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newsreaderon Show HN: Web site I built last night that takes screenshots of web sites

Great site and thanks for sharing. http://Site2Pic.com also mentioned in this thread works just fine.

newsreaderon Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

I visit Hacker News throughout the day and couldn't agree with you more. The dislike for anything having to do with MS is undeniable. I like HN and have apps installed on my Android tablet and on my Nokia Windows phone (best phone IMO).

newsreaderon Introducing TogetherJS

Last time I checked IE was free.

newsreaderon Introducing TogetherJS

Bookmarked the site; I will be looking into this one latter on today.

newsreaderon Introducing TogetherJS

Today, IE users are not using TogetherJS. And if TogetherJS doesn't get it's act together they won't be using it tomorrow either. I have four browsers installed on my computer and everything I develop has to work on all four; one of them happens to be IE 10.

newsreaderon Introducing TogetherJS

Too bad it doesn't support IE10. I was already brainstorming how to implement but will have to wait for something else...

newsreaderon GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting

I'm definitely in the minority here but I just don't see how "GoDaddy is a horrible company run by horrible people selling horrible products." I dealt with GoDaddy in the past and have an active account with them. I think that their prices are reasonable and their customer service is good enough – at least for me. I do find that navigating through their website is a pain and definitely not designed for a non-technical person, but that alone doesn’t make it horrible.

newsreaderon We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404

You don't? How many people do you guess were involved in the project? Divide the $600m by that number of people and you tell me if the cost is reasonable.

newsreaderon To my daughter's high school programming teacher

Are you serious? You want a HS teacher to teach Java?

newsreaderon In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things

You can work 24x7 as far as I'm concerned. Just don't expect others to do the same.

newsreaderon Ask HN: Are there any children's websites that teach coding or coding concepts?

A couple of free courses from Pluralsight:

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/Description/teaching...

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/Description/learning...

newsreaderon A $4.99 utility that might just have saved Windows 8

I don’t consider myself an average user but I do own an Acer Aspire with a touch screen and I love it. My wife and my granddaughter are both pretty average users and they both prefer the touch screen. I will never buy a laptop without touch screen capabilities until something better comes out.

newsreaderon Cosmo: A free Metro-inspired theme for Bootstrap

Nice. I been looking for something like this: clean and simple...

newsreaderon Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes

Lot's of trouble. Had to validate my account by having them send me a code number via phone and then typing it into their page.

newsreaderon Microsoft Research shows off see-through 3D display

All I can say is: Amazing! What's next? Minority Report user experience?