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by clobber 14y ago
Dinosaur (Noun): A person or thing that is outdated or has become obsolete because of failure to adapt to changing circumstances. I'm not sure why you think I'm a "young'un" but, please get over yourself, "old timer." So because 12px font w
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by clobber 14y ago
Sure, I get the reason. I was using the example to relate to parent's comment.
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by clobber 14y ago
Why yes, we should all emulate the famous Groupon pump-and-dump. Sheesh.
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by clobber 14y ago
Yep, not only that but Hacker News is used as an example on Contrast Rebellion: http://contrastrebellion.com/public/images/page2-img4.jpg
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by clobber 14y ago
> 12px was the standard for a very long time. Yeah, errrr....there is no "standard" on the web. Make your font sizes readable. It's really not hard.
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by clobber 14y ago
Who at Yahoo decided that a 12px font size was readable? Maybe start by firing that person? http://hn.explodie.org/writings/stop-using-small-font-size.h... http://contrastrebellion.com/
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by clobber 14y ago
Wow with Eric Lefkofsky as the new CEO they went from bad to worse. Lefkofsky has always been the one behind the scenes pulling all the strings from early investment, cashing out his $1 BILLION and to the IPO. Yikes!
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by clobber 14y ago
Sorry, this is a good thing and it makes the web better. Advertisers have been abusing users for years and it just keeps getting worse. Local Shared Objects (Flash Cookies) are only one example. Facebook's attempt at the Beacon project was
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by clobber 14y ago
Staying safe in that suburb somewhere?
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by clobber 14y ago
Yeah well, find me one current employee who isn't afraid for their dear life to openly comment on working there without using an anonymous/throwaway account. That demonstrates a workplace of fear.
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by clobber 14y ago
I certainly hope that working Sunday nights and traditional corporate structures where we refer to co-workers below us as "minions" is not something the new generation of engineers aspire to. This sounds like the typical toxic corporate wor
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by clobber 14y ago
> In what world? Ecomonomics? > The Xbox has been profitable for most of its life No. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmSmlk-Wo4uhdEh...
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by clobber 14y ago
I'm saying they're still losing money. The "lose money on units, make some back on software" model doesn't make economic sense anymore. The second link has recent numbers.
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by clobber 14y ago
Nobody seems to remember just how much money Microsoft and Sony have lost on their consoles. - Through 2005, the Xbox gaming division had lost over $4 billion [1] - Microsoft took a charge of $1 billion dollars on its June 2007 income state
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by clobber 14y ago
Sure, except that Crichton was extremely outspoken regarding "climate change as a lie"[1] where he used his book, State of Fear, to present his views as facts[2]: 1. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~scranmer/SPD/crichton.html 2. http://www.u
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by clobber 14y ago
If this comments thread is to be believed, the original iMAME in the app store was not pulled by Apple, but on request of MAMEdev team: ScottishCaptain: "iMAME was pulled ON REQUEST of mamedev.org because it reflects poorly upon the project
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by clobber 14y ago
Creepy doesn't begin to describe facebook anymore.
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by clobber 14y ago
Suckering more local businesses out of money, I'd assume. Edit: Hurts cause its true.
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by clobber 14y ago
No. Being an asshole are the sites that allow unethical tracking and pass around user private info from one ad network to the next. Take your weak argument elsewhere.
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by clobber 14y ago
Streak? C'mon, what is this, Xbox Live? Not all commits are created equal and I don't find this new 'contributions' calendar/graph at all useful. You still cannot get a good snapshot of contributions for users that are members of organizati
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by clobber 14y ago
And now Mark Thompson, who is tied to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal at the BBC, is CEO of NYT. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/mark-thompson-ceo-n...
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by clobber 14y ago
> an office for startups > The general response was along the lines of 'that still exists?', 'hey, I heard windows 3.0 is being released', etc. Not shocked that a bunch of kids whose first experience with a computer was Windows XP a
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by clobber 14y ago
Not according to this: http://dashes.com/anil/2012/11/facebook-makes-it-official-yo... Not that users ever had a say in the first place.
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by clobber 14y ago
Yes indeed and I am loving the irony here.
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by clobber 14y ago
Now here's a VC group to steer clear of.
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by clobber 14y ago
Thread on reddit /r/privacy where they tried to summarize the "I've got nothing to hide" paper and argument: http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/10sui8/tldr_for_ive...
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by clobber 14y ago
This sounds like a "just doing our duty" argument. If you work for the TSA you're not just contributing to the problem, you are the problem.
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by clobber 14y ago
Not sure. "Limit Ad Tracking" (Settings > General > About > Advertising) is Off by default in iOS 6. This option seems strangely left out of the "Privacy" section. You also have to opt-out of "Interest-based ads" for iAds so the
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by clobber 14y ago
> I can't really think of any instance where I've seen downloads used in a Github repository in a very long time Good thing you speak for every repo
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by clobber 14y ago
Because its actually relevant? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM

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