built on GWT.

Re:Obama calls Steve Jobs' success prime example of American wealth on Thursday December 23, 2010 @12:56PM (#2035203)
Most of Jobs' wealth comes from shares of Walt Disney Co. that he received when the media conglomerate acquired Pixar in 2006. Disney shares recently hit a 52 week high of $38.

I'm surprised that most of Jobs' wealth comes from the sale of Pixar. Even with Apple's stock price ($323) valued at nearly 9 times the value of Disney ($37).

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