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ObieJazzon Inspire HN: Solve the Internet Bystander Problem

For example, online political fundraising has become increasingly more effective in past decade. By separating the development of the motivation to action from the mechanics of the action itself -- the political rallying from the card swiping -- effective politicians play to the strengths of both the online and offline mediums.

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If you're going to harass a group of people it's a lot more tasteful to target one that isn't already persecuted.

ObieJazzon Cocoa with Love: Showing a "Loading..." message over the iPhone keyboard

I find the app store to be highly competitive. The competition drives down price, which drives down incentive for developers to put too much time into a single app. This provides what many consumers are looking for on the device: $0.99 apps that will entertain them 5 minutes.

ObieJazzon Ask HN: Review my startup - TwitterGrep.com : NY Times of Twitter

I like how the pics page lets you see larger amount of data (pictures) at once than is possible just using Twitter, although you might want to check out the layout on that page in Chrome -- some of the text gets covered by ads.

Other than that, I'm not sure what the site offers me. Are the News / Tech / Gossip pages simply custom lists of people that are followed? Why do I want to use your lists instead of using my Twitter account, which I've already customized to include the people I'm most interested in following?

If your target audience is people don't twitter but might be into it, they're either going to end up moving on to actually using Twitter, or decide it's not for them. In either case, they won't keep coming back to your site.

ObieJazzon Tweenbots - A social experiment of cute autonomous robots and crowdsourced help

Or if the robots weren't anthropomorphic -- just a box with wheels.

ObieJazzon Open Mobile Internet Now

On the one hand, there may be a legitimate argument to be made that the wireless networks just don't have the bandwidth to allow users to use whatever kinds of data-heavy applications they want. On the other hand, that could be solved without violating the Broadband Policy Statement by throttling heavy users' connections.

ObieJazzon Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do?

Replace all copies of IE with a skinned, renamed version of Firefox that calls itself IE 9.

ObieJazzon DVD region code blocks British Prime Minister from enjoying Obama's gift

I've been able to play European DVDs on my (N. American) Mac using VLC.

ObieJazzon IPhone 3.0 has copy/paste, subscriptions, micropayments, P2P, maps, push, MMS, etc

3.0 SDK beta is available today. Can't wait to try it out.

ObieJazzon JQuery gestures

They better be careful or Apple is going to sue them for violating their patent on swipe direction detection.

ObieJazzon Sergey Brin has a mutation of the LRRK2 gene.

Unlike most light bulbs, a monitor has a brightness setting that can be set to a comfortable level.

Also the metaphor of ink on paper is still with us in a big way. Dark text on a light background is the norm, light on dark is the exception.

ObieJazzon How I make 15K a month at AdSense

Seems to me the second part is only lame because he's doing it strictly to make money. If he were doing it for a more creative project it would just be self-promotion.

ObieJazzon The realities of selling an IPhone app

"403 Error - Forbidden" speaks to the realities of selling iPhone apps as much as any other article I've read recently.

ObieJazzon Poll: What browser do you use?

Back and forth between Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

ObieJazzon Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker

The whole story looks like it's been voted down to -2. The low contrast line needs to be drawn somewhere.

ObieJazzon 1975

Not to the extent that they do now, at least in pop music.

ObieJazzon Twitter is broken

Not at all. I mean, here I am talking about the same thing.

ObieJazzon Twitter is broken

I'm having the same problem. I was signed in and everything was hunky-dory but then I signed out just to test your example... bad idea. Now I'm stuck out!

This happened to me the other day, and I was all confused because normally when a site is down I can Twitter about it but with Twitter down there was nowhere to go. It was only down for a moment though, so problem averted. Still, not sure HN is the right forum for up-to-the-minute chit-chat about what sites are broken...

ObieJazzon The Rules of an Entrepreneur

I like this one too:

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

Seems hard to prove but I guess that's not the point.

ObieJazzon Have you seen the front page of Pirate Bay?

And yet, a link to a one-sided propaganda comic strip gets 103 upvotes.

ObieJazzon iPhone concepts that must be seen

Source: http://www.9to5mac.com/iphone-concepts-10

ObieJazzon AppCraver Offers to Review My App for $50

I'm not sure that's the case. Although it's likely that many of the app reviews on AppCraver were paid for, there's no way of telling that a particular one was. For example, there are a couple of negative reviews on the site which I imagine weren't paid for.

ObieJazzon AppCraver Offers to Review My App for $50

Yes. Thank you for pointing that out—that typo's been fixed.

Speaking of Apptism, I like that site a lot, except that I can't figure out what those little numbers in red circles mean. I'm sure they explain on their site somewhere, just haven't found it yet.

ObieJazzon AppCraver Offers to Review My App for $50

Normally I'm not a fan of self-posting but I wanted to follow up with the discussion that went on here last weekend on this subject (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472408) and let anyone who's interested know that AppCraver was the offending party.

ObieJazzon Apple Wants To Make Jailbreaking Worthy Of Jail Time, $2500 Fine

Apple seems to be getting eviler by the day. It's the same kind of attitude they're taking with Palm and the Pre—threatening legal action to scare people away from doing things they really ought to have a right to do. I guess that's what happens when you're at the top of a market.

ObieJazzon Ask HN: Do You Twitter?

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ObieJazzon One free interaction

I noticed two friends who use their mouse to repeatedly select and deselect text in web browsers as they read pages online. This is absolutely crazymaking for onlookers, but really satisfying for them.

I do this all the time. I hadn't ever really thought about it.

ObieJazzon Gaming HN for an Orange Name - A Warning

Before the orange names, I refrained from commenting if I thought it was likely my comment would end up being downvoted to 0 points or less. Now, I'm likely to refrain from commenting if I think my comment won't get upmodded to 5 points or more (4 upvotes), because anything less would be net-negative on my average karma target of 3.5.

I see this as having a similar effect as initializing each post to -3 points (or maybe -2.5). I'm afraid this may lead to fewer genuinely thoughtful comments that might lack a populist appeal because the poster thought twice about posting at all.

ObieJazzon Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it

pwnyoutube.com claims fair use:

"PWN!" is a frequently used word on the Internet, the meaning of which clearly makes the words "PWN! YouTube" a parody.

ObieJazzon [dead]

Where are all the "This doesn't belong on HN" comments? The article nothing to do with tech or startups.