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by johnyzee 15y ago
I am surprised he is not worried about getting slapped with an epic lawsuit over this. The guy in the pictures has had his reputation absolutely destroyed, complete with pictures of the inside of his home, pictures of him half-naked and pic
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Isn't "+1" kind of an insider reference to the Slashdot voting system? It may be instantly recognizable to us, but is it really intuitive what this does to the vast masses of everyday-Joe internet users? Seems to me like another hit from en
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by johnyzee 15y ago
This is almost certainly caused by the decision to hide comment score. If people could see that this kind of comment (f.ex. a small correction) already had its fair share of upvotes they would leave it at that, but as it is now everybody wh
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Yes, I remember that. It was on season two, episode four, back in 2005.
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by johnyzee 15y ago
These guys pitched on the Dragon's Den (BBC's entrepreneur show), season two episode four, way back in 2005, and were turned down by some of Britain's sharpest business guys. Way to hustle getting this so far since then!
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by johnyzee 15y ago
Luckily, a tech company like Facebook lives and dies by its reputation with not just its users but also, among other groups, the developer community. Look at how much posturing companies put into looking like 'cool' places to work, in order
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by johnyzee 16y ago
"I just turned 40 and I can be programming for another 40 years; there’s a lot yet to do!" I love John Carmack.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Thank God you've noticed. I seem to recall that you brushed off this observation for quite some time. One thing I've noticed repeatedly in the online communities that have scaled succesfully (in a cultural sense) is that the founders/owners
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by johnyzee 16y ago
I really don't see how the response is being perceived as rude. Aren't we being a touch sensitive (a trend I have noticed before here on HN). Agree with your general point.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Ugh, this is why print media and its web-based spin-offs are dying. What stilted, conceited rubbish.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
How do you have <audio> working in the Android browser? Last I checked (2.2) the tag was supported but there was no format support (kind of like an airplane without wings). This was filed as a defect in June 2010 and a fix was promi
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Other person knows One Must Fall! I played that for months with friends on a 386. It is easy to grouch about how gameplay rules over shiny effects, but I am quite impressed and uplifted that the company that made those games is still around
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by johnyzee 16y ago
> Did you forgot about the dot-com bubble when the tech industry was the one guilty of being over-rewarded for what was often was no value (pet.com)? You forget that while tech entrepreneurs made some money in dot-com IPOs, the financia
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by johnyzee 16y ago
What do you mean $0? From what I heard Microsoft paid several hundred million dollars in this deal. Ah, here it is: http://blogs.computerworld.com/17800/google_and_microsoft_of... Note that a couple of hundred million was on the table fro
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by johnyzee 16y ago
I am extremely disappointed with the new-fangledness in the newer Google interface changes. The 'instant' search is just a jarring user experience in the way it does massive unpredictable updates to the screen at every keypress. Even worse
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Difference between HN and reddit, beautifully illustrated.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Appropriately, the photo for this story is from (the filmatization of) a Gibson novel.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
So inbound links can be faked but Facebook likes can't? Please. Also, Google won because of better search, to such an extent that all they needed was word-of-mouth to completely demolish the competition in the late nineties and I don't reca
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Wow. Look at the jump in valuation from April 2006, when 5% was sold at a $550 million valuation, to October 2007 when Microsoft bought 1.6% at a $15 BILLION valuation.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Has anyone else been waiting for this 'invention' forever? Between speech recognition and machine translation it seemed to be a solved problem for the longest time.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
I once watched a brand new K7 burn before my eyes. I had just installed it and wanted to power it up briefly before securing the heat sink and cooler. I had done this many times with Intel chips. Well, the AMD took exactly two seconds to go
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by johnyzee 16y ago
That is awesome use of canvas. What is it for?
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by johnyzee 16y ago
When he said, quote-unquote, "retired" he most likely just meant that he is no longer forced to work for his substinance. He is still out there, he is just free to pursue exactly what he wants.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
"Eighty percent of success is showing up" -- Woody Allen
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by johnyzee 16y ago
Don't forget to flag it.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
If anyone is interested in further reading I can recommend "The Other Side of Deception" by former Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky. (Note that this is the sequel to "By Way of Deception" by the same author, it is more informational and matt
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by johnyzee 16y ago
This is probably why the old 8- and 16-bit games seem to have so much more compelling gameplay than ultra-realistic modern games. Well, that or we are just cranky oldtimers.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
The Suit is Back!
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by johnyzee 16y ago
I think his "IT was a hellhole with firing about a year ago" comment referred to the industry, not Netflix in particular.
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by johnyzee 16y ago
> Development takes significant ramp-up time; if you spend 10 hours a day on it, you get much more than 5 times as much done than if you spend 2 hours a day. So true. Having one hour for coding is next to worthless. Perhaps the fabled '

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