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901.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Hmm. There's very little difference between actual complexity and perceived complexity. If you add options for features that could possibly increase complexity, you also increase the chance that someone feels the perception that the app is
902.
by dcurtis 19y ago
While this is a pretty good idea, it adds a significant amount of complexity to news.yc. A lot of the appeal of this site is in its simplicity, and adding this public/private commenting system would kind of sacrifice that feeling.
903.
by dcurtis 19y ago
There's something abnormal about having a site dedicated to shoelaces. Anyway, this knot will shave about 5.5 seconds off my daily commute. Thanks!
904.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Yes, because writing upside down is so incredibly useful! How did we ever live without it? /sarcasm
905.
by dcurtis 19y ago
This is insanely cool, but... optical illusion != proof
906.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Hey, it's a somewhat entertaining story for a Sunday morning. And CVS does suck. The store, not the version control.
907.
by dcurtis 19y ago
That's hilarious. I wonder what they ended up doing. Have a link to more info?
908.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Where'd you get those statistics? I was under the impression that the opposite was true (regarding general aviation).
909.
by dcurtis 19y ago
The world as a circuit board. Kind of makes it feel small, doesn't it?
910.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Karma shouldn't affect what you have to say, and it shouldn't make you retract your statement; it just indicates that other people don't agree with you. Your editing to remove the unpopular comment made me downvote you.
911.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I am absolutely stunned by the percentage delinquency for these loans. After going through the site for a while, I can't find a single loan that has been defaulted or delayed. I don't understand why a paraguayan store owner would need $1075
912.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Arc is cool. I can't wait to see what it evolves into. P.S. Do you have a personal vendetta against the W3C, or something?
913.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Inc. is the only magazine I regularly read. If I don't have time to skim through the entire thing, I always read the section that documents an entrepreneur's story. Many of those stories are informative and inspirational. One of them a few
914.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I guess I'm in the minority on this opinion, then.
915.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Of course. That's all true. I have no problem with him writing about his views, but the title of this article made it sound like he has some sort of higher political ground. Maybe a better title would have been "xkcd talks politics, Randall
916.
by dcurtis 19y ago
That is the most ridiculous article title I have ever seen on hacker news. It's one thing for a Senator to endorse a candidate, but xkcd? Just... no.
917.
by dcurtis 19y ago
True, Scoble can be annoying, but the content in this "piece" is pretty interesting. Amazingly, Scoble got Zuckerberg to admit that he is shy. The other arbitrary stuff, like the friend limit and Scoble's questionable grammar, are are worth
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J.J. Abrams' Mystery Box talk at TED(ted.com)
5 points by dcurtis 19y ago|1 comments
919.
by dcurtis 19y ago
The huge disadvantage is that there's a lot of misinformation in tutorials now. The first page :scaffold section of just about every beginning Rails tutorial is broken in Rails 2. Lots of little things are changed. Some of them are confusin
920.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I've never seriously investigated the work of Edward Tufte before, but this video really makes it look like he doesn't "get it" at all. He doesn't understand that Apple's reasoning for enhancing the resolution on the iPhone was to make the
921.
by dcurtis 19y ago
haha, these are great. But he's going to be sued for that Thomas the Train ripoff...
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700MHz Spectrum Auction Day 1: $2.779 Billion bid(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by dcurtis 19y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 19y ago
Why?
924.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Doesn't google have a really nice API that you can use to make the process mostly transparent?
925.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Barebones is nice, but it looks like a spam site or a template of some sort. It actually reduces customer confidence in that case. Are you trying to follow the 23andme model, but only testing for a single gene?
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The Truth About the iPhone Sales Numbers(arstechnica.com)
2 points by dcurtis 19y ago|0 comments
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by dcurtis 19y ago
It takes just 2 points (one vote from one person) to get something to the front page on hacker news. Are you planning on increasing the threshold/required criteria, paul? It's not really necessary at this point, but do you have a plan in pl
928.
by dcurtis 19y ago
He describes himself an an economist all the time.
929.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, Malcom Gladwell is a great psychological economist. The questions at the bottom of the article are fascinating-- it really puts things in perspective.
930.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Sadly, that's what the lower echelon uses credit cards for.

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