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by fakelvis 16y ago
http://pinboard.in is now a Yahoo! product. Before I realised, the "from Yahoo!" image (top left) stopped me in my tracks.
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Micropayments to remove a small watermark? Some people would never pay, so making the watermark huge and ugly wouldn't be a good idea as you would lose a large amount of new users coming to you through WoM from pleased, existing users. … bu
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by fakelvis 16y ago
The sheets you bought may feel like a luxury good, but that's not necessarily correlated with the thread count. Thread count is much less important than the quality of the cotton/fiber and the quality of the weaving. Even shops that sell s
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by fakelvis 16y ago
I knew there was a previous, related discussion. HN Domain Exchange: Add your unused domains http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794289
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Like Wordoid? http://wordoid.com/ It can occasionally come up with some gems and is one of the three tools I use when trying to find available domains (the others being http://domai.nr/ and http://impossibility.org/ )
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by fakelvis 16y ago
I'm not quite sure that's entirely true, as is pointed out in the article. In the NL Apple Store, polyurethane Smart Covers costs €39 each while a leather one costs €69 (in Apple's eyes €1 = $1). This wooden cover costs €50. I don't think i
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by fakelvis 16y ago
The implementation details of the 1-Click patent are still fairly broad/generic: http://www.google.com/patents?id=O2YXAAAAEBAJ It's worth noting that while the USPTO granted the patent (and even after multiple reexaminations still granted
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by fakelvis 16y ago
I think that's looking at it in entirely the wrong way. It's naive to assume that long form marketing works like that and that those on the lower half are more receptive to the style. I see two steps to understanding why long forms works an
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Apple product user experience and the 30% subscription charge (Charlie Brooker)(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by fakelvis 16y ago|2 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
The official word from Twitter (as you pointed out): * Inactive Account Policy: http://support.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/15362-inacti... * Trademark Policy: http://support.twitter.com/articles/18367-trademark-policy However, Twit
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Agreed; the former. However the option to also receive alerts in exchange for my email address would be a nice additional option (emphasis on additional... main use would be the former).
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by fakelvis 16y ago
If you're only looking to save stories to read later on a day-by-day basis, why not upvote stories you want to read later and then visit your 'saved stories' when you have better access (accessible through your profile page)?
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Why the Apple subscription stunt won't stop SaaS offerings(workhappy.net)
1 points by fakelvis 16y ago|0 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Do you honestly believe that the president has the power to reverse the TSA, cancel the PATRIOT act, close Guantanimo, end warantless wiretapping and spying on Americans, etc.? He can raise the issue, make public statements, try and push th
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Linux's 'failure' in getting people to spend "that kind of money" in a consumer context is most likely due to the fact that it's not a centrally-owned commercial entity with a product line and shareholders (i.e. what Apple Inc. is), not due
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by fakelvis 16y ago
If you honestly believe that "Apple is providing the most compelling user experience with which to enjoy [Amazon's] services", then you evidently haven't used a Kindle. The Kindle was designed to provide the most elegant and compelling us
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How Greg Lindsay Beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy (fastcompany.com)
47 points by fakelvis 16y ago|11 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Content aside, the words chosen to construct the article's title is intruiging. The same piece of news is currently on the HN front page twice [1][2], framed in two very different ways: Wired: House Fails to Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers BB
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RFID tags promise to combat the counterfeiters(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by fakelvis 16y ago|1 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
I've always enjoyed the "Mental Math" section of the "Mentat Wiki": http://www.ludism.org/mentat/ It covers 'tricks' for quickly and accurately calculating squares, cubes, logs and roots (up to fifth root). Worth a look.
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by fakelvis 16y ago
> The only major broken part (IMO) of SO is that the SE network is becoming so disjointed and your rep doesn't transfer between sites. By design, I would argue. And a good decision, too. To use a facetious example just to illustrate my
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The Leap Year Problem(alexbellos.com)
1 points by fakelvis 16y ago|0 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
I see a lot of upset and accusations without many facts from either side. Without the pertinent information being clearly presented (read: facts and facts only, no accusations), it seems that we can't make an informed decision on what
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by fakelvis 16y ago
>> Are you European? >Yes, working from NL at the moment. Same here. With one bank I must use the hardware token solution (and I am able to use any device, not just the one issued to me). With another bank I must register my mo
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Everything you said, plus scaling can sometimes be "cheap, and fun": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853196
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The perplexing case of designing lead generation pages(thinkvitamin.com)
1 points by fakelvis 16y ago|0 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
Very nice. My favourite of the apps so far and a first use makes me think I'll keep this for more than a day (unlike many of the others). Particularly: the positioning of the voting buttons and the simple main screen that is easy to intuit.
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Software that gives web images an expiration date(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by fakelvis 16y ago|0 comments
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by fakelvis 16y ago
The patent in question: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=e-ULAAAAEBAJ A cursory browse will show that this is as expected: a wide-ranging patent that shouldn't have been granted in its submitted state.
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75 percent of Japanese still haven't heard of Facebook(cnngo.com)
2 points by fakelvis 16y ago|1 comments

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