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tickle_me_elmoon Daily Aspirin Linked to Steep Drop in Cancer Risk

It can cause bleeding.

tickle_me_elmoon ShowHN: Generate your own MTV (Last.fm+Youtube)

Hot Chip - One Life Stand:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXPIx1LlPY

It doesn't show up in your search results. How come?

tickle_me_elmoon Clever social engineering. A malicious web page that tells you it's malicious.

I don't know which Alanis Morrisette song the author is referring to.

tickle_me_elmoon HN-Books

To mask the affiliate links perhaps.

tickle_me_elmoon Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...

Do you mean you can do daily withdrawals even if you're not using your own name as the donation recipient, but rather the name of your website?

tickle_me_elmoon Youku Transcends YouTube as China Becomes Center of Internet

Youku seems to be severely throttled in the West. Anytime I've tried to use it, I've given up in frustration at the buffering times.

tickle_me_elmoon Stay up late while you can. It pays off

This article recommends working an extra shift at the office for free and creating an expectation with your boss that you can do twice the work everyone else can do in the same amount of time.

My recommendation would be the opposite. Carefully manage expectations and pace yourself if you want (a) to ensure your longevity as a tech worker, (b) to avoid serious health problems and (c) to avoid later regretting missing out on the valuable social and emotional opportunities of your youth.

You can develop your skills in your twenties without creating unfortunate imbalances.

tickle_me_elmoon StackOverflow launches chat

Not everything squishes.

tickle_me_elmoon About Yogurts

I didn't get the IBM one ("What fridge? Just kidding").

tickle_me_elmoon Om Malik: Silicon Valley's Talent Crunch

If, as you say, "typically that answer is 'no'", then why do you also say it's a stupid assumption to make? I agree with the second part, not with the first.

tickle_me_elmoon Om Malik: Silicon Valley's Talent Crunch

Maybe now tech companies will wake up and start to re-think their ageist hiring policies.

tickle_me_elmoon Announcing Backbone.js: Models, Collections and Views in 2.4kb

Would it be possible to use this with Google App Engine?

tickle_me_elmoon CarWoo (YC S09) promises car buyers hassle-free quotes, raises $4.2M

It goes national today after no-publicity launches earlier this year in California and Florida

How do you launch without publicity?

tickle_me_elmoon After a year in stealth, CarWoo (YC S09) launches today

If the site has been running for over a year, how can it be said to "launch" today?

tickle_me_elmoon Java Trap, 2010 Edition

At the multinational I work at, we recently upgraded to Java 1.5. By the time we have to upgrade to Java 1.7, I expect this little storm-in-a-teacup to be well and truly forgotten.

tickle_me_elmoon Airbnb launches AirbnbTV

This is a great idea but on first glance I'm confused how this ties in with the messaging and reservation/order placement system on the main site. It seems you can just watch a video but then you have to separately go to the main site and again search for that listing in order to place a reservation for it.

The other question I had about this is how costly is it to host your own video? Or are they riding on top of some external video hosting service?

At the moment it seems Airbnb cherry picks the properties they want to promote with video - they don't allow regular users to upload videos of their properties to augment the images that they can already upload. Why not simply allow everyone to upload videos? Is this a cost issue? Because the current implementation creates an impression of unfairness - why promote only some properties and not others?