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Re:The fall of Big Paper on Saturday March 17, 2012 @06:55PM (#3718460)
Paper manufacturers should start making consumables for 3d printers.
Re:Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:06PM (#3353137)
Just look at Markus Persson. He was a relatively unknown indie game developer until Minecraft.
Re:Why Everyone is in Sales on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @06:36PM (#3326745)
A recent article in the New York Times called "Generation Sell" also talks about this issue: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepr...

"Well, we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base. We’re all selling something today, because even if we aren’t literally selling something (though thanks to the Internet as well as the entrepreneurial ideal, more and more of us are), we’re always selling ourselves. We use social media to create a product — to create a brand — and the product is us. We treat ourselves like little businesses, something to be managed and promoted."

Re:Next Stop Mars: Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet on Saturday November 26, 2011 @05:29PM (#3280899)
Here is a video of the launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irBg4DvHI6c
Re:ORM is an anti-pattern on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @11:27PM (#2660007)
Generalizations are an anti-pattern.
Re:Newegg.com withdraws IPO on Friday May 27, 2011 @07:20PM (#2593416)
Re:Joe Hewitt : I'm an indie developer now. on Friday May 06, 2011 @09:01PM (#2522989)
Haha: <img class="profilePic" src="/themes/pimp/me.jpg" title="Ladies - I'm taken.">
This is very very cool. However I noticed something familiar about the logo:

http://www.brumfieldhay.com/images/PurinaLogo_LG.JPG

Personally I would change it to avoid trademark issues. Although you might be okay as long as you don't use a red colored version of your logo.

Re:Ask HN: What to read instead of Techcrunch? on Friday April 01, 2011 @11:46PM (#2399061)
http://www.techmeme.com/ is all you need.
Re:iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 on Friday March 25, 2011 @02:33AM (#2367494)
1. It just works - I have never encountered an issue with the bookmarklet not formatting an article correctly.

2. Day vs. night mode. You can configure it to automatically switch to white text on a black background at night.

3. Performance - even with 100+ articles the app doesn't slow down and downloads new articles in seconds. Switching between articles and scrolling long articles is liquid smooth.

Overall, you can tell just by using it that a ton of thought was put into the UI.

Re:iOS device and OS version stats from Instapaper 3.0 on Friday March 25, 2011 @01:12AM (#2367353)
Apple should preinstall Instapaper on new iPads. It's just that good.
Re:Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech? on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @08:44PM (#2362237)
The article falls under "Anything that good hackers would find interesting"

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:30AM (#2335075)
The W3C HTML validator gives up after the second line of the document:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fna.isobar.com...

Re:Steve Jobs on Apple's brand strategy in 1997 on Thursday March 10, 2011 @09:33PM (#2311896)
There is no denying Steve Jobs is a brilliant leader who can inspire people.
Re:Instapaper 3.0 is here on Thursday March 10, 2011 @09:10PM (#2311832)
Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper, was also the former lead developer of Tumblr. It's clear that he has great a sense for UI design.

http://www.marco.org/

Re:Salary negotiations for techies on Thursday March 10, 2011 @02:33PM (#2310400)
Have you ever had a situation where you had to negotiate multiple offers? How did you negotiate to get the highest possible offer from each?
Auto-generated content is the future. Look at how good Minecraft is. The terrain in that game is all procedurally generated.
Re:How many developers over 40 do you know? on Saturday March 05, 2011 @06:46PM (#2292872)
Better question: how many people (developers or not) over 40 keep learning and stay hungry? How many people over 30?

This is not an issue unique to developers.

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