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Show HN: Oculus Rift VR Audio Clock(senomix.com)
1 points by charleso 11y ago|0 comments
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China Is Now Positioned to Dominate the Moon(airspacemag.com)
2 points by charleso 12y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 12y ago
Your cat might have a bladder or kidney stone which is causing extreme pain when pooping. Please take your cat to the vet and have that checked out. I ran into the same thing: Cat pooped in exotic, awkward places, but never the litter box
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by charleso 12y ago
Do you bike faster than you can run? Would you run, as fast as you can, head-first into a concrete wall? No, it does not make sense to bike without a helmet.
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The Indie Bubble Is Popping(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
10 points by charleso 12y ago|6 comments
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Surviving in the Post-Indie Bubble Wasteland(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
14 points by charleso 12y ago|1 comments
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On getting criticism(raphkoster.com)
3 points by charleso 13y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 13y ago
He also had a regularly updated blog at: http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/ There are many 'back in the day' stories archived there. It's bothering me quite a bit that his latest "To be continued&quot
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Show HN: Our thick client Java SaaS
2 points by charleso 14y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 14y ago
Reminds me of The Phantom video game console from around a decade ago. That one also promised the universe, with PA declaring their skepticism back in 2003: http://penny-arcade.com/2003/01/22 http://www.penny-arcade.com/2003/08/20/
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A Facebook ad bug is re-offering expired promotions to customers(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by charleso 14y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 15y ago
"Well, everything worked fine until you installed that [Chrome | Firefox | Opera] thing on my computer." Doing free tech support for non-technical people is a wonderful thought, but it can also provide a harsh lesson in the dangers of unlim
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All BlackBerry code is obsolete: New RIM devices will not support BB-Java apps.(supportforums.blackberry.com)
3 points by charleso 15y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 15y ago
It's a clever gag, but titles like this will unfortunately show up in future HN searches. Would it be appropriate to adopt an April 1st etiquette of some sort? Say, an [April Fools] tag in the title?
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by charleso 16y ago
I was curious what the author had gotten up to since that piece was written 20-odd years ago. This appears to be the gent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ventura Flashtastic personal site, here: http://michaelventura.org/
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by charleso 16y ago
>...a large number of little hurdles add up to a big hurdle. Maybe not for them, >developers who have already committed to this platform and have a stake in it A quick perusal of the BlackBerry developer forums will show h
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by charleso 16y ago
Active reader here, but I avoid commenting. Whenever I do, I seem to find myself caring too much about the responses. This leads me to returning again and again to a thread I've already learned from and replying to responses in an attempt
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by charleso 16y ago
"At that time" Microsoft ruled everything except for the browser. The public internet was emerging as a surprisingly powerful force against the desktop and the argument before the courts was that the browser WAS part of the core operating
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by charleso 16y ago
But Apple did make Microsoft Internet Explorer the default browser on the Mac, which was Microsoft's battlefield at the time.
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by charleso 16y ago
How much in the minority am I for thinking this is a good plan for Nokia? Echoing my post in another thread, Apple received $150 million in financing from Microsoft back in 1997 in exchange for including IE on the Mac (among other partnersh
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by charleso 16y ago
All of this 'Nokia is doomed because of their Microsoft partnership' talk reminds me of when Apple announced something similar back in 1997. Anyone remember this Steve Jobs talk from when Apple was on the financial ropes? http://www.youtu
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by charleso 16y ago
Could you synchronize two Kinect devices on one clock and then toggle the display/capture of that grid every odd or even 10ms span? So, only one grid is displayed and processed during its 'slice' of time, with the grids strobing rather tha
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by charleso 16y ago
Keep in mind that recruiters "get people for jobs, not jobs for people". You, as a potential employee, are not their customer -- you're the commodity being sold. It doesn't change the way you feel about how you are treated, but awareness o
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by charleso 16y ago
To add to the sound GTFO advice posted already: When you do get a new job (and you should), make sure you're on the revenue side of the business rather than contributing to the company's costs. Apart from the outsourcing you've done, your
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by charleso 16y ago
Don't forget to ask about the copy-and-paste glue pot and brush (or artist's oblong wooden paint palette) while you're at it. It's pretty common for the original meaning of symbols to disappear into the mists of time. Using a floppy for 's
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by charleso 16y ago
Does this mean the end of the DejaNews Usenet archive as well? The transformation of that unbelievably helpful resource into "Google Groups" was a crime. Geez, but I miss Usenet. Having _one_ forum on which everything related to a topic w
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Is Yahoo about to be acquired?(reuters.com)
3 points by charleso 16y ago|0 comments
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by charleso 16y ago
Aren't you significantly more efficient than the travel agents of the 80s? So, your single-person living has removed the need for 10 or 20 (or 50?) travel agency folks of a previous non-Internet 'must visit that travel agent around the corn
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by charleso 16y ago
I really hope the fellow behind Dwarf Fortress sees this success and starts charging a small amount for his releases. I think the following DF has (despite its rough state) would provide impressive revenue and allow him to bring on employee
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by charleso 16y ago
Because Hugh would be denying the café revenue if he occupied the table without a purchase or 'nursed' a coffee for an unreasonably long period of time. Each table needs to earn $n each hour to keep the place in business. If you enjoy your

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