gabrielroth

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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   Let Me Google Is Your Friend That For You.
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   It would be great if, instead of posting the same arguments over and over, people were editing and strengthening a canonical version of that argument. At least you'd get higher-level flamewars. The difficulty would be preventing people from
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   I'd be really interested to see what this article did for their sales.
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   Followup by the author: http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/sausage/2009/07/10/were-try...
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   Swoopo: The crack cocaine of auction sites(thebigmoney.com)

   67 points by gabrielroth 17y ago|73 comments
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   But so that's an admission that they're in the wrong business. They should trash the game and start a softcore porn site.
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   Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS(fakesteve.blogspot.com)

   204 points by gabrielroth 17y ago|104 comments
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   One possible next step would be a userscript (for Greasemonkey, Chrome, Fluid, etc.) that removes any story not on Hacker Hacker News from Hacker News itself. That way HHN fans could continue to use all the features of the main site.
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   by gabrielroth 17y ago

   Yes, by violating this guideline: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link." http://
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    The real lesson of 'Free'(yglesias.thinkprogress.org)

    3 points by gabrielroth 17y ago|0 comments
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    The way you feel about new software releases taking up the top spots on HN? That's the way I feel about comments arguing that something doesn't belong on HN. (See also http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ).
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    If that's true, you should have no problem posting an example rather than just asserting.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Perhaps a more realistic proposal than self-care is clinic-based care by registered nurses and other well-trained non-MDs.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    To address one of your sub-questions: you can generally find a lawyer in any field who will work 'on contingency' (meaning they get paid a percentage of damages awarded), but they'll only take your case if there's a possibility of a substan
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    When laws punish speech after the fact, those laws might be wrong, but they are laws, not censorship. Not according to First Amendment jurisprudence, which generally views such laws as unconstitutional under the 'chilling effect' doctrine
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    I don't really get this. Why does the narrator go from critical to sycophantic after the first letter? Is it just that the author wants to make fun of both Joel and his admirers, so he has the character inexplicably change his position by 1
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    If you're interested in a third-party tool to do this, try MercuryMover: http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/ . Works very well.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Yes, it does Desktop and networking. Try the demo and see if it meets your needs.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    You might or might not care, but your first two wishes can be achieved with third-party tools. Path Finder has cut-and-paste for files, and MercuryMover can resize windows to full-screen size. But the lack of development of the Finder is on
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Maybe next year. There's too much anger among developers about the App Store bullshit — not the store itself, but the stupid hoops Apple has made developers jump through to get listed there. (See Gruber's recent http://daringfireball.net/2
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    You're assuming that elected officials are the only wielders of government power. But the technocratic work is done by two groups of professional analysts: civil-service employees who work for agencies like the Congressional Budget Office o
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Ah yes, all that mediocre fiction by Philip Roth, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, John Cheever, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith ..
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    Bing Vs. Google Comparator(furia.com)

    5 points by gabrielroth 17y ago|6 comments
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    For Christ's sake don't give those assholes a specific reason to shine their cellphones in my face during the movie.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    From the HN guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    (1) Good small talk is usually personal, in the sense that it's about the people talking. "I'm a morning person" is not inherently more interesting than "What a nice day!", but it creates a stronger bond between the people talking. (2) Thin
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Brooks is one of their designated conservative columnists. Don't expect the op-ed page to sing with one voice.
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    Did I say anything about black or white kids?
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    College Board testing began in 1901, and the first SAT was administered in 1926. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#1901_test
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    by gabrielroth 17y ago

    The British press is well-known for overhyping stories in this way.