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URL as only one word(alphabets) no use of dots, slashes and other funky characters, like while you want to go to google you simply type google
It is one of the common things that regularly happen.
Re:Twitter Now Valued at $7 Billion on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:46PM (#2732404)
Why is any popular start up consistently valued way more than they actually are?
Re:Google to launch flight search service soon on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:43PM (#2732398)
Google might acquire Hipmunk which already uses GWT.
Re:BitTorrent Turns 10: Happy Birthday on Saturday July 02, 2011 @09:43AM (#2721597)
Happy Birthday BitTorrent!!!
Re:Ask HN: What documentaries are worth watching? on Sunday June 26, 2011 @11:54PM (#2700033)
The Man from Earth (2007) is a worth watch.
Nagar means City/Village in Hindi which originally comes from Sanskrit "nagaram"
Re:UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right - Now What? on Monday June 13, 2011 @06:51AM (#2648641)
Education in one's mother tongue is not a human right.
Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:23AM (#2648222)
. is by itself a Latin character.
Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names on Monday June 13, 2011 @12:55AM (#2648175)
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
I think this would be cheaper for Apple than constructing and maintaining its own data center.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Instant (3 hour project) on Saturday June 04, 2011 @11:05PM (#2621173)
Re:My Two Revolutionary Wishes For Apple’s WWDC on Saturday June 04, 2011 @01:24PM (#2619909)
It is not Apple's problem.
Re:Why Ayn Rand Is Wrong (and Why It Matters) on Saturday June 04, 2011 @07:26AM (#2619337)
Rand's philosophy is more than opposite of collectivism.
Re:Ask HN: What books are you reading on Friday June 03, 2011 @06:50AM (#2615834)
Atlas Shrugged.
Re:Top Programming Fonts on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @09:04AM (#2583805)
Why out of nowhere is this old article brought up ?
Re:Life’s too short to build stuff nobody wants on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:14PM (#2582704)
Ayn rand's attitude I guess.
Re:Firefox 5 Beta is available for download on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @07:33AM (#2579430)
Use it if you want break all the working addons for nothing.
Re:Twitter acquires TweetDeck on Monday May 23, 2011 @10:08PM (#2578383)
Advantage of doing it right...
Re:Venmo Review on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @11:36PM (#2558953)
How did this app for iPhone got accepted when the Bitcoin app was rejected ?
Re:Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @12:41PM (#2556892)
Wouldn't it be much better if we seek a robotic natural language or modify existing natural language to make robotic ?
Re:Responding to Criticism on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @12:40PM (#2556889)
Criticism with settled conclusions should be the way of a debate.
Re:The Mind Lab on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @12:38PM (#2556881)
Awesome! I just finished the first chapter.
I think they are actually like the movie.
It even works well with Wine in Linux.
COUNTER TERRORISTS WIN respawning in 3... 2... 1...
Re:Should Twitter Extend the 140 Character Limit? on Sunday May 08, 2011 @09:59AM (#2525869)
There is not even a decent link shortener in twitter.com
Re:Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR) on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:09AM (#2485517)
Really great idea. Other opensource community should learn from this.

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