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Re:Ask HN: Where to find problems for side projects? on Sunday August 12, 2012 @09:36PM (#4374234)
Talk to people around you (barber, barista, waiter, friends and family, etc) about the technology that they use. (smartphone, facebook, etc) The conversation almost always turns to complaining about how they wish things would work. Those are your problems to solve.
Re:Give HN: domain names on Saturday August 11, 2012 @04:05PM (#4370854)
I'd be interested in cardnik.com and tapbrite.com
Re:Curiosity's first images from Mars on Monday August 06, 2012 @01:44AM (#4343933)
As far as I know, the cameras a folded in during landing which is why the view is of the wheels and rear.
Re:I Hate to Pick on Facebook, But … on Thursday August 02, 2012 @02:52PM (#4330333)
It says he will be in the USA starting August 2013. Also it is extremely common in India to use celebrity pictures as profile pictures.
Re:Ridiculous Gigs on Thursday August 02, 2012 @01:11AM (#4327387)
It is not surprising that people turn to exaggeration in order to stand out amongst the hundreds of other basically identical posts. For example all the $1 price and keyword spam in the forsale section.
Did you test how different antivirus programs respond to this?
Re:Ticketmaster: Rocking The Most Hated Brand In America on Saturday June 25, 2011 @11:31PM (#2697300)
It's perplexing that they charge such a large premium when the industry must be saving many millions of dollars a year in printing costs, box office attendants, and sales.
Re:Sketch in 3D With Animating Lines on HTML5 canvas on Monday June 06, 2011 @10:48PM (#2627696)
Is there a way to express the depth of the cursor in the drawing? If I draw a circle on the left side of the canvas, I cant figure out how to draw a line through its center.
Re:Show HN: Google Charts done in Canvas, side project on Sunday June 05, 2011 @03:08PM (#2622636)
could you recomment a tutorial or blogpost or source repo demonstrating how to do this?
Re:Spirit obit on Saturday June 04, 2011 @06:09PM (#2620603)
The mars rover project is a source of inspiration for hackers everywhere. JPL should be applauded for the successful design and deployment of a "product" in some of the harshest imaginable conditions and then have it exceed expectations more than 10 times over. A testament to what can be accomplished with a billion dollars.
Re:NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @02:25AM (#2583114)
I was similarly inspired by the original Pathfinder rover.
Re:Opal: Ruby runtime and library on top of Javascript on Saturday May 21, 2011 @11:59PM (#2572569)
is there an associated product or project that this was developed along with? I am curious as to how this is being used