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Is anyone getting this? I noticed just before this happened that my wallet balance was not correct.

Just wondering if the crackdown is "working"?

http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/#icloud-keychain Not me.

It is accepted industry norm that a recruitment agent takes 15% give or take a few %age points. Last 20 years I've never had an issue, and I got to see all the rates my agents were paid. Until now. I just found out my…

Recently I have asked a couple of questions on HN and my posts have been almost immediately bounced to the nth page - virtually out of existence. What's going on? I don't think they have been unreasonable questions -…

Just interested to find out if anyone is prepared to share a projected Cash Flow P&L and Balance Sheet with me just to give me an idea of what's involved for tech Startup Business Plan. I'm familiar with the format,…

I'm looking for three things really, and I know it's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question: 1) What is your experience of sizing and selecting and costing in advance of raising money (mainly AWS and EC2 -…

Like most people here I'm working to get my company up and running. But I come from a freelance background, and I still get plenty of calls and emails proposing jobs. I'm in two minds as to whether I just politely tell…

I had always thought that my Dropbox shared folders required an invitation, to see the files, or at least I could copy the invitation link and send it directly to someone, who would then have to register to see the…

I'm sorry I posted this, but it nearly made me vomit, and I had to share. We are truly at the end of times.

OK I know it's following on from this question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339174 I'm just asking what are the signs that point to the culprit being lack of scalability?

I need help. I've reached a point where I have several parts of the project that are all interdependent, and it seems nothing can proceed without a huge amount of parallel work. I'm a single tech founder and I feel like…

Basically; which now defunct startups have been your biggest inspiration, most influential or their failure was your success?

There are plenty of serious companies looking at "rockets", and alternative launch and propulsion methods to get us somewhere more or less in the "local" space of our solar system, but are there any serious attempts at…

I've noticed over the last week that my karma score is not being incremented inspite of receiving points. I have not got downvotes either. Also my average is inexplicably dropping too apparently for no reason. Is…

I just read this essay by PG http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html And funnily enough it reminded me of the Office Hours sections of TechCrunch Disrupt that I've seen online. Sometimes he has people on stage and you see…

Christmas will never be the same again...

Criteria: - Portfolio includes 50s/vintage/retro stuff - Can add/improve/rework an existing concept - is great with type (also retro) - has humour in their work - Can design for web (but does not necessarily need to…

I'm from Europe and I come to the conclusion that Europeans are really negative contributors on forums, and I wondered what other peoples experiences are. I have no evidence for this but just a gut feeling. Europeans…

Is it just my eyes or do you have trouble getting your web designs to look good on windows? I don't know what rendering engine windows uses to render colours but it's very difficult to get colours that don't look sickly…

I'm getting a bit fed of of the spam on HN. I just clicked on a link and was taken to a porn site. I'm at work, and much as I like HN, I've found myself increasingly frustrated by irrelevant and downright stupid links.…

I don't know about you lot, but I often hear programmers in general complaining that they can't design, yet many of the web site demo's I've seen recently are beautiful, and IE compatible. Where are people getting their…