Recoil42

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by Recoil42 13y ago
If you read the footnotes, he's purposely trolling HN with the title, based on yesterday's discussion.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Careful when making assumptions. Not only is 200 burgers a completely unfounded number, but you've neglected to include things like fries and drinks in your calculations.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>I benefit from the work of Mozart and feel no need to compensate anyone. Well, Mozart is dead, for one thing...
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by Recoil42 13y ago
He's somewhat more important than just the SR-71. He's the father of the entire Skunk Works project, and is also responsible for the P-38, U-2, and F-104, and had hands in at least another dozen important aircraft... and bundling
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Opera uses Google's Blink, so that's quite the silly assertion.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>With 17 car fires per hour in the USA, How many of these are modern, late-model cars?
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by Recoil42 13y ago
> Your numbers struck me as surprisingly high. It seems hard to believe that running a ferry across the bay with 100 passengers can cost $10,000. I still found it hard to believe. So I took sfgate's numbers, and did the math. 100,00
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Another great example of the kind of mobile advertising you're talking about: Flappy Bird, where ads are shown every time you re-start the game. In a typical Flappy Bird session, that could be up to 5-6 ads per minute — only shown on
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by Recoil42 13y ago
The problem, for me, is that HTML5 video is a technical solution with no social advantage. There are so many places on the web where images are allowed that videos will never be allowed -- for good reason. Forums, comment threads, etc. What
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by Recoil42 13y ago
I love the topic, bur god, Jezebel's writing is painfully atrocious.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
And what of Android?
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Why does it matter if all you're doing is surfing the web? What doesn't Android provide as an analogue? Why is Chrome OS important to you in this instance? Not trying to contradict you -- just trying to understand your position.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>Most of us have been saying this for years (and some in defense of the Napster model, for better or for worse), and it still seems like a no-brainer to me. As one poster here pointed out, if artists treat the music experience as a servi
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Infinium Labs and the Phantom had a lot more wrong going for them than not being a successful, multibillion dollar company. Remember Penny Arcade's comic? http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/23
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by Recoil42 13y ago
And it still fucking breaks scroll.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Great, so in order to cater to the 1% of the population still using an archaic non-standard browser, we screw over the spec for the rest of time. Sound logic, isn't it?
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>and self-served advertisements For which is has a very limited market -- after all, how many legitimate businesses want to advertise on 4chan? There are some, but not many.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
1. Modern JavaScript vms are sandboxed, not native plugins with unending security holes. Flash actually was sandboxed. Poorly, yes -- but so were JS VMs until very recently. It was only a matter of time. 2. It's nearly all open
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Really not hard at all, actually -- depending on how realistic you'd like it, of course.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
You make it sound as if user-submitted content didn't exist before 2006. There were still forums at that time. Gamespot, IGN, and GameFAQs all had forums. NeoGAF existed, as did Joystiq, Kotaku, and 1UP, and they were all just as news-
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by Recoil42 13y ago
A lesson to developers here: Don't include a feature before it's ready, even if you think it's really cool.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
The Nexus 5 is actually physically smaller in all dimensions than the Nexus 4.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
The processor alone would barely nudge the price, but removing the NAND, RAM, and camera modules along with it definitely would make huge difference. Even more if you can kill the touchscreen. Unfortunately, the resulting product is also an
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>If people searching for Southwest Airlines on Google aren't ending up on the Southwest Airlines website without a huge great banner ad (despite it being ranked at the top of the results) then something is going badly wrong on the G
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by Recoil42 13y ago
How big is the battery on the Nexus 10?
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by Recoil42 13y ago
Useless editorializing fluff. Avoid wasting your time.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
I don't disagree with you at all there. The name is terrible.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
You make it seem so easy. Let me ask you: How well did that work for Toyota?
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by Recoil42 13y ago
As this article points out, the facts aren't what's at stake here -- it's media/public perception.
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by Recoil42 13y ago
>Flash, when used badly, becomes a self-contained sandbox for the entire experience of a website. This same argument is true for Canvas, SVG, WebGL etc.

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