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by frossie 16y ago
I can't help you with your question, but I just want to point out that as a user I actually get a bit turned off by professional voice-overs. Nobody can fake the enthusiasm of a person presenting something they are really excited about, eve
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by frossie 16y ago
an iPhone and Droid owner If you don't mind me asking, how/why do you use two phones?
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by frossie 16y ago
To be fair, the Tooth Fairies only provided the quote about how much people sit around. The actual data seems to be from a study by "Dr Waseem Bashir of the Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging at the University of Alberta Hospita
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by frossie 16y ago
They launched without a printing service??
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by frossie 16y ago
< sigh > It was linked with the word "amoral". Amoral is not an illness, it is a personal flaw. It's his blog. He is allowed to call the guy a retard if he wants. I, on the other hand, don't have to like it, and it seriously detrac
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by frossie 16y ago
Dude, that was my polite way of saying "HINT: You don't want to be one of those people that use that word in the derogatory sense."
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by frossie 16y ago
Last year, when I realized that Zuckerberg was an amoral, Asperger’s-like entrepreneur Bad sentence. It implies that Asperger's is a derogatory term.
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by frossie 16y ago
Their control sample seems to have done something else entirely (like evaluated bottle designs or something). The correct control would have been something involving water but without the psychosocial overtones of hand washing - for example
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by frossie 16y ago
Since searchyc do such a nice job, it seems a shame to throw the link to google instead. But, it's not my site...
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by frossie 16y ago
It does look really great, but more than that I wanted to thank you for a really classy post. I certainly thought I was in a timewarp when I saw the submission title.
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by frossie 16y ago
I beg to differ. The article did a good job of blending physiological fact, psychological data and accident statistics in a coherent narrative. As for the stuff making you relate to the guy - well, the whole point is that everybody believes
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by frossie 16y ago
Maybe a landing page with a single link saying "More details on the blog" should actually have a link that goes to an actual blog?
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by frossie 16y ago
That's a long list. For us it's IM, Polycom, git and a bunch of people who want to do the right thing.
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by frossie 16y ago
But surely when I travel long distances to interview, I at least deserve a "please drop dead" email. There's a school of thought that says you should educate them appropriately... http://www.emailyourinterviewer.com/
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah, which is kinda not a great metric - I'd be more interested in knowing what percentage of people watched the whole thing.
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by frossie 17y ago
I find it pretty disappointing that the original survey put up some statistics like this without bothering to control for age or education level. You can get a lot of press for essentially saying nothing substantive these days...
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by frossie 17y ago
Ted Turner. Oh wait....
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by frossie 17y ago
I am old enough to remember when our households transitioned from a B&W TV to a colour TV and I absolutely guarantee you that that the reaction was one of unalloyed joy. No "bah-it-looked-better-before" in sight. The difference is that
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by frossie 17y ago
Sorry, "bounce" is the command for "Resend mail" (not rejecting email) in a lot of unix mailers. Say A sends an email to B who sends it to C. If B forwards it to C, the email appears to come from B. If B "bounces" it to C, the email appears
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by frossie 17y ago
I got to agree about the lack of "bounce" - I could never move my work email to gmail for that reason alone (not to mention my preference of writing emails in my native editor).
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by frossie 17y ago
#8: Ugly, unfriendly, unlovable user interface To be fair, I sync through nuevasync and have no problems. A lot of people say "why bother" but really, they do a fine job ironing out some of the kinks. Also, Akonadi syncing on KDE seems to m
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by frossie 17y ago
I don't think I know anybody who I would call stupid. I do, however, know people who are intellectually lazy - they don't know, and they don't want to know. Which is not the same thing at all. [Edit: in case that sounds obnoxious, I was a
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by frossie 17y ago
This is beyond offensive to me. I'm a hacker, a Christian, and a gay man. Dude, I'm a hacker-herding atheist straight female, and that was beyond offensive to me too, so I figure between you and me we have all the bases covered :-) First
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by frossie 17y ago
Courts around the world have ruled that the sex lives of celebrities is in the public interest. Reference? The ones I have been aware of have been very narrow, and there have been many public cases of the opposite (such as the recent Max
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by frossie 17y ago
Are the specs of the 4th iPhone truly a matter of public interest? Interest != curiosity in this context. If a journalist has a source that says a state governor is selling senate appointments, that is in the public interest because the pub
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by frossie 17y ago
It can be summed up as brilliant ideas, that fall apart due to lack of rigor in research. The insidious part of this is that brilliant ideas and pithy quotes and the essays that result from them are so memorable, that in a way the bar for
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by frossie 17y ago
Your HN account is not linked to your real identity, unless you want it to be. Many people think that's a big difference.
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by frossie 17y ago
The reason listing on Amazon etc. is that you can built a review rating that most people will trust. When I see something self-hosted and trumpeting its own positive reviews, unless they are by somebody I know of, I will wonder what the neg
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by frossie 17y ago
Docs has really replaced a lot of our use of MS Office Really? Wow, I require WYSIWYG editing pretty rarely and even then I thought Google Docs / Zoho Writer was not enough, and usually had to resort to Open Office. However the latest rou
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by frossie 17y ago
How do you tell civilians to scan for valid links? I say "if you see another domain name/IP address in the URL, don't do it". Maybe that is over-broad, but it works.

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