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by sc 18y ago
OK, so $1800ish after taxes. You can still get a MacBook for half that, which has everything else you mentioned, so why not get a MacBook and upgrade twice as often? (With resale value, you'll be way on top.)
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by sc 18y ago
> You seem to be under the impression that I agree with Giles. No, I merely stated that your "solution" took every "problem" that Giles observed, and magnified it: making all of those problems bigger. > But he is correct to point ou
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by sc 18y ago
I guess the question is: would you talk to someone like this in real life? http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by sc 18y ago
Ah, thanks. Well then I guess I can't give that one to him.
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by sc 18y ago
> You're talking entirely about a different computer and a different time I know, just as it'll change again in the next 3 years. > A new Macbook Pro (such as one he might buy) comes with... Most of these things come with a standard
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by sc 18y ago
Sorry, I said "PowerBook, then". And in 4 years from now it may hold some other moniker. My basic point was that if technology continues to change, the best bang for your buck is rarely the higher end. Only buy the high end if you need it a
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by sc 18y ago
The MBP is not great bang-to-buck. I bought one 4 years ago (PowerBook, then) and it ended up costing about $3,000. The MacBook costs just over 1/3 that. 1 year ago, I bought a MacBook to replace the failing MBP, and the difference was incr
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by sc 18y ago
> Apparently you struggle with basic maths OK... > my whole point was that you should reward interesting commenters, not prolific commenters. In theory, great, but Giles' whole point was that in practice, this just wouldn't work. In
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by sc 18y ago
> People are harsh on lazy English, good at ignoring trolls Wouldn't it be preferable to be good at ignoring lazy English? If the lazy English comes with trolling, it's ignored completely; if the lazy English comes with sincerity, every
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by sc 18y ago
Moderators? Points? This is a proposal completely ignoring what Giles is talking about. How would moderators be much different than what we have now? The people that spend the most time here would become the moderators, and we would lose a
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by sc 18y ago
If possible, don't delay monetization to traffic, especially if the plan is further delayed by indirect monetization (i.e., ads and sponsors are very different than customers).
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by sc 18y ago
For general use, neither, but for personal use, Markdown. Unlike Textile, with its specific syntax, Markdown adapts to various implementations of email syntax (numbered lists actually use numbers, bulleted lists use hyphens or asterisks). W
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by sc 18y ago
I think the younger you are, the more willing you are to want to customize something to express yourself and personalize the experience (some of the younger generation would put stickers on their iPods). The older you are, the less apt to w
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by sc 18y ago
Layering frameworks probably isn't a good idea to begin with. Prototype does seem, unfortunately, more powerful than jQuery, though, when it comes to class creation.
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by sc 18y ago
It's not always about size. Sometimes it's about memorability. I think we're way past the point of "web 2.0"-y names being memorable (though some will still make it out of obfuscation). Take a word or two that work well with your idea. Ther
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by sc 18y ago
I don't think he was trying to post a link to that specific article. The site at large is relevant with its argument: "spec work devalues the potential of design and ultimately does a disservice to the client".
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by sc 18y ago
I understand, you mean "lighten up." I come here more for the information and insight than the humor, and a lot of that information lives in the comments. We already have Reddit for fluff and everything else, so why clone that here? I just
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by sc 18y ago
Is commentary like this really necessary? Can't we save these for Reddit?
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by sc 18y ago
> After all, anything creative requires greater mental effort on behalf of your users to understand and is unlikely to spread as quickly. You can always consider design as usability: Apple and 37signals are the "big" names we know that
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by sc 18y ago
Have you considered a bell curve? - At one end: the posts from new/under-participatory users, where spam and linkbait is more likely. - At the other: the posts to popular domains. What I love about HN is that it manages to uncover interesti
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by sc 18y ago
I like idea "b", though maybe it's more of a "flame warning" button: i.e., the authenticity of this article/domain is suspect, so be warned that it may just be flammable material. Really, I don't think we should be necessarily banning conte
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by sc 19y ago
Everything appears to be a matter of taste: Ruby has two range operators, .. and .... Why? The only difference is that the shorter one, with two periods, returns a longer range, and the longer one returns a shorter range, not including the
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by sc 19y ago
He wrote, in the comments, that this doesn't fix the problem. I did a local test with the first photo I came to and found the same: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmorgan/32606683/sizes/l/ Even with the Expires header set, it re-requests th
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by sc 19y ago
NearlyFreeSpeech ( http://nearlyfreespeech.net ). Slightly more expensive, but given their track record and their attitude toward web hosting, you can be pretty sure they're trustworthy.