fliph

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by fliph 16y ago
Alabama would have been the first (and default) option in the list.
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by fliph 16y ago
It's not unusual for "silicon" to be used as an all-encompassing term for computers and computer hardware.
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by fliph 16y ago
Other things that TechCrunch has declared dead: * Phone calls * Computer mice * The Web * The physical book * Apple TV * Software * Music DRM * CDs I think that AT&T, Microsoft, Facebook, the library in every single city in the US, Appl
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by fliph 16y ago
This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consi
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by fliph 16y ago
Changes noticed on Mac since Beta 6: * The stop/reload button has moved to the right end of the URL bar. * The status bar is gone; URLs appear in ghosted text on the right side of the URL bar when you hover over a link. * You can enable an
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by fliph 16y ago
The importance of the <popular movie person> mentioned in the movie preview is directly proportional to how good the movie is going to be. e.g., "From the director of Avatar..." is probably going to be a good movie. "From the soun
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by fliph 16y ago
Certainly; I've had good success so far in life with long-term goals. Achieved: * Graduate college in three years. * Get a job in the tech sector that I enjoy. * Marry the girl I love. In-progress: * Pay off my house in the next three years
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by fliph 16y ago
As I understand it, arewefastyet.com was created as more of an internal/community dashboard specifically for the JIT team at Mozilla rather than to reflect on the browser as a whole to the userbase.
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by fliph 16y ago
Agreed that most of these would be good components of an overall browser benchmark, but the linked benchmarks are JavaScript benchmarks only, so things like browser start-up time and chrome dimensions wouldn't apply.
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by fliph 16y ago
Based in part on the tax brackets shown here: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm and several years of adjusting my estimated taxes in order to get as close to a zero-balance as possible when I do my taxes in April.
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by fliph 16y ago
To supplement the comment I left regarding TurboTax ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783200 ), I thought I'd lay out exactly how and when I interact with the IRS. About 50% of my income comes from freelancing; the other 50% from a fu
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by fliph 16y ago
I've used TurboTax for my return for the last five (?) years; I have a full-time job (W-2), but I also do a fair amount of freelancing (1099). I doubt that I would be able to do my return on my own without TurboTax; it walks you through all
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by fliph 16y ago
Business idea: Have people in the US proxy 4.5% mortgages to UK residents at 4.75%.
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by fliph 16y ago
> most users wrongly assume that Facebook Contact Sync only syncs user pictures. Why would you think that an app called "Contact Sync" would only sync pictures, and not your contacts?
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by fliph 16y ago
If one of AOL's goals was to announce multiple acquisitions in a single day in order to get exponentially more coverage than if they had announced them all days apart, then I'd say mission accomplished.
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AOL acquires Thing Labs (Brizzly)(corp.aol.com)
35 points by fliph 16y ago|19 comments
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by fliph 16y ago
The OneRiot RiotWise Ad API might be right for you: http://oneriotdevelopernetwork.com/riotwise-api/ You have the option of text ads (typically trending news stories, so they're less spammy than typical ads), small display ads, or full ad
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by fliph 16y ago
What's wrong with 9am?
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by fliph 16y ago
Or you could just update the cache when the data changes.
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by fliph 16y ago
For some reason, I started reading the story with the assumption that it was a "don't do it this way" tutorial, and I got very nervous towards the end. ("But that's exactly how I use memcache!")
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by fliph 16y ago
> What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab? Firefox already does this.
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by fliph 16y ago
Wikipedia has the answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive
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by fliph 16y ago
Yeah, Google could be pretty successful if only they didn't focus so much on engineering.
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by fliph 16y ago
.tk already did this: http://dot.tk/
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by fliph 16y ago
No legitimate employer would ask for paystubs from previous jobs.
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by fliph 16y ago
Age is a meaningless metric for a bug; "age" + "severity" perhaps, but an old, low-priority bug is less likely to be fixed than a new, high-priority bug, given a non-infinite amount of development resources. Case-in-point: Mozilla bug #350
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by fliph 16y ago
Should Mahalo's investors be concerned that the Mahalo CEO, former Mahalo CTO, and now-former Mahalo Community Director are all working for ThisWeekIn? Wouldn't there be a contractual clause preventing Calacanis from hiring away Mahalo staf