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by cobblestone 12y ago
DF (and other people)'s shout-outs are worse IMO. They are always so shiny and positive, there's rarely any sign of neutality. There is no illusion or pretending at neutrality: Those shout-outs are unabashed commercials, similar
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by cobblestone 12y ago
people like this comment writer will not be representative of the majority of your website's readers Elsewhere you talked up the benefits of affiliate links, so I find your whole post somewhat ironic. Further, it's worth noting
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by cobblestone 12y ago
This argument is and has always been specious, yet it's always the fallback. If the income is so low and irrelevant, why are the links there in the first place . Why even put a question mark on it when it's just entirely unnece
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by cobblestone 12y ago
People have generally stopped visiting blogs. Even stand-alone web sites are starting to suffer. I recently re-enabled my Facebook account for dev purposes, and while there liked the Verge, AnandTech, etc. So now my feed is a small amount o
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by cobblestone 12y ago
These are the worst . Marco Arment periodically does reviews of various things (coffee makers, headphones, etc), and he absolutely packs them full of Amazon affiliate links. I understand that other people have more benign impressions of th
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by cobblestone 12y ago
The context was about speed of responding to messages -- that the service, unsurprisingly, is speedier at responding than her boyfriend. What boyfriend would be put off by that?
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by cobblestone 12y ago
Apps don't even exist. Right now they're just collecting email addresses, gaining buzz, and I highly doubt they have any capacity to actually fulfill any of it.
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by cobblestone 12y ago
There is very little in this field that can be described as objective, beyond the rawest of performance metrics, or lines of code. Most statements about code quality are just completely contrived and based upon essentially nothing. My worst
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by cobblestone 12y ago
in terms of having a small display and a really slow CPU One of those $100 Intel-powered Android tablets with the Z3745 processors has a processor that, core for core, equals a Pentium III or better. But instead of one core, it has four o