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by ja2ke 18y ago
Sometimes maybe a judge should casually browse the internet for a few dozen hours before handing out a ruling. Might learn something.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Progess is slow, and it's hard to get people to change, etc, but Boxee seems extraordinarily dedicated to getting real partners onto its service, and serving as much legal content as they can. I do think that they might be overstepping or a
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by ja2ke 18y ago
A good Perl library is going to be found by programmers, because (at least in my experience) programmers read docs. Especially when searching for good feature sets. With software aimed at end users (or businesses, at least business purchase
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Aside from that one patent filed by Crazy Horse, it came up 100%. Crazy.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Heh, creating a more optimal TOS page being "a drag" is a fairly hilarious hypothetical excuse.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Except that the other HN story linked to the source on Consumerist, while this one links to "Mashable" which is an article regurgitating the Consumerist story.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Would anyone but the sort of person who reads sites like HN go for that? It seems like you would need a lot of training and a lot of trust (or wait for a new generation of humans to grow up) for that to take any mainstream hold, without SOM
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I think there is plenty of proof that people will pay for things on the internet. However, micropayments, especially "1 cent to read a blog," etc, are worthless. Content is not worth a penny and the hassle of a microtransaction. Your conten
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by ja2ke 18y ago
You give them increasingly shitty news reporting.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
That's one reason I'd like to get a hardcopy as well as the digital -- the unlikeliness that the digital copy would be remotely portable without cracking the foramt. That said, I don't entirely care about that aspect. I doubt I'll lug my Ki
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by ja2ke 18y ago
ja2ke likes this post.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Apple has deliberately ignored that potential "huge market segment" for years, to great success. Their brand, at least in the eyes of regular consumers, is probably perceived as a bit overpriced, but you know you are paying for a singular s
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I doubt Apple would let Walmart carry Psystar machines. I mean, they can't officially allow or not allow Walmart to do such a thing, but Apple could probably threaten to pull the iPod/iPhone line and all first party accessories, iTunes gift
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Does Amazon offer any sort of "buy the book get the ebook for less" type deals? As someone who likes the convenience of downloadable goods but also likes both the aesthetics and security of a physical hardcopy, that sort of deal often stron
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by ja2ke 18y ago
If that site makes a practice out of bribing developers out of money for positive ad scores, they will eventually get outed, and (I imagine) will eventually die. Joe consumer probably doesn't give a crap if some iPhone app site charges $50,
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by ja2ke 18y ago
That's fine. So many of the one sentence summaries (including the one for this article) read to me as being very dismissive, or as if the author hopes that their comment will encapsulate so much that you can glean the information or "learn
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by ja2ke 18y ago
When I read those summaries I feel like I'm reading HN's equivalent of "first post." They also often read less like true summaries and more like one sentence newspaper movie reviews, which, coupled with the "first post" feeling, makes me qu
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by ja2ke 18y ago
But really, CSS is better for layout. ... ;)
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I think the quality of that piece of advice depends on a few things. One obvious one is the audience you're expecting. If you're selling to a bunch of other coders, maybe a great design is less important than your feature list and the first
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Didn't they mention Chase?
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by ja2ke 18y ago
The smaller the granularity the more likely it is you'd need some sweeping change at the top of the chain -- at the CC providers, banks, processors. Most services charge you for every authorization request you initiate, let alone successful
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by ja2ke 18y ago
"Here's an organically evolved thing that is really resonating with people. Clearly it's dumb." Sweet.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Any web designer who is worried that "regular Joe Sixpack can now go and create a decent looking webpage" which looks or functions better than something they would be willing to accept payment for, should probably not be trying to make it a
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I still generally code in tables, but I agree with this. The flexibility of design, and the design possibilities available to the guys in my office who use CSS, are far beyond what I can accomplish with a table or mixed table/CSS design, un
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by ja2ke 18y ago
There are extremes and extremes. I mean, should nobody develop software for the Mac or iPhone platforms? Maybe... but unlike Twitter, Apple is a fairly large and decently stable company which has been around for a while. Then you could look
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by ja2ke 18y ago
As someone who does a lot of UI mockups, something like this would be extremely handy. As someone else pointed out, if this saved me an hour of my life, it would pay for itself. If it saved me two hours, it would be saving me money. And an
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I think that if you drop the semantics and take the article for what it's talking about -- new front-end features you specifically want your user to be using, or at least to investigate and become aware -- then he is wholly right, you shoul
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I also apparently really like writing the word "always" surrounded by slashes. What's up with that.
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by ja2ke 18y ago
Exposing the steps and having them each have their own progress bar or "reset" the progress bar is always preferable to me as a user, both because I like feeling like I know what my software is doing (even -- or, in some cases, especially -
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by ja2ke 18y ago
I was vaguely intrigued by the notion of the OP revealing some unknown insight on polygraphs or whatever, as well... But after reading it, the fact that the story could have come beat for beat out of a John Grisham novel made me dismiss th

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