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781.
by cdr 18y ago
Thanks, are you sure? I was looking for a changelog or /something/ about what's new in this RC.
782.
by cdr 18y ago
Have you listened to/talked to any of the 37signals guys? It's hard to believe you would make such silly arguments if you had. (I'd respond on the post itself, but there's a lot more noise in those comments.)
783.
by cdr 18y ago
For some people, function is more important than function. They're great shoes, and considering where they're typically worn, does aesthetic appeal matter? The ugliness actually appeals to some people, too.
784.
by cdr 18y ago
I agree - the top 3 stories on HN are the worst top 3 I've seen yet.
785.
by cdr 18y ago
news.yc is the new reddit (is the new digg is the new...)
786.
by cdr 18y ago
I think the point is more to weed out people that can't do pointers and Big O than to determine greatness.
787.
by cdr 18y ago
Does shipping a pair of shoes really cost them $15 each way? I kind of doubt that, too.
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by cdr 18y ago
Un-enrolling the /bottom/ 50% would probably improve a department, sure. But how do you get that bottom 50% without enrolling all of those students in the first place? Your second point assumes that the relative percentage of "not crap" rem
789.
by cdr 18y ago
You must not read magazines (the dead-tree type) much.
790.
by cdr 18y ago
So what if it's parasitic on Outlook?
791.
by cdr 19y ago
Press the power button?
792.
by cdr 19y ago
A "FAYC" might be handy. This one in particular seems to come up every week.
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by cdr 19y ago
He puts on a nice act. No doubt he's had plenty of practice. And of course the TED audience eats it right up.
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by cdr 19y ago
Obscurity in the sense of "how many people know about this site" is not binary - every inbound link makes it a little less obscure. Popular forums (at least in my experience) stop being worthwhile to me past a certain point, and sometimes d
795.
by cdr 19y ago
I agree that forums and sites like this have a lifespan. They don't die outright, but they become less and less useful/interesting as they grow and age. Techcrunch almost certainly reduced the useful life of news.yc, so I would have prefere
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by cdr 19y ago
Ouch. I guess I should say this is starting to feel like arguing with Paul Grahm? So is everyone that got that impression from the essay a Reddit troll? If that wasn't what you wanted to communicate, was it the fault of all those people tha
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by cdr 19y ago
Can you point out where you don't? That is the entire gist of the piece the way most people read it, which I haven't seen you disagree with - people doing startups are lesser than people not doing startups. Or in the clarification, people n
798.
by cdr 19y ago
"Oh... you haven't founded a company? You suck." is exactly the thesis of the essay, not "the opposite". The implicit suggestion that because they haven't started a startup they suck is certainly what people are reacting to, in large or s
799.
by cdr 19y ago
I know I'm not the first person to mention this - please take the time to correctly spell, capitalize, and punctuate your comments. It makes it even more difficult to take you seriously otherwise.
800.
by cdr 19y ago
Wow, this is ignorant. There's no substance to this argument. Software and the process of building software can't be measured because it's not physical? "The confusion of software engineering probably comes from the fact that programmers of
801.
by cdr 19y ago
Right on the front page: Usage Policy Use of the Google Chart API is subject to a query limit of 50,000 queries per user per day. If you go over this 24-hour limit, the Chart API may stop working for you temporarily. If you continue to exc
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by cdr 19y ago
As the comment to the post says, "Open" is meaningless. http://dev.aol.com/aim/license Among other things, like requiring you implement certain features, it says: "AOL will issue you one or more alphanumeric software keys that are uniquel
803.
by cdr 19y ago
a) Your error messages are not noticeable enough - they're way too far from the register/login area. b) Why not let people use e-mail address as username (aka why limit usernames)?
804.
by cdr 19y ago
The article uses the term "true believer", and he is - he's very much a zealot. Truth first, then find evidence to support it.
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by cdr 19y ago
I love how he quotes that paper, and yet the paper concludes: "Although our results could be used to enhance progress bars system-wide, there are many cases where modifying progress behavior seems inappropriate. In general, processes with
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by cdr 19y ago
UpperCamelCase. (Unless you're a real camel nazi, and don't recognize upper as valid.) http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase
807.
by cdr 19y ago
Top headline: "EU fines Microsoft record $1.4bn". I like it already.
808.
by cdr 19y ago
Reads more like a troll than spam, I think.
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by cdr 19y ago
Rands: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/04/04/more_messy_... and http://www.flickr.com/photos/rands/2198653768/in/pool-pixelr... Another Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000740.html The best I've ever seen i
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by cdr 19y ago
He got GMail wrong, too. Yahoo Mail is/was not "perfectly good". Yahoo Mail was pretty poor. Slow, packed with blinking ads, lacking important features, poor spam filtering, etc. GMail won because it was a superior product. The storage was

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