CrankyPants

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   by CrankyPants 13y ago

   Yeah. Taking photos they'd rather one didn't has gotten people doing hard labor for a decade and a half.
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   by CrankyPants 13y ago

   Well, this went all Godwin faster than I expected for HN.
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   by CrankyPants 13y ago

   Syria!
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   Do users also have to pay extra to get audio through the headphone jack? One could argue that all features add value. Should all features then be à la carte via in-app purchases? That'd be absurd. Things can be both absurd and simple. Rea
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   "I can't help you." I'm not sure that's entirely true, either. Not judging, just saying.
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   It's HN's favorite topic.
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   This is seriously dangerous advice.
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   Also, they were convicted in trials, for violating laws that were written by an elected legislature, and signed into law by an elected president. They were also provided an attorney, and have an appeals process at their disposal. Seriously,
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   by CrankyPants 14y ago

   You want the world to be incredibly annoying?
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Yeah. 37signals seems to have nailed the Startup Porn genre, and the hive mind eats it up. And: if that's what qualifies as thinly-viled advertising...
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    You could probably use a vacation away from tech. Not trying to be mean. Just sayin'.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    I'd buy the book if the PDF were included.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Thanks, I appreciate it.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    "My posture, ruined by years of computer programming, was fixed in less than two months." Would you mind sharing the 80/20 gist of what aspect mainly contributed to that? I'm sure the best method would be to follow the program totally, but
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    I'd pay for you to do this in higher volume.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    What about reversing the order? Make it so you can't submit your site for review until you've reviewed another. Obviously quality may suffer, as people will just type garbage for the sake of getting theirs submitted, but with volume that ca
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Outsider ≠ amateur.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Same thing struck me about his prose.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Sadly, while reading it my inner (outer?) cynic thought, "another phenom I'll be reading about on the 30-years-from-now version of cracked.com, about "Young Phenoms Who Became Merely Very Good". And after seeing all of the African urine ge
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    No worries; I didn't think you were trolling. If I did, I would have ignored it. Still: to many, it's not as mild as you think.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    I don't think your goal is to offend. But I think we'd all be better off if we tried to make our points here without needlessly causing tangential offense. And you're right: it has everything to do with the reaction it gets. Many would disa
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Odd, perhaps, but mocking things which some consider sacred is how one gains credibility on the 'net!
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    And here I thought my appeal to the anonymous, crowd-sourced authority of Wikipedia would totally work. Thanks for the link. I've read it, and all I can say is that, in my highly unqualified opinion, the two things seem to be treated with e
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    The most famous opinion from Jacobellis, however, was Justice Potter Stewart's concurrence, holding that the Constitution protected all obscenity except "hard-core pornography." Stewart wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define t
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    This may be myopic or off-base, but I feel like JFK had two big advantages with the space program that helped make it happen: 1. His constituents were terrified of the Soviet space program dropping something nasty on their heads, and didn't
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Thanks.
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    I was thinking of Android in the sense that they didn't make a phone so they could insert ad slots into the basic UI, but you're totally right. And personally speaking, just last night I signed in to the dashboard, saw the ads, and thought
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    But I still don't really want to pay any more for it than I already do. I agree, but I also factor my time, patience, stress levels, and other things into the cost. (That said, I'm probably more bothered by this stuff than most, so my cos
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    Good question. From my (limited) perspective, I see nothing wrong with time/feature-limited trials. It's the free food sample at the store. If it's good, it makes me want to buy. If it doesn't, I carry on. Works for me. And I don't even nec
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    by CrankyPants 14y ago

    I think it is an overall societal drain, and we're just in the early stages of it. Photoshop is an interesting example to me, because I count Photoshop as another model that has had to change with the times: it used to be for pure professio