kyro

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by kyro 17y ago
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you and say that this doesn't cater at all to the facebook/tween crowd. It's not even to appease egos. No one puts up facebook fan pages or youtube videos to promote themselves. This would be perf
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by kyro 17y ago
We don't need these fanboy comments 'round here!
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by kyro 17y ago
Even with that, I fail to see any value. It still doesn't solve anything. One thing I never understood is how one would type on it. If one of the main purposes of a tablet is to utilize internet services, I'd imagine that typing emails/IM/t
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by kyro 17y ago
It's all about cockiness and really not giving a damn about possible outcomes. You also need to realize that many of the 'cool' people you talk to are caught up in a world of idiocy. Once you can pick up on the stupidity, you'll feel a lot
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Ask HN: Bank suggestions.
2 points by kyro 17y ago|3 comments
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by kyro 17y ago
http://www.browseology.com
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by kyro 17y ago
Same here.
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by kyro 17y ago
Oh sure, it can get rude. There is a limit. I was speaking more to the occasional text reply. I do agree with you that conversations in front of others is quite rude.
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by kyro 17y ago
That's a pretty common misconception that older folk have. And you're simplifying the social connection framework to something it's not. It's not that cut and dry. I don't rank my friends on a gradient based on company preference. Every rel
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by kyro 17y ago
My suggestion to take HN offline for a month should be taken the same way as when one says to his group of friends "hey, let's see what would happen if we went a week without pants."
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by kyro 17y ago
I often wonder about whether the constant connectivity with ubiquitous Twitter use and all is really a good thing, and whether we should just go out and play soccer and breathe the fresh air all day. I definitely find myself caught up in th
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by kyro 17y ago
No one really cares about "We more clearly delineated required fields and section groupings." And I think many of the explanations are really recognized subconsciously which lead us to favor one design over another. What you said reminds me
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by kyro 17y ago
You need explanations as to which one is better? Really? 'Cuz all I need is a 5yr. old and a 55yr. old to point to which one they think is easier to use.
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by kyro 17y ago
I think one thing you're missing is the idea of social validation, or social proof, of your product. Like TallGuyShort said, getting invitation emails is rather annoying, and quite insincere. Users can spot that insincerity in a heartbeat.
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by kyro 17y ago
"they know that their business is based around repeat customers who all know how to work the system." Hmm, so they're intentionally crappifying their experience to make their existing customers feel 007-esque? To make them feel that they're
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by kyro 17y ago
Huh? I went to the stocktwits site a few days ago after hearing about their acquisition of chart.ly. I could not figure out what they did. I get a cute live feed of people talking about stocks and... that's pretty much it. Who throws 800k a
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by kyro 17y ago
Maybe it's just a matter of time before the Apple of the airline industry makes its rise? Or maybe one exists already.
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by kyro 17y ago
Actually, if you would've suppressed your desire to quickly jump back here and make a snarky remark, you would've found that the redesign he offered is worlds better, both from an aesthetic and usability standpoint. You'd think a company, e
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Dear American Airlines...(dustincurtis.com)
136 points by kyro 17y ago|87 comments
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by kyro 17y ago
Will you make up your mind already? You can't possibly be doing all 3 at the same time.
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by kyro 17y ago
It's a good idea, but how do you expect to compete with scribd/docstoc and perhaps even legalzoom? Some things to point out: You spend too much time on the home page explaining what your site is. To be honest, it could be done in one senten
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by kyro 17y ago
Owen, a quick question. Who is Eli? I recall several times Kevin saying that he hired a guy named Eli from elance to do some personal web stuff for him, and then hired him to do Digg.
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by kyro 17y ago
Yeah, a couple things: - Your site is too wide. On my 15" powerbook, with safari 4 maximized, there's still horizontal scroll. - Speaking of scroll, the individual scroll bars for each column seem to run over some of the text. - The text is
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by kyro 17y ago
Oh, this isn't about my place on the leader board. Admittedly, most of my points have come from submissions, so I'd have a pretty low spot on the list.
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by kyro 17y ago
You've only made 3 submissions yourself. HN isn't a service being provided to you, whereby you sit and expect it to present you with interesting stories.
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Ask PG: Leader board ranked my comment karma
10 points by kyro 17y ago|11 comments
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by kyro 17y ago
What a stupid comment. Where I come from, accounting is a fairly semi-successful occupation. Lots of people I know in my community are accountants, who love it, and are leading really happy lives. Just because there are people who don't asp
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by kyro 17y ago
One thing that amazed me was when he searched for that DNA sequence, and then traversed up and down a chromosome. Mapping out the human genome has been done for some time, but I've never actually seen any sort of interface or app that hooks
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by kyro 17y ago
I, too, am interested in finding out more about his previous venture.
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by kyro 17y ago
I'm sure Facebook has been letting them roar in their little hole for some time. It's techcrunch that's reopening the issue, which I don't quite understand. Facebook is a rather small snapshot of the real world - a real world where hundreds

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