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31.
by points 16y ago
The key travel on those keyboards is phenomenal. How do you not injure yourself? Who is still using non-laptop style keyboards and why? :/
32.
by points 16y ago
> "vile and almost certainly illegal description" Lighten up. Move on. Stop being offended by words. Downmod it or upmod it if you care. Move on. If you get offended by words the internet isn't the place for you.
33.
by points 16y ago
> "vile and almost certainly illegal description" I'm pretty sure it didn't really happen. Or are you claiming that the act of describing a fictitious event is illegal?
34.
by points 16y ago
I think the first one was a bit misplaced, although the last line of it made me chuckle. Maybe it's just someone pointing out the banality of a "Tell us your naughty stories" thread. I agree it should be flagged though. It's just boring spa
35.
by points 16y ago
Fair enough. I'd much rather go to vegas :/
36.
by points 16y ago
I'd bet they would in theory get far higher margins if anyone did subscribe to their online paper. Also they get to look like they're ahead of the curve. I'm just saying, it's hardly an unbiased opinion of where things are headed.
37.
by points 16y ago
OK, why? I can't imagine it being very much more exciting that flying in a plane. Perhaps you'll get a nice view of the earth, but what else? edit: Yes, you could just downmod me, or you could explain why you're excited about being able to
38.
by points 16y ago
...which is one newspaper in one particular country, who are betting (stupidly) on digital distribution. Does it not surprise you that they're betting their money on a paywall site, and proclaiming that print newspapers will die? Of course
39.
by points 16y ago
If you want the experience, you can already get it through other means. I think this is all about dick waving. Rich people who want to boast they've been into space.
40.
by points 16y ago
Yes but good coders figure a way around it. Forced to use PHP? And it's crappy and slow to build stuff in? So write some tools that compile to PHP. What I'm saying is that great programmers work with the limitations and build the tools they
41.
by points 16y ago
> "With print newspapers set to disappear in the next few years," I stopped reading after that. I'm sorry, but if you're going to start basing the rest of the article on crazy false projections, there's not going to be a lot of point.
42.
by points 16y ago
It's UK based. Both 'junk' and 'trunk' are rarely used words in the UK.
43.
by points 16y ago
and if an engineer moans and moans about his tools, and refuses to work in anything but his favorite language, I would say he's an absolutely terrible engineer. Great programmers can make great stuff using anything.
44.
by points 16y ago
There's simply no way they're making anywhere near that from advertising. I would even have a hard time they're making that a year from advertising.
45.
by points 16y ago
... and Opera is still a niche what 2% browser share? It's not about 'fooling' people though. It's about people being overly skeptical, assuming everything is a scam, assuming conspiracy theories, ulterior motives. I'm simply saying that th
46.
by points 16y ago
I was being sarcastic, what's the upside? You get to hang out with the community on Reddit and get paid for it?
47.
by points 16y ago
the illusion of freedom...
48.
by points 16y ago
Their hosting costs were around $35k according to http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ctz7c/your_gold_dollar... Since then afaik they've added more servers. > "but they did make enough to stay afloat" I think Reddit has been operati
49.
by points 16y ago
Sounds like a dream job :/
50.
by points 16y ago
Just look at the recent IE9 debacle. It was an 'ask me anything'. What MS responded with was crappy marketing speak, which would have worked on 'normal' people. Normal people would have swallowed it up. But Reddit did not - ie they are hard
51.
by points 16y ago
Come now. Those stats are pie in the sky. If Quantcast said Reddit was mainly Conservative would you believe it? The community is heavily liberal anti consumerism pro drugs pro adblock college kids.
52.
by points 16y ago
Don't forget also that a large portion of Reddit users are college kids, and people with very low amount of disposable income. As I say though, volunteering to view ads doesn't make them a better more marketable demographic - Anti-consumeri
53.
by points 16y ago
What? You're saying they're making 40k (hosting costs) + all salaries from advertising? I find that incredibly hard to believe. Like impossible to believe.
54.
by points 16y ago
That's not really the issue. The fact they have adblock installed makes them the type of demographic that's hard to monetize. Whitelisting Reddit doesn't magically make them a better demographic.
55.
by points 16y ago
So that pretty much only covers their hosting costs...
56.
by points 16y ago
I think it depends on definition of 'geek'. I doubt many hackers use twitter. It's for self promotion mainly, or consuming that promotion (Being a fan). Something I don't think most hackers are interested in.
57.
by points 16y ago
I don't think it's a good comparison. And the author just comes across as "wah! programming is hard! sob ".
58.
by points 16y ago
There are several 'internet only' banks, or phone only banks. You have a similar amount of recourse with those.
59.
by points 16y ago
Why reinvent <table> ?
60.
by points 16y ago
The first 95% of any app is always the easy bit. It's that last 5% that takes years.

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