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by noibl 15y ago
I think the GDrive cancellation in particular highlights a real problem at Google: the tendency to have a much clearer idea of what they want users to be doing than of what users want to do. Generic cloud storage could be a great bridge bet
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by noibl 16y ago
Donations are not an alternative to chatter though and charity hijacking is nothing new. 'Don't' is not an alternative to anything and 'abuse' is subjective, as is 'emergency' incidentally. #jan25 was many things to many people. CB is bandw
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by noibl 16y ago
How not to change mass behaviour: insult your audience in the headline, try to influence the lowest common denominator and ignore trend-setters, tell people to stop doing something they want to do without providing an alternative. People wh
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by noibl 16y ago
"We never told ..." "We would never force ..." Much stronger language than Tsotsis used, most of whose post didn't even talk about Moviefone. Protesting too much. Also, I'd love to know how the presence on staff of someone whose job it is
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by noibl 16y ago
It looks a bit wrong but it's an effective use of space (creating emphasis and a comfortable click zone while also conserving real estate).
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by noibl 16y ago
Because it's the stable release, not beta.
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by noibl 16y ago
> No other operating system manufacturer (outside of the embedded realm) does anything near what Microsoft does for XP. Who are you including in that category apart from Apple? Compatibility with 30-year-old OS features is often conside
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by noibl 16y ago
That apparently kills both birds.[1] Thanks for the link. :) [1] http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/IEBlog/2011/Feb/uellr-imag...
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by noibl 16y ago
Is it possible to move the tabs onto their own line? I rarely browse with fewer than 10 tabs open so having them share space with the address bar and buttons would be pretty awkward. Likewise, long addresses are obscured by the fixed width
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by noibl 16y ago
Only one of those people is making moral judgements against people who use pseudonyms ("an example of a lack of integrity") and making phenomenal amounts of money out of marginalising the practice.
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by noibl 16y ago
Lots of things have had a lot of resources thrown at them only to utterly fail to make an impact on the world. I'm sure that internally , Google keenly appreciates this fact. So although I knew about Brin's commitment to this area I'm stil
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by noibl 16y ago
Surely 'major' is premature? Downvotes.. interesting. What I mean is that I'm not sure what is going to make it 'major' within the near future. They tried converting the Gmail userbase once before.
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by noibl 16y ago
Google Wave wants me to live inside it: it's presumptuous. Etherpad is a tool I grab when I want, and put down when I'm done. Right. Real-time remote collaboration is novel enough to be able to say that not only interfaces need to be deve
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by noibl 16y ago
Saying 'unhappiness is a choice' is a bit like saying 'poverty is a choice' in that the only point of saying it is to rationalise distancing yourself from it. If you feel that unhappiness is like a contagious disease and that you sometimes
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by noibl 16y ago
The gentlemen market is also terribly, terribly underserved.
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by noibl 16y ago
I think Moki.TV just redefined 'polarizing'. If you look at the individual bar graphs for each movie (especially the ones on the top right of the main graph), the voting distribution is actually very even ('square' or 'sloped' looking). For
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by noibl 16y ago
To clarify: I know there are federal investigative police (but not as powerful as the FBI, right?) so I deliberately used the verb, meaning enforcement. I didn't know there were federal riot police though.
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by noibl 16y ago
Believe it or not, Germany is also a federal republic with distinct regional differences. Germany doesn't even have federal policing.
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Kurzweil: Solar will meet 100% of energy needs by 2030(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by noibl 16y ago|0 comments
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by noibl 16y ago
'These movements' have nothing to do with protest. They change the world by providing (or at the very least, opening the door to) better user experiences over the long term. (See: Darwin, LLVM, WebKit.) The vast majority of criticisms like
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by noibl 16y ago
As he admits, "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement." A comparison of the two is apples-to-oranges.
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by noibl 16y ago
I was just at the point of making a bunch of aliases for some long paths, to save my tab key from daily abuse. This is way more elegant. Thanks.
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by noibl 16y ago
They didn't get in trouble for making a browser. They got in trouble for making it impossible to completely switch to a different browser under Windows. There was absolutely no external influence stopping Microsoft from continuing to develo
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by noibl 16y ago
I don't want to go off on a tangent but I think it's a relevant point that the overall usefulness of both technologies is strongly related to having diverse implementations. I'm not saying hype is the issue but rather the trying to get coop
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by noibl 16y ago
Yes, it's 'spectacular' to you and I. I meant in the broader sense of spectacle, the sense in which people on the street want to try it out because it's like nothing they've ever seen before. And that is possible with NaCl if expectations a
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by noibl 16y ago
There are a couple of companies you could be talking about. If you mean Apple and their development of the KHTML engine into something that has been embedded in lots of other software with hugely beneficial effects for the web, then yes, go
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by noibl 16y ago
Just like Wave, NaCl is an inspiring but highly technical innovation that Google started trying to attract community interest in while it was still on the drawing board. Mozilla and others have already turned their noses up at it. What Goog
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by noibl 16y ago
'New signups have a 60 day money back guarantee, no questions asked!' ...so, 8 weeks. :)
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by noibl 16y ago
If by 'we' you mean Nissan, well... great. Counterexample: http://blog.phono.com/2011/02/17/how-to-build-a-voip-based-b... (browser-based VOIP, Flash under the hood) Bizarrely, Chrome has support for speech input on text-based forms which
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by noibl 16y ago
That argument didn't make a lot of sense then either. The specific algorithms that Google had patented gave it a runaway lead in implementing the kind of index that we now recognise as a crucial element of relevance. Anyone with knowledge o

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