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by jeffool 14y ago
I've long sworn off Facebook, and have always been rather active on Twitter. I just hope G+ gets a good, functional mobile layout. I'm not sure how I feel about the current one yet. Everyone I know is on Facebook, and nearly everyone is on
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Robert Scoble calls G+'s "ghost town" reputation "unfair ... simply wrong"(plus.google.com)
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by jeffool 14y ago
Agreed; it's a great suggestion! In fact, I think it'd be great of Reddit to support this as a native feature, so I just made a post on /r/suggestions/!
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by jeffool 14y ago
They pipe up occasionally, just not so much idle banter, as they don't want to be talking when someone vital says something, and step all over it.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I have to agree that the reason I prefer HN so often to other sites (particularly Reddit) is that often, I'm just not looking for humor. Not everything has to have a joke with it. Sometimes I just want to read, or have, a serious conversati
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by jeffool 14y ago
There are actually answering machines for the deaf. But to use then you have to either have a tty machine, or call it through a relay service (711). But most online forms won't accept phone numbers that include the extra digits. Conversely,
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by jeffool 14y ago
I won't pretend to know about literacy rates among deaf people, but I want to underline jacobr's point here: ASL is not "English with hands" any more than spoken Japanese is "English with different sounds". It's a different language, with d
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by jeffool 14y ago
Warning: A long meandering post, about multiple things, because my day job is at a relay center, taking calls from/to deaf people. I absolutely understand his fear of letting a relay operator help him here. Now, obviously this fellow can wr
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by jeffool 14y ago
I completely buy the idea that there's potential for new learning tools in tablets (or any computing device over books) but has anyone actually done it? Has anyone moved from potential and successfully effected this? At the very least tell
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by jeffool 14y ago
I think you're right. A purchase of this size is bound to be able to new a few wins, even if it's via consolidation. And who knows, maybe iTunes/Amazon has convinced him that "content" has a future.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I actually completely forgot my bank had a shitty website. Thanks to Mint.com's app. (And before I get accused of shilling here, though I've never seen that claim made against someone, I just want to say: they should want to get it right be
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by jeffool 14y ago
Ahhhh, gotcha. My bad. Just very, very bored I suppose.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I think you kind of answered your own question there. It's a very highly rated site, as far as that goes, that's very easy to place links on. A link here that actually gets used is very valuable to the discerning-but-foolable algorithms th
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by jeffool 14y ago
No one? (Or the guarantor, who then isn't paid back.) That's what I meant by "bankruptcy." Maybe, if they had "skin in the game", they'd be more inclined to be more responsible in their lending. Or maybe the answer comes in capping the amou
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by jeffool 14y ago
Here's a revolutionary idea: let's make bankruptcy easier. I've paid more than I borrowed, and I still owe more than I've paid. I have dozens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, and I'm on the doorstep of defaulting on some of it.
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by jeffool 14y ago
And those who bought the Beacon video, now get the audio as a choice!
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by jeffool 14y ago
I don't want to put words in permulis' mouth, but, I think a reasonable assumption is he's concerned of the option you don't list: They won't get by. They'll die. I think that's why a lot of people do it.
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by jeffool 14y ago
Given I don't know your nationality, it wasn't an attempt to woo you by comparing them to anyone. I'm simply saying "they feel disenfranchised, so they're acting out" is kind of stating the obvious to almost any group. One could just as eas
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by jeffool 14y ago
This is getting silly. As if someone else fabricating this type of thing absolves him of the responsibility of saying "Hey, we should issue a press release. Someone made a mistake."
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by jeffool 14y ago
I feel like your description could exactly (well, maybe slightly higher age/class) be used by the UK royalty to dismiss American revolutionaries. (note: I'm not actually conflating the two groups, just saying, your criticism seems a little
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by jeffool 14y ago
I'm surprised they're not revered, given the popularity of the claim that ideas aren't worth anything, and that it's about execution.
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by jeffool 14y ago
Edited for clarity, sorry. I didn't explicitly say "okay, then I call the number," or "search it online". As far as they were concerned I stopped at "okay. I found a phone number... Then I take a picture of it." It boils down to me not bein
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by jeffool 14y ago
Ahhh, I failed (flailed) one of these once! I spent minutes trying to figure out "You have a business card in Japanese, how do you figure out what it says?" I asked if it had the phone number, they said yes, and I said the numbers are the s
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by jeffool 14y ago
Don't publicly share the document until it's finished?
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by jeffool 14y ago
Amen. I worked at a TV station for years, and the thought of borrowing a camera (literally asking my boss for permission, because I wouldn't do it without,) was enough to have him checking up on me for months.
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by jeffool 14y ago
I think the grandparent post meant this as a replacement to DVD, not all sales. So you're replacing the 120M component of the total, not the total 500M. So we're talking closer to 40M people who feel the film is worth $5. (Admittedly grandp
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by jeffool 14y ago
Yes, there has to be a reason. Of course, it's very easy for an officer to say "He was weaving in traffic", or claiming you were speeding when you were not, or simply lie about you using a turn signal. I'll bet most people have a story like
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by jeffool 14y ago
Off the top of my head, they're probably the most widely known brand in both consumer maps and local search. While "not-driving" people will often be online, and I imagine often searching for places to go. Also, there's the "Bell Labs" of i
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by jeffool 14y ago
I'd imagine that the winner would be the one with the best strategy. My feeling is that with as many variables as you'd see in a race, that it'd be impossible for a single AI to perfectly take all opportunities. And I can imagine some outpe
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by jeffool 14y ago
Working fine for me on Chrome?

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