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eamon Celebrate Your Freedom to Read: Banned books on Google

1984 was perhaps the best book I read while in high school.

You are probably wondering why you can't use the site with Internet Explorer. That's our bad. We're having some issues with making some of the advanced functionality work on the site. We are however working diligently to make this happen! We will be supporting Internet Explorer 7 and 8. (Sorry, no IE6 support, but there are options!) As soon as it's working you'll be the first to know.

They're working on it.

eamon Chapter 7 ("Sign up") of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book is out

Thanks Michael! My friend and I are just starting a website and we decided to do it using RoR even though our knowledge is close to none. We're both PHP developers and thought that if we made a website in RoR we would learn it by trial-and-error. I just heard about railstutorial.org today. I have skimmed through your tutorial book and find it quite useful. I will definitely read it in the next couple of days! (:

eamon Ask HN: Found a smart competitor with a 3y headstart. What to do?

Thanks!

eamon The hell that is a restaurant website

http://elfarolitoinc.com/

eamon 20 ad agencies in Belgium go on strike, produce artful protest

I admire how all the agencies are working together to protest a cause. However, I really don't like how they chose to do so. First of all, as rajat mentioned (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128286) why use flash? Not only is it slower to load than an image such as a png, but what about those browser's/phones (ahhem the iPhone) that don't have flash capabilities?

I attempted to read the messages on each site, but many times I would get connection timeouts as I jumped from site to site, which became annoying after a while so I stopped even trying to continue reading.

With that said I don't think it's very effective. I think a better way would have been to buy a domain and have all the websites protesting forward to it and show the protest message there.

eamon Learn CSS Positioning

I never use frameworks. I just use Meyers reset and take it from there.

eamon Chatroulette Creator Is A 17-Year-Old Russian Kid

Well I think most visitors don't know French, as the article indicates most are from the US. Even I misspelled the domain on my first try. doh!

eamon New GitHub status site

Well considering that the guys behind Github are Spock fans (I only assume this because of http://www.logicalawesome.com) it is perfectly reasonable. :)

eamon Google Buzz

I agree! Maybe they're trying to "not be evil".

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I'll try again later, at the time it's not loading for me. :(

eamon Ask HN: Review our startup: Unbig.me

As a consumer I will hate this, as site owner I will love it. Nonetheless, nice idea. Good luck!

eamon Any Tcl hackers here

I believe davidw(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidw) is a Tcl hacker.

eamon Tell HN: My side project, Startup Wiki

Isn't this similar to crunchbase?

eamon Beautiful HTML5 "Sublime" Video Player

It kept freezing Safari on my Windows. :(

eamon Sergey Brin's awesome webpage.

If for some reason google collapses, a modeling career awaits him at Victoria's Secret.

eamon Ask HN: Found a smart competitor with a 3y headstart. What to do?

...And then some.

I'm in a similar situation. It's me versus Chegg.

eamon Ex-Bell Labs AI researcher unveils first life-size AI-driven sex robot

In case you want to see the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NhBEx6Ank

eamon Ask HN: Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students?

You can try sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/people/helpwanted-latest.php

I notice how you use a lot of (parentheses), having you been using a lot of scheme or lisp lately? :)

eamon Logos using negative space

I never did see the arrow in the FedEx logo... until now!

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I counted them, there's about 59 of them in that shot.

eamon W3 gets new Look

I don't get the point of the drop shadow under the blue square where the w3c logo appears. It breaks the harmony. It bugs me.

eamon “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story

Did you not read the entire story?

eamon Camera Hack: How to find a lost camera

That's a good idea too. However, I think the photos add a little emotion and increase the chance of the person who finds it to return. Just a thought.

eamon [dead]

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000084

eamon Octopuses Carry Coconuts as Instant Shelters

What intrigues me the most is how a sea creature like the octopus can take advantage of an element that's not even from its domain.

eamon Continuity - a clever flash puzzle game

The music itself is relaxing. (:

eamon I intend to replace Etherpad

It sounded like a great idea until... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979055

eamon Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)

I actually liked the interface except for the header part(specifically the purple-ish colors) and the font rendering (just a disaster). But you're right, it is snail-like slow when loading. Initially I thought it was because it's loading a bunch of users' info and thumbnails (I can scroll down for quite a while), but some people here are saying it loads fine for them, so it might be browser specific. It's also sort of "glitchy." Nonetheless, it's a neat idea.

eamon Reuters Redesign

Yes, very annoying. It makes me feel like I'm viewing the site in frames.