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by microcentury 17y ago
Good Lord. I almost feel sorry for Mike Arrington. But not quite.
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by microcentury 17y ago
monos - if you log into your Google account and then use Trends for Websites, you should see the y-axis numbers. The numbers are not shown when you're not logged in.
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by microcentury 17y ago
The traffic lost by the brand sites may not be the same traffic gained by the social networks.
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by microcentury 17y ago
Many thanks wallflower, GavinB and cstross for the advice :-) Edit: Oops, and xcombinator, just saw your comment!
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by microcentury 17y ago
There are inarguably a lot of people in the world who _do_ make their living as writers, so I think it comes down to your definition of 'reasonable'. Re asking myself difficult questions, I think that's a fair point, and it's something I th
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by microcentury 17y ago
I've just rolled out of bed in a mid-Sunday-afternoon and this article is a bit like a slap in the face. I want to be a writer, and some people who are both likely to know and unlikely to mislead me have said I have a reasonable shot at mak
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by microcentury 17y ago
This kind of over-simplification of complex issues really doesn't do anyone any favours, even if it's supposed to be satire or humour (which I can't be sure about in this case). Technology has _always_ provided a platform for art - where do
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by microcentury 17y ago
"Rubik's Cube 1. Disassemble Rubik's Cube into all 27 parts. 2. Reassemble inside bottle." Brilliant :-)
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by microcentury 17y ago
Yup, incredibly weak. And it's written like no-one at Craigslist could _possibly_ have thought about this.
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by microcentury 17y ago
I don't think that guy is trying to be anything. I think he's just completely off his face.
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by microcentury 18y ago
This is _awfully_ similar to Google's 'Don't be evil', which has seemed to get harder and harder for them as they've grown. Could it be that one a company reaches a certain size the financial pressures outweigh the desire to be 'good', what
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by microcentury 18y ago
Oh for God's sake... I admire Doctorow deeply for his writing and work ethic, but he's really venturing into tinfoil hat territory here.
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by microcentury 18y ago
Not too impressed with this article, I have to say. It seems pretty obvious that people will not switch from the GOOG just because MS has attained search quality parity (which, incidentally, I doubt). If they built a _better_ search engine
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by microcentury 18y ago
Very helpful thanks :-)
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by microcentury 18y ago
Really, really cool. Would anyone like to explain the outlines for the non-programmers among us?
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by microcentury 19y ago
I can't find the original source now, but the best summary/parody of the original article I read was roughly: "I'm wonderful because I founded a company and made a lot of money. Oh, you haven't founded a company? You suck."
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by microcentury 19y ago
My troll sense is tingling.
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by microcentury 19y ago
I'm just glad we get to see in advance what will be chasing us through the woods in a few years, the thum-thum thum-the-thum music playing the background, firing M15 bursts over our shoulders before the camera pans to the blackened sky. It'
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by microcentury 19y ago
I really get the impression he didn't think this working from home thing through _at all_ before he dived in. Surely his points are utterly predictable?
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by microcentury 19y ago
I agree that most non-tech people are much more concerned about form factor. I recently tried to explain to a colleague why a MacBook Pro is faster than a MacBook with the same topline specs - his eyes glazed over after about four seconds,
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by microcentury 19y ago
Reddit is a cautionary tale of social sites. I'm new here, and love it so far: has there been any discussion of how to stop this splendid corner of the internets from being ruined by incoming hordes of morons?
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by microcentury 19y ago
I wouldn't be too convinced it's that close to correct... Usually the set up a handful of experiments, get as close to the original situation as they can (which is often not that close - sometimes they're basing their experiments on movie e
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by microcentury 19y ago
I'm new here, so not familiar with the history, but dude: Google grew from the two founders' PhD work in computer science, and Bill Gates is widely known for his technical brilliance and depth of technical knowledge. So unless there is some
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by microcentury 19y ago
A book that never fails to invoke in me the opposite feeling this thread is looking for.