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by ender7 15y ago
Well, the old technical limitations of the web have muddied the affordances somewhat, but my rules is generally "add cursor:pointer if the button behaves like a link, leave it unchanged if the button behaves like a button". Most of the G+ b
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by ender7 15y ago
Oh, competition, wouldn't it be nice to have you around. Of course, given the massive up-front infrastructure investment, such competition is unlikely to materialize. What would be wonderful is if the government ran fiber to everyone's home
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by ender7 15y ago
Devil's advocate: Logo is too busy. Drop everything but the final JS-inside-a-hex. Make that your logo. The hex is a node. You are a node. Your logo is a hex. Obviously, you lose a lot by leaving out the "node" word from your logo. But, it
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by ender7 15y ago
Yeah, I'm not a fan. The animations don't add anything and end up wasting your time as you wait for them to complete. The fact that most of the tree is hidden after you click on something makes browsing annoying. jqapi, on the other hand, i
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by ender7 15y ago
Previous comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727454 tl;dr I really want to be able to mute people and/or entire circles. This won't "block" them; it just means that I won't have to see their messages unless they specificall
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by ender7 15y ago
Being able to watch a live video feed of the launch is pretty amazing. Previously, TV coverage (if it existed at all) was terrible. This makes me wonder what the fate of NASA would have been if the past few generations had grown up with acc
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by ender7 15y ago
It seems that we're quickly heading toward a point where all music becomes essentially free [1], and serves only as PR for boosting ticket sales. Keep in mind that, currently, most musicians can be broken into two groups: 1. Superstars that
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by ender7 15y ago
I've found it very useful for "breaking news" types of things where the news sites haven't quite gotten up to speed with what is happening, or when it's a niche enough event that it wouldn't get news coverage. Example: "x website is down"
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by ender7 15y ago
I think the tags idea might be a bit too complex, interface-wise. I'd prefer an option next to every post in my stream called "fewer posts like this (from this person)". Given enough feedback from me, G+ would automatically start filtering
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by ender7 15y ago
There is one thing that Google+ currently lacks that both Twitter and Facebook have: Like us on Facebook! facebook.com/ProductFoo Follow us on Twitter! @ProductFoo In G+'s (hypothetical, since they haven't done it yet) case, n
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by ender7 15y ago
Why is everyone being downvoted in this thread? On HN, "I disagree" != "I downvote".
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by ender7 15y ago
- There are designers who care more about the user's experience than the beauty of their graphic design. They obsess about clarity of design, action flow, and how the average person will view or interpret their graphics and layouts, rather
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by ender7 15y ago
Wait, it's only 5 million years old? That seems ludicrously young given astronomical timescales. I'm also curious how such a thing came to be. How did we get a binary system with a much smaller, and presumably much older star (since it is
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by ender7 15y ago
There seems to be a consensus that enterprise wants one kind of browser and everyone else wants another kind of browser. Put another way, what does Firefox have to gain from catering to enterprise needs? Funding? They have plenty at the m
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by ender7 15y ago
Given the juiciness of this, I'm surprised that more companies don't have corp espionage groups to carry out little lulsec attacks.
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by ender7 15y ago
I'm surprised that most people seem to have ignored this line: > it’s about doing , as opposed to knowing or learning After graduating, I had to teach myself everything in that list before I could actually do anything that I found in
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by ender7 15y ago
1. Are they moving to a seamless upgrade system like Chrome? 2. If not, will it be auto-update or opt-in update? 3. Are plugin writers going to have to update their plugins every time there's a new release?
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by ender7 15y ago
Eli Pariser has a good TED talk along similar lines: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
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by ender7 15y ago
Original article: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/flow-batteries-0606.html
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by ender7 15y ago
In general the service seems really neat, but I have to admit I find their storage and pricing system a bit confusing. How is the average consumer going to react? I can't imagine explaining this to my parents... --- So...it stores all my fi
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by ender7 15y ago
Similarly, when I kill my neighbor I'm a "murderer", but when I kill my country's neighbors I'm a "soldier". Such distinctions are important. I would be careful trying to equate hacking into Sony with hacking into Al-Qaeda.
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by ender7 15y ago
One problem with this framing is that almost any idea interesting enough to base a company around will almost certainly change during the execution. The original idea for Twitter wasn't anywhere near what it became, and you can say the sa
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by ender7 15y ago
To me, Bitcoin just seems like a form of electronic gold. Limited supply; no significant intrinsic value; no backing government or other body. Conversion to real currency is commonplace but not exactly convenient. Is this way of looking at
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by ender7 15y ago
My friend recently got a Sunbook, which he loves to use outdoors: http://www.cloversystems.com/SunBook.htm (their website is horrific, but the product is decent). It's essentially a netbook with a special screen that can can work in both
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by ender7 15y ago
I'm not sure I see the point of this. Nokia is already signed on to the WP7 platform. Moreover, most of the phones that Nokia makes are not smartphones . Microsoft would be paying a lot of money for a market they're not really interested i
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by ender7 15y ago
One the most impressive aspects to this interview is Gabe's lack of dogmatic prognostication. They're not into something because "mobile is the future" or "the PC is dead" or "social gaming is taking over the world." They're looking into th
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by ender7 15y ago
Is it possible for 3rd party ebook readers to display books bought through the iBook store? If the answer is "no" then this seems like a great way to ensure bad ebook software on your platform. Case in point: no one seems to really like the
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by ender7 15y ago
So...Google appears to have created an app platform that no one wants to install apps on. Great.
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Schneier's original point is "every cooperative system will always contain parasitic elements; while these elements can be deleterious to the correct functioning of the system, they are also a critically important source of diversity and ch
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by ender7 15y ago
I fail to see what connection the article has to poor people. Poor people are neither "uncooperative" (indeed, they tend to occupy some of the most cooperative jobs where they are told what to do and then do it), nor "parasitic" (they tend

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