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Re:Metrics and Hiring on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @02:24PM (#6636345)
Great post. Would also be interested in seeing a breakdown of school strength across the referrals. And did you count Stanford as Ivy League? :)
Re:Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @06:21PM (#4237156)
Nice, love the idea of running with extra load to predict breaking points.
Re:Make Use Of The 21 Spare iPads You Have Laying Around on Thursday July 12, 2012 @03:28PM (#4236254)
Wow, that's really cool. How big of a screen did it end up being (curious about both inches and pixels)?
Re:Making Chrome better on iOS on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:41AM (#4222303)
According to Apple's documentation, "The UIPasteboard class enables an application to share data within the application or with another application using system-wide or application-specific pasteboards." http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/UIKit/...

For a couple examples: OpenUDID and SecureUDID use UIPasteboard.

Re:Making Chrome better on iOS on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:21AM (#4222243)
What about Google building this into the Chrome app?

When you launch the app for the first time, it could ask "Do you want to open URLs in Chrome by default in Chrome-enabled apps?", and make it possible to change this in Chrome's settings menu.

This setting could then be stored in a UIPasteboard named something like com.google.chrome.default, and apps that want to implement the functionality suggested in the original post would just look in this pasteboard for the current setting.

Re:App Academy: Free nine week iOS course on Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:55AM (#4048678)
This is great. Especially with services like Parse out there, I could see how a sufficiently motivated/creative person could start from zero programming experience and become a skilled iOS developer in the course of a summer.
Re:6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @07:01PM (#586061)
Those of us who work with Joe can vouch for that :)
Re:Hot and Heavy: About NBA Shooting on Sunday April 19, 2009 @07:15PM (#569925)
Re:ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do? on Sunday November 02, 2008 @01:51AM (#351234)
Ugh, just happened to me too. IMAP still works for what it's worth..
Re:Stormpulse showered with tips. on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @05:51PM (#306345)
Make it rain.
Re:IPhone Touch Events in JavaScript on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @09:05PM (#281067)
Great presentation last night at the JS meetup!
Really looks like an ad.
Re:Facebook Users Are Fans of Entertainment on Monday May 19, 2008 @08:17PM (#194599)
Here's the real question -- when will Facebook let me customize my profile with a Tila Tequila themed background?
Re:What's your definition of 'winning'? on Friday March 21, 2008 @03:51PM (#142733)
That's one way of looking at it, but I'd bet a lot of other people see it differently. All depends on your goals in life...
Yup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

Which YC companies have been doing cool JS stuff? Any of them going?

Re:Startup brings free wifi to SF on Saturday July 28, 2007 @06:26PM (#37345)
btw, meraki injects their own search box at the top of all html pages when you use their wifi. didn't see that mentioned anywhere in the article...
Re:Random startup tip #1: Picking a name on Friday July 06, 2007 @05:37PM (#32851)
Fake meaning what? Doostang is just a ridiculous name regardless, but it might have served Google well to see if 'googe' had any other connotations (whether or not they're in Merriam/Webster) before putting it in a logo.
Re:Amazon's S3, pay by the byte storage. on Friday February 23, 2007 @02:33PM (#735)
Yeah, S3 has been great for Jamglue -- we use it for both media storage and streaming. You can't beat the price, it's been reliable enough, and we've saved a lot of time by not having to worry about redundancy and scaling.
Re:Tech's younger generation leans on Web 2.0 for love on Sunday February 18, 2007 @11:49PM (#79)
Launch party circuit, eh?
Re: on Sunday February 18, 2007 @11:11PM (#76)
>> “I came to the conclusion that $500,000 was the new $5 million,” said Michael Maples Jr., an entrepreneur who created a $15 million venture fund aimed at investing in companies that required little capital. Pfft. $18k is the new $500k.

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