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noseon Does the World Really Need Yahoo Anymore?

What about YUI/YQL/YSlow/Hadoop/Boss/Pipes/Flickr/Yahoo News

noseon Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.

opensocial isn't doing too bad. It is supported by Yahoo, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, and many more networks.

noseon Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with Vi(m)

You can borrow my vim cheat sheet tomorrow.

noseon Today was my last day @ Yahoo. I made a video to commemorate the occasion.

Probably working on HipHop at Facebook.

noseon Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?

Watching some cloudera videos. http://www.cloudera.com/videos

noseon Lecture overclocking

You can increase the playback speed in VLC player.

If you're using a mac, press ⌥ ⌘ →

noseon Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

Yahoo! is hiring

noseon Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?

Hm, the twitter api wiki has a different opinion http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#IstheTwitterAPIdown

"Is the Twitter API down? Not likely: Twitter hasn't had more than a couple minutes of downtime in a while. Requests may lag from time to time, but chances are pretty good we're not down."

noseon Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?

All of their web APIs are down (for me).

noseon Google Groups is Dead

Hopefully, the next yc batch will have one..

noseon Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (take 2)

Have you taken a look at zoho.com

noseon Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million

You got that from techcrunch? They made it up.

noseon Ask YC: My school wants to shut down my app. How should I respond?

Maybe switch to appengine?

noseon Ask HN: Is there an archive, dataset or RSS feed of all HN posts?

I converted about 8700 links to delicious (along with tags for each link). http://delicious.com/tag/hn_links

noseon Porting Hacker News links to Delicious

Here's the tag cloud: http://delicious.com/tags/hn_links?view=all&;

noseon Porting Hacker News links to Delicious

I am using the suggest API to get popular tags for the links.

http://delicious.com/help/api https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/suggest

noseon Ask YC: Meditation Advice

Have you read "Autobiography of a Yogi"? I'm half way through the book and am loving it.

noseon I need books that I can’t buy, I drink beer that I can’t sip

Slightly off topic, but you can get the audiobook version of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" for free right now: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/17691/Free-Stephen-R--Coveys...

noseon Ask HN: Musicians?

I am re-learning the piano.

noseon The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

Try this link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_...

noseon ASK HN: How to deal with journalists?

It wouldn't be an "I once did..." story since you didn't create the meme. The history of it is covered in detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll

noseon Ask HN: Who do you use for stock market data?

Can also use pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/search?q=stock&x=7&y=7

noseon Ask HN: Who do you use for stock market data?

http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=CSCO&f=...

noseon Ask YC: What do I do with an unproductive co-founder, 12+ months in?

He's probably bored. Most creative folks get bored easily. http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_ha...

noseon Ask HN: Advice on dealing with criticism

It might help to prioritize the feedback by the individual's credibility. In the end, go with your gut.

noseon Would you hire this developer?

>attitude of Indian developers towards contributing to open source projects

Huh? I know plenty of Indian open source developers (myself included)

noseon Hadoop + Python = Happy

Sort: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/core/trunk/src/examples/...

Sudoku: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/core/trunk/src/examples/...

noseon The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - "destined for the dustbin"

Don't underestimate the average computer user. Go around random internet cafes, public libraries, etc. Talk to the "average computer user" and you'll be surprised.

noseon OpenClip - Open Source iPhone Copy & Paste

Doesn't this violate the terms of use of the iphone sdk?

noseon "A form of search that depends on design" -- BooYarr

Read the entire EULA before you install. It's pretty interesting.

"By sending BooYarr any information, material or communication (User Submissions) or posting User Submissions anywhere on the Site, You grant BooYarr a worldwide, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, copy, reproduce, display, perform, modify, prepare derivative works of, translate, transmit and distribute those User Submissions, and You also agree that BooYarr is free to use anyideas, concepts, know-how or techniques included in User Submissions for any purpose."