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by arscan 14y ago
So this is a little off-topic, but I read an article the other week that i haven't been able to shake about the number of people that have died on Everest and whose bodies have never been retrieved (warning, morbid and slightly graphic): h
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by arscan 14y ago
They actually invented digital cameras. But fundamentally, they were a chemical company. They simply couldn't adjust to the new business model that digital cameras introduced. In fact, they didn't want to, until it was too late.
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by arscan 14y ago
I was able to follow the line of people / tents about halfway up using this as a guide: http://www.abc-of-mountaineering.com/images/content-images/a... Then lost them. Amazing photo!
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by arscan 14y ago
The nice thing about paying customers (besides the money) is that they will tell you what's wrong with the product, so you can fix it. Nonpaying users are much more likely to just walk away.
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by arscan 14y ago
I like the prominent "vote for features" button. They also have a tab which shows which of these community-driven features have been finished. This isn't a novel idea, but I like they way that they implemented it.
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by arscan 14y ago
> most likely they screwed up the phrasing but meant something extremely more limited I'm a pretty firm believer in Hanlon's razor ("never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"), except when it comes to
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by arscan 14y ago
Funny, I recently read Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series, and came across his class at BYU on creative writing [1]. I was shocked how applicable his lessons were to software development / startups (ideas are cheap was one of his main poi
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by arscan 14y ago
The case of the mistaken identity of Neda Soltani in 2009 during the Iranian protests is worth reading: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20267989 > The whole thing happened in a matter of 12 days. In less than two weeks I had gone
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by arscan 14y ago
Another frontpage hn article today was asking for donations to the internet archive, which helps make sure those humble beginnings are forever remembered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931472
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by arscan 14y ago
Ah, my apologies. It is good content otherwise; I just had different expectations given the headline.
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by arscan 14y ago
What's cool is that feature was completely intuitive and you didn't need to point it out. Again, a little thing, but the little bit of delight users experience when they "discover" these types of features goes a long way.
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by arscan 14y ago
Its a little thing, but i like how you literally don't need to click on any buttons to save / create a new one / etc. I also like how you can create your own customized path to help you remember the link... just type in a new path and star
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by arscan 14y ago
I hate to be negative, but for an article on growth hackers, this spends very little time describing what growth hackers do (the role). Sure, it covers a couple of examples of how marketing is evolving into new mediums, but it doesn't tell
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by arscan 14y ago
There are some websites out there that detail exactly how to make replica grail diaries. I think that answers the "How" question. Why they would do this though? I have no idea ;-)
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by arscan 14y ago
I wonder if submitting the following link to HN would result in (google.com) being displayed next to the link instead of (tinfoilsecurity.com): http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=http://blog.tin... I'd try, but I don't want to r
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm having trouble too... the plain HTML version works though: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
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by arscan 14y ago
Some discussion about the quote one from last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4838810 Spoiler: some people strongly dislike it.
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by arscan 14y ago
I love quotes as well. I've seen some people use pinterest as an effective medium for aggregating / sharing inspirational quotes... a quick search yielded this person's quote board: http://pinterest.com/ashtond/life-quotes/ Sure, quotes
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by arscan 14y ago
"We don’t tweet on behalf of our users." Then why do they explicitly ask for permission to do so when authorizing to your twitter account? I'd be a bit harder on Prismatic than Julien... their entire service is based on trusting them with
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by arscan 14y ago
Hundred of tweets of the form "I'm enjoying <username>'s recommendations on @Prismatic" on his behalf. So basically all of his followers got spammed.
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by arscan 14y ago
The function of the rover isn't to drive around and map things. Its function to serve as a platform for a suite of scientific instruments to gather data. That suite of scientific instruments will be different for the next rover, adjusted
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by arscan 14y ago
I'm a fan of these easter eggs. Especially when it fits with the theme of your site (apparently he's very into js). I started implementing a similar concept on my site awhile back... didn't quite finish, but any kings quest fans out there
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by arscan 14y ago
Cargurus.com has a similar feature. You are right...it's a great feature for negotiating price.
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by arscan 14y ago
Based on the handful of sites that it sent me to, I'd rename this "The Creative Web".
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by arscan 14y ago
According to Firefox, they have 450 million users... I wouldn't call 5% "so popular". Having DNT on by default (and advertisers actually paying attention to it) would result in an immediate 100% of firefox users. From my perspective, I'll
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by arscan 14y ago
I agree, the more targeted the ads, the higher value of the page view, the more free services. Plus people tend to buy things they think they want, so they are happy if they get ads that are actually relevant. The problem is that there is
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by arscan 14y ago
"How does this compare to Windows 7 sales? Microsoft said it had sold 60 million Windows 7 licenses from the end of October 2009, its launch date, to the end of January 2010 December 2009. So that's 60 million Windows 7 licenses sold in tw
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by arscan 14y ago
Any news on enterprise adoption of Windows 8? I assume that this will be like Vista -- many large companies won't bother upgrading. That will be a huge drag on Windows 8 adoption.
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by arscan 14y ago
I assume the settlers you are referring to are those that came from Europe. America had been settled for a very, very long time before those people came along. Anyhow... I know some people that trace their lineage back to the Pilgrims. T
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by arscan 14y ago
They shouldn't be web developers either. I get extremely frustrated every time I go to a site that has built its own custom responsive design framework for mobile devices that takes 5 seconds to load and doesn't follow web UI conventions (I

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