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mvalleon Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

Or maybe it makes sure that the only people who go the length to sign up are aware of the benefit of Quora, and therefore likely to be quality users contributing the the quality of Quora. In a sense, Quora uses Facebook as a filter to get great users.

mvalleon I’ll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please

I know someone who works for an insurance company that covers credit card and identity fraud. They are actively monitoring these sites for their costumers information. Even though that's a private company, I wouldn't be surprised if government organisations do the same.

mvalleon Ask HN: Monthly billing best practices

I suppose, it's not a trivial task to complete, otherwise it would've been done already, as I can only imagine that there is a lot of cash to get in that game.

mvalleon Ask HN: Monthly billing best practices

You?

mvalleon Google's HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up

I feel the same way too. Most of what I knew about HTML/CSS was through trail and error (especially for CSS). Now I am thinking of redesigning my whole site using what I've learned from these videos.

Also, I know of some friends who have expressed interest in learning web-design, they might get some use of this, as it is simple, comprehensive and easy to pick up. An excellent piece of work from Google.

mvalleon Hewlett Packard buys ArcSight security software firm

Hardware companies buying security software companies. Looks like it's the new trend. Now is a good time to own a security software company, but probably too late to start one.

mvalleon I'm an introverted hacker. I want to join a frat.

No, it doesn't. I read the Wikipedia's overly academic description and I still don't get it. (And I've never heard of corporations either.)

mvalleon Ask HN: To go or not to go college?

Key quote: "The advantage of a university is a high concentration of diverse, smart, and interesting people."

mvalleon Ha Do That in HTML5

Is this from Adobe, or does someone really care that much?

mvalleon HOW TO: Run Your Business Online with $10 and a Google Account

Step 5: write an article about how cheaply you made you blog.

mvalleon Why I Became an Entrepreneur (the Long Story)

Definitely, I like the way it is written. I don't know how to describe it, but it feels like an entrepreneur wrote it. It has a feel to it.

mvalleon HTML5 Presentation

Yeah, I particularly like the new range-slider input option, it seem much simpler to use than jQuery UI's range-slider. Which is where I think HTML5 really shines, making things simpler, by putting more functionality into HTML you previously needed JS for.

mvalleon 35 Lessons in 35 Years

I'd define a "well-behaved dog" as "a dog that doesn't bother me all the time", in which case most cats are well-behaved.

mvalleon Ask HN: Is a free plan worth it or not? Trying to figure out our pricing

How about having a dummy-demo. Basically give the user a taste of the UI without the functionality, ie. just send the user a static html page to get a feel of the interface and how it would work. Of course, it depends on what you are offering.

mvalleon Oracle Pricing [pdf]

Oracle's other database, MySQL, only cost's $0.1 in download costs, + ~$1 yearly download costs for updates.

mvalleon Ask HN: How have you learned a speaking language?

The Best Method to Master a Foreign Language, Guaranteed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381278

mvalleon OpenSolaris is dead

the fork: http://www.illumos.org/

mvalleon OpenSolaris is dead

Isn't the good part of being open-source, that you can fork it at any point?

If there is any interest in OpenSolaris, someone will fork it and continue the development.

mvalleon "My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means."

That's the best thing about having a nephew, the Legos.

mvalleon Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.

On the third hand: of the infinite amount of things you can't/won't do in you life, there is only a finite amounts of things you want to do, and you won't regret not doing things you don't want to do.

mvalleon Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.

Oh, that reminds me...

mvalleon Poll: Are you a software pirate?

I think it is. I only use un-pirateable software.

mvalleon Ask HN - Review my startup: singlePAGERS

What will the pricing be after the beta ends?

mvalleon Forbes 400 Data Shows Paul Graham Is Wrong

because you have the skills necessary?

mvalleon Forbes 400 Data Shows Paul Graham Is Wrong

So you could work for an investment bank, make a lot of money, use as little of it as possible and save the rest, then after a few years, quit and use the savings to fund a start-up? Sounds like a plan to me...

mvalleon Iceland passes the "Wikileaks law". What will it mean for journalists?

I doubt the US will ever invade Iceland. It will have massive consequences for the US government, it might be controlled by interest groups, but they are not all powerful, the people still do have a say.

It will be much more difficult to convince a Kentucky farmer that the US should invade Iceland with it's white Christians, as supposed a strange-sounding nation with non-white non-Christians(sad, but true).

And though Iceland doesn't have a military, it does have friends who do. It is interesting entertaining the idea of a US invasion of Iceland. It would result in an immediate hostility towards the US from many nations, as it would be to attack a friend(if they attack Iceland, they can attack us), especially from the Nordic region(whose commercial powers are not to sneeze at).

Anyways, data safe-heaven, great idea.

mvalleon Ask HN: Please explain short selling?

Does it work, if the people lending it, are just planning to hold the stock forever?

mvalleon Ask HN: Why U.S. people dislike Nokia?

I think we have an answer to our question here.

mvalleon Perfect email regex finally found

Just like I used to imagine computer code.

mvalleon Perfect email regex finally found

Seriously, I can't think of a single good reason why you would want to check whether an email address is "valid"!

Because it's fun.