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by mapgrep 15y ago
Indeed. Since the post I was replying to purported to be confused at the negative backlash among Facebook members, I engaged on its own terms. I suspect at higher levels Facebook is at least somewhat aware it is acting exploitively.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
What ever made you think anyone would want this functionality, other than the sleazier, spammier publishers? Why would any person _ever_ want to automatically broadcast on Facebook the URL of every web page they read on a particular site? W
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Just follow the link I provided to the top 1000 most visited sites on the web http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/ Social network, video host, web portal, search, portal, mass collaboration software, and only at #7 do we get to
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Using the word "never" saves you from having to state when the web ceases to be the dominant platform. When do you think this will be? Something like "the web will never be the dominant platform, except for the past 10 years and the next
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by mapgrep 15y ago
"Let's face facts: the Web will never be the dominant platform." Hewitt's post hinges on that statement, presented without supporting evidence. But actually the Web is already dominant among the platforms Hewitt mentions (Web, Windows, iOS,
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I hope the guy working 80 hour weeks was not promoted into a management job. He doesn't sound particularly efficient.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
In defense of these guys: 1. The feature is highly tangential. The core product is a time tracking app. A time tracking entry (core) can be associated with a "project" (metadata), which in turn can have "notes" (metadata about metadata).
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Maciej has said repeatedly (including on HN) that disk is the bottleneck keeping him off Linode and VPS in general. Not all web apps use resources in the same way; you're quite likely making an apples and oranges comparison here (though you
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by mapgrep 15y ago
He already has editorial independence. What he wants is independence to run a venture fund. It's a crucial distinction, and one AOL's lawyers can surely make -- convincingly -- in court.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Are you powering both external displays off the iMac? I didn't know that was possible; the tech specs on the current 27" show it can power just one external....
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Do you mean your Mac user account does not have admin privileges? In that case have you tried just installing Chrome into ~/Applications instead?
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Ah, I missed the "there is very little rental available." Sorry.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I had a similar breakage experience with OWC, which makes SSDs using the same (new/aggressive) Sandforce controllers as OCZ. My drive ("Mercury Extreme Pro", like a "Vertex 2") failed in the first week in that it would not cold boot; if you
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Are renters suddenly no longer eligible to send their kids to school?? Wow, that's new.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
They are clearly on the track to developing their own software; if they don't, a similar business in the same situation will. How long before they want to book orders via website? Unless there is an OpenTable for gardeners I am unaware of,
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by mapgrep 15y ago
If you do that, you must hit the $ key 1.6 times to get £ to appear, which is kind of a pain.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
The goal was to allow link and italics tag, as I mentioned.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
While S3 might be "extremely durable" from a technology standpoint, its unceremonious dumping of Wikileaks as a customer shows it to be politically fragile. You might think of Wikileaks as "extreme," but this is an organization that was nei
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by mapgrep 15y ago
It's also a useful lesson for people thinking about security. When something that is not actually HTML can be interpreted in a browser as HTML, there is a big potential security hole. For example: At one point, I sanitized incoming user con
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Facebook and Google have very real revenues and very strong growth. I have a hard time seeing how you can be correct that they somehow need Greater Fools to "propel" them. Consider: Those companies could produce a very strong return for the
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by mapgrep 15y ago
It's definitely possible that the "fundamentals of business are effected by the short-term economy." Good point. I just didn't see that point being established in the VC post, at least not well. It seemed much more focused on opportunities
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Though this post is great it makes me worry the tech sector has learned nothing from the past. If you're worried about the stock market and the climate for IPOs and acquisitions you've failed to learn the lessons from the 2000 bust. Quick r
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by mapgrep 15y ago
This is a compelling idea; it makes email more efficient in the same way Twitter makes blogs more efficient. There is power in concision. However it would make a lot more sense to build it on top of Twitter DMs than on top of Gmail. Your Tw
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by mapgrep 15y ago
I was not referencing that movie line; the movie line is itself a reference to a common style of emphasis that predates the movie by... well, by quite some time.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
He really doesn't, though I can see how you might get that impression. In the post you suggest I re-read, Paul is referring to financial assistance, which will reasonably take a period of days to offer. When Paul says "Airbnb has been offer
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by mapgrep 15y ago
In this response from Paul Graham we have an example of how this crisis could taint ALL Y Combinator companies. I say this as a fan of Mr Graham, Hacker News (which he created), and his essays. But this is 100 percent the wrong reaction by
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by mapgrep 15y ago
Sorry, but the moment of truth has already passed because the moment of truth was when Airbnb didn't bake effective safeguards against this sort of behavior into the very heart of their website for lending your home to complete strangers .
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by mapgrep 15y ago
She didn't say she was put off by competition, she said she was put off by competitive language in the job listing. She recommended more focus on the collaborative side of the internship - mentorship, line by line code review, and being p
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by mapgrep 15y ago
You could ask Marco Arment for a copy of http://www.marco.org/secondcrack It sounds like it does what you want, except for the part about being a binary, and he says he intends to open source it soon anyway.
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by mapgrep 15y ago
What is the deal with the Engadget headline? Is it supposed to be a joke? The black hole claims it was just hydrating? I'm trying to accept the silly/weird premise in good humor, but I still don't "get" why the figurative humanish black hol

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