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by froo 17y ago
What a bizarre statement. I really don't see the correlation between a memorable (and thus brandable) business name and business performance. Some of the web's biggest and most respected properties have almost whimsical names, but that does
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by froo 17y ago
Wouldn't it have been more prudent to have linked to the actual article instead of a summary on someone elses domain? http://www.smartcompany.com.au/retail/20100216-us-companies.... Significantly more information contained within.
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by froo 17y ago
I'm wondering what happens when you mix various types... eg mixing a "fo' shizzle" with a "broheim" - would it return an error similar to trying to add a string to a int?
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by froo 17y ago
I do the same thing for a friend of mine in SF, I send him Tim Tams and Cherry Ripes quarterly! Chocolate smugglers ahoy!
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by froo 17y ago
Agreed. As I skimmed through the text, it almost had me up until I saw the robotic hand... followed by a slight smirk on my face.
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by froo 17y ago
You could always quote the AP article and just remove all the spaces, turning it into one gigantic word. Sort of like: Forcompliancereasonspleaseidentifythewebsitewhereyouwillbepostingorlinkingthisarticle That would bring it under the 5 w
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by froo 17y ago
"I don't think anyone who takes the software industry seriously would say Microsoft is down for the count, but they certainly have to start making better software (fortunately for them, Windows 7 looks just that)." Exactly the point I was
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by froo 17y ago
When you're dealing with highly biased people, it can be difficult arguing their points when their argument is so obviously slanted in one direction. They only use the data that backs up their position while completely ignoring the rest of
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by froo 17y ago
"She and her team made a light pulse disappear from one cold cloud then retrieved it from another cloud nearby. In the process, light was converted into matter then back into light." When I first read that, the only response I had was "Be
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by froo 17y ago
"Try to do the same with your criticism." You know, I still disagree with you but I think you're arguing from a completely biased standpoint. I looked through your all of your previous comments and noticed that ~85% of them were on Apple
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by froo 17y ago
I think the OP is completely ignoring Microsoft's previous years financials (strong consistent growth since before Vista and after) and instead basing his argument on two data points (and not the whole data set) and pointing and saying the
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by froo 17y ago
Yes, but you miss the point. People own these luxury vehicles BECAUSE of the status associated with them, not because of who produces what parts for the car. So the analogy comparing the Yahoo situation to BMW was a bad one, which was my po
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by froo 17y ago
What if we used genetically engineered bacteria like what startup LS9 are working on to create petroleum as the waste product? http://www.ls9.com/ That would quite literally blow my mind then.
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by froo 17y ago
"It is like BMW switching to Toyota engines and putting a little sticker on the dashboard that says Powered by Lexus. How long will BMW last when that happens?" Unfortunately, that analogy just doesn't work in the car industry. People wil
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by froo 17y ago
"Was there ever a "X killer" that actually killed the X?" I would think Dell, Amazon and Wikipedia would this idea. That being said, I would define "X killer" as an organisation that completely dominates it's field. In all of the above ca
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by froo 17y ago
Perhaps it also might go towards explaining why we need leap seconds every few years
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by froo 17y ago
Umm, no. AT&T censoring a website was fundamentally wrong. It violates your (as in Americans) constitutional rights to free speech. That is something that is interesting to read and discuss for the HN community. Sending pizza's to the o
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by froo 17y ago
Ok, so I understand that AT&T blocking 4chan could qualify as an acceptable topic for this site, but how is a forum dedicated to pranks against AT&T even remotely Hacker News?
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by froo 17y ago
"without alienating the huge user base on which any viable monetizing plan must depend." See, I think you've completely missed the point with twitter not monetising currently. They're doing small, consistent UI changes, easing users into
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by froo 17y ago
"While I agree with you that it's really human nature, I still think it needs to be discouraged, if only to keep HN the kind of place where debate is encouraged." I agree with you, absolutely. I think we're mostly adults here and hearty d
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by froo 17y ago
As someone who has received a string of downvoted commented recently (admittedly they were warranted given the nature of some of them) I really don't see the problem. Someone disagrees with you and does the initial downvoting, then groupthi
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by froo 17y ago
mancuso5, I called you out yesterday for submitting spammy affiliate stuff to HN and you go again and do it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719359 In fact, going back through all your submitted stuff, it all appears to be spam. Is it
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by froo 17y ago
flagged as this is article is riddled with affiliate links for mancuso5 - same user who submitted this article.
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by froo 17y ago
Perhaps they could rejig some of the algorithms used for Cuil ranking as a defensive measure, just in case robots ever decide to rise up against us. Think of it, just like Tic Tac Toe was used to confuse WOPR in Wargames, a simple search on
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by froo 17y ago
When I first decided to give Cuil a go, I did a broad search for my home city (Perth) who's population is about 1.65 million people (roughly). I finally found a result on the 3rd page of Cuil (towards the end), with the first 2 pages being
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by froo 17y ago
My Quick Picks for roles in this movie. Verne Troyer as a gnome rogue. Angelina Jolie as some kind of Night Elf Priestess (so geeks around the world can continue their masturbatory fantasies) Bruce Campbell as the Human Mage (for sheer bada
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by froo 17y ago
The thing about having an Open Wireless connection here in Australia is that we generally have caps on the amount of bandwidth our internet plans come with. Once you go over that cap, your connection becomes rate limited and it feels like y
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by froo 17y ago
I think too many people often confuse creativity with a controlled state of madness. Just this morning, I found myself singing "Alouette" while dancing the robot after I just got out of the shower (true story) with no explainable reason why
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by froo 17y ago
I personally loved this part of the article "the consensus of most computer security specialists is that the attackers could be located anywhere in the world." Well... duh. Although it raises an interesting question, if most of the comput
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by froo 17y ago
"you can often do dramatically new things by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff." Interesting now that you've mentioned that with respect to boardgames. That kind of thinking really worked for Fantasy Flight Games who too

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