yarek
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for...
on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:21AM (#16132307)
Comes from French "herbe" meaning "grass/plant". "Herbe" is also source for English "herb".
Re:The $100B per year back pain industry is mostly a hoax
on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:04AM (#14702043)
Is your doc Sydney based? Mind sharing the contact info?
Re:Don't Talk to Corp Dev
on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:15AM (#8879535)
"- that is why" would have been better than ", that is why".
Re:How You Know
on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @06:11AM (#8756635)
Fascinating. A corollary would be: be careful what you read and be critical of what you read. There is danger of manipulation, particularly by others. The plus is that you could manipulate yourself, change personal perceptions and mode of thinking.
Re:The insanely confusing path to legal immigration, in one chart
on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @01:42PM (#5135496)
TN visa cannot be used to start the immigration process. You have to convert to H1B or L1 visa, etc.
Request: automatic sorting of email in outlook
Every day I get to use Outlook/Exchange to get my daily fix of email. There is lots of it. I spend a significant amount of time waddling through it. Most of time I do batch processing, sorting mail to folders, reading select batches and only then responding. Much of the sorting to folders could be automated by an intelligent set of filters, except that creating filters in outlook is tedious...
Re:My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
on Friday June 24, 2011 @04:15AM (#2691467)
I'm so very sorry to hear this story. It reminds me of another one about Indian engineers looking for brides back home - I heard on NPR a few years back. It was heart breaking to hear that the order of preference for the potential brides was citizen, h1b applying for green card, green card holders. You see, if you are on h1b your spouse can stay with you (but cannot work), and if you get a green card while already married, she gets one too. But, if you already have a green card, you are in worst possible case from family point of view, as explained above. It really, really sucks.
Re:What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Startups 4 Years Ago
on Thursday February 24, 2011 @04:15AM (#2257404)
This is a gem of an advice.
Re:A zombie keyboard, an app-store rejection, a call from Steve Jobs
on Thursday November 11, 2010 @07:51PM (#1896059)
Chalk it up for First Encounters of the Third Kind with the "reality distortion zone".
Seriously, a conversation can go a long way to assuage an otherwise difficult situation without actually resolving it.
Ask HN: choosing your software stack.
Assuming you and your buddies are serious about a web start up, you are the CTO type and you feel you are proficient in Lisp and a host of other languages. Assume the rest of the gang knows Java. Do you insis on Lisp, or go along with the majority? Would you worry about future hires?
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone hacked their homes?
on Saturday November 06, 2010 @02:24AM (#1876325)
I moved the kitchen and removed some walls.
Re:Notifo (YC W10) Launches New Site and Mac Growl Client
on Friday August 20, 2010 @10:13PM (#1622113)
Every time I try the site on my iPhone, safari crashes immediately. I can share details by email.
Re:Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
on Monday August 16, 2010 @03:17AM (#1607097)
Hack: search for an empty string.
Re:Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:51AM (#1606879)
Thanks for the feedback. I am sorry that the experience was sub par due to problems on port 443. Try again.
Your other points are well taken. Design needs polish, and it needs content from a wider audience of users.
Interesting thought "wordrobe reddit". That's a one sentnce pitch right there.
Any thoughts on the name?
Re:Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:44AM (#1606863)
The intended way to make money at first is through affiliates program at Amazon. We did wanted to expand selection to other sites and even for items freely created by the user. That's in the future, there was enough to do just getting the Amazon content.
The idea is that as a login user you can create your own outfit. Other users can suggest better items either in lieu of existing ones or additional ones. As a set owner you can choose to show the suggested items.
Some of the features are not visible until you log in. I'm thinking that this should change, and instead make the non-logged user conted ephemeral, with a reasonable TTL.
Regarding the cross hair cursor, it was intended to make the user think the area was actionable, but perhaps that is a turnoff. It's hard to add a link to the set there without making the display more crowded and clutter the display.
Re:Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:34AM (#1606845)
The server on port 443 was down, which affected the experience ( broken links). Try that again if you can.
Re:Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:30AM (#1606841)
Awesome feedback. Had a problem with port 443, and so the experience was broken. Would you mind trying again and re-evaluate?
If not Java, why not then go with Lisp?
Given that the current Oracle lawsuit is seriously denting Jave's image, and given that one of the early intention for Java was to drag C++ developers half way to Lisp, do you think now would be a good time to consider Lisp on earnest? BTW, how does the lawsuit affect Clojure?
Ask HN: please give feedback on Fashionista Pals
http://www.fashionistapals.com
Please let us know what you thin of this fashion-sharing site.
I don't want to be rich, I just want people to be happy and fashionable
Re:Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding industry
on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @12:40AM (#1553603)
Have you considered using 3d printers to generate the press template on demand?
Re:Fake femme fatale shows social network risks
on Monday July 26, 2010 @01:31AM (#1547230)
On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog.
Re:High Ground Maneuver (Scott Adams on the iPhone 4 press conference)
on Monday July 19, 2010 @07:08PM (#1530530)
No, I think the perceived question in the media and in the largely non-owners of iPhone was exactly whether iPhone 4 was a dud. If Jobs didn't defuse that question, the iPhone sales had a potential of peaking much, much sooner than it will now because new customers would be willing to sit and wait.
Re:Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?
on Thursday June 17, 2010 @03:13AM (#1438207)
Note: Used RapidSSL, paid $10.95. Best lunch's worth of money ever spent. Beats GoDaddy, as no cert chains are not required.
Re:Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?
on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @03:10AM (#1432025)
Thanks for the info - sounds reasonable. Now I have to figure out how to make that work for hunchentoot.
Re:Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?
on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @03:03AM (#1432013)
Because different browsers have different set of root certificates/authorities to authenticate the certificate.
Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?
I got a certificate from GoDaddy, and it only seems to work without throwing user warnings on only a handful of browsers (FF on windows, but not on Linux, not chrome, etc). Shelling out several hundred bucks for a Verisign certificate seems awfully steep for a shoe string operation. Are there better alternatives?
Re:Amazon's Universal Wish List button: add anything on the web to you...
on Sunday May 23, 2010 @11:48PM (#1373724)
Correct. At least three years as a concept.
Re:Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage
on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:23PM (#596646)
I think one of the points of the article was that companies are not willing to take someone not fully qualified AND train them proves there is no shortage. If there was shortage, a company will be willing to go out of the way to hire someone. It's much cheaper to hire someone with the just the right skills, and since a company can do that (even with some work for the hiring manager) and get someone further supports the argument.