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chris24

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chris@cthomson.ca

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flyosity.com 15y ago

Software Licensing State of the Union

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www.adamgiambrone.ca 15y ago

Toronto's public transit system ponders the future of fare payments

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buzzworks.de 15y ago

Hockey: OTA Ad-Hoc Beta App Installer/Updater on iOS 4, without jailbreaking

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www.dslreports.com 16y ago

In response to Netflix coming to Canada, Rogers lowers bandwidth caps

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www.businessinsider.com 16y ago

iPhone developer brags: $1400 in iAd revenue in one day

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tech.fortune.cnn.com 16y ago

Apple PR: Steve Jobs iPhone 4 "it's just a phone" conversation was fake

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news.viacom.com 16y ago

Viacom's Statement Regarding Today's Court Ruling

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www.mahalo.com 16y ago

Jason Calacanis: A message to the Mahalo community

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www.zdnet.com 16y ago

PC makers no longer allowed to pre-install XP on netbooks, starting in October

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www.theregister.co.uk 16y ago

Foxconn to shutter China factories

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www.washingtonpost.com 16y ago

Mark Zuckerberg: answering Facebook privacy concerns with new settings

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peepcode.com 16y ago

PeepCode has released a 50-minute ($9) screencast about Vim

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www.omnigroup.com 16y ago

The Omni Group has sold 5,000 copies of OmniGraffle for iPad (for $50 each).

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Mac users, do you get AppleCare for your Macs?

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calacanis.com 16y ago

Jason Calacanis's Thoughts on the Stolen iPhone Prototype

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techcrunch.com 16y ago

Textie: A Handsome, Simple Messaging App From The Guys Behind Tweetie & Borange

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www.techcrunch.com 16y ago

Bing's URL shortener (binged.it) has a longer domain name than bing.com

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www.nytimes.com 16y ago

NYT: Apple has acquired streaming music service Lala

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support.apple.com 16y ago

Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already.

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itunes.apple.com 16y ago

Today's Apple keynote video has been posted to Apple's podcast feed.

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www.1kbgrid.com 16y ago

The 1KB CSS Grid

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blog.tr.im 16y ago

Tr.im Resurrected

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factoryjoe.com 16y ago

"Developing iPhone apps now means postponing a better and more capable web"

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factoryjoe.com 17y ago

Chris Messina's Thoughts on Opera Unite

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live.gdgt.com 17y ago

Ask HN: What are your last-minute predictions for WWDC?

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sixrevisions.com 17y ago

25 Stylish Examples of Web Forms

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googleblog.blogspot.com 17y ago

Google's modernizing its logo on Docs, Code, etc.

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kilianvalkhof.com 17y ago

Imageless loading spinners (use FF 3.5b4 to view)

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recked.org 17y ago

Recked - a night of recommendation technologies

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orderedlist.com 17y ago

Structural Tags in HTML5

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Quitting LinkedIn 14 years ago

You're not the only one - I also initially thought this was going to be about a LinkedIn employee quitting.

FWIW, they were charging $3/package for their initial launch at UWaterloo, and people were actually paying for it. You're right - probably not enough people for it to be feasible, but yeah, even some of us ('poor' students) were paying for it.

My understanding is that yes, identica and app.net are similar, except for their business models. Identica didn't have a clear business model (AFAIK), so they would likely resort to advertising. App.net is trying to avoid that by charging users directly.

Pagination 101 14 years ago

Using the left/right keys is a great idea, but you'd have to have some clever way of making users aware of it.

You'd also have to come up with a solution that works on devices that don't necessarily have a keyboard available at all times (on iOS, for instance).

Yahoo Axis 14 years ago

Are authoritative answers like those still being posted on Y! Answers these days though? Craig's answer was from 6 years ago.

I've only used VbV once or twice, years ago. Do they still use iframes? I've never understood why they try to make the site more "secure" by using these services, but then use an iframe so the average user can't easily confirm if the login screen is legit or not.

We've been using this at Waterloo for a couple of months now. It's a nice new feature, but one issue is that we already have some huge groups (textbook/housing/class-of groups) from before that cannot be moved into Groups at Waterloo.