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by bartl 16y ago
In the USA you allegedly have last.fm, but that's pretty much useless if you're in the rest of the world; like me (Europe) and the guy who wrote the post (Australia). I agree, though: MySpace is no longer a social networking site, but rathe
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by bartl 16y ago
This does indeed sound a lot like the Broken Window Fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window ): despite the money changing hands, having to pay to have a broken window fixed, is not good for the economy, because
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by bartl 16y ago
But a slogan that boils down to "That is not a real camera, look, it has a ringtone" is pure unadultered nonsense. Whether a camera has or doesn't have a ringtone is no quality to decide whether something is, or is not, a camera!
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>But we are drifting into a world where the industry Powers That Be are going to hide everything behind rental models, and it will no longer be possible to buy an open-ended, use-it-as-you-like version of information products. When the
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by bartl 16y ago
Most forms asking for an email address use the same field name (or one of a limited number of field names), so the browser remembers what you typed last time, and it'll suggest it to you in a pop-up for autocompletion. All it takes is to ty
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by bartl 16y ago
He is talking about the smart phone market. You may add the iPad (tablets) to that.
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I assumed it was a reference to something the Norwegian people might worldwide be famous for, that is: herring. Just an impression.
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by bartl 16y ago
The original post is gone. I see no reason to keep the link here on HN.
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by bartl 16y ago
I've never seen this, not even on the page the article linked to as an example, but that may be due to NoScript. Yet another example of why NoScript is a good idea.
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But Apple chose not to.
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by bartl 16y ago
It seems to me that somebody with not much of a clue has read some rather bad sci-fi novels, and now wants to make it a reality -- with not much of a clue as to what "it" really is.
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Don't you get it? Reddit is pro-Obama, so obviously they couldn't use this communist rubbish. True patriotic capitalists use proper respectable Microsoft software for everything. (note for the humor-impaired: I'm poking fun at both the
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by bartl 16y ago
>After reading some of the comments on their website I have hard time distinguishing trolls from republican talking points. That's indeed the most interesting aspect of the whole story.
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by bartl 16y ago
All I can see is that this code makes no sense whatsoever to me. I guess that means that Ruby is not for me...
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>stuff "of interest to hackers" that isn't really about startups or hacking Maybe it is just me, but I am getting a bit tired of seeing all those posts that are only of interest to people in startups. After all, this is still "News fo
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by bartl 16y ago
>Each lookup costs TWC $45. Then they should be allowed to charge that amount (or, say, rounded to $50 per case) to the people who request it, no matter who it is. If it's the Justice Department, then it should come from their budget,
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by bartl 16y ago
That's what I've been doing for years. If it's good enough for my credit cards, then it definitely will be good enough for my passwords, won't it?
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by bartl 16y ago
>A first approach is to simply filter out tweets by keyword. I think of this as anti-search: specify a keyword, and never see any updates containing that word. >Keyword filtering alone could probably solve 1/3 of the Twitter garbage
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by bartl 16y ago
What a Facebook killer needs most, is users . Diaspora has none, as it doesn't yet exist. There already are other social networks that have plenty of users, but not enough to be a Facebook killer: Orkut (remember that? Apparently still big
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by bartl 16y ago
It looks like you don't believe that it's even possible. Why?
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by bartl 16y ago
This has been posted, and flagged, here before. Like here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344990
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To demonstrate that the new edition is still crap. It does not only warn (new) people to stay away from it, it also reflects badly on the publisher, who only seems able to bring out shoddy work.
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by bartl 16y ago
The real fix would be to abolish software patents, and with it, the licences.
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by bartl 16y ago
Not very good.
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by bartl 16y ago
Wow. What a bold initiative. In an age of of Flash websites and very slick designs, Zed Shaw comes up with a website that is more minimal than minimal. Something that could have been a home project almost 15 years ago. So he threw it to the
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by bartl 16y ago
Farmville piggybacked on FaceBook to get popular. I think such a move will hurt both, because * not every Farmville on FaceBook user will follow Zynga * a lot of Farmville players only visit FaceBook for the game On the other hand: a commis
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by bartl 16y ago
I think it's actually time that FaceBook got shut down. By law.
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I expect a surge in piracy as a result.
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Ah, it's about iTunes? Get over it. I'm pretty sure the record labels are to blame. For example, I live in Belgium, but I can not buy mp3 files from Amazon: * amazon.com doesn't sell to people in Europe * amazon.co.uk only sells to people l
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by bartl 16y ago
Well, looking at the spot, I wonder myself about Ellen's "thick fingers" compared to the size of the buttons at the bottom of the screen. It looks like it requires a control pen (like the one from the Nintendo DS) to properly operate. And I

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