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Something mysterious about being transparent I guess. I feel that there is a lot emphasis on "show the world everything and let the community reward you/scold you on your actions" type of mentality with these sort of services that entices some people.

"Instead of sending each other interesting articles, they could just see what the other person was looking at and start their discussion there"

Isn't that what Delicious was? (http://www.delicious.com/) "Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service."

So instead of saving the good articles you find to share with your friends, you are going to save the whole process of looking at the non interesting stuff and then finally showing your friends the good articles? I personally like it when a friend of mine sends me a link to a news hacker article or anything else instead of telling me the process of how they got to the end result.

I have a Droid X and the camera, so far, works every time I have tried to use it.

I havent restarted my phone for two weeks now and taking pictures yesterday at costco wasnt an issue and taking a picture of this post wasnt either. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/693878/hi_hacker_news.jpg

"If you live on your GPS, then this would be enough of a reason alone to choose Android over Apple"

I dont live on it meaning I dont have to use it all the time, but when i'm going to a new restaurant for example I love being able to either search at home and send myself a map link or search on the phone and hit directions and have navigate open itself up with everything set and ready to get me to my destination.

I have used other stand alone GPS's and they all have their quirks about them but theres something about the full intigration of the navigation with Google that makes me love that feature the most on the Android OS.

At least Google gives you a way to Opt Out =) (http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/opt-out.html?hl=e...)

Apparently they where tracking me.

I dont know if this one does but what I did was get a SkypeOut number and used Skype to call out when I was in Barcelona to call my friends in the US. So at least you can call people in the US cheap =\ (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/call-ph...)

Ran this on my Droid X:

Works on the defualt browser,

Works on the Opera Mobile brwoser,

Works on the Firefox browser.

So my mobile phone has better CSS rendering then my desktop IE8. Go figure.

They got you in the door didnt they? If one out of ten people decide to upgrade I bet they would be happy with that.

I'm sorry but whats a CV? Im assuming its a resume?

-update-

Guess I should have googled harder: A curriculum vitae, commonly referred to as CV, is a longer (two or more pages), more detailed synopsis than a resume. (http://jobsearch.about.com/od/cvsamples/a/blsamplecv.htm)

Reminds me of the time when I wanted to open a capital one bank account. They needed me to deposit 50$ in order to open the account and since they dont have any fees on the account, they said I could use my new ATM card to withdraw the 50$.

Maybe Palm uses the paypal account to make sure your "serious" about developing on the system but I think that mentality is backwards. I dont think a developer would scam the system just so they can be a developer to produce free, open-source applications.

Dear anonymous, I don’t have much experience in firing people but I have read and watched quite a number of startup books and videos to understand a reoccurring theme when hiring people, especially for a startup: Make sure they fit, and don’t drag down your company. One huge red flag was how he does not fit the groups culture. His skills might suck but if he was a punching bag for other developers to throw ideas at him and in turn it helped them solve their issue, at least that’s good. From what it sounds like this guy's personality within your company is uncanny to a dead moth. I remember this chapter from Rework from 37signals: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one

Good luck and tell us what happens.

Oh fine +1 for you making it more "Englishy" =P

Yeh its like Rt. 94 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Google page translate seemed to have failed so here is the manual version of the page:

As reported by the driver, the 1994 national road safety camera mounted was interesting: http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar-40...

The camera scans car number plates in excess of the speed, and a few dozen meters away, a special table shows the following message: http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar2-4...

I wonder what happens when the national road 94 driven into the car http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/radar3-4...

P.S. The whole reminds me of an old strip xkcd: http://niebezpiecznik.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/xkcd-450...

Thats what I dont get. On the car it looks like the driver is writing some other sort of License, ZU O666 but the sign is telling DW 530GS to slow down. Not enough images of the car to prove if it did, or did not tell the driver exactly to slow down. But for the sake of making this awesome, lets say it did work.

@ simonsarris masz racje, to znaczy "slow". =)

Google translate is great but I didnt cheat, I wrote that myself. (http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|).

I think its interesting that in the beginning I assumed this was an american car/place because the SQL statement is in Eglish but in computer language, the reserved statements are English, even though this car in the picture is from Poland.

Heres one with 65% confidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=3m58s

97% confidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2_M8kL_3o&t=4m26s

Speaking of reflexes, it reminds me of those games where your supposed to click/hit a button once it says go. I did a quick search and found this pretty simple flash reaction game: http://www.opendb.net/media/content/426.swf

Best I could do was .26 seconds =/

I bet someone with a Lego Mindstorm set could whip up a robot that would do this much faster.

General question about anyones experience with domains that done end in .com

How hard coded is the .com extensions when it comes to the general public these days (your mom/uncle who just uses the internet to read email, if that much)? If you told someone your domain was foobar.io and you ask them to repeat the domain would they say foobario.com?

Let the domain squatting begin. =P

Honestly though, at least its a $100 to register. At that price hopefully it will deter a lot of squatters from buying up all the domains. "For GBP 60 (approx US$ 100) for year one and GBP 30 (approx US$ 50) per year thereafter." (http://www.nic.io/)

What do you think about this?

Testimonials for each designer. A design someone posts might be beautiful but what if they lack in the delivery department. Some sort of customer reviews would be nice to have and let people know how dependable they are.

-update Going back and playing around with the site a little more its obvious that your the gateway for each of these designers. By incorporating a rating system for each designer you could be the "Angie's list" of wedding desigers

Yes, +1 to the site looking great.

I would also say that quote goes hand in hand with this one: "If you’re learning a new language, don’t do tutorials verbatim"

So true, there will never be a tutorial for exactly what your working on because if there is, why are you reinventing the wheel? Also if your busy with tutorials, you might spend to much time on them and never accomplish your main objective. By then your will to finish starts to diminish.

Just saw an update (towards the bottom, http://bit.ly/hY8Jig) "Huffington Post reports that publishers will keep 'in the range of 90%' of revenues from One Pass -- quite a nice bump from Apple's 70% offering."

Update: CNet's explination: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20032217-1.html

Agreed, but i read that "One Pass offers payments in mobile apps (i.e. in Android apps)" Maybe there will be a differently tiered charging system depending on the content (news content vs application specifc content like a new level for a game).

But if your charging within your Android application " the transaction fee for in-app purchases is the same as the transaction fee for application purchases (30%). " (http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/index.html)

Android dabbler/developer here.

I like how google is empowering their developers with different pricing strategies. Before it was plain vanilla, either you pay, or its free. Yes you can pay for an app and within 15 minutes ask for a refund, but I have trouble sending in a rebate, I know i'll forgot within those 15 minutes.

With these extra payment options, and from what I understand, easy charging system, having someone drop a dollar on content with few clicks or even being able to implement coupons for your content/application will be greatly appreciated. =)

"grant access to existing subscribers through a coupon-based system"

Doing some searching I also found another article stating "And One Pass offers payments in mobile apps (i.e. in Android apps), in instances where the mobile OS terms permit transactions to take place outside of the app market " (http://tcrn.ch/ejyk9Y)

If your creating an application on Android and you are going to be charging for it, I think this would allow you to reward your early adopters by giving out coupons and allow them to get the app for free/discount.

Google's market will also be takeing about 30% of in app purchases.

+1 Thanks man, definetly will. =)

I like cooking and would love to make a coca cola duplicate but the flavor thats comes from the Coca extract could be a little hard to come by.

"They identified the Illinois-based Stepan Company as the importer and processor of the coca used in Coke. " http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obt...