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by laconian 14y ago
The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.
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by laconian 14y ago
I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, because the cars are exactly where the previous person droppe
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by laconian 14y ago
A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.
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by laconian 14y ago
I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them
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by laconian 14y ago
"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it." Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.
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by laconian 14y ago
What's the threshold for an "old account"?
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by laconian 14y ago
I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I know that the problems aren't exactly the same, but I would haz
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by laconian 14y ago
This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall of an echo chamber for the sake of impressions.
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by laconian 14y ago
My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.
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by laconian 14y ago
Security traded for convenience, back to square one.
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by laconian 14y ago
It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?
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by laconian 14y ago
I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font. (and the monospaced version)
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by laconian 14y ago
The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.
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by laconian 14y ago
Imagine having your arms in front of your face for an 8+ hour workday. That will be terrible. Chiropractors are going to make a fortune off Win8.
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by laconian 14y ago
Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?
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by laconian 14y ago
It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.
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by laconian 14y ago
Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?
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by laconian 14y ago
And, let me guess, you don't want to pay any money for this?
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by laconian 14y ago
Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills. "1. Coffee and cigarettes. 2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut. 3. Chew gum. 4. Doodle. 5. Red Bull. 6. Think about college profe
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Facebook earnings disappoint investors(nytimes.com)
4 points by laconian 14y ago|0 comments
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by laconian 14y ago
Meta-comment: why do tech blogs punch-up headlines with words like "just" and questionmarks?
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Mini-Microsoft post and discussion thread on FY12Q4 results(minimsft.blogspot.com)
2 points by laconian 14y ago|0 comments
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by laconian 14y ago
More fundamental than that: I think the issue is poor performance management and the well-connected tenured employees that can't break free from decades-old paradigms.
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by laconian 14y ago
Empirical evidence aside, do you think a publishing model like HuffPo's can possibly produce an informed populace? There's very little fact checking, no followup if they get their facts wrong, and most of it's probably just reworded press r
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by laconian 14y ago
Oh shit. Good for Wunderground, bad for me. I can't stand weather.com
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by laconian 14y ago
??? Using that metric, MSFT: +115% since 2004. GOOG revenues: +3,320%
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by laconian 14y ago
Do you even notice the "beauty" after spending a week with it?
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by laconian 14y ago
There's a delicate balance between healthy skepticism that comes from experience, and enthusiasm for trying new things. Going with cool new things for everything is very risky. This is terrible for established businesses, it's great for sta
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by laconian 14y ago
It's been a HN meme for quite some time.
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by laconian 14y ago
Very Siri-like.

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