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by jtheory 15y ago
Funny you should ask that, of Ed in particular. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564099 Of course, you are welcome to judge it as simple ego-stroking or whatever, but quite a few people would disagree.
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by jtheory 15y ago
Good point, and neat link. So let's go with "easily-invalidated hypothesis even at the time."
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by jtheory 15y ago
Well, from a hypothesis. Not a theory, really, because it didn't really have a body of evidence supporting it. Also worth pointing out, to anyone who might wonder if the ideas behind homeopathy might actually make sense -- that this was pr
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by jtheory 15y ago
No, this works for me as well. Not Germany specifically, but I left the US for France. I don't mesh with the culture 100%, but... more so than I did in the US, except for little localized pockets there. Just for starters, religion plays a
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's probably a bigger problem that it was going to cost him $3000 to send those 30 postcards (postage not included). Getty is clearly defaulting to "I want to use this image in an advertisement" or similar uses, NOT a one-off single prin
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by jtheory 15y ago
Didn't read the article, but as far as I can see that doesn't disprove his assumption. The NYT quote is talking just about the videos with ads, and then only discussing them in terms of views (not in terms of percentages of actual content u
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by jtheory 15y ago
"nigthmare"? Is that the typographic nightmare?
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by jtheory 15y ago
You should be able to remove yourself from their lists with just the information on the mail they sent you -- name & address and possibly an ID included on some catalogs. There are also a couple of registries where you can add yourself
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by jtheory 15y ago
...and keep your karma? I'm pretty sure "no" unless you had good enough of a reason (and reputation) to warrant pg actually changing it for you in the database. I'm not sure he's ever done this. Your rep is similar to mine, though, and I c
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by jtheory 15y ago
That's still pretty relevant, though, because you say you left because you couldn't do X. Now you can do X, or something quite close to it (w/o researching your "live data" comment... it's not a current events site, so I suspect up-to-the-m
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by jtheory 15y ago
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: ExpertSexChange is dead. Now StackOverflow is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
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by jtheory 15y ago
There are tricks to get more of any kind of idea, like keeping a notebook with you and jotting down suggestions to yourself during the day, then doing triage and record the best ones at the end of the day. Once you get into the habit of
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yup; I think most HN folks will have enough experience to know naming is crucial, and have lots of opinions about how to do it well (I know I do). Looking forward to the followup, then! Once you have some examples and strategies -- where p
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by jtheory 15y ago
This is a super-important topic, but this post doesn't give a single example of good naming, and so doesn't contribute much to a discussion.
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by jtheory 15y ago
I'm sure it's a worthy cause, but there is no shortage of worthy causes. Best of luck; but if this post doesn't take off on HN, it's likely because there's nothing in this challenge to really capture the interest of the HN crowd specificall
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yes, but with the caveat that it would have to include explicit commentary about what's going on with domain name seizures, because unfortunately most regular folk won't automatically make the leap.
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by jtheory 15y ago
It's a point that really does need refinement, though. Even if only for the first-world young adult with the luxury of misinterpreting it and wasting years of first attempts. "Taking time to find out what we really enjoy" by default sounds
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by jtheory 15y ago
You'll need useful skills to do any good in the world. Spelling, for instance, might prove useful if you need to gain the confidence and the respect of others through written communication, in the pursuit of your larger goals.
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by jtheory 15y ago
The problem with this overly simplified conceptualization is that there are so very many things that are extremely enjoyable, but require some level of expertise to enjoy them. Music is a pretty visible example; if no one persisted throug
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by jtheory 15y ago
I only clicked a couple of live ones before it creeped me out too much. But one I saw gave a clue as to why some people might be recording the street, empty warehouses, etc.. It showed some kind of outdoor breezeway with various doors aroun
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by jtheory 15y ago
This is days old now, but I don't cycle back often, unfortunately.... This doesn't add up, though. They're only at a very local advantage, because if their competitors have the same feature the next day, only very few folks will realize
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by jtheory 15y ago
Meh. I'd say don't bother to obfuscate it. There's a real cost, and no obvious benefit (anyone making a real site would be stupid to steal their theme; anyone interested in stealing would just steal from a theme purchaser's site instead o
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by jtheory 15y ago
To understand the reasons why many people who will argue strongly for fair use, etc., still find this wrong, you have to look two steps ahead. Let's say 37 signals has done the extensive work to create a page design that really converts. A
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by jtheory 15y ago
I understand your points, I think -- you're talking far more about taste than about ethics . "Ethics" is about right and wrong -- what actions harm people on the whole, and what actions help them, why and how. It's not directly related t
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by jtheory 15y ago
Here's the part that really piqued my interest: This Free.Fr free Wi-Fi network is going to play a pivotal role in the soon-to-be-launched service, which will be using 42 Mbps HSPA+ technology. The company has built a network of 15,000 mac
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by jtheory 15y ago
I skimmed the first couple of articles, but other than his beginnings in porn (not a business I'd want to go into, but to be sure there are more and less ethical people there!), he doesn't strike me as someone who's either a troll or very u
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by jtheory 15y ago
That's not "new", anymore -- SFR and Orange do the same as well now. But yes, it's a great idea. As the owner of the set-top box, you're allowed to configure it to disable that, but virtually no one does -- because the usage from outside i
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by jtheory 15y ago
Apologies for skimming, but I didn't want to skip out on the conversation entirely.... I agree wholeheartedly about a balance between dependence and independence, and have posted on this subject before. Stereotypes: roughly, that women are
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by jtheory 15y ago
Firstly, it's not a position; it's the fact of how communication works and how word usage evolves. About liking it or not -- well, I don't like it, I care deeply about clarity of communication, and I despise how many debates on subjects l
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by jtheory 15y ago
Generally: words are defined by how people use them. They are not defined by history, or by experts, though experts may attempt to keep the meaning pure (often with limited success). Shared definitions are what enable communication; we

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