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zombio··on Ask HN: How to find solvable problems if you're a great problem-solver?
Now that's just pretentious and not true.
zombio··on Ask HN: How to find solvable problems if you're a great problem-solver?
What you're saying is you've solved problems that other people can't solve themselves... isn't that the basis for almost any startup?
zombio··on Nsa.gov is down
Mandatory relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/932/
zombio··on Ask HN: What's a good resource for a 9 year old to learn programming?
+1 for scratch. It's a great way for kids to learn programming without getting bored. Show them how to make an account and share their games with the community and they'll be hooked. The same skills learned from scratch transfer over to more advanced languages.
zombio··on How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit
Reddit's tipping product doesn't actually send money, just a shiny "gold" image and a few minor gold-exclusive features.
zombio··on How To Send Bitcoin Tips On Reddit
...And (3) force people to either create a Coinbase account or lose their money. (The post wasn't very clear, but as I understand it the receiver will get a PM linking them to Coinbase where they will need to sign up to receive their money).

I don't want to just sound cynical, so I'll try to provide a solution. Perhaps there should be an option to reply to the BitTip PM with a regular Bitcoin address where all future payments will be sent.

zombio··on I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy
By saying that you are giving him permission.
zombio··on Radius Raid – HTML5 Shoot 'em up
Great game. I'm always excited to see polished <canvas> games.
zombio··on Tumblr: ‘It Was the Biggest Game of Chicken I’ve Ever Seen.’
There is absolutely no way Yahoo would ever buy 4chan.

Sorry if you're being sarcastic and I'm not picking up on it.

zombio··on Readme.io - free to a good open source project
http://nic.io is the official .io domain supplier and works quite well.
zombio··on Be the best?
>I must confess to finding this answer pretty insulting

Oh come on... anyone who finds a simple human/monkey analogy insulting is way too sensitive.

zombio··on Ask HN: Most difficult programming language?
Pure binary.
zombio··on A landing page using HTML and GIF only
Considering that this "landing page" is only an image and a button, that fact that no JavaScript or CSS was used isn't very impressive.
zombio··on My first full app
Congrats on your first app. Twitter is always fun to work with. What did you use to make it?

PS the "tag that" button isn't working.

zombio··on Ask HN: Reporting Users?
testing
zombio··on [dead]
Just needed a post to test some things on... please ignore this
zombio··on [WIP] Super Mario Kart Clone with HTML5 *Updated* new track and improvements
clicky: http://www.mazeware.com/games/html5/m7/supercanvaskart.html
zombio··on Pltts - Find your colour palette
> If you would read the footer

You can't, the "Twittern" (you made a typo) button is covering it.

I don't understand the point of Pltts. The top 20 colours are just ColourLovers top 20 colours. Why not browse ColourLovers that has the exact same stuff, plus much MUCH more?

zombio··on Defeated
I'd also like to know.
zombio··on Hidden HN Pages
These aren't really hidden, the "lists" link is at the bottom left of the page. I did upvote this however because lots of people might not know about it.
zombio··on Generate Hollywood-grade technical jargon
I love this, it reminded me of Crime Cops [1]. The best part is that actual screenwriters might come across this while searching for tech dialog and not realise it's satire. Then again, it wouldn't be much different from the stuff Hollywood currently uses.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF_qQYrCcns

zombio··on Youtube Easter Egg - One for the Geeks
Best easter egg ever! Is that new?
zombio··on Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Oh he didn't actually. It's just one of those overused internet phrases you'll find all the time on Reddit and Youtube.
zombio··on Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Those go hand in hand.
zombio··on Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Well he did take a huge personal risk to promote freedom etc...
zombio··on Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
I don't really understand the nobel peace prize, or specifically why Obama was awarded it. I understand being the first black president of the United States is a big deal, but did he personally do anything to promote peace? Or does being black in the white house somehow lower racism, hence promoting world peace?
zombio··on Ubuntu Edge will miss $32M crowdfunding target
Given the nature of this campaign the boost at the end will probably be larger. There will be a lot of hype when the final day comes and everyone will want to get their phones before it closes.
zombio··on Ubuntu Edge will miss $32M crowdfunding target
Mark Shuttleworth said in his Reddit AMA that if the project was not successfully funded he would not close the gap. Are you suggesting he would let the project die, only to reintroduce it later?

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...

zombio··on How 'One Weird Trick' Conquered The Internet
Agreed, it was obviously satire.
zombio··on Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is
I've talked to two people about this issue. Their answers were "Whatever, I don't care" and "honestly, I get it. If they're catching terrorists...". Both times they completely changed their mind by the end of our conversation. This proves that one big issue is people just not understanding what's going on... And no main stream media is going to tell them because a "where's Waldo/Snowden" chase is way more fun.
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