Hacker News: eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eballHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:06:04 +0000<![CDATA[Nokia Lumia sales hit record 8.8 million in Q3, North America doubles]]>Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/5041666/nokia-lumia-sales-q3-2013

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633555

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]]>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:36:01 +0000http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/29/5041666/nokia-lumia-sales-q3-2013eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6633555<![CDATA[Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results]]>Article URL: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/10/28Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629620

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]]>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 20:38:56 +0000http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/10/28Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.htmleballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6629620<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "The Facts about LinkedIn Intro"]]>Read a comment the other day wondering about what if two(or more) programs did this. Would you end up with a chain of proxies between you and the mail server?

From the excellent Old New Thing blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/07/42629...

]]>Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:00:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618999eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618999https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6618999<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "An unofficial alternative to the HN interface"]]>Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector.

"I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612854

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 18:30:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6613565eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6613565https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6613565<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings?"]]>Adware goes to where there are a lot of non tech savvy users. If desktop Linux gets more traction, you'll see such search hijacking on there too. Note that this story is about search hijacking on OS X, not Windows.

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 03:07:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609538eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609538https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609538<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion"]]>So if Android didn't exist, Apple's profits wouldn't be higher?

]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:51:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608892eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608892https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608892<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion"]]>Microsoft even charges less for Linux VMs on Azure than Windows Server VMs with the same specs.

]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:49:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608878eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608878https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608878<![CDATA[New comment by eball in "LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity"]]>To me the bigger news was that iframes in emails are run inside mail clients. Anyone know if other mail clients do this or is it just the one in iOS?

]]>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:46:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608865eballhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6608865