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pogos··on The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is live
This is so cool. I can now read kindle books on my ubuntu laptop without setting up kindle for pc + wine ugliness.
pogos··on Ask HN: What are the best unique Mac apps?
Logic Studio. There is Cubase on Windows that comes close in functionality but is nowhere as intuitive and easy to use.
pogos··on Grooveshark's new Javascript/HTML interface
Great work! Linux users now officially love you :-)
pogos··on Please review my startup - Vipidme.com - a video generator
Or if you just want to see what it's all about without registering: http://vipidme.com/select/
pogos··on Please review my startup - Vipidme.com - a video generator
Thanks for feedback! We are planning to implement site themes feature so users can choose the one they like.
pogos··on New free monospace programming font by Mark Simonson: Anonymous Pro
I love it. I think it's even better than consolas and I've been using consolas for years.

  ;(set-default-font "Consolas 11")
  (set-default-font "Anonymous Pro 11")
pogos··on Ask HN: What are you working on today?
Writing software that generates music.
pogos··on Ask YC: funded startups and their status
some ycombinator investments are listed here: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator
pogos··on Ask HN: Which Non-Macbook notebook would you recommend?
I'm in the same position as you, looking for a good linux laptop. Haven't found one yet.

I had a chance to play with Thinkpad t410 and x201 and I have to say they weren't as good as I expected. There was very strange whining noise emitting from the cpu area and displays were just awful. I heard that the noise problem persists with newer Core i3/i5/i7 Thinkpads.

pogos··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator
this is somewhere at the end of my todo list, thanks for reminding me :-)
pogos··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator
#1 is already on my todo list

#2 is a great idea! I think I'll try to implement it, thank you.

pogos··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator
GNU Emacs 23.1 on Ubuntu. Haven't tested on other versions and platforms yet.
pogos··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator
fixed, thank you.
pogos··on Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator
This is a very basic editor. I'm planning to add more options (fonts, decorations etc) and more languages.
pogos··on A day without X (server)
I don't understand why he didn't take proper console screenshots.

IIRC mplayer is capable of taking snapshots of console. fbgrab can do this, too.

pogos··on JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language (2001)
You should also take a look at sources of paulgraham.com, norvig.com and tlb.org. They all use horrible markup and tables for layout.

The fact that they don't care what their html code looks like should tell us something.

pogos··on Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Python
gzipped sources:

http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus7/public/Opus7-1.0.tar.gz

pogos··on What you'd build if you had 100 millions?
I'd invest in 5000 promising new startups.
pogos··on IP geolocation is a bad way to select a UI language
use http://www.google.com/ncr instead.
pogos··on Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on?
Start with mercurial.

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/

pogos··on Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
I'd never thought someone would compete with Orbitz.
pogos··on What Do People Want?
http://www.whynot.net/
pogos··on Keep Your Identity Small
The less points you have to defend, the better off you'll be.
pogos··on Tag Clouds of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush's
BBC prefers to call it "key words"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/78406...

pogos··on Hacker News doesn't validate
The best validator is a browser.
pogos··on Ask HN: How do you use your FreeBSD desktop box?
Xorg + fluxbox

emacs22

Firefox

And WIN4BSD when I need to test my work in IE or other Windows browsers.

pogos··on Original Grim Fandango design document released [pdf]
The best game ever created.
pogos··on Pixlr - the online image editor
I actually forgot I'm using browser for a moment :-) Brilliant.
pogos··on Printing only what you like (Format any web page for printing)
May i have "Save" button + unique url for every page i edit please?
pogos··on Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
BitTorrent http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/
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