billpatrianakos

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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I can't tell you how many blogging platforms I've hopped through. I've got posts on a trillion domains and twice as many engines. Reading lists like these make me want to try them all now! What is it about site generators and blogging engi
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Sometimes less is more. I can see why people like these features and would want the, but not all of them are a hit. The last one especially with app previews just isnt necessary. So are the "dynamic badges". We already have the notification
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
If you've ever met or known anyone into Scientology then you'd get why it has so many up votes this quick. I up voted before reading the emails because I know as I'm sure others do how important it is to expose their acts. But yeah, a torre
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Way to be overly sensitive.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
People always take OS criticism personally. Some more than others. You could switch out Mac for Windows or any other platform and it wouldn't matter. I think he's just using OS X as a point of reference because it's what he uses. Yeah, I co
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The "reality distortion field", "fanboys", etc, mostly BS from people trying to justify being cheapskates, or feeling some envy for others that can afford more expensive gear" I agree that it's BS but I don't think the reason is mostly ab
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
There is so much to love about this. It takes writing on the stall wall to the 21st century. It seems like an indictment of asinine status updates. It has great use of double entendras (spelling?): "Start the movement"! "Plop! The rest is h
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You mean the second comment on the actual article page? I did. It mentions how distressed he was and why he was distressed but mentioned no condition. We are talking about a medical condition, right? I'm sorry, if that's not it then I might
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
If you actually do this you'll either have to get it elsewhere or not tell him it came from Amazon. Stallman recently wrote about how we should stop supporting Amazon. I seriously wonder if he'd accept if he knew where it came from.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
But punching himself in the head? I knew Stallman was weird as we all did and that yeah, he's probably got some disorder but when he's punching himself in the head publicly you can't help but wonder if maybe we should reevaluate our faith i
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Whoah, wait, what condition? I wasn't aware that Stallman had any condition that would cause him to react that way. I even just posted a comment that touches on that topic. I hope I didn't just sound like a jerk picking on someone with a me
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Reading about Stallman's reaction to this makes me wonder about his mental stability. "Punching himself in the head"? And cursing? Now, cursing I can understand but the picture painted in the story makes it look like Stallman was throwing a
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I also agree with the troll and it really does look like that was deliberate trolling. But really, it made sense anyway. You're not allowed to criticize Stallman on HN. I found that out the hard way. It's frowned upon even more than critici
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Although this was surprising to me at first it doesn't take long at all to realize why this is: women communicate more. They're all about communication! We think of men as being all about tech specs and building new tech but really it's the
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You're probably right about the silent but wise but unfortunately on HN you cannot be silent and have downvote privileges. Edit: To be clear, it's not unfortunate that the silent probably won't be downvoting, it's the wise we're missing out
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I also have that mentality of wanting no friction but I guess I was really saying that users like me and you can deal with it in most cases while the average people won't tolerate it. I was mostly talking about keeping this in mind when dev
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It's not that they devalue training, it's just that they're realists. You seem to believe that people are willing to learn how to use software slowly over time but the reality is that when a user gets frustrated they simply stop using the p
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
This isnt as much about the misuse of the term design as you make it seem. The author is right that free software is generally not as well designed as its non-free counterparts. Most of the time bad design manifests itself as too much compl
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I think it can be argued that a dashboard isnt as great as this post makes it sound. The implication is that there's one person or one team looking at the dash and making sure things are running smoothly. Instead you can break up that big d
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
No, ideas are a dime a dozen. You seem to think of ideas as "thought + action" but then it's not an idea anymore; it's a real product with an idea behind it. Your example of your dad is a perfect example of why ideas really are a dime a doz
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The Art of War can really be applied to any domain or thing you want to do. It's beautiful in that it's specific and general at the same time. I once had a guy tell me to read it in high school when I was trying to win back a girl. It worke
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Oh boy, here comes the obligatory HN-contrarianism and knee-jerk Microsoft bashing. I dislike Microsoft, in particular, Windows, as much as the next guy but you can't just throw out blanket statements like that with nothing to support them.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
It's easy to assume Microsoft is basing decisions on what Apple is doing but I don't think Apple's design choices have any bearing on the new Windows8 interface. I can definitely see why it's easy to assume the connection because of Microso
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I agree completely but unfortunately I doubt people will do them right until they stop attracting eyeballs. To the well informed, bad info graphics are a plague on the web. To my sister's teenage friends and my mother's circle of friends th
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
You have to accept when things are out of your control. You cannot reliably get around job requirements. The best you can do is apply and make your case either on the application or your resume. It's probably better to work your way up in j
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
The reason that the ones who make their decisions based on price alone require more support isn't always due to the fact that they're dummies. The article doesn't really give too clear a definition of support here. It can mean honest to goo
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Boost the users ego. Facebook does this well and I have a sneaking suspicion it was never intentional. The whole impetus to create it was born out of human nature and the user engagement just flowed from there. At this point people post to
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I'm telling you you're wrong. It's more about intelligent discussion and learning a thing or two than ripping everything apart. Going into anything with that mentality automatically stops you from learning anything. The front page you see m
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
I'm not understanding what you're referring to. Can you give a link or other example? You piqued my curiosity.
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by billpatrianakos 14y ago
Absolutely. To put what you said another way, it's one thing to put forth an opposing view for the sake or starting discussion or playing devil's advocate and quite another to do so for the sake of looking smart while being under the impres

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