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by panacea 14y ago
Google added it as a "feature" and made it a default for a short amount of time to market the background customization option: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-im...
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by panacea 14y ago
>the way it looks is secondary to its primary function: giving you good results. I'm honestly not trying to be mean, but I'm not sure you understand human psychology in this area. Humans are very consistently swayed by looks over intr
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by panacea 14y ago
I'm sure there were enumerable back and forth discussions about that. Bing differentiated itself in the beginning with the large background image on the homepage as opposed to the simple colourful logo on white background that defined the G
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by panacea 14y ago
Speaking as a Mac user I agree. The Mac Firefox browser has always been clunky and never felt particularly 'native' to Os X. Camino was a far more native Gecko-based Mac browser.
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by panacea 14y ago
The iPhone 3G should never have been called that and Apple should not be touting the latest iterations of the devices as "4G". They are meaningless terms in so many real world situations. I can have a xG phone near a compatible tower and
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by panacea 14y ago
Playing the Devil's advocate (IANOCoder), but perhaps the bulk of the 1s&0s are being uploaded and then decrypted by sending a small string when the user selects "publish"? Probably not.
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by panacea 14y ago
Two observations. Doesn't do anything on an iOS device. I would never have navigated to the Google homepage if it wasn't linked here.
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by panacea 14y ago
I love that tumblr and agree with the premise that adobe software has flaws, but it's kinda mean to post that link, even with the 'unrelated' signal, don't you think?
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by panacea 15y ago
Many people have successfully abstracted away the difference between face to face conversation and the stunted (no body language etc.) interface over IM and tend to treat them in a similar way. Especially with people they communicate and in
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by panacea 15y ago
Presumably if they set the initial pressure at something greater than 1 atmosphere, but still within the comfort level of a human they wouldn't need to engineer the hull to withstand as much?
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by panacea 15y ago
It's a FUD grenade, surely.
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by panacea 15y ago
Didn't mod you, but I think you're looking for this: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by panacea 15y ago
"Why I left reddit" 'It changed man. The culture wasn't the same as when I joined five years ago.' These 'I said GOODBYE SIR!'s are interesting, but I'm not sure how much reliable information can be gleaned from them. What ever happened to
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by panacea 15y ago
Exactly. Apple should love this. I'm sure there are many people with the original iPad thinking 'I want the new iPad but the old one still works fine. It would be wasteful to get the new one.' This potentially solves that dilemma.
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by panacea 15y ago
>I'd prefer recording technology to err on the side of capturing what we need to reproduce all of that, even if we aren't sure that we need it. Again, this article is about distribution, not recording.
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by panacea 15y ago
Sorry roel_v... I was IUI (Interneting under the influence).
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by panacea 15y ago
"These are two contradictory statements in one statement." Well I'm glad I got the opportunity to chat with you sir, and your smarts shut me down. I'll shut up now. Let me know when I can talk, and in the meantime
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by panacea 15y ago
Firstly, I apologise for downvoting you. Unnecessary, and somewhat spiteful. I'm guessing in advance that we're going to have to agree to disagree, or more likely, this conversation will peter out unfinished, but I'll have a go at explainin
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by panacea 15y ago
"and then it'll continue to rub on one of the sides after the first impact." Not if it cranked up the speed! Cue Hollywood dialogue: Spotter: Captain, we're almost upon the behemoth... we can't avoid it! Captain: Full. Speed. Ahead. Scotty
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by panacea 15y ago
The way film, TV and literature has always presented it, was it hit the berg in an inky black night with scant but a faint glow from the swinging lantern aboard the spotter's helm.
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by panacea 15y ago
Is the answer to forfty-fifths of headlines posed as a question, "no"?
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by panacea 15y ago
Wow. I'm honestly flabbergasted as to why you don't think preserving this species (it isn't resurrecting mammoths) is worthwhile. What do you consider worth preserving? Does the fact that humans introduced rats into the ecosystem that wiped
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by panacea 15y ago
You mischaracterise me. I've been using reddit for 6+ years. I've pruned my subscribed subreddits down to a handful of ones with a high signal to noise. If I pruned AMA, I'd be left with not much. truereddit, theoryofreddit, askscience and
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by panacea 15y ago
Here is a true story. I've curated the hell out of my reddit frontpage. I went to reddit just now and while it was loading I thought "I'm so sick of the downward trend in my enjoyment of the unstoppable march towards extreme mediocrity in e
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by panacea 15y ago
Thanks! I guessed wrong for your link.
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by panacea 15y ago
Do you have any links to 'mp3/vorbis listening tests', or were you rolling your own from your local media? The reason I ask is because I bought the WAV version of the most recent Radiohead album and tried to blindly discern a difference bet
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by panacea 15y ago
I don't think there are such things as 'the definitive biography/history/story'. All such endeavours are filtered tellings of actual fact through prisms of bias, limited knowledge and the limitations of condensation.
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by panacea 15y ago
"a troll is someone who posts inflammatory ... messages in an online community ... with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response" Isn't that exactly what he was doing?
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by panacea 15y ago
But we are living in a FaceBook World™. And 'contacts sharing' with companies is completely ubiquitous. I understand the complaints about all this, but isn't there a massive elephant in the room that everyone has temporarily forgotten?
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by panacea 15y ago
>Stuff like 'secret valley' (AU tv series) is unfindable. This makes me really, really sad. Although I would likely find it juvenile and not as good as I remembered it, it was one of the best things on TV growing up and I'd love to shar

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