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601.
by growt 17y ago
I always thought that to beat google you would have to be better by a huge margin. So even if its true that this searchengine performs 5% better (whatever that measures) it's not enough to convince people to switch.
602.
by growt 17y ago
Well the first half of my statement is obviously true (todays computers are not self-aware). The second half contains the word "probably". My point was that it is silly to talk about robot ethics or something like that, since it just distra
603.
by growt 17y ago
... and if we ever create an artificial beeing that is self-aware we would have to solve many other issues before thinking of proper punishment. Like: how do we justify that we expect this self aware, intelligent beeing to clean our rooms o
604.
by growt 17y ago
This is pure Bullshit! Robots, or AIs don't have a conciousness (and probably they never will). And as long as we've not created a robot/AI with a real concious mind we need not to worry about 'punishing' robots or giving them ethical rules
605.
by growt 17y ago
I like the second idea, but I don't see where you'll make money with it (at least in 6-8 months).
606.
by growt 17y ago
It took me some minutes to figure out the difference in those 2 urls. I think it might be better in terms of usability and fairness if you chose a different domain. one that differs more from the existing project.
607.
by growt 17y ago
Well MS might just end the support on Vista someday and then companies would have to upgrade to 7 or end up with an unsupported product. Or you buy some new office machines and they'll have 7 preinstalled (so you have to spend extra cash to
608.
by growt 17y ago
I think there is a usecase/market where you offer an HTML-Interface to the form and save/send the results as pdf. Imagine a job-application form at a big company where the applicants can fill the form online but the HR guys get mailed a pdf
609.
by growt 17y ago
That might help: "Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes and is based on an LGPL license." http://iwebkit.net/
610.
by growt 17y ago
since google chrome runs on microsoft windows, I think it would only be fair if microsoft internet explorer would be allowed to run on google chrome os (under the condition that ms would port it, which seems rather unlikely)
611.
by growt 17y ago
I don't know, but I think the early Google Wave announcement was a similar thing.
612.
by growt 17y ago
I think you'll have a lot of tedious work ahead of you but if you succeed it will definitely be a useful thing. But keep an eye on the TOS of the different services, they might cause you trouble. And if you ever release something, please na
613.
by growt 17y ago
I often use Stumbleupon to quickly send links to a friend (but thats not sharing like you describe it). I think such a plugin would be usefull, but I'm not shure if it could support a business (if that's what you have in mind).
614.
by growt 17y ago
You might also run into copyright/trademark issues with that domain-name. see: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/twitter-grows-uncomfort...
615.
by growt 17y ago
I think the ".in" is perfect for some location specific service. You could build urls like tweet.in/London etc. There are already some services that show you twitter-users in some specific city or area, the problem is that these people do n
616.
by growt 17y ago
If the money isn't the motivator (gets donated anyway) you could use a virtual currency. "karma" or something similar. You might monitor svn/git activity and create a community where people could rate each others commits and give each other
617.
by growt 17y ago
http://infully.com/ that should be clickable
618.
Ask HN: Please comment on my new project infully.com
1 points by growt 17y ago|1 comments
619.
by growt 17y ago
"Fever caches and embeds the favicons of all the sites you follow into a single, compressed file so reading is fast and intuitive." Ok, this tool is obviously targeted at a technical audience, but I don't know if this bit from the "features
620.
by growt 17y ago
I like your suggestion a lot. I came up with this idea because I have some domains from unstarted projects (already with corresponding ideas). So I might as well try to sell the idea along. It would be an experiment, rather then a business
621.
by growt 17y ago
Well I'm aware that it is a thin line between sqatting and my idea (maybe it is sqatting after all, thats why I asked). The difference would be, that the majority of buyers would not think of a domain name and then discover that I registere
622.
by growt 17y ago
If I just tell them a free name after they filled the form, how would I get paid? If I register the domain I have an assurance that someone actually pays for the "idea".
623.
Ask HN: What do think of this idea?
12 points by growt 17y ago|31 comments
624.
by growt 17y ago
twitter interface augmented with snap.com thumbnails (thereby lowering the "danger" of shortened urls).
625.
by growt 17y ago
I like the startpage. The pictures explain the service very nicely.
626.
by growt 17y ago
I think there might also be an issue with the turkers, since they might be exposed to all kinds of "illegal" stuff that users uploaded.
627.
by growt 17y ago
there are other sets like credit card icons or country flags that are fairly independent.
628.
by growt 17y ago
thanks for the link. here are 50 more: http://speckyboy.com/2009/02/02/50-of-the-best-ever-web-deve...
629.
by growt 17y ago
is there a 64bit version, too?
630.
by growt 17y ago
It's a nice tech demo, but nothing more. I doubt it will ever be usefull, because that would require real semantic data or real AI (and neither seems to be around soon).

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