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901.
by paul 19y ago
No. If you don't think it's interesting, then maybe you aren't paying close enough attention. Anyone involved with consumer web should be watching FB.
902.
by paul 19y ago
I seriously doubt that the sound will lose them half (or even 1%) of the market (I don't think the sound is required, it just makes the site nicer). If sound is a big problem for you, why not keep your computer muted?
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by paul 19y ago
The disagree&downvote pattern on comments is definitely a problem, but I think it's a different problem and it seems to happen on a wide variety of stories. (which isn't to say that there's not zealotry involved, just that I don't think
904.
by paul 19y ago
That said, news sites probably need some kind of clustering in order to ensure that there is a diversity of topics on the front page. Google news and Techmeme both do something like this, of course. There's no reason reddit couldn't.
905.
by paul 19y ago
It's hard to believe YouTube was ever a success.
906.
by paul 19y ago
I'm not convinced. What if the upvoting really is representative of a large number of the users? I don't upvote that often on reddit, but probably half of the time (at most once per day) it is for a Ron Paul link (and it's always something
907.
by paul 19y ago
Sorry, I guess that should have been obvious to me given the rest of what you said.
908.
by paul 19y ago
Commenting out the exception throwing code would likely lead to even more difficult-to-understand bugs (something after the now-commented-out throw would probably fail, possibly corrupting data). It's better to fail early.
909.
by paul 19y ago
10. For a lot of the questions I wanted to answer "it depends". Social situations, for example, can be very fun or very boring, depending on my mood and the people involved.
910.
by paul 19y ago
The closer analogy is actually spam filtering -- it's a very similar process (computers processes message content in order to classify it). The computer is processing and storing the data anyways, so there is no impact on privacy (eliminati
911.
by paul 19y ago
Exactly. Spacer gifs may be lame, but I don't think that they have held back the site much, so no need to worry. I think it's a kind of religious thing, and having successful sites around that don't follow the rules threatens their religion
912.
by paul 19y ago
Maybe the author considers grad school to be part of childhood :)
913.
by paul 19y ago
PM actually stands for "Product Manager", and she wasn't in a position to directly kill anything, though she was very much against the ads (the story makes it sound as though she quickly changed her mind, which is not what I remember).
914.
by paul 19y ago
What, in your opinion, are some "good" names? The expensive, "professional" names are usually the ones that I find most nauseating ("accenture", "agilent", etc).
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Bug Labs fleshes out BUGbase, BUGmodule details (hackable hardware)(engadget.com)
3 points by paul 19y ago|1 comments
916.
by paul 19y ago
The CEO of Ning (Pmarca's startup) is female. http://boardroombroads.blogspot.com/2007/07/eyes-on-you-gina...
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Vator.tv - the idea exchange ("venue for innovators to showcase their ideas")(vator.tv)
1 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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Boeing: Commercial Airplanes - StartupBoeing - Starting an Airline (interesting to look at)(boeing.com)
1 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
919.
by paul 19y ago
Yeah, if anything, the fact that the Gmail free quota is still stuck at 2.8GB shows that they're getting complacent and making bad product decisions.
920.
Watching Songkick Demo At Y Combinator(flickr.com)
14 points by paul 19y ago|17 comments
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by paul 19y ago
I think it's a cool idea. It doesn't appear that the blog author understands what it's about (or else he wouldn't talk about spam). It's only for people mentioned in the article. That allows you to offer corrections when misquoted, etc.
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Hiring a VP of Engineering or CTO For Non-Techie (First Time) Founders(unionsquareventures.com)
6 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
923.
by paul 19y ago
Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it couldn't be a lot worse. Their site appears to be having load related problems. Closed betas don't provide a lot of load testing.
924.
by paul 19y ago
It wouldn't be a popular misconception if a lot of people didn't believe it.
925.
Scientific American: Meraki's Guerilla Wi-Fi to Put a Billion More People Online(sciam.com)
4 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
926.
by paul 19y ago
I do. It hurts to see the meter keep increasing, especially at stop lights or a few feet from the destination. The best way to make a metered scheme hurt less is to hide the current charge, like an electric meter does, and only expose the v
927.
by paul 19y ago
I think I agree. My point is NOT that there is no loss when rights are infringed, clearly there is (The British, for example, lost control of India). However, 'theft' is the wrong word to describe this loss, and it leads to fundamental misu
928.
by paul 19y ago
Working out the right laws and punishments is a difficult problem. Before we can solve the problem, we must understand it. Using misleading terms just causes confusion and leads us in the wrong direction.
929.
by paul 19y ago
Infringing on people's legal rights is often wrong, but not everything that's wrong (or illegal) should be called "theft".
930.
by paul 19y ago
The dictionary doesn't seem to include your second definition, but regardless, you would NOT be preventing him from determining the use of his property, because his property is the copyright, and he can still use it any way he likes.

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