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by oditogre 19y ago
I disagree, as noted further up the thread. Preventing downvotes doesn't remove the dissenting opinion. In fact, it allows and encourages it. Downvotes allow groupthink to silence disagreement. If you disagree with something, instead of
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by oditogre 19y ago
+1 (Insightful) This is why democracy + free speech (in theory, at least) works. No matter how unpopular, a voice cannot be silenced. If you don't like a person's viewpoints, you can't shut them down by downvoting them; you can only upvot
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by oditogre 19y ago
I don't get either one. The announcement just seems redundant. Everybody already knows that there is at least 1 so-and-so. In fact, everybody already knows that there is more than one. I can't see how the announcement adds knowledge.
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by oditogre 19y ago
Cool. >The team has been working on today's Winamp 5.5 release for about a year, with iTunes firmly in its crosshairs. As long as they don't mess with the Winamp 2.0 look-n-feel, I'm happy. I've been using that, with the same skin, for
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by oditogre 19y ago
Seedcamp founder, Saul Klein on Playfair: "It's Excel 2.0" I have Excel '07, and damned if I can find it's equivalent of 'Help->About', but I know '00 was 9.0, so...yeah. Poor choice of words there, buddy. :) Edit: (Excel 2.0 was relea
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by oditogre 19y ago
>are you fascinated with dates? Dates, dates, or dates?
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by oditogre 19y ago
Your last clue should've been the biggest. If you read the article through to the part about dressing poor people up as clowns and seeing how many you could shove into a Maybach as entertainment at rich kids' birthday parties and still tho
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by oditogre 19y ago
And easier to spell, to boot. Many of these names would be hard to guess how it is spelled; I know if I heard of reddit by word of mouth and didn't have it spelled out for me, I'd be looking at readit.com or read-it.com wondering wtf was s
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by oditogre 19y ago
For whatever reason I can't edit my comment above (is there a time limit?), but if anybody changes the above linked site so a big pic covers the 'edit' and 'history' buttons, or it redirects to another site, or whatever, you can get to the
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by oditogre 19y ago
Mmm, I didn't know the history button was there, and it only looks like it saves so many revisions. No biggie tho, I rebuilt it. Not sure why you can edit anybody's site. Could be fun in some ways I guess. Mental note for future, tho: K
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by oditogre 19y ago
http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/ http://HowDoesJottitFormattingWork.jottit.com (same site in theory...doesn't seem to be working, though.) Anybody know of where you can get more instructions on how to use it? Handy for throwing together a
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by oditogre 19y ago
So it's something like a community incubator? Interesting. Not something I'd use, but interesting.
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by oditogre 19y ago
What's Jottit going to be, then?
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by oditogre 19y ago
What is Chain?
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by oditogre 19y ago
Anywhere.fm is really cool...but how do they make money? That's what I'm not really understanding. I don't see any ads or anything...
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by oditogre 19y ago
Will do. And BTW, Octopart is now in my bookmarks toolbar at work, so please follow this essay's advice and don't die. :)
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by oditogre 19y ago
I wish I had known about Octopart before reading this essay. I needed a part a couple weeks ago that I had no idea what the technical term for it was, my best guesses lead to things that were totally wrong, and the company that made it was
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by oditogre 19y ago
So do I give an upvote if I like the ad, if I approve of it, or if I'm actually likely to follow up on it with a purchase? An ad could easily be one of those and not the other two, and I don't want to send mixed messages to advertisers. O
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by oditogre 19y ago
Competitors? Like, in the same style as YC? Or just regular VC's aiming lower, in the small investment / seed stage direction?
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by oditogre 19y ago
It's working now. Be warned, tho, I did it a few hours ago, and it took a ridiculously long time to load between questions (sometimes up to nearly a minute).
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by oditogre 19y ago
Huh...that actually would be really handy. Problems: -How would you deal with people who aren't 'in the know' enough to earn back points? -How would you prevent them just creating a new account to get more points? -Chicken and Egg Problem:
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by oditogre 19y ago
Would like to see popular results from the other questions, too.
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by oditogre 19y ago
I wasn't considering the specific examples Seth used in terms of business type. I just meant in general, for the type of people I deal with, I'd rather have an email address. Obviously, in certain industries or for certain types of people
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by oditogre 19y ago
What's that huge spike in April from?
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by oditogre 19y ago
I like the top-left one, but the rest are definitely crap. Also, I disagree on the phone number; I think email is far more important. If I want to get into contact with you, I want to just email you and wait for a reply, instead of callin
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by oditogre 19y ago
You can. Go to your preferences, click on 'friends', and add the nicknames of all the posters you like. Then go to friends.reddit.com, and you'll only see submissions from those people. This feature came out about a half a year ago, IIRC
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by oditogre 19y ago
This being a bit of a geek site, I'd thought they were actually referring to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/10/27/880411....
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by oditogre 19y ago
Re: Boulder: Why not Fort Collins? Close to Denver, beautiful area, nice weather, college town, and - more than anything else - the place is just loaded with young people, and local businesses seem geared towards a younger market more so t
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by oditogre 19y ago
I think I just found my new favorite site for when I'm bored and out of ideas. BTW...one of the top games listed there is 'Desktop TD 1.5'. If you liked WarIII TD's, give it a shot. Very addictive. I wonder if they can get (or already hav
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by oditogre 19y ago
About finding people to sign up... First off, if you happen to live near a big college, maybe you could plaster up some fliers, like, "Schedule your next party or club get-together at groupomatic.com!" I know when I was at college, I would

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