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prs··on Introducing Word Lens
See http://www.youtube.com/user/QuestVisual for QuestVisual YouTube channel and explanatory video.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-lens/id383463868 for direct iTunes link.

prs··on [dead]
I agree with your points. The only thing that I would ask for is to date new submissions of old posts with a label such as [2004] so that readers can immediately grasp whether it is a new essay or an old one.
prs··on Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day
Not if you factor in that sales of electronics typically pick up in the fourth quarter due to the holidays.
prs··on Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS?
There are always a few vulnerable points. Even Amazon can go down if you chose the right point of attack as the past has shown.

http://mashable.com/2009/12/24/ddos-attack-amazon/

prs··on Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_per_capita... speaks a different language even if you factor in taxes.

I am always a fan of a safety net but in the case of kreci the upside of continuing his path surely beats dedicating his resources to a full-time day job.

prs··on I would never work for Jason Calacanis - There, I said it
Surely there has been lots of debate about his statements in the past. Rather than spending time on his polarizing way of gaining attention, the best solution is to let him do business his way and channel our energies into more productive directions. The last time I checked, no one is forced to work for Jason.

On a minor side note: Am I the only one to notice that he seems to move quite a lot with his body during the interview?

prs··on Don't click it - Website navigation without mouse click
Once you are in their site and play around with the navigation, do not click. Seriously.

Their 'Hey, I told you not to click but you did anyway' screen is not only annoying and headache-inducing. In my opinion, it could also be dangerous.

Reminding oneself of http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/seizure.html from time to time is a good idea.

prs··on I wrote this article with one mouse click
You might want to add a space between the year and 'Lottery Results' in your titles.

  Old: 2010Lottery Results
  New: 2010 Lottery Results
prs··on Iphone Application Development - Course from Stanford
Do not forget about evaluating Developing Apps for iOS (http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios-...) for yourself.
prs··on Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office
As far as I remember there was no multi-button mouse by Apple in 2004.
prs··on Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office
Link to the actual picture collection:

http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/life/2004-2006/08-dianawal...

prs··on Looking at Different Writing Tools for Macs
TextEdit not only tackles *.txt files as the author implies.

In fact, TextEdit is far more powerful than some people think. Read this post at MinimalMac for some insights:

http://minimalmac.com/post/150121510/textedit-heres-the-thin...

prs··on Ask HN: Where can I buy/download a recipe database?
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Licensing
prs··on Ask HN: Where can I buy/download a recipe database?
Is the data dump available at http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics an option that might fit your needs? You might want to check it out unless you already did so.
prs··on Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million
broadcast.com was a company, not a domain name alone.
prs··on Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million
A bit of a background on diapers.com - referred to in the article - Recommended Read.

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_42/b41...

prs··on Let's Do Lunch
Most likely a bargain in comparison to the lunch with Warren Buffett that recently went for a whopping $2.63 million.
prs··on Ask HN: So I got first two paid customers, now what?
Keep going and build upon that initial momentum.

A few other thoughts:

"Videolla is a media business revolution!" on your homepage is enclosed in quotation marks. If it is a real quote, attribute it correctly and let people know of its source.

Getting the [Site in 70 seconds] video onto the main page is something that could also increase your conversions.

Seeing the word "Sign" twice in your menu bar (Sign In/Sign Up) somehow does not look right to my eye. I believe something similar to Log In/Sign Up might improve usability of your site by approximately 0.0018%.

Details like these are not necessarily what you should focus on right now. But as your schedule permits, you might want to allocate some resources to A/B testing if you are not already doing so. Find out what works. Rinse and repeat.

prs··on Ask HN: Why is Everyone Leaving Google?
Is Everyone Leaving Google?

As far as I can tell from the outside, many of the well-known employees of Google are still happily with the company.

Someone might want to check this table ( http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_stars.html ) to evaluate whether these "Google Stars" are still with the company in order to get a feeling of whether the sentiment of top employees abandoning Google holds true.

prs··on Stack Overflow just became a top-500 site.
Ravelry.com?
prs··on Offer HN: Room in Vienna, Austria
I ask myself whether you have actually lived here or base your assumptions on hearsay from friends.

I find it intolerable to strike comparisons between the Holocaust and modern-day Vienna.

prs··on The Mundane Credit Card Gets a Modern Makeover
See http://mashable.com/2010/09/17/card-2-0-dynamics/ for a demo.
prs··on Does JavaScript have limits?
Yes, Safari Version 5.0.2 in my case.

Works in Firefox, though.

prs··on Lessons Learned At Business of Software 2010 Conference
Thanks for making your detailed notes available to the public.

Out of interest: How many hours of your time were approximately invested in writing this blog post? A rough estimate is fine enough.

prs··on Back of the Envelope: How to Estimate the Annual Revenues of Any Private Company
37signals has a related post:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2283-ranking-tech-companies-b...

I have not checked their figures but in the case of these companies, the proposed 100K formula is mostly way off the mark.

As for NASDAQ-100 companies, the following chart is very informative:

http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/02/07/nasdaq-100-revenue-per...

prs··on Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
Why the iPod will fail (2001)

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257

prs··on How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship
I like what I see.
prs··on How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship
That is a lot of lenses.

I read the article one or two hours ago and the NYT has switched both the main article picture (it used to be the small one that can be seen once scrolling down) as well as the caption below the image.

I wonder why/how often they do that.

prs··on Timing Lessons
"Overnight success takes a long time." Paul Buchheit

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/overnight-success-t...

prs··on How Scribd's HTML5 conversion works ... even when it shouldn't
As for the NASA story, you might find this link interesting: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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