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joseakleon Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer To Beta Testers

The site looks wrong on safari 4.0.3 http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/

The Gates Foundation has been doing some research regarding this, you can find it here.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/learning/Pages/december-2008-...

Do you offer the option to download a modern browser ?

joseakleon What does Climate Model output look like?

Some things are easier to predict on the long term, others on the short term. Some on the local level, others on the global level.

joseakleon Chris Messina's Thoughts on Opera Unite

What happens if my computer is turned off?

joseakleon What's Holding Back Google Apps?

Your compliance officer said that? These guys http://www.boardvantage.com/ have hundreds of customers using their hosted solution just for that, holding unreported numbers for reporting.

joseakleon HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

and the lols

joseakleon HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

Perhaps some other kind of weighing system might work.

Votes from high karma users could boost stories more than low karma users. Is there any way to downvote a story?

joseakleon Ubuntu One : Store, Sync & Share

Looks like dropbox for ubuntu.

joseakleon The last great swine flu epidemic

It´s a great marketing opportunity for antivirus companies. They could give away mouthpieces ... Everybody is wearing them over here (mexico city).

joseakleon March 2009 Web Server Survey

Why does google show up with >6M sites and qq with >20M developers?

joseakleon Coghead Grinds To A Halt, Heads To The Deadpool

Talk about technology risk. This is a clear barrier for adoption of enterprise apps, one day they are here the next they they are gone.

joseakleon Stimulus Watch.org

Anybody on the world can vote. Is that a good idea? Isn't it about US taxpayer's money.

joseakleon Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

Robots make copies of cars. Just like computers make copies of music.

joseakleon New Comment Features

Would it make sense to have moving (formula based) thresholds?

joseakleon Poll: Startups, why do them?

This is off topic. I just voted on 3 options. Are those options not mutually excluive? Can polls have mutually exclusive options?

joseakleon Amazon's Simple Pay Subscription launches

Is it expected to launch internationally?

joseakleon How to price software/Saas?

Here are several articles i've collected over time about pricing:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/pricing%20...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/How_Do_You...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/Econometri...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/VBSP.pdf

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/PricingMet...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/SW_Pricing...

joseakleon Product Pricing Primer

Here are several articles i've collected over time about pricing:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/pricing%20...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/How_Do_You...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/Econometri...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/VBSP.pdf

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/PricingMet...

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/113637/softwarepricing/SW_Pricing...

joseakleon Pyquery 0.2 : jQuery for Python

Scraping with BeautifulSoup works pretty well, but i've had a lot of problems with nested elements with no id since Xpath is not available on BeautifulSoup. Perhaps this would make it a little easier. I'll report back after trying it.

joseakleon FeedbackArmy.com - simple, cheap usability testing for your site

Here's my free usability review of that site:

The font is too small.

joseakleon Poll: How do you feel about making HN invite only?

There's two ways to build karma. Comments and submissions. So people would need to comment and get upvotes before they could submit anything? Why?

joseakleon Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites

i am using beatiful soup, it works with malformed markup

joseakleon The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that it makes no sense.

i'd say it was a hell of a hack, just don't forget no to be evil

joseakleon YC got a record number of applications this cycle

competitors at last

joseakleon Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant

Is spanish on the way?

joseakleon Pittsburgh's AlphaLab incubator applications open

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joseakleon Google Chrome Global Market Share: 2%

how many people do you think see google's homepage everyday?

and just before clicking search they see this ...

New! Download Chrome (BETA) - the new browser from Google

i guess lots of them clicked it.

joseakleon Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader

cool, i did something similar on appengine for searching youtube videos of movie trailers, but i parse the rss for the first video.

joseakleon Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

This is the definition of ad hominem. For those like me who didn't know.

An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the man", "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim.

More on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem