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aab1d

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I am building a computer!!!

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line.naver.jp 13y ago

Ask HN: Is LINE a decent alternative to a "broken Whatsapp"?

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www.businessweek.com 14y ago

Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller

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gigaom.com 14y ago

Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet

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www.zdnet.com 14y ago

Why do Linux fanatics want to make Windows 8 less secure?

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

After A Rare Miss, Apple Predicts Record iPhone, iPad Sales

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

How Dropbox Will Die

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alice.pandorabots.com 14y ago

A.L.I.C.E

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www.bbc.co.uk 14y ago

Free apps for Blackberry Owners

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

My Blackberry is not working

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shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com 14y ago

The S*** that Apple's Siri says

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www.theregister.co.uk 14y ago

Even Microsoft Loves Hadoop

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aab1d.posterous.com 14y ago

Ten things I don't want Siri to do for me

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wesbos.com 14y ago

Get All Angry Birds Levels in Chrome HTML5 Version with a quick hack | Wes Bos

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arstechnica.com 14y ago

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

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www.dailystar.com.lb 14y ago

Table salt used to boost digital storage: scientists

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

The iPhone 4S Is Siriously Smarter

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: iPad/iPhone bookmarklet to submit to HN quickly

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static.chrisbray.com 14y ago

Adding Bookmarklets on iPad and iPhone

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Steve Wozniak On How The iPhone 4S Will Change His Life

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raw.github.com 14y ago

Steve's platform rant (Working Link)

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www.fastcodesign.com 14y ago

The Untold Story of How My Dad Helped Invent the First Mac

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thenextweb.com 14y ago

The first email was sent 40 years ago this month

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www.structuredprocrastination.com 14y ago

Adobe Reader is a wonderful program. It’s main function seems...

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gizmodo.com 14y ago

IFixed?

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www.guardian.co.uk 14y ago

Facebook is fine with hate speech, as long as it's directed at women

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era

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tnw.to 14y ago

New San Francisco accelerator aimed at social media startups

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emo2.posterous.com 14y ago

How we got back the @emo2 handle - thanks to Twitter, you could too

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www.pluggd.in 14y ago

Stop Blowing Our [Ecommerce] Bubbles

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blog.twitter.com 14y ago

Timely tweets now easier to see

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Well, what I meant is - this is not like I was sitting and hacking a network or something. This qualifies as a hack because I had to overcome a significant hurdle.

If you continue to imagine that hacks can be performed only on computers and networks. Then this may not make sense as a hack. Hacks can be social and/or real-world hacks too.

1. The biggest hurdle is to get a visa to get to the US. Yes it is a big deal these days. Especially for people going from India. In the article if you noticed, I could not get a visa. SO I had to get everything done remotely, which was a challenge. 2. As a startup it is not possible to get a booth. There are costs involved and money is better spent elsewhere. Instead of getting a booth, I convinced another booth owner to let me use his booth the showcase our product.

Thank you for pointing out the hard-work and persistence part. I had to do day and nighters to pull this one.

IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word. Your comment is well-taken.

Seems like you are right. Maybe submitting this was not such a great idea after all. Well anyways, I had a good laugh watching that one.

The article is no more available. I read it and then sent it to a few friends and now its the links dead.

That was the best and most truthful article I read in a long long time.

+1 creating a game that involves collaborating with strangers and creating music could be tedious. This overcomes that handicap pretty well. I love the concept, great work!

Once we were trying to install a payment gateway from a bank on TC. The damn thing just wont work. Till we realized that I had installed TC as a root. I then re-installed TC as the user and everything just worked. This was using ssh on a rackspace server. Maybe someone should note this in one of these articles.

In India we don't have the concept of software patents, unless some sort of hardware is involved. I am guessing that this is way better than the system where all business methods are patentable. This kills innovation. We should all just petition for change.