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by aneth 15y ago
If this is really where they are headed, it is just ineffective product strategy and fuzzy thinking on Microsoft's part. They get two things: Technology: These are technologies Microsoft already has or could develop cheaply (say, for 1% of
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by aneth 15y ago
> it could help strengthen the corporate MS position People are going to continue to buy Word, Windows, and Exchange because they have a commodity video product "integrated"? I don't think so.
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by aneth 15y ago
The most valuable asset of Skype is not the technology, but the social network and user base. That however is not all that valuable since, unlike Facebook, Skype is mostly a 1:1 communications model easily moved to another network. When peo
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by aneth 15y ago
I haven't met in the flesh anyone who uses it regularly, and I know a lot of iPhone 4 owners. I'm sure there are people who do. It would be interesting to get some real data. My impression is, as with every video chat service for 30 years,
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by aneth 15y ago
If Microsoft somehow owned both of those services, would it affect Microsoft's prospects? Certainly not. FaceTime is a gimmick that few people actually use use. Google Voice is bridge between soon-to-be legacy voicemail and cellphones and t
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by aneth 15y ago
It's unfortunate most people need drinks to say what they mean. That doesn't have to be the case. For better or worse, my partners tend to be people who need to try hard to not say what they think.
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by aneth 15y ago
This site seems like a curiosity to me, and Alexa would agree. However, they could potentially turn the traffic into something real in the campus dating space. I'm not long, but it's a cool idea and a nicely executed site.
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by aneth 15y ago
This is a great article covering the same essence of visual design covered by many books. After understanding these principles you should be competent to do basic layouts. I find many designers do a worse job of internalizing these concepts
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by aneth 15y ago
One theory is that it could be some sort of OCR software that split it up into layers. However if settling this thing was their goal, they failed hard. The birthers will run wild with this.
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by aneth 15y ago
Yes, that's basically my point. I also think, on average, a higher price wine will be better than a lower price wine. A lot of these arguments could be made for any product or service. If you pay more for your house, does it mean that you w
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by aneth 15y ago
What does the current study prove? Some wines cost more? What needs to be studied is if there is a correlation between price amd consumer preference. As far as I can tell, this was not an effort to do that, but rather to prove the obvious:
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by aneth 15y ago
Get someone who can tell the difference between a good $40 bottle and an overpriced $10 bottle with a $40 label, have them pick a wine they think is worth $40 and one worth $10, then do the study.
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm sorry, two buck chuck tastes terrible to me. I'm not the kind of person who sits around debating the merits of various wines, but I do like wine and I am somewhat picky. I can't finish a glass of two buck chuck, whether I knew what it w
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by aneth 15y ago
Sense could be an overstatement.
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by aneth 15y ago
How long before the bit.ly namespace is exhausted?
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by aneth 15y ago
Twitter is a seriously rough and immature tool. It has no ability to intelligently handle identity or content types. It's confusing to many people, and generally has a style that will quickly appear dated once a well designed alternative ga
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by aneth 15y ago
Not in the US, and these are US domain names.
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by aneth 15y ago
Splintering an application into multiple stacks, languages, wrappers, etc. just to add pretty simple functionality from a library is not a good solution for a large number of reasons. Using JRuby or a REST API to a Rails app is the kind of
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by aneth 15y ago
Yeah, or I could use a framework that includes this. I don't want to have to deploy multiple stacks just because of something like this. I was deterred from using Java at all figuring if a payment lib isn't available, it's not the only thin
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by aneth 16y ago
That is my question. At the time there didn't seem to be any easy API for processing payments across multiple processors, e.g. Paypal and Google. The question seems pretty specific: I'm looking for a Java payment gateway library similar to
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by aneth 16y ago
I experimented with play prior to 1.0 and loved it, but I went back to rails because I wanted access to more libraries. Search stack overflow for java payment gateway library and you will find my as-yet unanswerred question. The java commun
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by aneth 16y ago
It's interesting that rails is headed toward whitespace significance in all its file formats, yet the most apparent difference between ruby and it's main rival Python is that whitespace is not significant. Between yaml, sass (although not s
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by aneth 16y ago
"No further evaluation was attempted by SA ... concerning the above." Really nothing unusual here. I can see why they would not be interested in learning more.
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by aneth 16y ago
If the HN community starts upvoting gossipy TechCrunch articles, the community has deteriorated and the focus should be on rebuilding that. Banning TechCrunch would be treating the symptom and bring the community into more rapid decline, in
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by aneth 16y ago
The HN rating system could normalize for this - decreasing time decay for periods where ratings are less frequent.
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by aneth 16y ago
This situation makes no sense at all based on the explanations here by chrisleydon. You have backups of the code - can you explain why it isn't a pretty straightforward process to set up a new server? The fact that you have a fixed IP addre
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by aneth 16y ago
This still doesn't make any sense. You have source code and the ip address. Why can you not configure a new server?
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm not opposed to this, however I didn't realized having your pronouns disagree in number with your nouns had become generally accepted.
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by aneth 16y ago
The idea that every test should cover only one code change is absurd and a recipe for writing way more code than necessary. More code is more brittle and more difficult to change agile-y. Write enough tests to ensure things work, not to ens
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by aneth 16y ago
Great post that hopefully makes some people feel less need to get into YC. A great founder can be helped by YC, but would be successful with or without it. If you think you need to get into YC to succeed, you're not who they are looking for

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