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721.
by aneesh 18y ago
MM is actually just millions ... it's a weird Roman numeral thing.
722.
by aneesh 18y ago
There are different copycat versions of facebook, youtube, flickr etc, in each of China, Korea, Japan, Mexico and Brazil. People don't do what you'd like to see, they do what makes money, regardless of how challenging or cool it is.
723.
by aneesh 18y ago
Works like normal for me.
724.
by aneesh 18y ago
A few companies (justin.tv, drop.io, del.icio.us) have pulled off not being a dot-com, but this required creativity and great marketing.
725.
by aneesh 18y ago
Gah, it's not like DHH invented the concept of profitability!! It annoys me every time someone mentions they're being profitable "DHH-style". I enjoyed his speech too, but you don't need to pay royalties to DHH.
726.
by aneesh 18y ago
Ironic that an article on how little users read is so long!
727.
by aneesh 18y ago
Similar to this story: "Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of
728.
by aneesh 18y ago
How popular is the app? Does it work nicely now? Depending on your answers to those, do you really need to rewrite?
729.
by aneesh 18y ago
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181840
730.
by aneesh 18y ago
The "more room" argument is silly. The techcrunch articles aren't just "taking up room", they're on the main page because people are voting them up . People like them more than the articles that aren't being voted up.
731.
by aneesh 18y ago
> It turns out that Xobni is not really an Outlook plug-in company. Rather, it's a company that makes a platform to abstract the difficult-to-write-for-Outlook, as well as other less-broken e-mail services, and that allows the creation
732.
by aneesh 18y ago
Congratulations, great to see the NYT coverage! I'm surprised they didn't mention Xobni for Yahoo! Mail: "And Web e-mail services like Gmail and Hotmail are growing much more rapidly than the desktop-based Outlook, where Xobni is planting
733.
by aneesh 18y ago
> I can think of a few good examples of web sites which use Flash effectively Youtube!
734.
by aneesh 18y ago
Good points. But I'm pretty sure hotmail still has higher market share than GMail. And though I use Ubuntu over Windows, but the world is still all about Windows. From a revenue perspective, Windows made more money this year than in any p
735.
by aneesh 18y ago
Founders want to go public to cash out, not because they want to run a publicly traded company. In fact, many leave the company after IPO.
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The End of Ballmer?(techcrunch.com)
26 points by aneesh 18y ago|29 comments
737.
by aneesh 18y ago
Actually, rss is reasonably mainstream. You don't have to explain rss to normal people! Most of my non-hacker friends use some sort of feed reader. They know that RSS lets them read blog posts in their feedreader without visiting the blog
738.
by aneesh 18y ago
I'm still an undergrad and wondering the same. Is it ever worth it primarily for the credibility? (outside of academia)
739.
by aneesh 18y ago
Everything is a tradeoff. How much free time, over how much money? The general statement that Americans value free time over money is both useless and meaningless.
740.
by aneesh 18y ago
I'll upmod a crappy article if the discussion it generates is high-quality.
741.
by aneesh 18y ago
I'm also interested to know more about this. Fwiw, Insoshi has a full-time team behind it, whereas Lovdbyless appears to be more of a side project.
742.
by aneesh 18y ago
> Duh? What is Xobni OTHER THAN a feature of Outlook? Everyone can criticize all they want, but this is a clear case of asymmetric information. Xobni knows a lot more about their value than you or I do. But even with the limited inf
743.
by aneesh 18y ago
That is nice. But the best feature is the address bar - it's a smart search bar, with functionality close to wundrbar. It takes into account how often you visit sites to rank the urls it displays when you start typing.
744.
by aneesh 18y ago
"We lost a database server, which is causing lots of errors. Reloading the page may work. It's in the process of recovery." From http://twitter.com/twitter_status
745.
Xkcd: falling sideways(xkcd.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
746.
An Open-Source version of Microsoft Surface Created(technologyreview.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
747.
by aneesh 18y ago
Just curious, what would you write the backend for AIM in? I don't have any experience developing messaging-type apps.
748.
by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, it's concerning, but it's not news to any developer. Any facebook app developer knew they could store user information for a long time.
749.
by aneesh 18y ago
No, malice requires intent.
750.
by aneesh 18y ago
So how does Google actually get slots on the TV networks to air my ad? Are they essentially buying LOTS of advertising slots from ABC/NBC/CBS etc?

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