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by axod 16y ago
"Reads science fiction, likes computers, enjoys challenging games, is generally into bright-person stuff." I've never liked or bothered with science fiction, whilst I consider myself pretty techy (I prefer to say techy than geeky). Why is r
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by axod 16y ago
Don't you feel like you should get a license? Regardless of wether you're legally supposed to. The sheer quality of programming they put out. Buy a license.
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by axod 16y ago
When I was in US (Palo Alto) I think you could get comcast or excite (Y! @home or something). Pretty sure the choice was limited to 2.
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by axod 16y ago
Good example. As for the spin, I think it's good to give people choice. For example if people want to get a cheaper internet connection that's watered down version without 'premium' websites which cost extra, then that's fair enough. I don'
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by axod 16y ago
Exactly. I can get my Internet connection from 100+ companies. In the US, as far as I've seen, it's 2 companies if you're lucky. In the UK, the market will decide what people want from their internet connection, and customers have more than
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by axod 16y ago
idk if you really associate Facebook with quality engineering quite yet. Facebook is often broken with rough edges, odd engineering decisions all over, and quirks galore.
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by axod 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_hotpot ?
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by axod 16y ago
Maybe Google doesn't really mind since the advertising revenue would likely be very small? Wonder how much profit baidu makes
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by axod 16y ago
> " The only difference between them is how they are created or displayed, and that's a UI feature." That's incorrect IMHO. It's also completely different how people use them. If I want to ask my wife to get something extra from the sho
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by axod 16y ago
Surely also you have the option to have free users generating advertising income. I've heard that works for some people.
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by axod 16y ago
You obviously have never tried "search" in outlook.
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by axod 16y ago
That's because all those methods achieve different things. Email is completely different to SMS, which is completely different to blog posts, forums, etc They all have totally different dynamics. A single unified system would be horrible.
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by axod 16y ago
Their attitude was especially surprising, since I'm actually trying to spend money with them.
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by axod 16y ago
Pretty high Safari usage there. I'm guessing macs are extremely common at the University?
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by axod 16y ago
Those stats combine main client (chat.mibbit.com) with our widget, split roughly 50/50. The widget is used on various websites, gaming, stock trading, dating, etc etc Sure, it's still probably going to be slightly more tech, but I'm guessin
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by axod 16y ago
IE usage recently dropped below Chrome usage on Mibbit (Including our widget which is deployed on various non-techy websites). Firefox 55.1% Chrome 20.7% IE 15.2% Other 4.4% Opera 3.0% Safari 1.6% The time when you have t
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by axod 16y ago
If you don't care about the standard, you can use / * * / to comment out stuff in JSON. It's a shame this wasn't in the spec. Along with making quotes optional for keys. It's a real shame that the native JSON object, and the spec missed out
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by axod 16y ago
So what's the point of using github if you don't notice it's offline?
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by axod 16y ago
That image is a bit funny... "at 5pm Eastern Time we point our LOICs at Tumblr. Their IP address is: 174.120.238.130" What sort of insane webapp would only have 1 IP? Either 4chan are terribly naive, or Tumblr are. A dig lookup seems to sug
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by axod 16y ago
I'm talking front page stories here.
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by axod 16y ago
I still don't get it really. People don't just use google to find stuff to buy, they use it to find information. I'd be surprised if the idea lives up to the hype. Heck I'd be amazed if Facebook can make any kind of inroads in email.
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by axod 16y ago
The mob rule is extremely distasteful to watch IMHO, and it's certainly a very specific community now - liberal, pro-drugs, anti-consumerism etc etc. There's a lot of knee-jerk reactions and short-termism - outraged one day, forgotten the
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by axod 16y ago
I disagree. Non tech people I know wouldn't use facebook for anything other than 'friends/photos/games'.
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by axod 16y ago
There is simply no way I would ever subject myself or any of my kids to being patted down in this way, or going through a porn-scan. I think it's more than fair to state clearly, as he did, that if the operative sexually assaults him, he wi
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by axod 16y ago
> "Would it be helpful when shopping for a new phone to know if my "friends" have had better experience with Android or an iPhone? Sure." Even if that is the case for some people (not me), I'd be really surprised if people start shoppin
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by axod 16y ago
In what version of adsense does it not use an iframe? It's always used an iframe, dynamically generated from js. The top ad on scribd actually has about 5 iframes. No idea why my original comment stands a 0. Please do your research people.
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by axod 16y ago
Most flash ads would be inside an iframe on another domain outside your control :/ So unless I've missed something, I don't see how this helps. No amount of javascript can modify flash elements in an iframe outside of the security box.
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by axod 16y ago
> "...and there were probably hundreds of thousands of users on it" I'd be really surprised if usage was that high. I'd believe there being maybe a few thousand using it regularly.
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by axod 16y ago
I'd never heard of it, it's free (hard to monetize), seriously, I'm not sure Google are that worried. There'll always be some hot new fad. I don't think Google would be doing any good getting into the game of creating hot new fads.
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by axod 16y ago
huh? Google have built instagram. It's standard on any Android phone. [photo] -> [share] -> picasa/twitter/facebook/gmail/etc Unless I'm missing something, instagram is a 'feature' that should be on any smartphone. Not surprising

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