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brownieon Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player

Anyone know if it does episode bookmarking/favourites?

brownieon An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin

I've had people from Portland tell me that, on noticing the high number of homeless people around. Not sure if I believe that...

brownieon Teller on theft in magic

One name comes to mind when you mention the above: Robin Williams. There is still talk of him paying off comics after indirectly doing their material on stage or on television.

brownieon $21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It

No I agree, and ended up un-subscribing from their e-mail list. I was sick of seeing the same bad offers popping up day after day.

brownieon Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting

Gumtree (also owned by eBay) is the CL for Australia, and I think they are making roads into the US and UK.

brownieon Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

Yep, looks like they haven't been able to secure deals with the big providers - Disney (ESPN, ABC Family), Fox (FX, Fox Sports Net), or Time Warner (CNN, TNT). I imagine this will change over time.

brownieon Followware

It seems like a kinder version of the tweet/like to download which is pretty popular for music marketers.

brownieon Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5

Did he? I've been a fan of Aziz for a while - I got the impression his start was from his UCB work and MTV show Human Giant.

brownieon ESPN Developer Center

Can't say I'm shocked by that - reading the book "These Guys Have All The Fun" lead me to believe that ESPN is an jockocracy based on power rather than talent.

brownieon Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable

"That's the hidden problem with HN: with a few notable exceptions, everybody here is an Monday morning quarterback."

If you're unwilling to receive feedback (be it right or wrong), why write the article in the first place?

brownieon Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days

Most tapings for Comedy Central standup specials are free to encourage a full house, so he would have made a lot less.

brownieon Ask HN: what would you do with Javascript.xxx

Snippets of sexy JavaScript, of course.

brownieon [dead]

A sad story for passengers on board, but the letter was far too verbose to be effective as a complaint. A shorter, less emotional letter sent as an executive email carpet bomb[1] may have gotten a better response.

[1] http://consumerist.com/2007/05/how-to-launch-an-executive-em...

brownieon Entrepreneurship Sucks

It looks like RWW made a typo with the author - his name is Josh, not John. Searching for "Josh Petersel" "Harvard Business School" will turn up a bio http://averyjoshblog.wordpress.com/about-josh/

brownieon The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving

The leagues would take you to court if you tried to openly sell that vision. There's a reason that they have the "expressed written consent" message tacked on to every broadcast.

brownieon Richard Stallman’s rider

For a rider so detailed, I'm shocked that there are no details on performing "Free the Software". How will I know which key it is supposed to be?

brownieon Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look

I liked the part that mentioned that jobs can pay between $40k and $125k. Given how generic the article was, I'm surprised that they didn't start at 0 and go to infinity.

brownieon Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

It is useful and is something I'll keep an eye on if any roles come up.

One suggestion - a hide and/or mark as spam button would be useful. I noticed a "work from home" spam job appear in the listings which stuck out compared to the other tweets. A hide button would be useful to make jobs that I've applied for/are not interested in.

brownieon FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures hack

Not for illegal activity, according to an article on Tech Herald:

"Logs, seized equipment, and testimony from those arrested, seems to be the undoing for those connected to Anonymous and LulzSec. ...According to HideMyAss.com, ...services such as ours do not exist to hide people from illegal activity. We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies if it has become evident that your account has been used for illegal activities

The service stores logs for 30-days when it comes to Website proxy services, and they store the connecting IP address, as well as time stamps for those using the VPN offerings."

Furthermore - if you're using a VPN service to stay anonymous, you're only staying anonymous from whatever you're accessing, not the VPN service itself.

brownieon Detroit in Ruins

Nice site. The documentary Detroit Wild City covers this subject pretty well.

brownieon Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

The one thing I dislike (on the main page at least) is the separation of news and opinion/analysis. I can't think of many times where I've visited a news site and wanted to read only opinion or only news, but I can think of times where I've visited a site to read about a particular story - and read related articles that happen to be opinions/analysis.

brownieon Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)

Despite it being "fixed" not long after the blog post went live, I wonder how long/how many people knew about this bug. Seems like it would be a great trick for SEO (build page to certain PR/remove opponents ranking above you)

brownieon Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com

Perhaps you can have videos play a preview on accessing the site - allow the user to click the play button, have the video pause after ten seconds/5% of time, then pop up asking for a tweet if they want to continue watching.

brownieon Enabling Offline "Facebook Likes" Via QR Codes For Your Brand

I like it but can't see it taking off until QR readers are standard on mobile OS'. I imagine the percentage of users with both smart phones and QR applications installed on them is pretty small.

brownieon Costco - Food for a whole year - $799 Awesome

I'd like to see someone on here try this, ala JetBlue's Unlimited Flights for 30 days. It won't be me however...

brownieon How to Tell a Journalist from a Blogger

A bachelor’s degree in journalism, media studies, mass communication, or some similarly named program along with at least a few years under the tutelage of editors is the best preparation for calling oneself a journalist.

So much for all those journalists who got to where they are via cadetships/traineeships - you're nothing according to Jolie O'Dell.

Honestly, this point strikes me as someone trying to justify their own actions as the "correct" actions.