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kami8845
15y ago
in firefox i have 'red' <down> <enter> already ingrained for reddit, same with 'new' for HN ... it's automatic and you can't tell me typing it all out is faster :P
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15y ago
Are they really protips? When I started out on eBay I just looked at what the most succesful auctions did and the above points were all included. Granted someone with not a lot of time might find these useful. A nice line I like to drop at
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15y ago
They do, but it's mostly recaps and "scenes of today' throughout the night.
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16y ago
I agree, the advertising one was pretty cool. But the chess grandmaster thing was just a lame trick. He let all of them play against each other through his memory and beat some random scrub (which was probably planned).
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16y ago
This is a blessing for, I imagine, everyone who has learnt computer programming in a non-English-speaking country.
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16y ago
>If the interface would be changed to conform better with the mental model of these users, surely it will conflict in some ways with the model of more experienced users. I think it's tough to do, but certainly doable. What was outlined
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16y ago
I think almost anyone that knows the English word calculator will assume at first it is just that. (at least I did)
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16y ago
>"Why aren't there 100 Harvard franchises?" Demand and supply. If you flood the market with Harvard graduates their perceived value goes down. The same reason why limited editions exist.
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16y ago
36:30 but it's worth listening to the entire thing, very interesting stuff
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16y ago
I prefer how Google handles that search query. If you're looking for a flight does entering 'fly' after your two destinations really hurt that much? 'to' is -more often than not - a pretty meaningless keyword, and I'm pretty sure most peopl
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16y ago
@pbhjpbhj I know what you're talking about but it doesn't apply to comments. The only thing that automatically adds up and downvotes to comments is what they call 'fuzzy comment karma' which is to prevent bots from figuring out too quickly
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16y ago
I might not have as much experience as you, but if I've only learnt one thing from being active on Reddit is that giving your personal karma-score any meaning is just a major headache and best be avoided. But the development you are talking
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16y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, as others have written below, I'm a new user and while the system here looks pretty similiar to the one at Reddit, the type of comment that is appreciated here seems vastly different. I was kind of surprised to