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by mcantor 16y ago
Slicehost is simpler, Linode is more feature-rich.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Reminds me of the Penny Arcade comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/25/ " God . Let me break this down for you. It's server-side . It's like, over here? Servers."
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by mcantor 16y ago
I would have told him that it doesn't matter as long as they are paid in cloud dollars.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Watch the original "Ghost in the Shell" movie if you haven't; it touches on this line of thinking in some very cerebral but accessible and thought-provoking ways.
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Bathroom Monologue: He Has To Wonder At 130(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
33 points by mcantor 16y ago|18 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Omigosh. I wonder if that's why my boss keeps looking at me funny lately. This is no good at all.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Sometimes there is just nothing you can do. Not because it's "predestined" or any of that sort of nonsense, but because there's simply nothing that will work. It doesn't matter how smart, strong or motivated you are; you'll never stop an
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by mcantor 16y ago
Discoverability. Discoverability, discoverability, discoverability.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Unrelated: I am mystified by your competent use of the term "orthogonal" coming just two words after you used "you're" instead of "your." That is just bizarre!
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by mcantor 16y ago
They're not spreading knowledge around, though. By copying the content without adding anything, they're removing impressions from the real site, which is where all of the relevant related content lives: comments, upvotes, discussion, etc.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Legal but unethical.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I wonder if that part of the ToS would hold up in court. This guy could have achieved the same effect by simply publishing some of his financial records, especially if he was going for transparency; anyone would be able to see his revenue
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by mcantor 16y ago
You're telling me multiple site visitors, who feel no emotional connection to a site... Sorry, serious question--aren't we talking about OP's visitors, who have a very distinct emotional connection to his site?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ironically (given the recent hubbub), I think that's how 4chan does it.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Web visitors do not exhibit that type of behavior of their own accord if unsolicited. Yes, they do. That sounds almost like a wink-wink to me. I didn't read it as a wink-wink; I read it as a clear and honest explanation of his views: "I
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by mcantor 16y ago
Perhaps I did not read carefully enough, but I didn't read anything that made it seem like he directly or indirectly asked anything. He simply makes a point of being 100% transparent in how he runs his business; part of that was explaining
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by mcantor 16y ago
Seven upvotes?! Methinks we need an HN survey to see what the 4chan readership rate is...
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by mcantor 16y ago
From the guidelines, for anyone who hasn't clicked: In Comments When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." --
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by mcantor 16y ago
If you (Witnesses) are happy and fulfilled with that income, then OP's schadenfreude is misguided, anyway.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Your comment would be more appropriate for HN without the condescending "Uh, no." at the beginning. (It's in the guidelines.)
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by mcantor 16y ago
Example?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Agreed. He's a great example of how successful storytelling can come from charisma and passion as well as diction and articulateness.
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by mcantor 16y ago
He tears up at the end, just barely losing composure, as he explains what magic--and, I imagine, life--means to him. I was certainly touched.
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by mcantor 16y ago
From the HN guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be:
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WoW: So fun that an extra app is required to have all the fun you can't handle.(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
What I meant (and failed) to express is not that I eschewed Googling because I'm lazy , but because I had no reason to Google . In my completely non-expert world view, I think that blogs (and websites in general) have three types of visit
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by mcantor 16y ago
What the hell is going on here? What is Cultured Code? Why is this guy so opinionated? Who is he? Why should I care? What is this "wallpaper" he is referring to? Are OmniFocus and Cultured Code two competing software suites? What do
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by mcantor 16y ago
> Assange made a distinct impact on the news and world events this year, but his face has been all over for this reason and that for weeks... They made a movie about Zuckerberg! It played in theaters, on big screens! Dozens of them
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by mcantor 16y ago
Doesn't Dropbox version stuff?
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This is why people hate ads.(dl.dropbox.com)
6 points by mcantor 16y ago|2 comments

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