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by alex_c 16y ago
This is what I mean by hysteria. Actual odds of a child being molested by a male teacher/caregiver? Female teacher/caregiver? Family member or family friend of either gender? Regardless of numbers or justification, you're also accepting a
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by alex_c 16y ago
Two immediate thoughts: 1) Any similar argument about women and another profession would instantly be met with cries of sexism. 2) This is a great example of the types of unsubstantiated mass hysteria that seem to be more and more common.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Facebook games (and MMOs in general, for the most part) are designed tightly around a feedback loop meant to make the game as addictive as possible. It strongly reminds me of experiments where rats are given a choice between eating and rec
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by alex_c 16y ago
They'll end up getting picked on by other dogs in dog school.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Canada here, but - here's one scenario. One of the local carriers, Wind Mobile, added a plan in December that includes a lot of goodies - unlimited calling in home areas, unlimited text, unlimited data, etc. - for $40/mo. http://shop.windm
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by alex_c 16y ago
Out of curiosity, can you link to one of those good resources, and to an equivalent w3schools page? Setting aside questions of Google rank and discoverability, I suspect the "good resource" will have much more information, will be more corr
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by alex_c 16y ago
I think you might have missed my point. ExpertsExchange was useful because it had a broad range of obscure technical information, and the ability to get specific questions answered, but it was spammy and a pain to use. StackOverflow came a
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by alex_c 16y ago
While everyone else was busy bitching about ExpertsExchange, a few people got together, built a much better alternative, and now dominate Google search results. As far as I can tell, these guys are dismissing that option because it's too mu
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by alex_c 16y ago
"That my three year history with AT&T has been plagued by a massive amount of dropped calls, failed texts, and broken data connections?" The really crazy thing for me is that someone would stick with a company providing them with really
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by alex_c 16y ago
"felicific" - producing or tending to produce happiness I learned a new word today :)
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by alex_c 16y ago
Ah, wasn't seeing any ads (disabled AdBlock, and I still don't).
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by alex_c 16y ago
"Sleepyti.me is provided as a free service" Curious about how it's earning money (unless you mean a different site)
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by alex_c 16y ago
I doubt it's about downvotes. I think people want to be supportive, on the basis that making something mediocre is better than not making anything at all. I think the number of comments and upvotes is a good enough indicator - as you said,
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by alex_c 16y ago
The comparison to Digg feels forced and unnecessary, especially without numbers for Digg in January and December. Reddit had 250 million pageviews in January, Digg had 200 million in July (before the redesign - this likely means Reddit was
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by alex_c 16y ago
That's not the point of the article, I think. It's not that FB is unfair because it's a better investment opportunity. It's that by going outside the usual framework, such deals have an advantage - by virtue of less overhead due to regula
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by alex_c 16y ago
Fascinating read. Does anyone have any examples or explanations for how these CPU bugs are caused? I probably have enough knowledge of CPU architecture from school to follow an explanation, but not enough to make my own guess.
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by alex_c 16y ago
From memory, other limitations include 100,000 characters per day, and limits on where the API can be used (e.g. can't use it for paid services).
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by alex_c 16y ago
There's also this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
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by alex_c 16y ago
Very impressive :) Thank you!
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by alex_c 16y ago
I agree, but there's a big difference between honest, polite feedback and negativity, meanness, or just good old-fashioned flaming. HN is pretty good in this respect. Reddit is still decent, though it can definitely lean towards mean. You
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by alex_c 16y ago
If I could download the images with a transparent background, I would probably use them as a design element on pages I need to spruce up.
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by alex_c 16y ago
>"Land rush. There may only be room for one coupon site in the minds of people" I agree this is a likely explanation, but is there any evidence this is the case? I can understand that limitation for a social network, and even for a sea
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by alex_c 16y ago
Point taken, but for what it's worth, being in the US already puts you ahead of the game in many ways.
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by alex_c 16y ago
I think it's interesting that for cases like this, YouTube's analytics are completely useless: http://i.imgur.com/2COBs.png
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by alex_c 16y ago
If the discussion is just noise (as is usually the case when politics is involved), I have no problem with it being flagged.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Simple solution: change fees on a sliding scale based on number of applications per year. The little guys who might file for one patent in their lifetime won't be affected. The IBMs won't be affected, because they expect an actual return
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by alex_c 16y ago
http://www.localytics.com/ and custom events.
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by alex_c 16y ago
Reminds me of the #firstdraftmovielines trend: http://www.alexc.me/riding-a-twitter-trend-firstdraftmovies-...
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by alex_c 16y ago
Well, for what it's worth, this thread was the first "complaint" about the name. I expected that to happen on YouTube first, but it was actually HN - go figure. It's really tough to separate the name from all other factors influencing down
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by alex_c 16y ago
I completely agree. On the other hand, I think it's also important to actually keep MAKING things, even if the ideas aren't yet amazing. It'll give you the knowledge and the self-confidence to tackle the really good ideas more decisively w

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