qeorge

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by qeorge 17y ago
That image trick is brilliant. I have never heard of that before.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Sports are by a mile the most valuable content on television, and the only thing that you can't watch online. Any revenue they could make with online ads would be irrelevant compared to the TV contracts. Here's some anecdotal data: Basebal
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by qeorge 17y ago
Yeah, I remember that better now. There were a lot of pitchforks that day. 37s has a great track record of listening to and acting on community feedback, which is all you can really ask for. I second your kudos.
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by qeorge 17y ago
They didn't lose them, someone just noticed that they would send you your original password if you requested it and made a blog post about it. The conclusion was that they must be storing passwords plaintext, although that's not necessarily
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by qeorge 17y ago
They can't steal what's really valuable about Plurk: 1) Your loyal community 2) The team that created this site in the first place All they got was a snapshot of what you were doing yesterday.
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by qeorge 17y ago
XUL is a double-edged sword. It allows deep integration between extensions and the browser, but you pay for it in performance. Chrome has positioned itself towards performance at the cost of extensibility. Thus I expect it will be difficult
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by qeorge 17y ago
Article is a bit misleading, and fairly light on facts. Strikes me as Time trying to "out" a competitor. They're basically saying examiner.com is the Demand Media of online newspapers. This sounds like a fair assessment, but there's no scan
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by qeorge 17y ago
Thanks Igor, I went directly to rightjs.org and was unable to find this info. Should have looked on the blog.
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by qeorge 17y ago
I like that there's innovation in the space, but there's a couple things about this library that bother me: - Namespacing is horrible. I've found several global objects it declares, like Browser. Not cool. - As others have noted, it has no
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by qeorge 17y ago
As a general rule, your community is valuable, your tech is not. They can reproduce your tech in-house, the user base is harder. Why did their first attempt fail? Was the tech that bad or was it a marketing problem? If its the latter, I lik
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by qeorge 17y ago
Adoption. Email is universal. The notifications are already coming via email, not RSS.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Great for the team, but this sucks as a user. I've come to frequently use Etherpad for ad-hoc chat rooms, and now its impossible to make new pads. I really hope EtherPad doesn't go the way of Jaiku. I really liked the product.
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by qeorge 17y ago
$300 for a splint is one thing. Try negotiating an MRI when you've just been in a car accident. Its a real problem. Insurance companies have a ton of weight by virtue of representing many patients, which they effectively leverage for lower
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Screen reader user survey on web accessibility(webaim.org)
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's quite a claim to levy with no details. I'd be curious to hear which of your friend's unique ideas Google stole.
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's a really good point. And the government of Tuvalu hasa 20% stake in the company which actually owns the contract (Verisign owns the rest). Very well structured deal for both sides.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Regarding API docs, I'm certainly not saying I have all APIs memorized, or that you're approach is bad. Its just that the comment you posted sounds like past employers have asked you to learn things and you've resisted. I suppose its actual
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by qeorge 17y ago
There's advantages and disadvantages to older coders. The biggest disadvantages are that you have a family and responsibilities, and your health insurance is a lot more expensive. If you're a great programmer, who's interested in learning n
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by qeorge 17y ago
Getting access to sell all .tvs for $4MM/year is a steal, IMHO. Not to mention the manner in which they sold them is unique. With most TLDs, all domains cost the same price, and its first come, first served. With .tv, the domains were price
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by qeorge 17y ago
.cm is owned by a spammer. Nearly anything .cm redirects to agoga.net.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Not exactly. Its $50MM over 12 years, so more like $4MM/year. I remember when that deal was announced, during the first bubble. Everyone thought it was foolish, now it seems genius.
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by qeorge 17y ago
This thread is a dupe of this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=971331 In that thread I've explained what First Click Free really is (its not new), because the BBC article is quite misleading. This is a small policy change to throw
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by qeorge 17y ago
I think "blackmail" is too much. The offer is not misleading, even if it seems like a waste of money to us.
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by qeorge 17y ago
Certainly, but unless the Google searcher can access the content behind the paywall without registration the website is not following the First Click Free rules. If they cloak to Googlebot and don't follow FCF they'll be delisted, because a
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by qeorge 17y ago
I don't think the end user will see a lot of change here, as its a pretty nuanced change. "First Click Free" is actually more of an indexing policy than anything else. Since its an obscure topic, and the BBC article is fairly misleading, he
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by qeorge 17y ago
That's true, but they couldn't continue to run with the skeleton staff they currently do (30 people I believe). It would fundamentally change the nature of the business. I agree with you that money is not the primary motivation, but I think
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by qeorge 17y ago
Agree. I've seen those ads more times than I can count, and never thought they'd be sending 30 CDs, and billing me if I didn't return 29 of them. The ads clearly lead you to think they'll send 1 CD, possibly charging S&H, and it will pr
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by qeorge 17y ago
(Not affiliated with either party, but here's my take) Simple: clear fair use, and responsiveness to takedown requests. Take NFL games as an example: At any given time you can probably find a channel showing any NFL game, but you won't be
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by qeorge 17y ago
The likelihood of news jobs going overseas aside, I would enjoy a more global flavor to news in the United States. I often find the BBC's take on current events illuminating, and I'd be interested in quality coverage from other parts of the
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by qeorge 17y ago
This was submitted earlier today and killed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961354

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