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by nocman 17y ago
This is a bit off topic, but am I the only one who thinks yahoo could have picked a better name for that service? :-D I can see why they might try to emphasize the "dot" in the smush.it logo (for separation of the last four letters). But
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by nocman 17y ago
I don't think that is a fair comparison. Discussions about the ethical implications of patching a DLL aside, it is quite a different thing to patch a DLL to prevent an application from crashing when you use it than to hammer someones server
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by nocman 17y ago
And some people buy based on the brand name of a product being a status symbol. In my mind Gucci is a brand often purchased for that reason. The quality may or may not be higher (admittedly, it often is), but that is secondary to the fact
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by nocman 17y ago
I know it isn't what you meant, but I'll take the opportunity here to say this anyway. "Everyone" is not on Facebook (nor MySpace, Friendster, nor any of the other social networks). I know there are a great number of folks who have zero
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by nocman 17y ago
Rats! Now I'll have to stop joking that Duke Nukem Forever is in a holding pattern, waiting for a rewrite in Perl 6. And it would have been great, too -- if they just could have gotten a fully implemented Perl 6 compiler in time! :-D
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by nocman 18y ago
I think you underestimate at least the top end of that age range. I am quite certain that a number of folks on HN are well above the age of 35. PG is in his 40's, and I'm sure he's not the only one here in that category (and I wouldn't be
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by nocman 18y ago
For many native English speakers, the phrase "work the room" will have negative connotations. Often that phrase is associated with people who tend to use their relationships with others primarily as a way to benefit themselves alone. Any
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by nocman 18y ago
I found it amusing how awful the text (or should I say "the typography") for the introduction and table of contents from that site looks in Firefox on Linux (on my machine). I'm sure it is due to the site using fonts not availble in my ins