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Re:Show HN: Collaborative Time Capsules on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:03PM (#6137125)
I think this is a neat idea.

"We're building forword to change the way we think about time."

But I'm sick of that kind of thing being on every website. Websites don't need to change the world, it's okay to have a site that's just neat. Right?

Re:CSS filters, GIFs, and performance on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:29AM (#5978434)
The typography keeps throwing me off too. The process is:

Bugs Strict mode didn't know existed

That doesn't make sense. Oh wait, there are little words between each of those lines.

Re:Why You Shouldn’t Join Medium on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:49PM (#5974582)
To be fair, a lot of his complaints about Medium don't copy over to Svbtle, even if they seem very similar to readers. The page has Google Analytics running, and links only to writing by the same author.

It'll be interesting to see which platform does better. They've both got the beautiful reading pages, so it'll come down to who can get the writers.

Re:DuckDuckGo launches Search & Stories app on Thursday June 27, 2013 @11:32AM (#5952805)
Is this news? I downloaded it a few days ago. When did it launch?
Re:DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @11:23AM (#5906040)
I was looking into this recently, and I found this, on the FAQ:

"Ads cannot be retrieved from the developer directly but instead through the end user's browser. Calling for the Ads from a server will lead to detection and termination of the customer."

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/sb_spo...

So you're saying that the United States is right and every other developed country is wrong?

Morals aside, that seems like a bit of a stretch.

Re:Requests per second vs. concurrent connections on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:57PM (#5501328)
This page had way too much going on. I'm interested in the topic, but couldn't get past the introduction with the constantly moving background.
I think so. NPM packages are only supposed to rely on node and other NPM packages. Meteorite packages also rely on Meteor, which isn't an NPM package.
Re:How to get lost users to come back to your product on Thursday April 04, 2013 @01:20PM (#5493827)
It's probably people with a lot of friends in your area. And if you already have a few friends, it's probably friends of those friends. Maybe pretty girls are just the ones with the most friends?
Re:April Fool: Introducing Strikingly Cloud on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:32PM (#5476073)
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who scrolls up and down through pages with the arrow keys. I don't like it when sites mess with them.
Or Canada.
Re:An App That Moves Sports Fans to Better Seats on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:43PM (#5461556)
Wow, it's nice to see that these guys are still going. They posted here a while ago, about not getting into Y Combinator, but that clearly didn't stop them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2507662

I think it's an interesting read, and it puts things in perspective.

Re:Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:57PM (#5456489)
Or 1897, when pi was almost legally changed to 3.2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
Agreed. There's a picture of him, and it says it's of him at demo day, but the article doesn't mention anything about Y Combinator. Very confusing.