cosmo7

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by cosmo7 18y ago
Much as I love the tweets, Twitter's signal:noise ratio has always been very close to zero, so I don't think spammers will be able to ruin it the way they ruined Usenet.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Straw polls are interesting, but full of bias. For example, older users are more likely to be in a relationship and/or have children, making participation on a weekend less likely.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Excellent social commentary. The rather neat dynastic results table at the end show percentages but no legend; does anyone know what they represent?
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Can we draft a law preventing journalists from trying to interpret statistics?
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by cosmo7 18y ago
You have a choice in life: You can smoke dope, get stoned, start dozens of unfinished projects in Ruby or Scala or Haskell or whatever you've just read about, wear bad clothes and think you're doing something worthwhile just because you're
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Hap is a middle English word meaning luck or fate. Things happen, mishaps occur. Perhaps. Hapless means being in a situation with no logical way out, such as being stuck in quicksand, or being good at Ruby on Rails.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
That's surprisingly ironic considering Disney's attitude towards the public domain and copyright extension.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Adobe would rather you didn't know, but fonts can't be copyrighted.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
That's kind of like saying "I went to Afghanistan and I didn't get my head cut off." Adobe has horrible installers which break frequently. Just google for "CS3 install problem" and you'll see what I mean.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
FTA: Safari dropped from 7.70% to 7.42%. The (rather poorly explained) thrust of the article was that the beta release temporarily increased the proportion of requests using that browser to 10%. This is probably from people trying it out; I
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by cosmo7 18y ago
To be cynical, all marketing is untrue. If it was true then they wouldn't have to tell you otherwise. Try listening to advertising and considering how plausible the _exact opposite_ of what they say is. You'll be surprised.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Situation: Microsoft is in court with a GPS company over some patents. Problem: News story is boring. Solution: Headline "Microsoft Sues Linux", add picture of Steve Ballmer looking mean. Sprinkle with spelling mistakes and "no word yet" un
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Way to jinx your company dude.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Adobe is it's own worst enemy. Turns out, to install CS3 you have to uninstall Flash. Their own products hate each other.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Apple is the new Microsoft, Google is the new IBM, Palm is the new Apple.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Would that be such a bad thing? Some of my best friends are scripts.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
a lot of people who would be an _asshat_ to the community are prematurely excluded FTFY. The problem with staying free and censoring unpopular opinions is that sometimes those opinions turn out to be right.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Ow! My eyes! Seriously, hire a designer to smooth out your site, it's well worth it.
49.
by cosmo7 18y ago
Interesting to see them using ASP.NET MVC.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
This isn't about PHP winning, it's about Ruby on Rails not winning, ie: losing. Obviously C# beats the pants of both of these hippy languages so the argument is moot anyway.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Hacker News is still different to Digg and Reddit because those sites have a sense of humor.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
It's more start than up .
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by cosmo7 18y ago
Bad spelling and foul language. Is this a parody? Reminds me of "two years ago I couldn't even spell engineer, now I are one."
54.
by cosmo7 18y ago
Jeez, you're modding me down for questioning a 10-minute download for a 4.6M file? What is this? 1995?
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by cosmo7 18y ago
I've used Silverlight on Firefox (Vista, Windows 7) with no problems, not even having to restart the browser. Silverlight is actually pretty good; it's a much easier experience for developers than Flash/Flex. You might hate Microsoft, but y
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by cosmo7 18y ago
If it took 10 minutes for you to download the plugin you might want to try replacing your 14.4k modem.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
So you're saying that C# is high level and Objective-C isn't?
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by cosmo7 18y ago
I'd quite like a comment system that requires users to solve a series of logic and verbal reasoning problems before being able to submit.
59.
by cosmo7 18y ago
Well this explains all the crazy moderation my comments get.
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by cosmo7 18y ago
As someone else who has regularly hit #1 on digg and reddit without even being aware that the stories were submitted, I have to disagree.

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