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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Bear with me as when I'm tired and have had a long day, I tend to be verbose. This is one of those times :-) I've attempted not to visited TechCrunch since the the spring of 2007. The times I have were unintentional visits because I had fol
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
They have "evolved" a style of "journalism" that involves blind repetition of speculative, often unverified, information. It's like they are playing a game of broken telephone, but with a megaphone in hand. They have to be constantly plugge
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Exactly. I'm being downmodded for my comment, but there's no real benefit to this but a lot of downsides. I can't control it with a remote. I can't easily run it full-screen. I can't easily add the types of high quality movies and pictures
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I'd rather use Keynote. Sounds like the site was put together by people that don't actually do presentations. Are they aware just how crappy hotel/convention room Internet tends to be? The very last thing I want to do when standing in front
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Fine by me. I randomly generated my username with the explicit intent of not being identified.
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Uh oh. I did not know that version 2.0 will be such a project. Any bets on whether it'll succeed at its goals by starting from scratch? The track record on that sort of thing in technology is notoriously lopsided in favour of failure.
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Like I mentioned in a parent comment, I wrote my comment after working on a web application. If you see my comment there, I mention that I'm not quite sure how I could possibly make the interface accessible in any meaningful way for a blind
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
When I'm making informational web sites, I typically work very hard to achieve a seamless degradation. I wrote my comment after working on a web app I'm developing. I sat there and tried to figure out how I could possibly make this thing ac
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I'm honestly asking because I don't know the answer to the following question, though it may sound facetious. Are computing assistants for handicapped people in such a sorry state that: 1. for those that can't see well or at all, that they
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Andrew, we get that you're trying to promote yourself. Really we do. Your name is in your URL. It's prefixed to all your story submissions. Showing some restraint you only used part of it for your username. But really, it's getting to be a
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
All he has to do is paint the balls with funny cartoon characters and start selling them in Japan. Kids can collect all 150 different balls. They'll be a hit there, and in a year and half after launch they'll be an even greater hit in the U
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
This is what will happen. Ars' articles will be integrated with Reddit comments. As soon as the founders have transitioned the company and it is running smoothly under control of CN, the forums as we know them will be shut down. I wouldn't
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
First thing I did when I read this was think about killing my forum subscription. Conde Nast will definitely ruin the Ars forums and I wouldn't be surprised if the recent forum problems were somehow related to this recent news (e.g., testin
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I can't say that I prefer in-browser chats, but I can appreciate the complexity of the solution. Scalability is the new manual memory management. I can't help but think that somebody's going to come up with the scalability equivalent of a g
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
There's an interesting thing to note about sex amongst youth in rural, suburban, and urban settings. I've been privy to statistics held by birth control manufacturers (although the exact numbers evade my memory, the relations I remember). T
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Damn. I feel for you then. If she's gone, she's gone. Fat chance she'll even document/transition the app. She's probably gambling on the fact you have no money to pay another developer so she figures she won't have to do it. As others have
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Now is the time to be honest with yourself. You need to find out why she left. People usually complain about money/equity issues when they think the situation is so crappy that only money/equity can keep them in the situation. Was there a l
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Yup. This reminds me of when Microsoft decided to copy Apple's "Designed by Apple in California" packaging label with an uglier kitschy copy: "Hello from Seattle". http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/05.html This unknown name broa
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
And/Or, this would be a very useful way of using humans to relate URLs to each other with an explanation of what the relation is. I'm not well-versed on the current state of AI but I think this sort of activity is still something that is to
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I keep hearing about this book. Can anybody tell me if it is a pseudo-scientific look at the topic? I don't mean this in a particularly negative way. Rather, what I mean is does it put forth a lot of as-yet unsubstantiated claims perhaps ba
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Because TechCrunch thinks our industry is so great that it deserves its own National Inquirer. Seriously, these people should be marginalized and put in the spotlight for the trolls that they are. I'm so sick of the bottom-feeding rumour mo
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
Same here. When my bank tries to sell me on managed funds, I like to tell the rep that the guy that draws Dilbert told me in his book to just invest in index funds. Then, when they try to attack my logic for listening to a cartoonist when i
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by 9oliYQjP 18y ago
I'm not quite sure why stuff like this bothers me, but it does. Why would I, as a startup, want to attract this much attention for something that offers so little in return? Part of the competitive advantage of being a startup is that you'r
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Techcrunch? Valleywag? My rationale is that they're divisive. Those that fall on the side of favouring their style of journalism will probably go to their sites daily anyways. Those of us that can't get far enough away from their content wo
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
True story. I once wrote a rant of an email to Steve Jobs about how my MacBook had died and that my experience with Mac hardware had been abysmal: the number of actual repairs to my Macs outnumbered the number of Macs I owned! I didn't leav
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Bare with me as I really dislike suburbia:-) Suburbs (of which I would exclude most college towns I am aware of -- that's not too many) are hell holes. They are not good for raising children unless you think spending an hour or two per day
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
True. For me the temperature isn't a problem. I dislike the long bouts of sunless days during our winters, particularly in February and March. I just ensure to throw myself into social activities then. Otherwise it's easy to feel down in th
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
San Francisco is a great city. But there are other great cities too. I for one, love where I live in Toronto. There is a general perception that Toronto is just another American city except it happens to be in Canada. That is flat out inacc
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
I believe a lot of early stage startups were not jumping on board EC2 because up until now, it was only possible to use it to augment existing infrastructure. Big companies can afford to have their main data centre and the AWS stuff. A lot
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by 9oliYQjP 19y ago
Interesting. When I listed the examples, I wanted to choose things that were probably in prototype somewhere but maybe not in widespread use. Can you tell me about that equipment? I'm genuinely interested and my Google queries didn't bring

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