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ody··on Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?
Some people can't see beyond their own bullshit. Welcome to your reality.
ody··on Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?
heh, you wannabe entrepreneurs make me giggle. Down modding is so slashdot.

You really think that converting a new comers opinion into negative numbers helps your community of self perpetuating bullshit prosper?

ody··on Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?
"a bad [hairday] you may lose it "

The fact you say people may lose it because you may have "a bad [hairday]" says so much about you. Which is: an inconsiderate ass hole looking for glory/karma points.

ody··on American teens are sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month on average
Shouldn't it be "sending AND receiving" .. sorry, it's the programmer in me.
ody··on [dead]
eval(); But I already called it.
ody··on 25 Emerging Free Web Scripts to Watch
Since when did full blown applications start being called scripts? The only "script" I can see in that lot is php.js.
ody··on Ask HN: Which should I use: Yahoo Groups, Facebook Groups or Google Groups?
I'm in the UK. I use nntp.aioe.org, a quick google brought up www.teranews.com .. hope at least one works out for you.
ody··on Ask HN: Linux from Scratch.. Should I try it?
I gave it a go back in 2000 .. I've never learnt so much so quickly and had loads of fun and hair pulling moments. One tip, when you get your system up and running to "init 3", modprobe your soundcard driver and spin up "Orbital - Halcyon" .. If you're a fan of the Hackers film that is ;)

I never done anything else with my build at the time, but I did join the Arch Linux community which is a distro based on LFS with a package manager. So I effectively went from knowing very little about Linux to being a package maintainer for a distro over the course of a weekend.

ody··on Ask HN: Which should I use: Yahoo Groups, Facebook Groups or Google Groups?
NNTP is alive and strong. Google groups includes most usenet groups for example. Yeah, most ISPs don't give out free access any more but just google for "news server access".
ody··on Would the LHC blow up your hand? I do the math.
Great stuff, I watched the sixty symbols video only yesterday, which is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMqPT6oKJ8 for anyone that may be interested.
ody··on Ask HN: Which should I use: Yahoo Groups, Facebook Groups or Google Groups?
You could setup your own NNTP server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol
ody··on Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge
suckers ... no really, you are.
ody··on You Can't Innovate Like Apple
Interesting about the Nexus One. I've got the Desire which, when I get out of my reception-less flat, I'll test for that problem.

I think the first time I tried holding it on my shoulder I dropped it so never held it like that again :-D

ody··on You Can't Innovate Like Apple
Being a curious one, I had a look round your site as listed in your profile. You say have a Nexus One, yet your personal site, Watch.Steve, releases the tutorials in "iPhone + Apple TV" format and the filenames have iphone in there.

Just an observation ;-) Prompted mainly by the strange pointless dig at the Nexus One which had no relevance to the conversation or OP.

ody··on You Can't Innovate Like Apple
2 out of 5 is a really big issue and a massive lack of attention to detail. I really don't see how you could think otherwise.
ody··on You Can't Innovate Like Apple
"Apple designs for #2. No other mass-consumer products company puts as much attention to detail into the fit and finish of the box—let alone the out-of-box experience."

I'm sorry but no they do not put as much attention to detail into their products as you would think. They didn't even have multitasking in the iPhone until recently! And what was the antenna problems all about?

All I see is just enough attention to detail to make people go "wow, shiney." and that's it.

ody··on Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while?
Have you checked out Hacker Evolution? Might be a good source of ideas. It also strikes me that £20 may be a tad much to ask for an interactive fiction text game.
ody··on Ask HN: Would a game to teach Bash & *nix be worth-while?
Good idea however your site has no news, contact info etc .. nothing apart from an overview of the product and links to paypal .. add some info about yourself at least and I'll cough up £11.99.

Good luck!

ody··on Hacker Monthly Issue #5 - October 2010
$3?! you're aving a giraffe!