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by catach 8y ago
A clipboard history web app isn't the craziest idea in the world, though it's at least moderately crazy.
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by catach 9y ago
Is this the end of the "embrace" stage or the beginning of the "extend" stage? The "MS-designed chip" bit might actually be the most interesting part of the eventual story, though.
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by catach 9y ago
My guesses would be: PDF is an ISO standard, while MD has a handful of competing implementations/standards. PDF is very widely used, while MD-as-file is rather niche. And browsers will open .md files, they'll just interpret them
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by catach 9y ago
You can have young neckbeards.
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by catach 9y ago
> a dense UX that’s hard to cram ads into Not that it affects your overall point, but it's worth noting both that the new design has a rather nice 'compact' view, and that their new ad placement method (right in the post s
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by catach 9y ago
I don't think self-hosted forums ever left, really. But it's like IRC versus modern messaging apps; there's been a huge amount of inflation in terms of what user base "success" is supposed to look like.
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by catach 9y ago
I expect that we'll soon see a handful of browser extensions that try to fix the redesign.
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by catach 9y ago
It seems highly unlikely that that will be supported for very long past the final launch of the new design.
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by catach 9y ago
Hubski! I knew there was one I was forgetting. Also, thanks for the Snapzu and Soylent mentions, those are new to me.
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by catach 9y ago
Enough to say that if someone's looking for a reddit replacement because they don't want racism, voat is not the answer.
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by catach 9y ago
lobste.rs is more of a HN replacement, but there you go.
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by catach 9y ago
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16798868
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by catach 9y ago
I think that under-simplifies the dynamic: public opinion is changed slowly and painfully through consistent advocacy efforts that publicize abuses, while the abusing industries fight back and regain ground at least some of the time. But ye
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by catach 9y ago
> there will still be a bunch of people writing blog posts that are not so concerned. I assume that 80-90% of blogs already have RSS, just due to default configurations. Seems to me the context here is about pushing adoption and design s
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by catach 9y ago
> but maybe it's even harder to have an analytics system and use it responsibly? I'd say it absolutely is harder--on the one hand, you have an opportunity for more money. On the other hand, you have the mass of users that ha
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by catach 9y ago
> No. That’s the opposite of why people are again pushing RSS. Maybe the opposite of why users are pushing for RSS, but without analytics content producers have reasonable justification for being hostile instead.
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by catach 9y ago
I'd say the difference is how essential your user account is to the service. You might say you're "leaving Youtube". You'd definitely say you're "leaving Gmail". Which touches on the point that saying
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by catach 9y ago
Have you considered Perl?[0] [0] http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/linguistics.html
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by catach 9y ago
I believe the translation of "renewed interest from some publishing partners" is "they'll give us money, probably".
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by catach 9y ago
> Go compare a reddit technology thread to a youtube comment section. Big difference in writing quality, avg length of post, use of source and data, etc. While I think this is generally a valid point, I also suspect there's quite
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by catach 9y ago
According to Alexa stats, Reddit is 6th in the world and 4th in the US [0], while Facebook is 3rd and 3rd [1]. [0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com [1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/faceb
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by catach 9y ago
And the follow-up question is, how much do they think it's important relative to other things?
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by catach 9y ago
From their privacy page: "We don’t track you personally and we never sell your personal data. Here is what we track: we track how users use our site in general so that we can make it better. We are monitoring traffic, usage activity, s
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by catach 9y ago
I'd say Reddit is good evidence that the beauty element is optional, for the goal of Many Users.
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by catach 9y ago
> The day Apple make acquisition and brings a poor product or services out is the day they enter Oracle Era. Does Apple Maps count for that? I think a more reasonable standard would be if there was a consistent pattern of making bad choi
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by catach 9y ago
The great hidden mass of folks scripting Excel spreadsheets strikes me as unlikely to migrate to anything else, anytime soon.
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by catach 9y ago
The way it generally works is that each user has their own cursor.
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by catach 9y ago
"Reference source" is how Microsoft has named their license that has those restrictions, and seems like a reasonable term.
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by catach 9y ago
Internet-connected devices never needing firmware updates strikes me as only possible in a world where computer security is a solved problem.
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by catach 9y ago
The youth of the language should be a reasonable predictor of that difference, alone. It may indeed turn out that the way Rust's learning curve is front-loaded will prevent it from breaking into the mainstream, but that's a separa

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