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by frossie 17y ago
There are still people on this planet not using auto-complete when writing E-Mail? Those of us that use mail aliases? Youngsters these days.... Now if only someone would have a solution to me typing in the wrong IM window :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
Netflix themselves recommend 2 Mb/s for "DVD quality". That puts then into the "good home broadband" range. (I get 1.5 Mb/s on my ADSL at home, but I am in a rural area)
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by frossie 17y ago
Can you elaborate? Why do you need to fix the number of digital copies in a geographic area? When we all went from using Blockbusters (=akin to library) to using Netflix (=akin to what is being proposed upthread), did it break the economic
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by frossie 17y ago
Shame? You think I want my offspring to know what my 20 year old-self posted on Usenet? Does anyone? :-)
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by frossie 17y ago
Hi, I posted the poll - for those who have an e-ink device, feel free to post which one you have and what your level of satisfaction with it is. By the way, I posted the poll because I would like one, but do not have one due to DRM-related
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Poll: do you use an e-ink device
4 points by frossie 17y ago|2 comments
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by frossie 17y ago
I do not have an e-ink device predominantly because of DRM-related concerns
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by frossie 17y ago
I do not have an e-ink device (for any other reason)
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by frossie 17y ago
I own one but use it rarely.
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by frossie 17y ago
I own one and do use it, but still read books on paper predominantly
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by frossie 17y ago
I own one and do the majority of my book reading on it.
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by frossie 17y ago
Okay, that is quite interesting and I'm all for say, improving design to make people happier when they are using a product. I like being happy. But I don't think this addresses what I see the real shortcoming of using focus groups at all -
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by frossie 17y ago
narrowed the niche even further, because now tablets have to find a space between notebooks and iPhones True, on the other hand there is an e-book reader niche that wasn't around a decade ago, which is ripe for the picking with the right
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by frossie 17y ago
Oh yeah, the blogger/HN identical orange favicon problem :-) What's worse for me is when apps/favicons use a single letter, leaving me only typography for discrimination (for example the google "g" and the guardian.co.uk "g" get me every ti
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by frossie 17y ago
I got a 500 error by clicking one of the example links below the entry box...
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by frossie 17y ago
They have credit cards over there too you know :-) Many people object to being in debt in principle. Yes, yes, I know you can pay off the balance every month, but clearly most people don't, otherwise credit cards would not be in business. A
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by frossie 17y ago
You guys know that in Europe this is common? It's called a "bank transfer" and it is trivial to do, just need people's bank account and routing number and yes, people do hand it out. Many (most? all?) bank websites support it. We have newly
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by frossie 17y ago
I want to be left alone full-stop - but if the upthread idea was implemented right, that would help the situation, because you could seat people who don't want to talk next to each other, thus preventing the mismatch of a talker next to a n
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by frossie 17y ago
We have plenty of theories of Software Engineering. The problem is that there are impediments to empirical verification of these theories. I don't get it - software engineering is not physics. There doesn't need to be a Grand Unifying The
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by frossie 17y ago
I don't mean to put the boot in too much, but what comes across is not just lack of empathy but lack of self-knowledge. The fact that the OP has to think why people don't like him strikes me as... troubling. This is not a personal comment o
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by frossie 17y ago
Like tsetrich, I also thought it was an interesting experiment. But I agree there is a lot of evidence that most people don't want to live that way. Even in countries in Europe where the rate of homeownership is very low compared to the US,
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by frossie 17y ago
lines of crap accumulated over about 20 years I hear ya. One of the things I started doing lately is not moving any dotfiles automatically when I get a new machine. After 3 days of moaning, I go and dig out just the stuff that I have noti
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by frossie 17y ago
Damn right it's a feature. This is why you shouldn't let physicists come up with sports rules The point of the format is to give a team a chance to win even if they are not the best team . That's what keeps people interested - the chance t
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by frossie 17y ago
University researchers don’t know how to commercialize their discoveries I realise I am going to be kindling for the next HN bonfire for saying this... but... ... some of us don't want to commercialize our discoveries, and in fact we ar
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by frossie 17y ago
It's interesting - I manfully tried for a bit, but my interest in voting seems to have evaporated with the numbers. Like tc, I often vote to "balance out" as much as to "join the mob". My prediction: comment voting will drop precipitously.
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by frossie 17y ago
The global production rate of quality movies is much less than 3 per week Erm maybe. But people don't just watch new releases. I watch about 1-2 Netflix DVDs a week, and my queue keeps getting longer - not because I am watching Citizen Ka
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by frossie 17y ago
Do you have a patent? If not, get one - I don't see anybody investing in an idea whose IP is unprotected.
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by frossie 17y ago
Assuming you are actually keeping up with the support requests, and you're just wanting to avoid both people replying to the same email, any random division will do - for example, one answers emails that come in midnight to noon, and the ot
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by frossie 17y ago
I suspect the submitter's interest here was on the unintended consequence of the StackOverflow reputation system, since HN also has a reputation system that it periodically navel-gazes about.
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by frossie 17y ago
Well that's my point - since most people here are male, failing any other clue, a person could assume everybody is male and not be proven wrong. For what it's worth, of the examples you listed: I am not posting under a pseudonym, it's my re

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