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dadads··on Ask HN: What's the easiest way to set up email forwarding on your own domain?
I use nearlyfreespeech.net. Bare-bones simple settings, and also very cheap.
dadads··on [dead]
That pizza looks nasty.

(sorry for being blunt)

dadads··on The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It.
Some problems with this argument:

For overhead maps 1-4, couldn't you just simply walk over on foot?

dadads··on Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
I approve of this!
dadads··on Facebook gets redesigned
I'm not one of the lucky few who gets to see it, unfortunately.

Thus... Screenshots pl0x.

dadads··on Ask HN: I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?
It is possible that you either secretly don't like the work that you are doing, or that you secretly don't believe you are capable of completing the work.
dadads··on Design Secrets For Engineers
A Rosetta Stone for design. About damn time.
dadads··on VintageJS: add some awesome retro-look to your images
Holy smokes, this is good!
dadads··on Mark Zuckerberg should seriously see this :P
What is this I don't even
dadads··on The Blackberry Shift: From the executive phone to the phone of the urban poor
I could attest to some of the stuff this guy says. In a certain southeast-asian country, everyone is using Blackberries not because they're cool but because unlimited text-messaging plans makes them really cheap.
dadads··on 2011 Startup School
Seconded. Being in Canada means I can't easily fly all the way to Stanford.
dadads··on Ask HN: feedback on our startup project
Seen the demo video, and I'm a little skeptical about content spread having to depend on real-life location. I like the current global bucket model, because it guarantees best content (even if it hides other potentially good submissions).

virus originated from Redmond, WA? I'm going to guess you are or used to be a Product Manager at Msoft.

dadads··on Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes
Now that you've mentioned this fact, I'm more interested in trying out these services.
dadads··on New system could make censorship of Internet sites virtually impossible
I could see the government getting around this by regulating HTTPS or making encryption for the purposes of subverting censorship a crime.
dadads··on Sifteo launches intelligent blocks as a new form of entertainment
Pretty sure I've seen this years back.
dadads··on I Like PHP
As much as I love Ruby, I have to say that the Ruby docs website is shit. No search bar (unlike the PHP docs website).
dadads··on I Like PHP
I'd like to think that the apparent security weaknesses in many PHP applications could be attributed to the fact that PHP was already around back when web security practices were more primitive.

Thus, in your career you tend see more PHP apps that were badly-implemented.

dadads··on Apple now offering free recycling and Gift Cards for old Windows PCs
Why can't we have this in Canada?
dadads··on How Jonathan's Card Really Works
This is how it really worked: http://www.coffeestrategies.com/2011/08/08/starbucks-and-the...
dadads··on Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign
717 karma on the original thread, and nobody suspected a thing!

Now that I know this is Starbucks-funded, I suddenly feel the urge to buy Frappucinos using the card and make a giant pyramid.

dadads··on Jonathan's Card revealed as viral marketing campaign
Wow, everyone here fell for it, me included. Although I have to admit, this is the first time I've seen a viral campaign involving the creation of an API.
dadads··on Why the hell are all app demos done using Macs?
I can say the same thing (open-source stacks) about Linux, and not many Linux demos are out there
dadads··on Turned Down for a Job at Groupon Over a Year After Applying
HR was using an automated system that sent boilerplate e-mails. Nothing to see here, move along...
dadads··on Stypi (YC S11) Is Etherpad Reborn
Looks like a cool web app, although I fail to see this as a commercial product. I would use this only as a free product, and I'm sure as hell that my friends won't pay for this either.

Maybe I just lack vision, but I don't see how this app can possibly pull in big revenue. Can someone please prove me wrong?

dadads··on Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
I thought that this was a cool service, but then I opened the Pricing page and I went "Holy Shit"!
dadads··on Softlaunch of buddhalists, not just another todo list app.
Nice app and all, but I don't see myself paying $10 for something I could easily replicate in a day. Not trying to be mean or anything, but perhaps I'm not the target market here.
dadads··on HN Help: Mom wants to censor my blog posts; what should I do?
It looks like you are using _her_ internet access, or at the very least living at her place?

In that case, there's not much you can do since she's technically the owner of the place and should rightly be able to dictate the terms of usage of her house for whatever reason (whether or not they make sense).

Once you are able to afford your own place / internet connection, you're pretty much free to do whatever the hell you want.

dadads··on I am an HFT Programmer
I like how the slashdot discussion rapidly turns into a moral debate.
dadads··on Ask HN: Suggest features for a Virtual University Project
Practice-based learning.

I want to be able to do exercises instead of just reading walls of text.

See: www.codeschool.com

dadads··on Ask HN: What are You Doing to Prepare for a Possible U.S. Default?
Buying Canadian dollars and gold. Big disclaimer: I live in Canada.
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