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news.spotify.com 10y ago

Work/life balance at Spotify

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www.kernelmag.com 13y ago

Airbnb Rental used as 'temporary brothel'

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www.jcbk.me 15y ago

Twitter Forgets About Tweetie

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translate.google.com 15y ago

Dutch Minister of Economics Affairs Agrees on Net Neutrality Bill

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kylewritescode.com 15y ago

Kyle Bragger on Redesigns

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www.founderly.com 15y ago

Interview with Kasper Hulthin, co-founder of Podio

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paidcontent.org 15y ago

News Corp Has Lost $10 Million On The Daily This Year

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 15y ago

Visa Invests in Square for Mobile Payments

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jcbk.tumblr.com 15y ago

Why I Never Use Drag-To-Upload in Safari

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www.goosh.org 15y ago

The unofficial Google shell

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

Cisco killing Flip line of camcorders, axing 550 employees

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uniformresourcelocatorlengthener.com 15y ago

Uniform Resource Locator-Lengthener

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www.economist.com 15y ago

English as a second language: Test results on the most fluent countries

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www.telegraph.co.uk 15y ago

Creating a truly European [start-up] ecosystem

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www.telegraph.co.uk 15y ago

Start-Up 100: the final list by category

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Kickstarter for designs?

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vimeo.com 15y ago

Custom-Made Spotify Box

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mashable.com 15y ago

Is Twitter Dividing The Happy From The Unhappy?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What are you trying to accomplish?

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37signals.com 15y ago

How Makalu Interactive created the international iPhone hit RaceSplitter

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: How To Use My Great Idea?

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

With Tilt-Shift And A News Feed, Instagram Is Ready To Rock SXSW

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: how to reach teenagers with a social network?

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www.huffingtonpost.com 15y ago

Silicon Hill: the rise of the new Washington, DC tech scene

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www.newyorker.com 15y ago

The New Yorker looking at better ads

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Python for a webapp?

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www.thepaypalblog.com 15y ago

Paypal launches Micro-Payments for online content

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

PirateBox-based internet?

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Minor nitpick, it was Path who first started using the cover photo. Facebook did the same only a few months later, and then many other services followed.

The Magazine 14 years ago

On the one hand I'm very excited by this; I see Marco as an interesting writer/speaker, when it comes to iOS development or when he geeks out about whatever gear he's recently bought. I also expect him to be a great editor, so I'd gladly pay money for a magazine put together by him.

But on the other hand...I'm really wondering why this needs to be an iOS app. Written content is perfect for publishing on the web, I really don't think you'll be running into any speed issues when you release this as a web magazine. And even if you would, why not make the content available both native and on the web?

I'm aware that Marco is an iOS developer, and that a lot of his readers (myself included) will have iOS devices, but for the sake of the open web I'm still slightly disappointed.

It's not dumbing down, it's simplifying. By designing mobile first, you force yourself to think about the priorities in your UX. You can still add all kind of things on top in the full web interface, but that's on top of the core experience.

from the article:

It's built into the normal iPhone texting application and turned on by default. When my Mom texts another Apple user, iMessage will automatically route her message over the Internet. She doesn't have to approve this, and honestly, probably won't even know the difference.

The problem with that approach is that he expects be extradited to the US as soon as he gets to Sweden. Oh and you might call it nitpicking, but he's not convicted of rape yet, let alone charged with it.

No it doesn't really, it keeps your HTML clean. Sure, there's better ways of getting a MacBook into your webpage, but this definitely shows the power of the :before and :after selectors.

Funny that all 3 companies you mention are money-related, which is a tough nut to crack in most countries. There's so many rules and regulations which all differ from country to country that I think it's quite understandable for companies like these to focus on 1 country first.

BTW, obviously all startups handle money in some way, but for these 3 it's a bit more complicated, as they're providing financial services to third-parties. (Ebay+Kickstarter to sellers/buyers, Stripe to sellers.)

offered money back to the sites

That's where the problem lies, they first took money from users, and then "offer" to pay it back. They should've done it the other way around, only charging money for sites which actually signed up to the service.

They've done a good job at making it sound like a great service for publishers, but when you think about it a bit more it's quite shady.

This is just goodwill-in-disguise. They've collected money on behalf of publishers, without consent, and now they realise that was a bad idea. They understand they obviously can't get away with keeping the money, but they don't want to invest the time into you know, actually contacting the domain owners.

It seems like this is made by the team formerly known as Sofa. Both the person who posted it and the name in the screenshot used to work there.

I really don't see the point of separate apps. The main Facebook app, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Photos...what's next?

Anyone who can enlighten me why this would be a good strategy? Seems like unnecessary fragmentation to me.

Show HN: Deadrop.us 14 years ago

Anyone who needs to share a message really securely is not going to that via your service, however sincere your promises might be.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, you've got some good points.

Maybe because you said definitely JavaScript, and the GP said he had javascript disabled, but your point still stands.

Google wasn't first. Facebook wasn't first. They both make their money from consumers, and guess what? They're doing a pretty good job at it.

And from the author's viewpoint (Instagram is just "a few filters [...] a few sharing options") Instagram wasn't first either; Hipstamatic was doing the same thing way before them, with a different business model.

That's why you set the initial scale to 1.0 when you're designing a responsive website. This disables the default iOS behaviour to scale a website to fit within the screen.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">