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Re:Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @03:04PM (#594551)
Lame.
Re:Designer/Writer Selling Everything She Owns on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @03:04PM (#594552)
Lame.
Re: Cash-Strapped State Schools Being Forced to Privatize on Thursday April 23, 2009 @02:09PM (#576179)
Interesting. I'm not sure I see the benefit to the students? Won't this cause tuition costs to go even higher?
Re:Ask HN: Which login method do you use? on Thursday April 23, 2009 @12:58PM (#575999)
We used a combination of Cake Auth
Re:Ask HN: How are GoDaddy SSL certificate's so cheap? on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @01:32PM (#574190)
Yeah, we're in the market and it almost seems to good to be true.

Any experience with the EV certs?

IMHO, this seems like it might be a good way to add user confidence if you're going the route of a lessor market brand.

How innovative is Facebook?

Just a thought here, but didn't Facebook jump on the 'status updates' well after the success of twitter? Additionally, didn't Facebook Connect evolve from Disqus.This begs the question, what has Facebook created since the abstraction of the 'Wall'?

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Re:Get Hacker News on IM, Email, SMS or the web on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:02PM (#564243)
Very nice. I could see this going both ways: horribly annoying and inundating (recall twitter updates via IM); an awesome way to stay on top of everything that flows these channels.
Re:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut on Friday April 10, 2009 @10:27AM (#556078)
In undergrad we had an intel prototype version of this (can't remember the exact name). It pretty much ruled because it was ~1998 and nothing even close to it existed (i.e. small and lightweight laptops). We couldn't figure out why a market didn't exist for the product either. Apparently after a fully functional prototype, Intel couldn't find a market for it either. Still puzzles to me.

Then big issues in the device then were lack of flash and lack of power. They claim those have been resolved. We shall see.

Will a device like this become ubiquitous? I can see it finding a home in the kitchen, next to the bed or on the coffee table. The key here is making it lightweight and not delicate. I'm thinking something more in between a TOUGHBOOK and a MacBook. Something you can drop in the kitchen and throw on the couch and have the kids play with. Perhaps, with a aim of $200 that doesn't even matter.

Re:How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @02:39PM (#530561)
In terms of merchants, who can you say has been the best and easiest to do deal with?
Re:How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @12:58PM (#530382)
That's great to know!
Re:New Google Chrome Beta on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @06:51PM (#520781)
Totally worthless. Out of beta and no Mac? C'mon guys!