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Hmm, OAuth and OpenID are two different beasts. OAuth is for giving your application the ability to access someone elses, without users of your application having to supply their credentials to you. O…

From my look at his article, he's doing everything clientside, which is causing him the extra headaches about restoring stuff.

I don't know whether anything has changed or not, but given that it is an old article something may have. When I first read an article, I assume it is current. I only realized this article wasn't cur…

Note that the article is from May 2006.

Sounds fairly similar to SoundCloud ( http://soundcloud.com/ ) in that the purpose is to share music that one has created.

android's integration with Google Apps makes it attractive to businesses already using Google Apps.

hmm, where are you based? in tokyo it seems like i see at least one person using it on every car.

You've been able to get 1Gbps at home in Japan for some time now.

How about using OpenID?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=304274

Except if someone tweets a link like http://www.zeldman.com/2009/08/10/shorten-this/ , it will get shortened by a 3rd party shortener.…

Sites like Hacker News will still be around. Not all free content relies on advertising.

I don't understand how twitter is more synchronized then a phone call or even IM, as twitter is not real time whereas a phone call is and IM can be.

I'm surprised there is not mention of OpenID.

In the past in Japan, the carriers subsidized the cost of new phones, so people regularly upgraded their phones. However, recently regulations have been introduced to prevent this, and thus consumers…

The iPhone may be the top selling "smart phone" in Japan, but it is far from the top selling mobile phone. According to http://wirelesswatch.jp/2009/05/14/top-10-japanese-mobile-ph... the iPhone is…

Rails library for inlining css: http://github.com/milk1000cc/docomo_css/

This survey is producing pretty meaningless results. 55% will replace Google with Bing, but at the same time 55% say it wasn't different enough from Google. Furthermore, how do you plan to replace a…

Find a partner. For me at least, having someone else to work with is quite motivating.

Neither your original daysFromDateRangeStartToEnd nor daysDateRange seem to capture what it is supposed to represent. Perhaps if it was seen in context, it would be understandable, but by itself I do…

A major Finnish newspaper writes articles in Swedish? I don't think so.

Wanted to try the aforementioned Blurst, but they seem to be lacking Linux support. :(

Addressed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509808

I wonder what this means for the future of MySQL.

This comment reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538466

It doesn't matter if you are paying for a billable hour and getting half-an-hour or hour or ten hours of actual work. What does matter is that you get appropriate value for what you are paying. If y…

We can move on now as we have the "war on terror" to justify these now.

Sorry, I don't understand Fahrenheit.