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johnitsagalon AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down

More likely my mistake; yes it was intended for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329940 . Why are people upvoting my comment?!

johnitsagalon AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down

string.indexOf() is O(n), whereas the object-property-lookup is O(1). I guess indexOf is fast enough anyway given the size of the dictionary.

johnitsagalon PayPal robbed my bank account

How come nobody sues them? How come there hasn't been enough of an uproar to get congress involved in regulating PayPal?

Reading HN, these horror stories seem to be fairly common, or maybe I'm just hearing the same stories over and over again.

johnitsagalon Inside Facebook Seattle [Pictures]

This is making Seattle a better second to the valley for startups. Coz Google and Facebook are reasonable backups for when the startup fails and you need a day job to build savings before the next attempt.

johnitsagalon Xpra is screen for X applications

Wow is using NX without a commercial license really that painful? We use it at work amd it's great; much snappier than VNC.

Xpra sounds great but I'm concerned about the lack of support for various features, and -judgung from the FAQ- the author's perception that they're not important.