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   by chunkbot 16y ago

   What Groupon deal tips after only one acquirer?
2. 92.▲
   Tell HN: Article titled 'The Viral Me' on YC and startups in GQ magazine

   1 points by chunkbot 16y ago|1 comments
3. 93.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   My takeaways: * Google (and competitors) Search is far from solved. * Citi is a terrible bank. Big shocker. * Amazon has awesome customer service, to the point of actually deterring bad sellers.
4. 94.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   But you're both wrong . In a search for "designer sunglasses", a reputable site is more relevant than a scam site. It's Google that has to change, not the user.
5. 95.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   Maybe this is why an Apple monitor costs more than something else? Because people will pay more to get good colors and not have to fuss with ICC calibration.
6. 96.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   Not true. The second-hand market for Apple computers is HUGE.
7. 97.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   You might be right about the product placement, but a BlackBerry is still a sensible choice for Mr. Bieber's line of work: touring the world, constantly meeting with people, etc.
8. 98.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   I particularly enjoyed Mr. Falkenstein's review of Mr. Taleb's Black Swan. http://www.efalken.com/papers/Taleb2.html It's a long but illuminating read: ---- Martin Gardner wrote a popular column for Scientific American, and in the process
9. 99.▲
   by chunkbot 16y ago

   There are three parties involved (besides the network): A) Push Initiator (PI) (NOT the device, but the push content provider) B) Push Proxy/Gateway (PPG) (this is BlackBerry's Infrastructure) C) Push client (BlackBerry device) An example p
10. 100.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I'm not sure I want the Google of the future.
11. 101.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I love the fact that with mobile devices, we all get to witness Mr. Carmack doing what he does best for a second time: pushing resource-constrained devices to their limit.
12. 102.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Unfortunately, the individual failures were bad enough to bring down the whole system.
13. 103.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    If you lose your iPhone 3G or 3GS, they don't want you to find it... They want you to buy a new iPhone 4!
14. 104.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Now how many people are on the Forbes' list of 100 richest Americans who made their fortunes "on their own"? (Not to diminish the work of those who started with "more" in life.)
15. 105.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Watch out though; atoms aren't garbage-collected, so don't "atomize" user input.
16. 106.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    In the future, it's quite likely that a standards organization could afford it. Processor speed, disk capacity, network bandwidth, and available software are all growing much more rapidly than online populations. In some years' time I mig
17. 107.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Twitter is public by design, so it makes a lot more sense. By comparison, Google's data of my searches and Facebook's data of me and my friends is much more intimate than Twitter's database of my tweets. Ryan Singer nails the distinction he
18. 108.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I can't imagine Paris Hilton's backscatter images being all that sensational. You can find much more detailed images with a cursory search online. I get your point, though.
19. 109.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I use Emacs, and I can't remember the last time I manually indented a line of code. Most of my non-web programming is in Erlang, Lisp, and C. My editor does the indentation for me.
20. 110.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I'd like to see http://steve.jobs.usesthis.com/ (note: link doesn't work). Anyone know how to get The Setup (usesthis) an interview with Steve Jobs? The About page evens says: "Despite appearances, the site is not actually sponsored by
21. 111.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I thought systems written in Erlang never go down! ;-)
22. 112.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I understand your motivations better now. Being able to run these ad hoc tests in a repeatable manner isn't the same as firing up IE6 on a Pentium 4 box with 256MB of RAM.
23. 113.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    I'm sorry, but the notion that Microsoft "couldn't compete at all with startups" back during the 1990s is ludicrous. For everyone who doesn't remember the bad old days, they were huge competition.
24. 114.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Never.
25. 115.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Fun, but the good thing about slow computers is that they're also the cheapest; it's far more economical to just buy an old box for a couple hundred dollars (or even cheaper).
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    by chunkbot 16y ago

    My personal favorite: Steve Jobs Says 7-Inch Tablets Are ‘Dead on Arrival’... Apparently, these devices are too small for a pleasant touchscreen experience. I typed this from my 3.5 inch iPhone.
27. 117.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Syntax is never really a problem. We do a lot of work in Erlang... Erlang is based originally on Prolog, a logic programming language that was briefly hot in the 80's. Surely you've seen other languages based on Prolog, right? No? Why no
28. 118.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    Because we love it when corporations come up with their own proprietary implementations of existing open protocols with similar if not superior functionality.
29. 119.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    You should use an ETag in your HTTP request header to do versioning, and keep the URL static.
30. 120.▲
    by chunkbot 16y ago

    It doesn't scream "doom" to me; Ballmer's sale looks like it was done mostly for tax purposes.