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by drharris 14y ago
I'd agree with this. I think too many people think HN should be startups or technology or whatever. But it's a community aggregator, with a community of voters deciding what matters. By definition, HN should be whatever it currently is.
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by drharris 14y ago
> The issue isn't that people are voting up comments or submissions that don't fit with what HN is supposed to be What is it supposed to be?
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by drharris 14y ago
Pro tip: if you read this article right away, you've already failed.
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by drharris 14y ago
This is crazy, but the craziest thing is that it's not at all unbelievable. Those "lower rates" come precisely because of this; they bully people into taking awful deals just to get it over with. I'm glad Matt's family didn't give up and fo
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by drharris 14y ago
^ this. It's not a protocol, just an API, one hosted centrally by a business who is making a lot of promises. I'd like to give DC the benefit of the doubt, but let's face it; since when has a startup founder planned to stick with a company
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by drharris 14y ago
Linux servers have only "destroyed" Windows servers in... wait for it... Silicon Valley. Believe it or not, Windows still beats Linux on the worldwide server market 2 to 1, and demand is increasing. It doesn't surprise me at all that the ea
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by drharris 14y ago
+1. In fact our brains are wired/evolved to do so. Debating should vs. should not is ultimately philosophical at best. We should look at things like this from a framework of reality. Reality dictates people (including smart folks like us) w
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by drharris 14y ago
That's of course a good point. However, one of the things the tagging proponents claim is that tagging reduces the effort of taxonomy. Having to manage aliases and tag links would then negate any such benefit, and might even be much more ti
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by drharris 14y ago
The obvious benefit to using tagging is that tags can be anything. The obvious detriment to using tagging is that tags can be anything. Take, for example, a contact in an address book. Did I tag "contact", "friend", "acquaintance", "people
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by drharris 14y ago
It is the brainchild of Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg, co-founders of Mixed Media Labs. The vision for App.net was crystalized as an audacious proposal from Dalton after [...] This makes it sound like it's the idea that will define
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by drharris 14y ago
Does anyone else see this and think, "It's like Twitter, except for people who want to complain about Twitter all the time"? That's the vibe I get. There's no way those high school friends I reconnected with are paying for this. There's no
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by drharris 14y ago
Please let me know when you have a site for the 12k club, as I intend to join. The 11k club is simply too elite.
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by drharris 14y ago
Seriously, link to TNW and not the source article? ( http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/07/31/clives... )
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by drharris 14y ago
Agreed. You'd figure with all the title moderation recently, this one would have made the cut.
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by drharris 14y ago
Well, from the perspective of an omnivore, soy would be a huge improvement over chicken in the estrogen department. The hormones added to make chicken breasts plump up tend to result in fulfilling the prophecy "you are what you eat".
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by drharris 14y ago
Metro is a design philosophy, not anything that can be infringed. Microsoft is actually heavily evangelizing Metro, and would probably be pleased to see the competition playing catch-up for once. That said, individual interactions can be pa
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by drharris 14y ago
I like this, hope to see more examples. I was surprised to find I was quite wrong on brands I thought I knew well (e.g. Yahoo). Fun little game.
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by drharris 14y ago
Ah, not a fan of endless scrolling either, so that may explain my feelings here. :)
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by drharris 14y ago
That's an excellent point. The sidebar on railstutorial.org is quite functional, and aside from some bright social icons not very distracting. I think that is the perfect use case for a sticky sidebar, navigation or additional information r
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by drharris 14y ago
The headline is a bit sensational, for such a thorough article. Now, just waiting for an article that summarizes the other side of the debate.
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by drharris 14y ago
This, for sure. Love the Zoolander comment; that's exactly the feeling I get about Svbtle. Even the name is pretentious. It smells of Silicon Valley circle jerk.
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by drharris 14y ago
Can any UX people illuminate the modern popularity of these things? I find them very distracting, and typically unusable. When I'm scrolling down the page, the function I'm performing is consumption of content. With a sidebar there begging
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by drharris 14y ago
Follow the money trail a bit farther and you'll see the pharmaceuticals on the horizon.
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by drharris 14y ago
The "buried" is not in relation to the story, but the product. You're telling me some Pharma company doesn't have a patent that will squash this in an instant? There's no way, not a single way, they're going to let some kid with a $3 test c
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by drharris 14y ago
I'm voting buried. No way Big Pharma is letting this one see the light of day.
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by drharris 14y ago
It can always be saved. They have a reasonably competent group of employees, a nice patent portfolio (recently cross-licensed with FB), and a recognizable brand that is still in heavy (albeit declining) use today. Even the more geeky crowd
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by drharris 14y ago
The title is also misleading because it claims they "sidestepped" the owner. They did not sidestep the owner at all; they tracked him down and paid for the domain.Sidestepping would have been filing a complaint with ICANN about the lack of
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by drharris 14y ago
> basically the single page app replaces the desktop app of the past Yes, and I am saying this is shortsighted. We went from silos of information and data on a single computer and evolved into creating information in the public internet
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by drharris 14y ago
I completely understand that, and agree, but for the 99% of websites that are somewhere in-between a "page" and an "app", this sort of punditry is not really helpful. Most websites are interactive in some way, and also benefit from search e
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by drharris 14y ago
Am I the only one out there that _doesn't_ think single-page apps are the future? It reminds me of the mid-2000s, "AJAX all the things!" I might be wrong about it, just not on this bandwagon at all. I still find the true power in the intern

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