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baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to wget pages with javascript?

Thanks. I really want to get this done with the command line and it looks like Phantom JS will do the trick.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: 1000 signups a week, but how to gain long term engagement?

You could ask people what they hope to get out of your app before they quit using it. Maybe after their first return or a few page clicks?

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Marco Arment & Instapaper’s Reading List

This cache-hit data would actually be interesting to look through.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: No wallet, no problem?

Agreed. It's smelling like Google: http://phandroid.com/2011/03/15/google-reportedly-buying-up-...

baconface | 14 years ago | on: No wallet, no problem?

Mobile payments are no longer interesting or exciting to, but mostly frustrating. Hopefully, Google throwing a couple billion at ubiquitizing NFC terminals will stir things up.

Japan has been doing it for years while US giants hold each other in a stalemate. At least Square is happily trotting forward while Visa and Mastercard miss another Paypal.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Starting your day at office

I love having a solid hour for this, but can't always make it happen.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge

Ya, huge difference imo. Macbook Air has a decent 1440x900, which amounts to an extra 17% vertical increase.

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge

I did wait for the Series 9, but it had 1366x768 :(

Hilariously, Sony omits this tidbit on their own page. See it here: http://techdraginfo.blogspot.com/2011/01/samsung-9-series-ul...

baconface | 14 years ago | on: Finally: Macbook Air w/Sandy Bridge

I waited a long time for Sony, Dell, or Toshiba to compete with the Macbook Air. Finally, they did and even with Sandy Bridge. Unfortunately, every single one of them settled for shitty 1360x760 displays forcing me to get an Air.

The Air has been perfect, though installing ubuntu without a superdrive or external cdrom was a preposterous nightmare.

baconface | 15 years ago | on: Buy Newegg gear using Bitcoin

Seems like another good technique for mining bitcoins.

baconface | 15 years ago | on: Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web

great point. I think a major reason MS bought skype was integrate it with kinect, which somewhat mitigates this.

baconface | 15 years ago | on: Google open sourcing voice and video engine for the web

does Apple really intend to do this?

baconface | 15 years ago | on: The stock market is controlled by algorithms that are fighting with each other

Bitcoin is a market that grows at a fixed rate!

The stock market is kind of a joke...

baconface | 15 years ago | on: 2011: The Year the Check-in Died

Checking-in is tedious. Most of the benefits of location-based services are happening through better uses of wireless communication. Excluding GPS, Shopkick uses high frequency audio signatures and ZuluTime just patented some new wifi based stuff (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/11/zulutime-issued-patent-for-...).