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by greyman 17y ago
I find twitter search useful. For example, when I was shopping for a newly released netbook, I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days, to see what people say about it and what new reviews are being released. After a few days, I was
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by greyman 17y ago
>>> If you’re a consumer of information (and we all are), turn off the live notifications, unless you need the information for your work. <<< This looks like a common knowledge to fight distraction, but anyway: I cur
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by greyman 17y ago
Don't beat him, I think it's useful to reflect on HN now and then. Still, I think the system still works basically ok, and it is only an issue for all of us to make better submits.
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by greyman 17y ago
But at least we have found someone more arrogant than Mike! ;-) That will be for an interesting fight. ;)
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by greyman 17y ago
But you can select what to hide and what not (link in the upper right corner).
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by greyman 17y ago
From Scoble post about GReader: >> 3. It makes me feel guilty. I have 1,000 unread items. Twitter doesn’t tell me that. Actually, I happen to agree with this point. The feed reader tracks what is read and what is unread, and that ca
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by greyman 17y ago
I like the fact that it is possible to switch off/on individual parts of the website (link in the upper-right corner). It would be cool if someone came up with a general solution applicable to all websites.
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by greyman 17y ago
What is depressing is that Google likes that kind of content, when a lot of cheap articles are pumped in furiously. If they were after quality, they could de-rank Demand and that would make them out of business quickly. But they wouldn't do
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by greyman 17y ago
As I understand it, the mathematics approach is for finding questions, and I don't think there is something inherently nightmarish about that. It's the quality of the answer that matters. I don't know, I just watched the "What is the best v
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by greyman 17y ago
Did you try it yourself? I am asking because I was thinking about that for myself, and I could do that, but then, if you work 10 hours + 0.5 hour (lunch) + 2 hours travel, then for those 4 days, you are off for the whole day, basically. For
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by greyman 17y ago
Why do you think so? What do you suppose will replace it?
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by greyman 17y ago
But how would newspaper know what interests me?
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Ask HN: Better alternative to daily RSS feeds reading?
18 points by greyman 17y ago|24 comments
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by greyman 17y ago
I've got a more interesting question: Is RSS the best technology for delivering daily reading? I tended to think so and I have been an avid user of Google Reader, which diligently delivers a new stuff to read every day. But after some time
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by greyman 17y ago
On a more general note: Do you guys find Greasemonkey useful? I mean, really. I know the concept, and I also installed the extension several times, found some cool scripts...but after some time I always felt it is not worth the effort...the
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by greyman 17y ago
I don't agree with this snippet, at least it doesn't apply to me. I bought netbook, but I wouldn't buy "real laptop" if netbook didn't exist, so no cannibalization happened. Moreover, I am not sure about that distinction. What exactly is th
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by greyman 17y ago
But when you do want to use it as a backup, isn't picasa rather expensive? You get 1GB for free, but that's just enough for uploading smaller version of your photos. Otherwise, the price is rather high, and what's worse, you pay for disk sp
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by greyman 17y ago
Answer: No, we didn't. In my opinion, the desktop apps are still needed, and part of the future will be applications like Evernote, where your data are on the cloud and online version is available, but there are also native rich clients for
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by greyman 17y ago
I like my netbook and didn't encounter the issues you are describing. Battery life is 4.5 hours, which is quite ok-ish, and the new EEE netbooks have 8+ hours. The cpu speed is also ok, although i don't play games or process very large file
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by greyman 17y ago
Good question. I personally would not rather pay. I chose to not watch it.
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by greyman 17y ago
>> 1. The good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work. Not really. The rest also works, or used to work in the past. >> Occasionally a darkside SEO master may find some loophole in the Google algorithm to exploit, which mi
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by greyman 17y ago
Your analogy is logical, but there's still a difference. Newsstand and newspapers agreed beforehand the terms of their cooperation, and while they don't pay just for displaying the paper, they do pay certain amount of money for each sold pi
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by greyman 17y ago
You was downmoded, but I think you are right. From the article: "go to Google News, or type a newsy topic like "Obama wins Nobel" into Google's search box. What do you get? Headlines and very brief teasers linking to news stories from news
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by greyman 17y ago
You nailed it. I'd like to challenge him to apply the Rule "(1) Your guesses and opinions have to be testable." I am just curious to see how he would test this guess (or opinion), and how did he promoted it as "fact".
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by greyman 17y ago
Yes, the premium is much better, if nothing else, just being able to store any file type is worth that money, IMHO.
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by greyman 17y ago
1. Evernote, the best notetaking software I know of - it starts to serve me as an universal "external memory". The most undervalued software in 2009. 2. Live Mesh - something similar to dropbox, for syncing files between computers, while al
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by greyman 17y ago
Regarding the point 6), he actually did achieve that - missile shields in Czech Rep. and Poland were cancelled. I am not Obama fan, but there were much worse choices in the past.
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by greyman 17y ago
Yes, and then there were rumours that Microsoft, as well as Asus are working on something too. My biggest blocking factor is actually the price of the kindle books. When a typical books costs $15, and kindle version is $9.99, it seems to me
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by greyman 17y ago
I happen to work on development of the software, whose aim is to alleviate human suffering (it is used in hospitals.) But we also use bug tracking system, as well as company collaboration software during our development. So those actually f
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by greyman 17y ago
My prediction is that Google will not be able to beat Microsoft, and it doesn't help that they are smart or rich. IMHO, their strategy to making OS irrelevant by having everything run from Chrome OS might not succeed in the end. Just one ex

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