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by ok_craig 14y ago
I don't think even bitcoin enthusiasts are saying bitcoin will be stable in the near future. Only that once it's widely adopted and reaches its growth potential or near it, it will then be stable. If it is to be adopted widely, at some poi
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by ok_craig 14y ago
> Running a great company was better than having the potential to start a new one. For you, in your specific context.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I thought Open Handset Alliance partners couldn't sell devices running a true Android fork without losing Google as a partner? How will that come into play here?
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Hey, I've been using Firebase for a web client I've been working on for a bit and I like it a lot! Would you consider updating your transactions page with an example of a text change? Such as adding a word in the middle of a paragraph. I
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by ok_craig 14y ago
This isn't so much an informative news article as it is an advertisement.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
That's why I said "I assume." Also, Evernote being successful does not actually counter my point. That people are using it and that it's growing does not mean there isn't a separate or overlapping set of users who want something simpler.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Lots of people, including myself, feel that Evernote is overly complex and not enjoyable to use. I've always wanted a simple app that lets me sync basic text notes across devices. All the ones I've been able to find have something off abo
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by ok_craig 14y ago
This is going to come back every time Google does something the community here doesn't like, or which they see as "corporate-minded focus" over innovation.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I've never thought about a definition of a "core product" before, but it seems to me that it would be something that the company takes seriously, dedicates a lot of time on, and consciously depends on for user retention and growth. I don't
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by ok_craig 14y ago
? 5" is still considered relatively large. There are a number of 5" phones, but the vast majority are smaller.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Which gives the local retailers a chance to come back, right? Or are they all gone forever?
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Do you call everything that has an advertisement for it somewhere else a "core product"?
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by ok_craig 14y ago
And hasn't RSS use been declining anyway? Not much of a threat.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I don't understand why these changes make you switch from Chrome to Firefox. There appears to be a really prevalent attitude here on HN that you can either really love or really hate a company. If you like it, you use all their stuff. Whe
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by ok_craig 14y ago
> Now that's lazy thinking. No one accused Google or Verizon or of not having "many people" that do serious research. By assuming that every single person who joins Google is somehow being used to optimize ad clicks, the implication is
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by ok_craig 14y ago
The common lament about Google being just a place that optimizes ad clicks is overused, and lazy thinking. I don't even think it's a conclusion that's the result of actual thought anymore, just reverb. Google is a big company. It would not
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I actually don't know how much of an effect cache should have on performance, but the article mentioned the "disable cache" not working as having a negative effect for him, so I assume it was because he thought it made things slower for him
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Makes sense. I wonder if Chrome is particularly bad on Linux? (My desktop runs Windows.)
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Sometimes I wonder how comprehensive these comparisons actually are. This is what I currently have open in Chrome: 3 Chrome Beta windows, with 17, 14, and 1 tabs open. 1 Chrome Canary window with 2 tabs A good number of these tabs have not
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Well there's always MtGox, which I don't think has any limits, but you have to give them an absurd amount of identity verification to be able to place orders, which scared me away. There are multiple services, Coinbase is just one of them.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I have found Coinbase to be pretty convenient for buying and selling bitcoins. For how to keep them secure once you have them, I recommend simply doing some research. Coinbase provides a basic wallet and if I remember correctly, they cold
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by ok_craig 14y ago
If you purchase at $30/bitcoin, and by the time the bank transaction goes through the price has risen to $32/bitcoin, you still get them for $30. Similarly, if the price drops to $28, you still pay $30/bitcoin. So you're locked in at the ex
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Is Yahoo still actively "failing," or is it starting from a point of failure? If a few years from now Yahoo is successful and the move paid off, we will just as easily be able to say: "The message is now clear - ending telecommuting is a g
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by ok_craig 14y ago
Pretty sure you can borrow and loan bitcoin at bitfinex.com.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
It's pretty easy to call someone a martyr and leave it at that. Neither you nor I really know Bradley Manning. For someone who's not really a journalist, knowing exactly what a more "targeted" leak would entail is not exactly instinct. He'
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by ok_craig 14y ago
The third from last section, titled "Facts regarding the unauthorized disclosure of Other Government Documents" is very vague. While all other sections detail the information released, this one does not. Possibly, I suppose, because it ne
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by ok_craig 14y ago
And in reality, he's probably a mix of all of the above, like most people. Everyone's got ideals, everyone's got insecurities. We tend to project our insecurities more when we're having casual conversation with people we consider friends.
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I wonder if they are doing this, at least in part, because they really want a Chromebook that is high-end to display in their physical stores? Maybe having a really nice, really expensive Chromebook will make the brand not seem cheap to ca
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by ok_craig 14y ago
I'm the same way. But I've also really wanted to be able to run web pages as their own Windows app. Like have them occupy a space in the windows task bar, which it looks like this may provide for. I don't really know why I want this, my
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by ok_craig 14y ago
> Implies that... It doesn't actually imply any of that. No one's saying Opera hasn't innovated. Only that it's not very popular and that, in addition to their innovations, they follow trends. That's not a passive aggressive statement

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