akavi

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by akavi 15y ago
"Available" and "Easy enough to actually be worth using" are two very different things, and the former isn't worth anything without the latter (Note that g+'s most lauded feature, circles, has been in Facebook forever in the form of lists;
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by akavi 15y ago
Is the blackout automatic? Or must it be done manually?
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by akavi 15y ago
You can in chat. Pseudo-markdown, * for italic, _ for underline.
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by akavi 15y ago
Jesus, that's a markdown. With the release of Google+, I have to wonder if we'll be seeing something similar with Facebook five years from now.
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by akavi 15y ago
I dispute your characterization of air-to-ground telephony as "not really like cell towers". Aircel (the guys behind Gogo Inflight) themselves characterize it as such on their own website[0]. I was, however, unaware of the satellite tech. [
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by akavi 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the current on-board WiFi tech uses cell towers for service, which rules out over-ocean access right now.
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by akavi 15y ago
The current state of copyright law is far more a transgression against the bit about "securing for a limited Time" than against the 1st amendment.
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by akavi 15y ago
Except it isn't trivial; it materially damaged the ease with which I could read the essay. As a long-time English reader, I've internalized the idea that there will be a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. So when it's lacking, e
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by akavi 15y ago
That's not entirely true. For example, the first thing I searched for was "Haskell", curious to see if it had gained or lost popularity in the past couple of years. The graph has an upward trend, but without knowing what the trend for total
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by akavi 15y ago
Yes. That's part of the employee-employer relationship: The employee continues to receive payment for their work so long as they are employed. This is the inherent trade-off of being an employee, which you as a founder should be aware of: t
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by akavi 15y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too. Maybe I live in a weird bubble, but I've never heard of an unpaid programming internship.
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by akavi 15y ago
A slight tangent, but this is a personal peeve of mine: There should not be a space between syllables of the same word in pinyin. Ie, it should be written "hanyu pinyin".
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by akavi 15y ago
Although I have no doubts about the founders' programming chops, lal.com certainly can't be called "innovative". Goodcrush.com had the exact same concept two years ago. Isawyou.com had the concept minus the college angle a couple years earl
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by akavi 15y ago
I worry that your karma->clout->followers->karma cycle may be gameable, or create "superusers" a la digg.
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by akavi 15y ago
Breaks my back button. And I'll join in the chorus of "what's the point?".
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by akavi 15y ago
While it's slick, I'm don't think you're quite providing enough value to justify 4 bucks a month. I'd definitely use it if it was free, but I'm not sure what seems to me to be a nicer email client is worth paying for.
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by akavi 16y ago
"Accidentally sold it"? How does one accidentally sell a company?
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by akavi 16y ago
To be honest, without explanation, I would have no idea what that image is trying to depict.