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by rriepe 16y ago
It's funny. So many people come to HN to get their daily dose of commoditized inspiration. And yet, when it's their turn to help someone out and give real inspiration, they do things like this. I don't think HN is getting worse, really, b
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by rriepe 16y ago
You're right. I really meant to say that Hypernumbers implies something else (an app dedicated to advanced math, perhaps?), not that it isn't descriptive. Insteadsheet would indeed be a ballsy name, incorporating the "We're the anti-Excel/G
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by rriepe 16y ago
I don't like the name. It sounds too technical. How about "Insteadsheet"? Because that's really what you are, right? Edit: Some elaboration. I'm a branding guy, and this site has a branding problem. Hypernumbers doesn't really describe the
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by rriepe 16y ago
I feel like, now that the magic trick has been explained, my world is slightly less full of wonder and excitement. Thanks, I think.
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by rriepe 16y ago
"Like" seems pretty limited on Twitter. News spreads on Twitter, and most of it you can't really "like" without looking like some kind of sociopath. Tweets are also short enough to immediately show their relevance. In theory, anything that'
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by rriepe 16y ago
Awesome. I tried to write something like this, but it was way out of my league. Glad to see someone did it. Used correctly, blur can be really neat in UIs.
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by rriepe 16y ago
To this day, there are people who believe that New Coke was a PR stunt. Often viewed as one of the biggest brand disasters in history, the New Coke quagmire actually had a great effect on Coke: It made people realize how much they loved the
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by rriepe 16y ago
Thanks. I wanted to go with something that wasn't blue. I'm open to any and all ideas on getting the ball rolling-- thanks for that one.
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Rate my startup: Product Place Me(productplaceme.com)
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by rriepe 16y ago
PR firms take note: Deception and conspiracy won't get you very far in the end. I'd hesitate to even call this group a PR firm, though. The Joojoo's launch was mired in image problems. To spend so much time and effort on a misguided publici
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by rriepe 16y ago
If you really believe this, put your money where your mouth is: Tell all of your clients that you do this. Then, report back to us what they think. Somehow I don't think they'll buy the "I was lying to you for your own good" line.
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by rriepe 16y ago
This is unethical. What happens when a client discovers that you've been deceiving them?
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by rriepe 16y ago
It's the featured example in a story about the type of product. Very much a PR win for AirBnB.
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by rriepe 16y ago
I figured they would do this. Everyone claiming they'd do a full-blown recall was nuts. Semi-related: Nintendo is great at this stuff. When Mario Party hit for the N64, a lot of its mini-games required rotating the control stick fast. A lot
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by rriepe 16y ago
Luckily, Monster Quest, Ghost Hunters and all those other shows should satisfy any desire for fiction on the History Channel.
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by rriepe 16y ago
I think you're right about Toyota, but I don't think the opposite extreme is justified either. Apple's flippant handling of the situation just shows that they have a crappy attitude. Sony's the same way; when they got complaints about a sho
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by rriepe 16y ago
Is this a joke that I'm not getting? Scotch tape? Really? "This problem isn't real, but here's how you fix it." He also completely dismisses public perception. Did everyone forget Toyota's mess so quickly? If there's a perceived problem wit
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by rriepe 16y ago
Look up the statute of limitations.
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by rriepe 16y ago
Looks interesting. I don't know how many times I wished I could define a color like thatin CSS. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this.
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by rriepe 16y ago
This tweet was clever, but I couldn't help but cringe when I saw it going around Twitter, giving everyone a healthy dose of misinformation. BP said fairly early on in the account's popularity (~20k followers is when I read about it) that th
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by rriepe 16y ago
An analogous question would be "Are you beating your wife?" "Is Twitter censoring?" isn't assuming anything in the question.
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by rriepe 16y ago
And for that matter, #flotilla now works for me, when it wasn't working before. Anyone else? EDIT: And now it's not. This is too weird.
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by rriepe 16y ago
People are now using #freedomflotilla instead of #flotilla, for those of you who wanted to participate.
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by rriepe 16y ago
I have to give Twitter more credit than that. Politics of the issue aside, censoring anything could seriously hurt Twitter. Even if we're cynical and we don't give them the benefit of a doubt integrity-wise, it's still a stupid move for t
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by rriepe 16y ago
Yeah, the search is still broken. But at least it's showing now? It seems too inconsistent to be active censoring.
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by rriepe 16y ago
They still are for me (Florida). Where are you located?
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by rriepe 16y ago
I really want to think that this is a technical error. "Israil" was another term that is broken in the search. It's now showing as trending for me. I'm hoping "flotilla" will follow.
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by rriepe 16y ago
Please be a technical error. They could undo a lot of good will (Iran elections, etc) just by censoring this one thing.
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by rriepe 16y ago
The "signup for free" part had me wondering. "Sign up" is the verb, where "signup" is a noun. I wonder if the benefit was just in eliminating the misused word. Most other A/B tests I've seen favor the phrase with "free" in it. It's similar
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by rriepe 16y ago
Yep, as seen from here. The denser parts are looking towards the center of the galaxy.

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