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arjunb··on The End of Car Culture
Actually it has seemed like this is the primary point most of these stories have been making for a while.

"The percentage of young drivers is inversely related to the availability of the Internet, Mr. Sivak’s research has found. Why spend an hour driving to work when you could take the bus or train and be online?" (from the article)

"...[A]lmost everything about digital media and technology makes cars less desirable or useful and public transportation a lot more relevant." [from May 2010, http://adage.com/article/digital/digital-revolution-driving-...]

arjunb··on Want to contact a stranger on Facebook? Pay $1
A more complex but potentially fairer variation of this idea is to create an ecosystem where each sender posts a bond when delivering a message to an unknown recipient. If the recipient finds the message abusive/spammy, they could flag it as such and claim the bond, otherwise the message is received without a cost to the sender.
arjunb··on Engineering Pornography (2002)
"I don't see why every web site makes you create a new account. Why not log into everything with my facebook account?"

Actually for many web sites this is a pretty good idea too.

arjunb··on Ask HN: Who's hiring?
we're looking for hackers that like to move fast: http://www.facebook.com/careers/department.php?dept=engineer...
arjunb··on Mint.com should be a platform
like...blippy?
arjunb··on Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?
zillow has a pretty decent api
arjunb··on Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history
Keep in mind: this quote is from 10 years ago.
arjunb··on Facebook adds @mentions to status updates.
yeah, we're rolling it out over the next few weeks.
arjunb··on How a month and a half on Paxil taught me to love being shy.
Are there good ways of measuring your dopamine/serotonin levels?
arjunb··on Girl wants to work for Twitter. Creates site.
Kind of ironic that she created a blog, instead of a twitter feed, for this.
arjunb··on How to stop the drug wars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4417261.stm

Seems to indicate that THC stops inflammation of blood vessels by suppressing the immune system's response. Also seems that oral delivery was used vs. smoking.

arjunb··on Facebook is now competing with Disqus (et. al)
hey alecco - site owners have full access to all the raw data via API or FQL, btw.
arjunb··on Ask HN (+girlfriends): Review my site - RetailFans.com
You might also consider using Facebook Connect. Check out http://www.brightkite.com/ as one example of a pretty nice login flow, there are more on our wiki @ http://tinyurl.com/6ybl44.
arjunb··on Ask HN: public code reviews?
The http://stackoverflow.com community might also be helpful for this.
arjunb··on Ask HN: Which company do you wish had a developer API?
the netflix apis offer pretty rich catalog detail APIs that are RESTful: http://developer.netflix.com/
arjunb··on Ask HN: Which company do you wish had a developer API?
interface Energy { getUsage(); setPowerState(outletID, powerState); ... }

I wonder if we could create a developer community oriented around defining interface standards we'd like to consume.

arjunb··on Ask HN: Which company do you wish had a developer API?
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
arjunb··on How to accept OpenID in a popup without leaving the page
check out this demo too: http://openid-demo.appspot.com/
arjunb··on Ask HN: Help me make HN work well on the iPhone
I hacked up dalampati.com/ihacker/ a while ago, but it's just the consumption-side of HN.
arjunb··on Clay Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy - Social Software Design
nice, what are you researching?
arjunb··on Review my website: Cornify
Great business model!
arjunb··on Some things need to change
I do agree that this is over the line.

But I'm also slightly conflicted - why did I laugh when the Arabic reporter threw his shoe at Bush a few months ago? In retrospect, that event should have been just as inexcusable. What if Georgey wrote up a similar blog post about his experience? How would I have felt then?

arjunb··on Ask HN: How effective are "share this" buttons?
like another user mentioned, shareaholic looks pretty interesting. however, i think browser plugins are too high friction for an average user to install. has anyone implemented something similar as a bookmarklet?
arjunb··on Hacker news directory - find hackers at your school
yeah, you can use facebook connect to get the school networks associated to a user. might help simplify your reg process.
arjunb··on Facebook Programming Environment Contest
the winner: http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2009/01/22/i-won-a-facebook-...
arjunb··on Facebook Events API enhanced: adds create, modify, cancel, rsvp
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arjunb··on Facebook Events API enhanced: adds create, modify, cancel, rsvp
test
arjunb··on Facebook Events API enhanced: adds create, modify, cancel, rsvp
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arjunb··on Facebook Events API enhanced: adds create, modify, cancel, rsvp
testing depth
arjunb··on The $300 Million Button
Yep. Why does it seem like most new sites still roll their own reg? OpenID/Facebook Connect/etc all seem like better choices.
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