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hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

Hi Mike, thanks for your kind offer!

We have an old Windows XP machine that I would like to replace with a newer Windows 7 one. However, my wife is used to the old machine; in particular she has Internet Explorer manage all her auto-complete's and username/passwords for different sites she uses.

I looked around for tools to at least copy the passwords to the new machine but 1) Microsoft says it's not supported 2) the unofficial tools all look super-sketchy.

Any ideas of how to transplant the auto-completes and passwords to a new machine?

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior

I wouldn't say that the articles' metadata (URL, title, date of download, maybe thumbnail of the 1st page) is downloaded content. It's clearly user-generated, and should be in the "home" of the app IMHO.

The articles themselves, yes, send them to the cache. If the user needs to reclaim the storage used up by the articles, let the OS delete them. Then, when the user needs to read the article again, it will take some time to download. But don't get into an "all articles gone" situation. Just my 2 cents.

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: The last time I saw Steve Jobs

I can totally believe it, we went with the family once to visit/snoop around the Google campus, but if Eric Schmidt or Larry Page had showed up, I don't think I would have recognized them. (And we use Google products every day.)

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.

My recommendation is to take your lumps and move on.

Can you convince your parents to support you for a couple of years until you get your high school diploma and start college? Go into some money-making career that they approve of if needed. Once in college, you can start networking and planning your next move.

Just make them feel like you are back to being a good citizen and that you will go back to earn your keep once you have your college degree.

Oh, and tell your so-called "friends" to go pound sand.

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: Missed

Thanks. I thought it was some Buddhist syllable.

Like the blog post says, "poor design ruins lives"... that silly font already costed me 3 downvotes.

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: Missed

Please enlighten an uninitiated: what does "mo" mean in the last panel?

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: We dreamed, we shipped, we are stuck

Number 3 looks interesting. Maybe become a cloud-based competitor to VBulletin.

(Make sure that transitioning from the old forum to the new one is as painless as possible, though. Forum members usually hate any changes to their forums.)

hernan7 | 14 years ago | on: Ubuntu launches appstore

You could also try selling the Latin-America version (Spanish only) cheaper than the USA-English version.
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