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by gergles 15y ago
One of the "non-intrusive" ads on the whitelist are ads on sedo domain-squatter pages. That really says about all I need to know about how thoroughly he's vetted the "non-intrusiveness" of these ads.
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by gergles 15y ago
Wow, that's histrionic. PayPal's customers are the people who use it. You, as a merchant, are not a customer of theirs, but a necessary evil to keep the customers coming. PayPal's customers love it. PayPal's merchants don't like it becaus
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Postal Service announces death of the overnight First Class letter(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by gergles 15y ago|0 comments
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by gergles 15y ago
Can whoever downvoted me please explain yourself? You have to pay a 6 EUR "admin fee" to get the .01 EUR fare unless you use their proprietary approved prepaid product (which, amazingly, has its own fees! - The card alone costs 6 EUR plus a
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by gergles 15y ago
Well, .01 EUR plus 'fees' (more fees than I've ever seen in my life - http://www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-t... ) including a minimum 6 EUR "Admin Fee" for the privilege of buying a ticket and a 40 EUR fee if you lose
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by gergles 15y ago
Well, looks like HN is about to be sued into the ground. It was nice hanging out with you fine folks.
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by gergles 15y ago
How can you say "4.0 devices" (plural) when there is only one announced 4.0 device, which is stunningly smooth in the video and in actual use? I think you're just repeating the meme of "lol Android graphics are bad" which hasn't been true f
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by gergles 15y ago
I'd also like to just drop this off here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/samsung-digital-picture-f... Exactly who is aping who? Make the bezel thinner and take off the logo and it's a completely different design, your honor!
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by gergles 15y ago
> Scopely isn't looking for people that don't get the joke. No, I get the joke. I just don't think it's funny. There's a big difference, and I think the startups that are using this gimmick need to think really hard about who exactly th
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by gergles 15y ago
Let's see. Linkbait title, latest buzzword, consistent use of "bureaucracy" (I do not think that word means what you think it means - you cannot wave a magic DevOps wand and make bureaucracy go away) and insinuations that operations departm
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by gergles 15y ago
Or how about if you don't think that this thread is contributing anything to what you think HN should be, you stop yelling at everyone posting in it and go back to "building things"? We get it, you don't like this thread. You don't need to
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by gergles 15y ago
The problem is that if they keep using them for politics or for other things that aren't system messages, people will start ignoring them. "Ugh, that's that bar that just shows dumb political messages."
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by gergles 15y ago
Wikipedia editors can claim all day long it isn't a vote, but the sailent point of the AfD "Discussion" is a bolded "Keep" or "Delete" right at the beginning of each response. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...
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by gergles 15y ago
The actual results were 7:6. On what planet is that "consensus"? Oh wait, another WikiMagicThing is that only some votes count and some votes count more than others and what votes count is completely up to the arbitrary decision of someone
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by gergles 15y ago
You have deliberately ignored the most contentious part of the Wikipedia policy regarding articles, which is the "Notability" rule. Why an Internet-based encyclopedia with no editors, printed version, or quality control feels the need to
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by gergles 15y ago
> I ask honestly: why should it be easy to participate? Perhaps because the tagline of Wikipedia is "The free encyclopedia anyone can edit", not "The free encyclopedia anyone can edit after conducting 20 hours of intense self-study into
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by gergles 15y ago
Well, we still have 2/3 of those things in the US and 3/3 in many European countries. I was more alluding to the idea of "this website sponsored by ___" being inserted into the content in a tasteful, subdued way - kind of like how "Beat the
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by gergles 15y ago
"Solving this" implies that there are users who like, value, and want advertising. I don't feel that there are that many people who do. The better thing to solve is "how can websites make money without ads"? How did TV networks stay on th
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by gergles 15y ago
Of course not! They promise really hard that they're not keylogging, despite installing a keylogger that sends opaque encrypted data packets back.
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by gergles 15y ago
A Microsoft-sanctioned jailbreak you inexplicably have to pay for that still only enables 10 apps. On your phone. That you bought and, at least theoretically, own. No, I think Android is "plagued with" the ability to run the apps you wa
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by gergles 15y ago
Yes, DDG. My only complaint is that it is slower than Google, but it's worth it to me to get the results for what I actually typed the first time.
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by gergles 15y ago
And, of course, the "search for what I actually fucking typed" mode is completely undiscoverable, hidden behind another click, and which can't be defaulted into. This is a good bandaid, but is still a bandaid. I have still switched away fro
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by gergles 15y ago
I have to respectfully disagree with your logic. If you read the article, what is actually happening is they are retroactively trying to reduce restricted stock grants that were already made . So, if I say "come work for me for free, and i
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by gergles 15y ago
Ah, a page out of the Citibank playbook. ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870354560457540... )
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Google's removal of the + operator explained
3 points by gergles 15y ago|0 comments
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by gergles 15y ago
Tailing does, however, require significant resources on the part of the police department; a point which you seem to be purposefully ignoring, because it has been made by several responses to you up- and downthread. Slapping a $200 GPS trac
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by gergles 15y ago
LeafStorm was talking about saying them properly. How do you say: "That [thing] is Jess's"? (conversely, is it Jess' or Jess's or should we be forced to say 'belongs to Jess')? Now, imagine you're not a native speaker and you have to figu
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by gergles 15y ago
Doubtful, he probably means things like my (current-gen) iPod touch, which runs like molasses with iOS 5. Stutters, jumps, unresponsiveness far worse than any Android phone I ever used.
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by gergles 15y ago
They do have that, it's "with Google". Android phones that follow Google's platform guidelines can put a "with Google" logo on the device, otherwise they cannot.
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by gergles 15y ago
Copy it into ~/Dropbox/Public. Right-click, Dropbox, Copy public link. Paste. Done.

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