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Re:Converting YouTube ad revenue into trees [video] on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:42AM (#44569791)
Beau Miles, a most entertaining Aussie YouTuber, is running a project where all ad revenue from this video will be used to buy tree saplings, which he'll plant.
Re:Monotonic Versioning Manifesto on Sunday May 22, 2016 @11:41AM (#11748964)
That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png solid arrows show chronology, the colors highlight compatibility, dashed arrows are backporting.
Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...
Re:The CPAN Pull Request Challenge on Thursday January 01, 2015 @06:12AM (#8822637)
No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".
Re:The CPAN Pull Request Challenge on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @06:50PM (#8821633)
Let me check if it's on github ...
I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)
Re:Ask HN: What literature do you read? on Saturday September 14, 2013 @07:19PM (#6387467)
One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read (http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas...)
Re:Show HN: kouio, the Reader you've always wanted on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @05:07PM (#5980745)
$5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.
* might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here) * scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines of a story unless I'm interested. * Without some notion of how you're going to define relevance, I quickly became way of disliking something. * You could have a way to like/dislike the author, as well as the post. Ie a way to say "I always/never want to read stuff written by this person".
Yep, OmniGraffle for me. I've been using it for the last 8 years.
Re:Dear YC companies, I responded. You could do the same. on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @01:43PM (#5519718)
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
Re:Poll: Best RSS reader on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:02AM (#5374371)
Re:Petition: Keep Google Reader Running on Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:41AM (#5373823)
Much as I don't want Google to shutdown Reader (though I'm also relying on the http://www.reederapp.com author sorting out another back-end), I would suggest that the number of people signing the petition is going to be <= the number of people currently using Reader.

And Google have decided that number's not high enough for them to keep it around.

Re:Programming Languages - Hammer Principle on Sunday December 16, 2012 @02:35PM (#4929251)
That's a terrible UI. I wanted to add some data, but couldn't work out how to, and gave up in frustration.
That's a terrible visualization. It takes way too long to work out what "the story" is.
Re:Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game on Friday September 28, 2012 @07:20AM (#4585000)
Nice, needs a bit more complexity and slightly less frustration :-)
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." - Howard H. Aiken

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken

Linux.CentOS
Since you're being pedantic, the word you were looking for was "pedantry", not pedanticism :-)
Re: What do you think of our signup process? on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:52PM (#3501815)
- The front page needs to offer me at least a one paragraph overview of what the service is.

- Center-aligned text inputs don't work for me

- the first few steps felt fine, being 'forced' to give details of team members etc started to annoy me: I started thinking "just either tell me what it is now, if it doesn't exist, or let me get on to playing with it". I gave up at that point so don't know if there was a working service at the end :-)

Re:Free CSS3 Kindle Book on Wednesday January 11, 2012 @04:07AM (#3450977)
Now listed at £7.20 on amazon.co.uk (11th Jan 09:08)
Re:Show HN: Simple version control for designers on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @11:48AM (#2941928)
Going back in time left-to-right feels wrong, though perhaps those who read text RTL may disagree :-)

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