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New comment by atourino in "My Very Own Protocol Droid"

atourino — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:43:49 +0000

Then you'd miss the SwiftKey prediction options, which allow me to tap out common sentences in a breeze, and the multiple active languages, a huge plus in countries with multiple languages. :)

Free [New York state] Phone Number

atourino — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:55:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.callcentric.com/dids/free_phone_number

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3945515

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New comment by atourino in "You Can't Hack Photography"

atourino — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:03:53 +0000

You should know the basics to know why you're ignoring them. When you start writing, you have to use proper grammar, spelling, etc. Once you have that down, you can choose to ignore rules or making them work for another purpose. That is what really pushes the boundary in the arts, but having the basics is useful in and of themselves.

New comment by atourino in "Textmate 2 - Alpha this year"

atourino — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:56:31 +0000

You can probably implement these things yourself once you notice them missing.

New comment by atourino in "Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)"

atourino — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:49:59 +0000

A couple of points:

- Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period.

- Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes into a huge ball of fiery death? Find another way to pay. It's your responsibility to hold your side of the contract.

New comment by atourino in "Pixelmator 2 Sneak Preview"

atourino — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:06:30 +0000

Why is that surprising? People complaining about the lack of features obviously need something more capable. For the rest of us, the lightweight, cheap option is good enough. :)

New comment by atourino in "GoDaddy competitor offers discounted domain transfers to save elephants"

atourino — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:14:59 +0000

By dangerous animal you mean humans, right? ;)

New comment by atourino in "Google ’not happy' with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming"

atourino — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:38:04 +0000

I'd be happy if only I had the opportunity to buy apps, period. I can only access apps that are free AND not US-only (so no Amazon Kindle for Android app). While I understand that there may be some considerations I'm not aware of, my iphone-owning friends seem perfectly happy and content to buy iphone apps. So if Apple can do it, why can't Google? (I'm in Panama, by the way).

New comment by atourino in "[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration One-Day Sale"

atourino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:26:55 +0000

Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!

New comment by atourino in "[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration One-Day Sale"

atourino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:25:52 +0000

Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.

New comment by atourino in "[Pragmatic Bookshelf] 40% Off Black Friday Celebration One-Day Sale"

atourino — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:58:47 +0000

It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal.

Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.

New comment by atourino in "Should We Do Y Combinator? We're further along than most"

atourino — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:43:34 +0000

Well.. Depends really. The benefits you receive is not limited to that one company (people you meet, network, advice, etc)... Those transfer with you if you later start another company, and another. It could turn out to be really cheap in the long run.

New comment by atourino in "Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)"

atourino — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:50:52 +0000

That Facebook is evil or not is irrelevant, I think. (I happen to think that their interests and the privacy interests of their users are not aligned at all). Google is fighting the good cause, ok, I agree. But the method they used in this instance is not the best. They could've simply said: "Hey look man. Facebook wants us to give them your contact data. These are the possible consequences: 1., 2., 3. Are you sure?" Their current wording implies (to me) that a user's data is all going to be imported and kept inside of FB and nowhere else (which is a key point), which is not true as Google holds the user's data as well. There will be divergence afterwards as the user begins to use Google and FB in different ways. But yeah, I do see that FB is not an easy place to get your data out of, but Google is using users' data as a pressure point to force FB's hand. What would be interesting to find out is if they are defending privacy because it's a noble thing to do, or if they are just defending privacy because it happens to benefit them in some other way.

edit: added "and nowhere else (which is a key point)"

New comment by atourino in "Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)"

atourino — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:49:13 +0000

It seems to me that their wording pushes their anti Facebook data locking agenda, intimidating novice users. To me, this goes against their "don't be evil" company motto.

New comment by atourino in "[dead]"

atourino — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:50:11 +0000

There's a similar free service for online writing: http://timecert.org/

It's by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pelle

New comment by atourino in "A Cover Letter To Penny Arcade"

atourino — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:27:26 +0000

Why don't you start the story off with your email. If they are interested, they will click through to the rest of your pages.

New comment by atourino in "HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites"

atourino — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:53:13 +0000

I'd appreciate an invite.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Py0H-tJw2Mektbkg3TyvzA==...

Thank you!

New comment by atourino in "Nickb missing?"

atourino — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:09:53 +0000

Who is John Galt?

New comment by atourino in "Book'em, Github."

atourino — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:05:29 +0000

Consider an XML file consisting of one long line of text. A diff would not be very useful in that case.

New comment by atourino in "Ask HN: What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup?"

atourino — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:50:43 +0000

Bandwidth at Linode is also pooled for Linodes withing the same datacenter (of which they have 4). You can also bring up any number of Linodes and bring them down whenever you want. You will be charged for the full month but if you bring them down, they will give you credit for the unused portion of the month (rate is per day). Linode also has an API for their DNS service but I haven't really used it so I won't comment much on it. In short, Linode is a pretty good deal.