dcurtis

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931.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Interesting. I would say Lexus is a signal of higher middle class wealth though, more than upper class. Clearly, this is an opinion.
932.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I would hardly consider someone who drives a Lexus as upper class. Porsche, BMW, Mercedes.
933.
by dcurtis 19y ago
That's a joke, right?
934.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Of all those, Palo Alto is my favorite. But like you said, it's pretty expensive in the downtown area. Oakland always feels dirty to me, and most of Berkeley isn't that great, either.
935.
by dcurtis 19y ago
The RIAA has high powered lasers? I somehow doubt that line item would be approved by the member companies.
936.
by dcurtis 19y ago
wunderground.com, cnn.com, engadget, consumerist, and TechCrunch? Just curious how many other people visit the same sites I do.
937.
by dcurtis 19y ago
The estimates weren't even that bad-- look at the year ago estimates. The company is thriving, making tons of money, and growing at greater-than-industry rates. It's pretty crazy how irrational investor behavior can have such a huge effect.
938.
by dcurtis 19y ago
A ton of people would disagree with you.
939.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I was actually kind of surprised by the answer that question, though.
940.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I wonder if the accelerometer is precise enough for that-- it seems to have a slight delay when changing orientation, but that could be lag in the software. I'd certainly be cool, though.
941.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Have you ever been to Florida?
942.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I don't think the divide is as big as you think-- lots and lots of upper-middle class people shop at Walmart because of its convenience. They probably don't buy jeans there because those are status items, but they do buy things like electro
943.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, that's an awesome idea.
944.
by dcurtis 19y ago
You can affect a lot more people by using your wealth than you can by volunteering your labor, which is probably why people put more value on things they can do with money than things they can do with their labor. I guess most people don't
945.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I keep hearing the word "recession," but no one has exactly defined what that is, or if we're "in a recession" yet. Are there values that define when you can say we're in a recession?
946.
by dcurtis 19y ago
My point on 1 wasn't specific to tables. Hacker News genuinely ignores W3C standards. Are you saying that the future of HTML looks like what happened to machine language?
947.
by dcurtis 19y ago
You're right, bloated was a bad word to use.
948.
by dcurtis 19y ago
1. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombina... 2. Ill admit defeat on this point. (but see below) 3. With all the td, tr, etc tags, it seems messy. I don't know for sure, but I think using a stylesheet could reduce the
949.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, that's a huge assumption, that the applications of the future will be delivered though Facebook. That would be an interesting and depressing future, with companies like facebook dictating the rules of the internet. I certainly hope it
950.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I don't get it. Just because it's generated by Arc doesn't mean it has to: 1. Ignore web standards, 2. Forgo readability, or 3. Make bloated code. I mean, look at the source of hacker news. Its just not elegant. Whether or not you believe i
951.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, the potential for success is huge, but you're operating on the back of FaceBook and you have to learn a new markup language. The latter problem is probably the reason so many hackers are "missing the boat." But look at facebook right
952.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Its not pure humor; I really think its probably overvalued. And I'm a pretty sarcastic person anyway, so most of my comments come out like that.
953.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Me neither, but my MacBook Pro's battery has close to 200 cycles and it's pretty much dead. I'll need to get a new one, and it's nice to be able to just swap it out.
954.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Wow, I really wish Dvorak would stop using such insane, incredible, horrifying and superfluously inappropriate superlative hyperbole. I just ignore his stuff these days.
955.
by dcurtis 19y ago
I was more joking than being serious. Max Levchin's name is worth a lot of money, though, so that might have been a major factor in the high valuation. Do you think they deserve half-a-billion valuation while running on the back of Facebook
956.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Actually I've noticed exactly the opposite.
957.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Good for them. They're proving that you can get obscene valuations by using second-level advertising on the back of a low-profit, highly overvalued social network.
958.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Huh? You can't do subpixel rendering on a CRT, so it would have been impossible to implement before LCDs. Normal antialiasing has existed since long before LCDs.
959.
by dcurtis 19y ago
This one never gets old. It's amazing how little people know about subpixel rendering, even in the design profession. I suppose it's not really required knowledge, but it's interesting to know how text antialiasing really works. You can do
960.
by dcurtis 19y ago
Yeah, our very first message to an advanced civilization should be (from the article): "Any materials you'd like to give us to help... We're running out of oil," she said.

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