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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Fair enough. As far as a main issue, what I should have articulated before is that the calls to action are poorly defined. I don't think it's nitpicking to say that most users aren't going to bother to scroll down or to control-F to find a
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Really? I understand the idea of bidding on these people to do some sort of work for me, but beyond that, it's not clear how any of it is supposed to work. What does it take to bid on somebody? Do I need a credit card? If somebody has a cit
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Did anybody else think of Ford Prefect and his theory that unless human beings are constantly communicating, they shrivel up and die?
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
The thing that bothers me most is that Google's obviously trying to be sensitive in not displaying ads to people who might be in mourning and this "hack" exploits that. It's like hitting on women at a funeral.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Kids hate flashcards?
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Cheap and ubiquitous, but also those previous "displosable" TVs just aren't getting disposed. It's not so hard to imagine that an "average" home went from a perfectly fine tube TV to an upgraded version to a more recent flat screen. The pre
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I don't know how "ultimate" this guide is if it doesn't include any information about Acer who is devoting much of its effort towards netbook technology. Not to mention Samsung, who are also releasing solid products and have the background
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I don't think it's so crazy. A solid digital delivery system would be a great compliment to the Amazon Cloud. Beyond digital delivery, I would think that Amazon would be able to make some great use out of the Netflix recommendation system.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
You might want to make that explicit in the copy.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm not sure what that has to do with the article. The article was primarily about how playing video games might affect kids' brains and didn't come to any conclusion either way that would've required knowing that kids in the past watched a
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I don't think Google's lying when it says that content is the "best" way to get people. Sure, a combination of terrific marketing and some gray to black hat SEO techniques will get plenty of visits quickly, but the solid content will be wha
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
It's definitely not production ready, but I still hold out hope. Two things right off the bat to increase its functionality would be to make the columns sortable and to provide ability to set the column headers equal to a particular value.
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm talking about the original Gladwell article. In the original article, Gladwell points out that there are rules that competitors limit themselves to despite the fact that they aren't explicitly laid out. The coaches of other teams were u
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Agreed. I especially am frustrated with the people who are excited because, "you can see each letter the other person types as they type it during chats!" There's very little appeal in that. Lots of people need to edit typos and want to for
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
All of these criticisms miss Gladwell's point. The point isn't the full court press. It's that the teams that were beaten by the full court press thought it broke some sort of unwritten rule of youth basketball that supposedly reads, "don't
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Five open source projects to help you write better code(blogs.digitaria.com)
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
Another way to say this is, "How to cater to the lowest common denominator".
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
52 minutes and counting. ;)
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
This and the "war on terror" are perfect examples of not creating actionable, measurable goals for an initiative. The equivalent of this in business strategy are projects with goals like, "Make the best iPhone App ever" and "Make the compa
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
We see that in analytics all the time. "The numbers are being collected, why would I need somebody to analyze them?"
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm hoping it gets to a lawsuit so that it can either be shot down to give precedent to keep this kind of ridiculousness at bay or actually seen through so that I can start making SRJC email addresses to see exactly how they expect to enfor
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
What this blog appears to be taking three posts to get to and previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478632
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by foulmouthboy 17y ago
I'm imagining it will be quicker than that. There are a lot of schools that use licensed, photocopied "readers" along with or even instead of the actual textbooks. Universities could do much better margins by making these types of texts dig
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Quality > Quantity. Big Quantity of Quality > Small Quantity of Quality
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
And even then, item 2 is a simple example of how attention to seemingly slight details can draw the eye to site features without resorting to a big button.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
What better way to make your product better for your users than to improve on things your competitors don't do well? I think that despite size, good strategic business thinking should always take into account the competition.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
I'm hoping someone invents a new tech meme to kill the "killer" meme.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
Is the preconfigured lab really that valuable in today's workplace? I would think that a greater value would be in students receiving recommendations on software and configurations and then letting them discover what truly works for them.
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
This reads painfully like a commercial for OnLive. No need for big clunky consoles! No download times!
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by foulmouthboy 18y ago
The thing that worries me about this is the fact that I was already uncomfortable with the idea that Facebook might be making my private information public. For them to be integrating Twitter-like features doesn't exactly make me feel bette

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