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hasanoveon We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

So, any way for legitimately interested people from banned countries to sign up other than waiting?

hasanoveon Rails Commit: Whitelist all attribute assignment by default

Thank you, @homakov

hasanoveon 10 billion Android Market downloads and counting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_rate

hasanoveon 10 billion Android Market downloads and counting

If you grow from 10 to 15, 20, 25 etc., each time, even though you are adding 5, it is a smaller percentage of what you had. In this example, you would be adding 50% to go from 10 to 15, then 33% to go from 15 to 20, then 25% etc. Growth is linear, but growth rate is decreasing.

hasanoveon Basecamp Next

It reminded me another Apple ad, though surely it is not a copy

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984"

hasanoveon Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3

I have submitted my email twice and did not get any confirmation, neither on page, nor in my inbox. Not sure if this is by design or bug, but confusing in either case.

hasanoveon Gmail’s new look

I also had to close Tasks in bottom right corner, to see a button to switch to new design.

hasanoveon Gmail’s new look

using a search dropdown just adds those operators automatically, so manual typing should work exactly the same

hasanoveon Why We Moved Off The Cloud

Not to mention, that if you _really_ need to, you can spin cloud instances at Softlayer as well. We are running on dedicated hardware most of the time, but if we anticipate a temporary and significant influx of the traffic, we run a few additional pre-built Cloud Computing Units (as they call it) and are ready in 20 minutes.

hasanoveon It’s Not China; It’s Efficiency That Is Killing Our Jobs

This reminds of wonderful book - "Economics in One Lesson". Written half a century ago it describes most economy fallacies, that are dominating even among intelligent people. If you didn't know, you would think it was written today.

There is a chapter on "The curse of machinery" (read online - http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/#0....), that explains why this whole post is thousand years long delusion, that keeps coming back every decade or so.

Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand true fundamentals of the sound economies.

hasanoveon What we don't know about elections

Funny, I had to reread title 4 times after your post to spot the difference

hasanoveon The First Step for Ruby on Rails

especially when it can be replaced with one line

echo "[[ -s $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm ]] && . $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc

hasanoveon "Sorry Larry, the cloud can't be stopped"

what a typo, sorry, of course it is 40 )

hasanoveon "Sorry Larry, the cloud can't be stopped"

If anything, their market cap means they are hugely overvalued.

P/E is 581! This is 5 times more than even facebook :) and 400 times more than Apple.

hasanoveon Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro

They might be awesome, but unless you scroll down to the very bottom and notice a small note, you would think this a free service. I felt like being deceived and immediately closed the website after signup confirmation, when asked to enter credit card details.

I may have paid if I knew it upfront, but this kind of approach is so annoying, that I would prefer not to pay just because of that.

hasanoveon Walk Away From Your Computer. Seriously.

There is a good book - "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock - explaining this (and many other things)

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distraction...

hasanoveon Ruby 1.9.3 RC1 is out

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924

if i understand this correctly, it seems like it isn't...

"It can not be merged in 1.9.3, because it is late."

hasanoveon HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer

Time to accept bets on what the next screw-up will be.

hasanoveon Google+ Opens to All

I find it interesting that out of ~50 comments in supposedly early adopter crowd, there is not a single positive comment about Google+. As much as I want them to succeed, this looks like a pretty bad sign.

And yes, I am one of those who cannot participate with my Google Apps account.

hasanoveon Windows 8 for tablet hands on

Am I the only one who virtually never uses windows desktop? I am either in particular app, or just click "start", type a few letters and run what I need. My desktop is just a background when nothing is running. Windows 8 new desktop might make it useful again.

hasanoveon Îñţérñåţîöñåļîžåţîöñ

> Always make it ridiculously easy to switch to english, always. In many cases you probably should make english the default even though you have a localized version (this is especially true for web sites, few things are as annoying as having to change language again and again and again

Yeah, like google.com. Whatever I do it just does not seem to be possible to permanently set US version of google.com as default, not local version. Especially frustrating when traveling to other countries and getting it in language you do not understand.

hasanoveon Bitcoin is Not Anonymous

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity says pretty much the same, though in a general terms

"The main problem is that every transaction is publicly logged. Anyone can see the flow of Bitcoins from address to address (see first image). Alone, this information can't identify anyone because the addresses are just random numbers. However, if any of the addresses in a transaction's past or future can be tied to an actual identity, it might be possible to work from that point and figure out who owns all of the other addresses. This identity information might come from network analysis, surveillance, or just Googling the address. The officially-encouraged practice of using a new address for every transaction is designed to make this attack more difficult."

Not that you are saying they claimed otherwise and it is exactly your article that made me look through this page in detail, so thanks for that.

hasanoveon Get the HN you want: follow HN folk with email notifications.

it is quicker for searching on particular story than typing site:news.ycombinator.com and usually gets the work done :)

hasanoveon Get the HN you want: follow HN folk with email notifications.

I have seen your ad a number of times when googling for "hacker news". Are you planning to implement some sort of monetization in the future?

hasanoveon MongoDB is the New MySQL

CouchDB

hasanoveon GitHub passes 2M repos, 1M projects

Go for legacy large plan - you will get 50 private repos for $50/month. https://github.com/account/billing?plan=large

hasanoveon IndexTank now free up to 100k documents

Great news, but... why do I need to email you to get anything beyond very basic pricing info (which was not too easy to find either)?

hasanoveon ACID in Theory and Practice

PostgreSQL can do that: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-set-transactio...

hasanoveon Google Launches Chrome-To-Phone Extension To Link Chrome With Android

No support for Google Apps accounts. Still.

hasanoveon App Inventor for Android - Android Software Development for Everyone

Try "battery left widget". Good one. http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-preinvent-ba...