ronnoch

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by ronnoch 16y ago
Almost missed the tiny link to page 2.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
> I think we would be better off reevaluating business models rather than suffering the effects of trying to preserve out-dated ones. What sort of business model do you think would be effective?
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Yeah, that's one quote I just can't agree with. The amount of value I get out of a good book always hugely exceeds what I paid for it.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Humorous, sure, but I wonder what percentage of Google Books users will get the reference. If I didn't know about Twitter's fail whale, "Whale Fail" might seem totally random.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
True - important since there are other ingredients in Red Bull that could have factored into the result.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Hmmm, I thought the TV networks had a policy of buying domain names mentioned on the air. Didn't NBC have to buy a bunch of unregistered domains that Conan mentioned a few years back?
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by ronnoch 16y ago
This is one of those ideas I feel like I should have thought of.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Sure, Reddit's problems are caused by its size, the same way that Digg's are caused by its size. But this does not make the groupthink, mob mentality etc. any less irritating.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
> But I would characterize Reddit (as characterized by what's voted up into default visibility) as fairly open-minded, even compulsively contrarian. Have you been there recently? They're "contrarian" in the sense that they disagree wit
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Just to clarify, you're judging this story after only 3 chapters? Because if you want to get an accurate impression of the story, you should push past chapter 5 at least. The tone of the story evolves considerably, and you might find you li
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by ronnoch 16y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2040
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Math Overflow had a joke thread a while back: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/1083/do-good-math-jokes-ex...
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Thank you for this. Yahoo! should copy and paste your comment onto the S4 homepage.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
I still have trouble believing it, and I have a pretty good understanding how it works.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
The difference between "genetic accident" and "intelligence" is not big.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Cool. Would be even cooler if you could specify a range.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
The mosque builders deny making any such deal, according to MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573/ns/politics-white_house...
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Soapier, the company that makes Reddit soap, is up for sale(reddit.com)
1 points by ronnoch 16y ago|0 comments
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by ronnoch 16y ago
I don't know that the internet is the world's greatest library yet . In 5-10 years, when Google and Amazon have scanned every book in the world, maybe.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Technical explanation: The Disqus comments don't load until a second or two after the permalink's anchor jump (#comment-55003614) is attempted by the browser. So when the browser tries to jump to the comment, the comment isn't there yet.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
> I got almost all my news from Digg for the past 3 years. Wow. That doesn't seem like a good thing.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Reddit's logo today has the alien carrying a shovel... almost as if they're going to "bury" Digg.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Yahoo! cache since the blog is down: http://74.6.239.185/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=http%3A%2...
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by ronnoch 16y ago
I've been using 1Password's beta for Windows[1]. Anybody know if it's got any problems like this? [1] http://agilewebsolutions.com/onepassword/win
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by ronnoch 16y ago
Seconded, plus if you do ever need to use Google, try http://scroogle.org or http://ixquick.com instead. Both anonymously scrape results from Google and don't keep records.
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by ronnoch 16y ago
I switched from Google Reader to Friendfeed about two months ago. So far, it's a much better fit for me. It looks and feels like Twitter but you can add RSS feeds (using the "imaginary friends" feature). Like Twitter, there's no "unread ite
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by ronnoch 16y ago
This is also discussed in Methods of Rationality, chapter 25 (Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic): http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...
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by ronnoch 16y ago
>Currently, the Gmail program is comprised of 443,000 lines of JavaScript, with 978,000 lines if comments are included. Interesting - more comments than actual code (535,000 lines vs 443,000 lines).
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Add a Readability button to your website(keyboardy.com)
2 points by ronnoch 16y ago|1 comments

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