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bbuffone··on Most iPhone applications gathering dust
I know from my personal usage this to be true for most of my application. There are a couple I use repeatedly, (Units) I guess that's the one only one.

If it wasn't for extended bathroom breaks or my kids are using my phone when we go out to eat, my applications wouldn't get used at all. Less than a year ago there weren't any apps and the phone sold just fine and was just as useful.

bbuffone··on Ask HN: Please review our startup - timzon.com
Site looks cool. Don't like the iframe, makes it difficult to bookmark and post links. Also the inside scrollbar is a bad idea.
bbuffone··on Just Jump: Start using Clouds and CDNs
Using a CDN like CloudFront and optimizing front-end performance is something that would be useful for all companies that are about to launch and add the "Ask NH: Rate my startup ...." post. . I see lots of sites go "live" that can do some simple things that take only minutes and make a big difference.
bbuffone··on Ask HN: Rate my webapp: commandlinefu.com
One way to help is to optimize the website; load less resources and make them more compressed. Your users will have a much better experience and you will save money. Take a look at rockstarapps.com for some tools to help out with this.

Also the site doesn't display well on a 1024 monitor the left panel is displayed below the right.

bbuffone··on Ask HN: What sucks about snow shovels?
Being that I used a shovel just this morning, I can think of a couple things:

1.) Snow falls of the end of the shovel. 2.) Can't use the shovel to clean up the car. Need to get a snow brush and if the snow is deep it doesn't work well. 3.) When it snows a lot you need to throw it farther. 4.) Doesn't always get down to the pavement. 5.) The shovel that does the driveway isn't that good for the front steps. 6.) Snow shovels break when you use them to remove ice.

bbuffone··on PhpBB's site hacked
I ended up shutting down my phpBB forum because it took too much time to weed out all the porn and spam. Forum is now a yahoo group and have had no problems.
bbuffone··on What Do Women Want?
I would ask my wife but she is not talking to me. Too much time coding.
bbuffone··on Ask HN: Has anybody observed cheating?
The funniest cheating I have seen in a "class room" was during a philosophy class. Tests for the class were multiple choice and given out on a computer. Every student for some reason good two guesses for each question and there were five answers. This meant that you needed to work with two other people and you could get all the answers right. So during the tests you would hear. Fred - "A" nope. Stan - "B" nope, Jeff - "C" yes. Then everyone would enter C for question one and then repeat.

It was quite hilarious actually.

bbuffone··on Working from Home: Why It Sucks
It's called human interaction - most people need this to survive. When sheltered from the world like a person with Agoraphobia, it becomes hard to relate to people no matter how much email or twittering you do.
bbuffone··on R.I.P. Dr. Dobb's
Oh no, I killed Dr. Dobbs.

I am the actual person on the cover of the magazine. Well at least they went out in style ;)

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