MrMatters

4 ms·

1.
by MrMatters 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but: 1. Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality. 2. Growing traffic isn't the best way to foster a community. I believe pg has written about this a few ti
2.
by MrMatters 14y ago
A more interesting comparison if you're going to use medicine, IMO, is how it's the exact opposite for surgeons compared to doctors. If you believe The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
3.
by MrMatters 14y ago
As far as I know, it's much more like a tabloid than satire (I'm not British though).
4.
by MrMatters 14y ago
It's where people (think mostly the lowest common denominator of wannabe hackers like script kiddies and such, i.e. not just bad but fairly inept) go to learn how to and share information about stealing credit card information, usually le
5.
by MrMatters 14y ago
I go to Wikipedia itself all the time. I just type 'en' + enter into my address bar because I'm so used to it, but I'm sure there's probably millions of people that always go to the first page instead. I still think it should remain mostly
6.
by MrMatters 14y ago
I think it just may be poor paragraph structure. "Below is Khan’s e-mail to me, which I shared with the author of Monday’s post, Karim Kai Ani, a former middle school teacher and math coach who is the founder of a company called Mathaliciou
7.
by MrMatters 14y ago
Blackwater -> Xe -> Academi. For trying to get away from the story book evil sounding-ness of an entity named "Blackwater", they sure didn't do very good with "Xe", which sounds even more mysterious and potentially evil-doing IMO. A
8.
by MrMatters 14y ago
Well, until we figure out plausible ways to control weather reliably on a large enough scale, at least. Without killing the atmosphere or our species or anything like that.
9.
by MrMatters 14y ago
Written documentation is fine, but a quick video would help. That's not unreasonable for something like this, you could have replied more nicely. Instead of like a terrorist .
10.
by MrMatters 14y ago
It's pretty cool how hovering over the name highlights which person it is.
11.
by MrMatters 14y ago
Well, they did crash into a rain forest that was so dense she couldn't even see the planes she heard above searching for the wreckage. I imagine crashing over something like that has to be one of the safest places it can happen (not countin
12.
by MrMatters 15y ago
It's because it looks like a landing page for an internet marketing ebook. I scrolled to the bottom to make sure it wasn't that or a mailing list full of the secrets for success that somehow got to the frontpage.
13.
by MrMatters 15y ago
I don't know much about living in SF, but would people actually pay that much? It seems like people would only go for this if it was cheaper (to me). >Or for any modern city dweller for whom home need not mean much more than where you w
14.
by MrMatters 15y ago
I was first introduced to computers at age 9 (I'm not that old, the internet had been around for a little bit) when my "girlfriend" got me to talk to her on a chat site over summer break. I started getting more and more interested in the th
15.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Why does that make everybody happy? What I got from the article was that the difference in cost to the ISP for having someone connected at all and using a ton of data had grown increasingly minimal in recent times.
16.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Is Yao Ming the best comparison though? He's 7'6", something that sets him apart more than ethnicity would. I wouldn't be surprised if Lin's did play a part, maybe not overtly, just because Asians in the NBA are fairly underrepresented.
17.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Weird. You only posted two minutes ago, but our experiences seem to have been much different as it loaded the next images instantly for me. The only delay was for comment pages, but that's to be expected.
18.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Start Googling around for ISPs in your area. Look for ISPs' sites and forums discussing ISPs in your area. From there, you'll have to check on each of their sites to see if they service your address or not. Hopefully you'll find some that d
19.
by MrMatters 15y ago
The way they talk about spare parts, sneakers, etc. makes me wonder how we would ever be able to store all of that material. Maybe there will be ways in the future, but with that much variety in things they think we'll be able to print, lit
20.
by MrMatters 15y ago
I'm probably not the average MU user, but 99% of the stuff I used it for pretty legitimate. Game files/recordings, map files, photo albums people were too lazy to upload one by one, personal videos between friends we didn't want to upload s
21.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Was that a smaller plot point of the book or have I looked up the wrong one? http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/03807929...
22.
by MrMatters 15y ago
I agree, tacking on "of America" only makes it sound more positive to most people. Even I'm having a hard time thinking "SOPA is the Great Wall of America" doesn't sound really awesome.
23.
by MrMatters 15y ago
If your business is "mocked and misunderstood," it isn't guaranteed to fail. It's not anymore likely to succeed because of that though...
24.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Maybe if it recognized just thinking about that sequence, but I think having to deliberately focus on each direction (kind of like pressing a series of buttons in your mind, one after the other) would be too hard to accidentally do like tha
25.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Hmm. How long has Chrome removed the 'javascript:' when you paste into a URL bar? I assume it's to prevent users from blindly running JS, but is there a way to disable it?
26.
by MrMatters 15y ago
Of course, "do not resuscitate" across the chest is pretty clear of your intentions when you get it. But I don't think you realize how hard it can be to have that power over someone's life and make that call. I think the point about old tat
27.
by MrMatters 15y ago
>It bothers me when people apply a new buzzword to an old concept. Calling things like HN and forums "Social Media" is no more descriptive than calling a garbage truck driver a "sanitation engineer." But it's a social... version of medi
28.
by MrMatters 15y ago
>I can only imagine how bad it would be if people could choose to post anonymously. You don't have to imagine the past very hard. Was it really that bad just a few years ago?
29.
by MrMatters 15y ago
For some reason it just doesn't feel the same ;) : http://i.imgur.com/3u1Rb.png I wish we didn't have to rely on a 3rd party.
30.
by MrMatters 15y ago
If reddit became NSFW with ads you'd see a huge drop in traffic from people at work (that don't have access to Adblock on their computers) and a lot more people not disabling it for reddit.com at home.

More ›