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quizbizon "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."

Me too. (Another case where seeing up votes would be useful)

quizbizon The Federal Government Wants You (And Your App Ideas)

I wonder if an App for something like voting would be good or bad. But an app that would make it more convenient to submit feedback to my local representative would be interesting. How about an app where my local representatives could poll me?

quizbizon Show HN: Our photo print & ship library for iOS

Cool concept but I just never see myself using this. As a frequent event photographer, boy would I love a similar app that lets me quickly enter in a number from a file name take down payment, and ship a print that I will upload later to the customer.

quizbizon How DuckDuckGo got in Time's best websites

Soon enough, everyone will be doing this and it will no longer be a way to stand out. But the blog post is probably one of the best articles I have read on relationship building with journalists (Thank you Gabriel for continuing to be so open).

Rather utilizing Twitter to suck up to journalists hoping they notice, I note how DDG has created an online community that advocates loudly and clearly. Read: DDG has users that feel apart of the brand so much so that they engage journalists.

DDG's strong community is obvious here on HN and the internal forum is a great idea too. Credit to Gabriel for knowing not just the importance of being transparent but also HOW to express himself and his brand.

I'm only wondering how this can be applied to B2B brands where it's harder to gain traction with people that have the time to advocate.

quizbizon The 50 Best Websites of 2011

Good PR. Congrats. :)

quizbizon Designing gtrot.com in 60 seconds by nomoregoodnames

I highly suggest that you give Fireworks a try. :)

quizbizon Redesigning the browser window

Thanks for the reading list insight. But I'm surprised reading list isn't paired with any kind of note taking system.

I have been dying for a sidebar solution where I can take notes and write while I read a webpage. As it is, I always have Notational Velocity open on the right and Safari open on the left.

quizbizon Ask HN single founders: How do you go on vacation?

You need to put someone else in charge and you need to trust that all will be taken care of.

quizbizon Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers

The unemployed should be spending every minute trying to learn programming.

I'm surprised we haven't seen any sort of public awareness campaign geared towards learning computer science. Only recently is it starting to be "cool" and equivalent to lawyers/doctors.

quizbizon My Name Is Me - Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use online

another post where i wish I could see the number of up votes

quizbizon Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

This compelled me to play around with Weebly for the first time.

I created a quick landing page (http://prototypecases.weebly.com/). Easy to add built in contact forms, integration with Google's web fonts was nice, built in SEO tags to paste html. Tons of layouts to pick from and a super easy way to add images.

I was very impressed by how easy it was to put together and how fast customizing the site is. Classically, when it comes to this sort of thing, I think Wordpress but drag and drop is a very marketable feature for Weebly. I'm impressed.

I do have to note that the control panel timed out and the site displayed some sort of app disconnection error several times.

quizbizon Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes

Could Wordpress issue an update to patch this?

quizbizon Dan McCracken died, peacefully in his sleep

I never knew him or even knew of him until now. But it must be grand to pass on like that after a long meaningful life that impacted many others. I look forward to exploring his works.

quizbizon The world’s biggest hedge fund, run like a cult

Reminds me of The Suit Is Back // http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

quizbizon Andy Rutledge Redesigns NYTimes.com

Many thanks for the insight. This is why I love HN.

quizbizon Bing Becomes a Distraction for Microsoft

Those are great points.

quizbizon Bing Becomes a Distraction for Microsoft

This is interesting:

I know Apple is sitting on a lot of cash. A lot.

I think it would be fascinating to see Apple purchase Bing and rebrand it. With search built into the iPhone and the future value of mobile search in mind, I think it would be near foolish for Apple to miss this opportunity. Otherwise, no matter how well the iPhone does, Google will still always have its hand in mobile advertising money.

But what do I know?

I think it would place Apple and Google in a very interesting competitive position.

quizbizon Veteran developer Steve Lacey (Google, Microsoft) Killed in Auto Accident

Tragic. Just a few days ago, he celebrated his tenth wedding anniversary... https://plus.google.com/108067740959569006573/posts/LJ1Z2Bvh...

quizbizon OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

re:calendar for multiple gcal accounts Try BusyCal though I am in a similar situation and havn't found a good fit.

quizbizon Google’s official URL shortcut just for Google websites.

Bah meant to update you and thank you but I was distracted and went back to work. I am sorry.

quizbizon Google’s official URL shortcut just for Google websites.

I found it very odd that Google+ profiles don't have a clean URL. Something like g.co/+nirlevy would be perfect.

quizbizon How to Cure Deep Procrastination

Would love to hear more about "I write scripts that do things for me with a single command."

quizbizon A notebook and a pen can be a highly effective personal productivity system

How do you organize your workflowy so that things don't get lost?

quizbizon Yahoo launching HortonWorks, Hadoop spinoff company

Can someone please explain to me what Hadoop is and what the software does? I did some googling and read their page but I wasn't able to follow.

quizbizon Opening up Posterous to 3rd Party Developers

This is awesome and a startup I co-founded on will be utilizing this asap.

Do you guys have anything that will allow in-site upload to posterous? ie: Uploading a video to Posterous through a form on my site?

quizbizon One More Thing: ‘iTunes Match’ Will Upgrade Your Ripped Music For $24.99 A Year

Purchased music won't count against iCloud storage. With that in mind, this is brilliant. Convincing enough to be habit changing. Pandora and Grooveshark apps are the only reasons I might not pay.

quizbizon CSS builder for shadows, backgrounds, and borders

This is awesome. But please left align the toolbar and right align the element being edited. Can't wait to see this progress.

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I would love to see a brail version so that I can make my content sites more accessible.

quizbizon John Resig joins the Khan Academy

I wish I could up-vote you to the top.

Just feel like without this comment, your comment might not stand out to many.

quizbizon Osama bin Laden Is Dead

According to the New York Times[1], https://twitter.com/#!/keithurbahn/status/64877790624886784 broke the story.

[1] http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/how-the-osa...