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nazon Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5

Even better -- that's actually an iPhone 4 (notice the black band by the headphone socket).

https://www.pay-pad.com/, http://shopify.com/ and http://shoplocket.com/ are a few off the top of my head.

nazon Paul Graham’s ‘lowball’ accusation of Google Ventures

But in talking with a slew of Y Combinator alumni from the past three years of YC batches, we found that Graham himself takes between 5 percent and 7 percent of companies for amounts ranging between $12,000 and $20,000. Those amounts aren’t any great secret; YC publishes approximations on its own site. But while the founders said YC insisted that these terms had nothing to do with their companies’ actual valuations, on paper, it made the startups worth between $228,000 and $287,000 on the high end.

This is based on the faulty assumption that $12-20k is all you get for getting into YC.

nazon GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X

> Also, the app quits when the last window is closed, which isn't how OS X apps are supposed to behave.

If anything, they're ahead of the curve. Most Apple apps are beginning to follow this behavior: App Store, Calculator, Contacts, Dictionary, DVD Player, FaceTime, Font Book, Game Center, Garage Band, Image Capture, iPhoto, and so on.

nazon Samwers Clone Stripe

That doesn't say that they pre-authorize the amount. The requirement they're probably referring to is the ability to send funds directly to the project creator.

nazon Samwers Clone Stripe

> the credit card is authed right away... but not charged until the project is funded AND the deadline is reached (up to 60 days).

Do you have a reference for this? I'm under the impression they only charge the cards once the funding goal is reached. Amex in particular only allows pre-authorizations to last up to a week.

nazon Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune

Patrick is in the support rotation like most of us at Stripe. He'll answer your email too if you send it on the right day.

nazon Yahoo Axis

Because some parents might disable Safari but still enable installing apps that have appropriate age ratings, and installing this app is a way to bypass Safari being disabled.

(Not that I agree with any of that -- that's just why).

nazon Stripe: Introducing Answers

Fixed! Thanks for pointing this out.

nazon Show HN: This up votes itself

This is why you shouldn't allow GET for performing actions. An image tag in an article could do the same thing (e: if it didn't check the referrer).

nazon UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit

That's true. I imagine they'll be considering some third-party sites trusted too.

nazon UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit

No site served over unencrypted HTTP can be considered trusted. So there's no circumstance under which they should insert this header, since they can't modify HTTPS requests.

nazon Ron Paul speaks against SOPA

This is unsurprising. Ron Paul is generally against new legislation.

nazon Samoa cancels Friday 30th and travels one day forward in time

Would timezone libraries handle this specific case? Genuinely curious, not being sarcastic.

nazon Should Wikipedia run ads that ask for money, or ads that make money?

Say if Facebook donates a million dollars a year, Wikipedia would be incentivized to treat Facebook favorably.

Obviously this doesn't happen, but that is one of their arguments against advertising.

nazon Snake game in a data: URI

You should queue inputs. If you press left-down the snake should turn left and then go down on the next frame. That is, if you are attempting to recreate the classic Nokia experience, anyway.

nazon Amit Gupta Could Have Marrow Transplant by End of Year

How wrong it is to flake is irrelevant. You can't really force someone to undergo surgery.

nazon How Spotify Works

Because most home connections are asymmetrical, and even a small amount of upstream bandwidth usage can degrade the performance of everything else.

nazon Facebook Tells Salman Rushdie He Has to Go By His Given Name, Ahmed Rushdie

I think this happened precisely because he is famous. Facebook assumed he was a fake Salman Rushdie, and demanded identification.

nazon Space Station time lapse

I believe the row of lights at 3:48 is the India-Pakistan border (viewed approaching from north to south)

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/09/06/photo-a-space-...

nazon Easter Island heads have bodies

Nice writeup but it's easter, not eastern. If anything it's western.

nazon IOS 4 vs. 5, Pixel by Pixel (jp)

Right, on iPhone 4 it would be 39 pixels but on iPhone 3GS and lower it would be 19.5 pixels, which would require the icons to be aliased and blurry.

nazon FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

So what you are saying is that it is ... a slippery slope?

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

nazon 65k Open TCP Ports

Maybe you can thank rtm for this port being banned

nazon Google Labs no more

Yes, or if you search for "Oregano" you will notice the auto-complete for subsequent searches strongly favours herbs and spices.

nazon Memory capacity and commercial compiler development

I too found that side-note a bit unnecessary. "Himself" works just fine as a gender-neutral pronoun.

nazon Steve Jobs has passed away.

"hero" is a standard term for that kind of image size and position in print and on the web.

nazon Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

The app's creators describe it as anti-iPhone

http://www.yeslab.org/project/phone-story

nazon Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey

Agreed. The eBay API is an abomination, but so few people are brave enough to use it that it would never show up in a Worst API survey.

nazon An iOS Developer Takes on Android

If you avoid transparent view backgrounds (just give labels a grey background if your cell has a grey background) and disk reads then you can make fast UITableViewCells without having to resort to drawRect. You should also avoid things like layer.cornerRadius and allocating lots of objects (such as NSNumberFormatters) in cellForRowAtIndexPath.

That said, if you get frame skips after all that then overriding drawRect for the content view is a great way to speed it up. You have to be careful to keep your app accessible though, since the view has no labels for the screen reader to read. And orientation changes can look awkward.