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by athst 15y ago
GoDaddy is the worst company ever. Earlier this year I finally took the step to transfer all of my domains to a different company, and I haven't looked back. Instead of transitioning slowly over time, I just decided to pay the money and t
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by athst 15y ago
This is awesome. Really good for people who live in an apartment and aren't there during the day to take deliveries. ...but what surprised me more about this was that it was shared from The Daily.
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by athst 15y ago
I agree also, you really need a lot more information up front to tell people what the service actually does. Especially for a service like this, I don't see a lot of value hiding the content behind a registration wall.
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by athst 15y ago
I think the subtext is that. before, the Google line on the acquisition is that it was solely for the patents. Possibly to not piss off their other partners who are making the hardware that competes with Motorola. To my knowledge this is
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by athst 15y ago
It is really arguing the extremes, when reality, the best place to be is somewhere in between. Designers and developers should of course have good understanding and empathy for what the other person does. But at the same time, they shouldn
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by athst 15y ago
It wasn't working when it was first posted, but just now I was just able to get it to load.
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by athst 15y ago
I think it's possible that this extreme tab usage could be pretty common. I don't have 500 tabs like him, but I can get into the 50-100 range. For me, too many tabs isn't the problem - it's just that browsers can't seem to handle so many
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by athst 15y ago
I think that's what in part makes him Steve Jobs. If anyone else asked you to do it you'd think they were insane. But if Steve Jobs asks you to do it, you not only get on it right away, you also feel like the fate of the entire world rest
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by athst 15y ago
I like the idea of supporting your managers in front of employees even if you don't agree. Address it later in private so you don't undermine them.
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by athst 15y ago
CNBC had a good special on McDonald's a while ago called "Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire." They talk to a franchisee, and to me it looks like you need to work really hard to be successful. You're basically the CEO of your own busine
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by athst 15y ago
I wonder if this is going to become even more of a problem as OS's become more gesture-based like iOS and Lion. All of the three- and four-finger swiping actions in Lion are amazing and useful, but only if you know about them and can remem
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by athst 15y ago
Give me a break. The older generation "dreamed of greatness" and now no young people do anymore? Isn't this the same thing that every generation says about the previous generation? The tools and technologies that are already changing the
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by athst 15y ago
I agree, I have never quite understood this meme of mocking hipster stereotypes. It's mean-spirited and in most cases very hypocritical.
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by athst 15y ago
In some ways I feel like a lot of Android fans want coverage of tech to be fair in the same way that Fox News wants coverage to be fair and balanced. Just because many sources these days are very positive on Apple and its products, I don't
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by athst 15y ago
They use the word "fanbois" to sound pejorative, but isn't this a good thing? It basically means that people are passionate about your company and its products. It means you're relevant. It has always been like that with rivalries like M
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by athst 15y ago
I'd be interested to know how Google feels about automatically generating content from other content like this - at first glance it looks like a regular article, but after you read a few it's clear that they have some sort of dynamic templa
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by athst 15y ago
the SEC already makes filing data available in machine readable format - it's called XBRL. I don't think all companies are on it now, but there's a mandate that will force all companies to eventually do it
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by athst 15y ago
marketing campaign or not, I think it's really clever. If all marketing campaigns were even half as interesting, we'd all be a lot better off.
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by athst 15y ago
When the package says "100% juice," I think most people assume that means that the juice is squeezed from the orange and it goes into the carton without any processing or additives. I'm sure that's the impression that they're trying to giv
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by athst 15y ago
I have never been able to get RSS to work for me - I'd always subscribe to a bunch of feeds, then they'd pile up into hundreds of unread posts, and then I'd just go numb to it and end up visiting the site itself like I did before. But now,
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by athst 15y ago
Whenever I almost get hit by a car while I'm walking around San Francisco, I'd say that 8 times out of 10 it's a Prius... so this is definitely welcome.
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by athst 15y ago
Are you just listing a bunch of random logical fallacies? Every one of his points is real, even though they have a (deservedly) aggressive tone. The "canon is to simple have the better product?" What happens when you're a small developer a
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by athst 15y ago
I think his point is that it's just a tool that makes it a little easier for startups to incorporate machine learning into their products - like he said, it may be appropriate for some types of problems, but not all. But I'm sure we'll sta
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by athst 15y ago
Could it be more of a community or environmental thing than some inherent quality of the coders in LA? For example, up here in SV startups are everywhere, and you can't go anywhere without bumping into someone who works at a startup or maj
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by athst 15y ago
I know this is an indirect solution, but why even have papers in a business course anyway? I was a business undergrad, and after all of the lower-level BS classes, it was all about projects and discussions in class, not paper writing. Any
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by athst 15y ago
That's pretty awesome - it's like The Tell-Tale Heart way of dealing with cheaters
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by athst 15y ago
Really cool - for some reason attaching geolocation to abstract pictures make them seem so much more real and interesting. Seems to be cracking a little under HN traffic?
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by athst 15y ago
Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra thought step of "which group should I send this to?" every time they sent out a tweet? It w
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by athst 15y ago
I think this is why there is such a huge opportunity for Amazon - they are the best in the world at selling stuff, and if they can leverage that experience with apps (reviews, search, recommendations, etc), the whole interaction of buying a
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by athst 15y ago
Seems like Urban Outfitters would be an obvious retailer to go approach with something like this. But I agree with others that the price is a little too high - I imagine that you'd want to collect these like some people collect vinyl, but

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