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by txxxxd 15y ago
> "Why is it that the folks defending copyright always pull out the "But then creators will take their balls and go home!" card? That's such a repugnant, faithless argument. Numerous examples exist of people creating in spite of the sys
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Yes, of course individuals or small groups will still create art in their free time. You can't deny however that any massive undertakings would be effectively killed. No one will invest millions of dollars to produce a video game, or hundre
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Google Analytics won't have the queries either: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-sec...
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by txxxxd 15y ago
It sounds like you're not very familiar with the industry. One of the reasons Google's advertising programs are so successful is that they are measurable. A site can compute return on investment and know that for every $X spent on Google ad
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Would you be skeptical of a chess player above a certain age as well?
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by txxxxd 15y ago
For a lot of people, not having their mom switch will be considered a feature.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
He must not have noticed, but in the new UI you can minimize the "Mini Calendar" on the left side. For someone with such a packed calendar the mini calendar is useless, and with it minimized you can view even more calendars than you could i
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Hah, I had the opposite reaction. Finally a social network where I don't have to accept friend requests from my relatives =)
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by txxxxd 15y ago
I sense some confusion here. Those parameters are also used by Google Analytics which the author is using on that very page. The utm parameters allow a site to track campaign information and replace much more annoying techniques like settin
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by txxxxd 15y ago
I had this exact experience about four years ago. Spent way too long dealing with their buggy code, wrote our own in a few weeks and everything was much easier from then on.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
That's what correlation is, no need to put it in quotes.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
I probably use 'git checkout' 50-100 times a day, which I imagine is typical when you're working on several branches at once.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
The mental load only lasts a day or two. After that it's all muscle memory.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Same price as a windows laptop but much cheaper to support. For anyone who's the the family tech support guy, it's almost worth buying these for your relatives just so you don't have to deal with cleaning up their malware infected, bloated
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Most of the appeal for me is not the features that Go has, but rather the features that have been intentionally left out.
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by txxxxd 15y ago
Yes, that would be the easier route to take for a large company with pockets as deep as Google's. I think this move is smarter than that though. Google has a knack for picking fights that not only help their own immediate cause (landing thi
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by txxxxd 16y ago
> I wouldn't say it was obvious, mainly because this was something Google did specifically to cause this There is a subtle point that many posts like this are overlooking. Google didn't run this experiment to cause bing to show bogus
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Most sites are very happy to have traffic from Google. Those that aren't can simply configure robots.txt.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
It's in the blog post: "Internet Explorer 8, which can send data to Microsoft via its Suggested Sites feature"
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Close, but you didn't understand it quite right. Google knowingly submitted info to Microsoft to confirm a suspicion that Microsoft was using google.com search results from other users to populate bing results.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
IE will send this data even without the toolbar.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Yes, they're both based off the open source WebKit Web Inspector (as mentioned in the second sentence on that page.)
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by txxxxd 16y ago
"To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing"
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Just click "show search options" and enter "Fred" in the from box and "Friday" in the date box. Much easier than scanning through pages and pages of messages.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Google is a big company - There's probably people working on both simultaneously.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
"Android is no more open the BlackBerry or Windows Mobile" Huh??? There are hundreds of thousands of phones out in the wild running Android builds not blessed by Google. If you design a new phone you can install Android on it and sell it .
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Totally agree, this author is missing a critical point: shaving a second of a search doesn't just mean that Google feels faster - it also means that everything else suddenly feels slower in comparison.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Ironically, the type of sweeping changes made to News are exactly the kind of "brilliant design solutions convert people over time" that this article is proposing. If your assertion that "you'd be challenged to find a single person on the i
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by txxxxd 16y ago
Keep in mind you're comparing an off-the-cuff quote to a carefully worded marketing slogan.
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by txxxxd 16y ago
I don't follow the argument either. My understanding is: Before agreement: - wired: unregulated - wireless: unregulated. After agreement: - wired: net neutrality - wireless: unregulated but reviewed yearly We all benefit from wire

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