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811.
by nollidge 15y ago
I figure this is inevitable, since music downloads have largely gone DRM-free as well.
812.
by nollidge 15y ago
> there is practically nothing to change to Gmail to make it great in my opinion. Sounds like you're not even a member of their potential user base if you're already happy with the Gmail interface.
813.
by nollidge 15y ago
Right, but only 3% of users ever clicked the button. How frequently they clicked it isn't what the OP was talking about.
814.
by nollidge 15y ago
Just signed up, but I probably won't use it until I can import my feeds from my current reader (NetVibes). There's around 100 of them, there's no way I'm doing that manually. Also needs grouping. Again, there's a hundred of them, I need hie
815.
by nollidge 15y ago
If anybody else is curious, here's a discussion on the history and differences of A-G and Helvetica (plus Univers and Arial, both closely related): http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2010/04/archive/the-differences-...
816.
by nollidge 15y ago
FYI: requires Silverlight.
817.
by nollidge 15y ago
I think a happy compromise might be to have a dropdown widget labeled "Share" (perhaps with Twitter & Facebook icons to further afford meaning). I've seen this in some places, but my pet peeve with those is that they usually open up on
818.
by nollidge 15y ago
Switching to a different tab (Federal/State/Local) just shows a blank page until I manually reload. Chrome 18.0.1025.152 m on Windows 7.
819.
by nollidge 15y ago
> Out of curiosity, why the downvotes? Don't worry about downvotes until time has passed. Things usually balance out.
820.
by nollidge 15y ago
Actually, they tend to burn up in the atmosphere :)
821.
by nollidge 15y ago
> Western culture has undergone a value shift. Citation needed. I agree with the rest of your cultural critique, but I doubt very much that it's ever not been like that. It often seems we humans make progress in spite of ourselves.
822.
by nollidge 15y ago
I did something similar with TV watching. I'm always lamenting the fact that I don't read enough, don't do enough coding side projects, etc. So with the exception of new Mad Men and Community episodes [0], I've cut out TV. So now whenever I
823.
by nollidge 15y ago
No, he was downvoted because people leapt to the conclusion that he was needlessly pointing out somebody's preferred flavor of English, when in fact he was a non-native English speaker (as a great many of HN participants are) who was curi
824.
by nollidge 15y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. Yes, that's definitely a more British construction.
825.
by nollidge 15y ago
SYS64738
826.
by nollidge 15y ago
LOAD "CONDOLENCES",8,1
827.
by nollidge 15y ago
> American's just don't have friends. Wait, what now? I mean, I'll be the first to admit that most of my ~250 Facebook "friends" are acquaintances of varying degrees, but there's a good 10-20 people who I'd consider great friends, who I
828.
by nollidge 15y ago
You are waaaaay overthinking this. Nobody thinks that a Facebook "friend" is the same as what you or I would call a friend in real life. For me, it means, "I know and like this person well enough". So I just accept most requests, as long as
829.
by nollidge 15y ago
> But they suck at thinking for themselves. Maybe they just enjoy the outdoors. Maybe they really get a kick out of building fires and singing songs and making crafts. What on earth does any of that have to do with herd behavior or inde
830.
by nollidge 15y ago
It shows up in search now, but it's about the 20th result (may have been true earlier as well, I didn't try scrolling far). But even if it wasn't indexed immediately (which is still ridiculous - it's all their system), they're still not tak
831.
by nollidge 15y ago
Searching for "Instagram" in the Play store only brings up clones of the app. I would guess the search algorithm takes total downloads (which will be higher for existing apps, for now) into account over matching the app name.
832.
by nollidge 15y ago
Either you don't know what "idiosyncratic" means, or I don't know why those two sentences are related. Yes, it combines the uniquely human desire for fame with a lottery system. Why is that stupid? Is the desire for fame automatically stupi
833.
by nollidge 15y ago
No. You're part of the problem if you're part of the problem. That's it. "White-knighting" is a bullshit Orwellian term designed to make sexist assholes feel justified. As though defending against sexism under an assumed name on an Internet
834.
by nollidge 15y ago
> Everyone jumps to conclusions that we're all a bunch of misogynistic assholes No, the conclusion was that was some sexist shit, and it's part of a much larger problem, and all of it needs to fucking stop. Here's a thought, maybe li
835.
by nollidge 15y ago
I definitely agree with you, but I think men should be offended by this! What many heterosexual men don't seem to get is that sexism against women usually hurts them too . TV commercials that treat women as objects are usually also sendi
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by nollidge 15y ago
From the horse's mouth: http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2011/08/21/if-i-... I agree with him. Politicians are a reflection of the electorate. One can have even more of a positive impact by educating and energizing the electo
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by nollidge 15y ago
He's stated explicitly before that he has no interest in politics whatsoever.
838.
by nollidge 15y ago
GIANT pet peeve: please do not auto-play the trailer when I click on the movie. Please. It is not expected behavior.
839.
by nollidge 15y ago
Also: why does it browser warning say "dl.dropbox.com" when the website is thereelbox.com? Could seem very phishy to a user.
840.
by nollidge 15y ago
That's not clear. Folks downthread are talking about corruption that often occurs as a result of sharing in Dropbox.

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