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by ronilan 7y ago
I've used #412f1c for years as my personal site background. I've now changed it to #4A412A (Pantone 448 C). Looks just as good to me. Has better story. https://www.ronilan.com/ What do you think?
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by ronilan 7y ago
Reposting myself on the subject[1]: For anyone not aware (or confused by Silicon Valley tradition on constantly rewriting origin stories), TripAdvisor started in the dot com bubble as a B2B site. They clearly stated their business model was
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by ronilan 7y ago
Your wish will be summoned. Just make sure to never have kids and never fall on your luck.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Indeed. Missed that. Verdict is this: they started at the top, then things went sideways ;)
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by ronilan 7y ago
This suggests otherwise: “For example, entering the query "buy domain" into the search box on Google’s home page produces search results and an AdWords text advertisement that appears to the RIGHT of Google’s search results” [1]
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by ronilan 7y ago
(And OT, or maybe not, as far as I can recall, AdWords was still CPM back then)
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by ronilan 7y ago
Your link is gold. A historic artifact. Amazing how clear the writing is, how simple the message. That’s, like, totally not the corpspeak Goog emits now on a daily basis. So, let’s do some digging. Earliest version of url dates back 4+ year
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by ronilan 7y ago
They didn’t promote it. They submitted it. The promotion happened with the upvotes. That being said, if it is such a pain that something that was submitted before was submitted again, I can provide help balancing the universe by not submitt
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by ronilan 7y ago
> This is a query for checking out what reddit thinks in regards to buying a phone [reddit phone to buy] What is astonishing, is that the most obvious part of the non-progress in search over the last two decades, is just accepted as th
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by ronilan 7y ago
What you don’t know can’t inspire you.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Competitive sports are zero-sum only if you ignore all the things that competitive sports are about. Winners and losers are a side effect of the competition not the essence of it.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Yes that. But basically not that at all, unless you ignore all the things that make those players who they are.
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by ronilan 7y ago
My example is only meaningful to people who know the story, or will research it as a result of that comment. The view? They’ll form that themselves.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Sport is a zero-sum game only if you ignore all the things that sport is about. Example from this weekend - Shaqueem and Shaquill Griffin sack Aaron Rodgers in the final minutes of a game that ended the Seahawks season with a loss: https:&
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by ronilan 7y ago
“And one time, at Loudcloud” Edit: enjoy - https://youtu.be/MH619vxtNdo
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by ronilan 7y ago
This is very well done. Svelte rendering is smooth. Plugging myself: https://github.com/ronilan/a-mazing-thing Solver encapsulated as class, rendering demos with Vanilla, React and BlockLike.
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by ronilan 7y ago
One way Google, a software company in the broad sense of the term, could have avoided a blog post with such a title is to never hire a “Head of International Relations” in the first place. Which leads to my attempt at answering the question
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Maternal bladder cancer diagnosed at routine first-trimester ultrasound(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by ronilan 7y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg helps the founders of Diaspora (2010)(wired.com)
1 points by ronilan 7y ago|0 comments
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by ronilan 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification. IANAL. (It’s been a beautiful saga. I hope they make a movie out of it.)
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by ronilan 7y ago
the lawsuit will now be known as Google v. Oracle, since Google asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. After nine years, we’ll have to get used to calling the case by this new name Interesting. Poetic. Google can’t win this fight (if t
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by ronilan 7y ago
It’s about privacy not content. (I have a lot to say about content, including suggesting specific solutions to specific problems, but I’ve decided to not air this in a public forum. Further discussion is pay gated. Sponsor me on github for
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by ronilan 7y ago
”adults will be unfairly restricted” from what? Asking for a friend.
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by ronilan 7y ago
Assume, just for the sake of the discussion, obviously, that it may be possible to determine, without violating their privacy (and actually without doing a damn thing), that someone might be a child? Will this help? (There’s an elephant in
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by ronilan 7y ago
Filtering? It’s a discussion about privacy.... (What content/functionality is available to what user is a different question, and, I think we both agree, should be left for the provider to decide.) (And I always find internet-as-whole
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by ronilan 7y ago
Assume, just for the sake of the discussion, obviously, that it may be possible, using some certain commonly accepted methods, and with some reasonable, commonly accepted margin of error, to detect that a user, signed into an account, is NO
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by ronilan 7y ago
Under the terms of the agreement Vinod “gatekeeper” Khosla, will maintain ownership of the newly established Martins Beach Surfing Club House and will be allowed to leave his board and wetsuit on the floor without penalty. The Friends of M
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by ronilan 7y ago
It’s smooth.
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How We Are Going to the Moon (NASA official)(youtu.be)
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by ronilan 7y ago
Silicon Valley’s biggest problem is that is tends to see problems as opportunities and opportunities as problems. There is no opportunity in that problem.

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