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willthefirst

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neal.fun 1y ago

Internet Roadtrip

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Learning to code, can't afford bootcamp. What should I focus on?

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bookbuddy.me 9y ago

Show HN: BookBuddy helps you maintain a steady reading habit

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How could comment sections be designed to foster good discussion?

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name-grabber.herokuapp.com 10y ago

Get notified when an Instagram username becomes available

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www.theworldsbiggestgameoftelephoneever.com 12y ago

The World's Biggest Game Of Telephone Ever

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www.august.com 12y ago

August Smart Lock

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question-mark.herokuapp.com 12y ago

Why

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What's the best desk/chair combo for developers?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What current startups are totally distributed workspaces?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Is there a public FED best practices document online?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Google Hangout to discuss making a 'better email'

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: What specific techniques do you use to improve as a programmer?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

HN, let's make the 'better email'

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Are front-end developers really "developers"?

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defendyourfuckingvote.herokuapp.com 13y ago

Two devs met on HN and made a website for the election

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Want to collaborate on a quick election themed website?

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Google Apps cut support for Internet Explorer 8 and below

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

We need a Groupon for phone plans

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www.jackieandthebeanstalk.com 13y ago

Jackie and The Beanstalk: A Children's Book in the Browser

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vignettesfromviget.tumblr.com 13y ago

The Best Bookmark Bar For Front End Developers

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www.puma.com 14y ago

Run Puma Run, 8bit style arcade game with HTML5 canvas

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What touch interactions are possible on mobile Safari?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Hacker News Toolbar: It would be great to have, but there's no API

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forums.macrumors.com 14y ago

Apple Can't Be Too Happy That A New iPad Prototype Just Leaked

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Best way to recover and deal with carpal tunnel?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Why is desktop text editing software still so bad?

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fitvidsjs.com 14y ago

FitVid.js Makes Videos Awesomely Responsive

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willthinksthat.tumblr.com 14y ago

Show HN: I Redesigned Apple's New Homepage

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www.aim.com 14y ago

AIM Has Been Refreshed For The First Time Since 1997

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I mean…the site that broke should know what to do with arbitrary query strings. If your site breaks when someone puts in an invalid query string, that’s on you?

I know right?! The language is simple and entertaining.

There's also a hilarious passage about a wealthy guy who gets carried everywhere, and becomes so numbed by luxury that he can't tell whether he's sitting down or not.

For some age-tested wisdom on this topic, read Seneca's On The Shortness Of Life:

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/ebooks/seneca/on-the-shortn...

"But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men's fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: 'The part of life we really live is small.'"

Thanks for your interest guys and gals. Would you be interested in talk ing tomorrow (Sunday) at 3pm PST on Google Hangout and discussing a possible project?

I think my question comes from the fact that FED's need to engage less than backenders with strict compsci concepts, unless we're writing JS. I think I meant to ask whether HTML/CSS and all the variants and elaborations count as "programming".

So long, Retina 14 years ago

The burn-in/ghosting issue only affects the earliest batch of screens. I just took my retina into the Apple store, and they will decapitate it and add a new screen for free. Annoying, but it doesn't affect all whole line.