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by scrrr 16y ago
You're right, but in this case I assumed not the users but the HN-readers were the target audience. And I think many are interested in performance benchmarks. I think it makes a difference wether a site with many requests is quick in compar
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by scrrr 16y ago
What good is this without including some "how busy is this site?"-metric like requests per second? Or the amount of data served?
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by scrrr 16y ago
Hm good point. In this fashion, how would you target say Concert Pianists or Firemen? And where would you post that link?
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by scrrr 16y ago
Weird. How did this spammy self-help blah-blah make it to the front-page? Must be a slow news day or simply vanity: "Hey, I am smart, I want to see what truths I forget! Vote up, cause we're all smart here."
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by scrrr 16y ago
I didn't express myself well. It was an example where a style attribute may be implicit in one browser, but lead to incorrect rendering in another. In other cases it may be a hack. So I guess the advice is: be explicit. btw: Microsoft must
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by scrrr 16y ago
Before using this make sure you write valid HTML and valid CSS. I found this to be the best remedy for IE issues. Not that IE is particularly fond of standards, however, sometimes adding something like "position:relative" to the stylesheet
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by scrrr 16y ago
That will not hinder its success, heh. Vanity blogpost. Look at HN, Reddit, ebay etc. to see how much design really matters. OSX is pretty but I'd argue it's not the neat icons that make it a success. Tsts.. Designers and their worldview.
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by scrrr 16y ago
Youve been played. Its less about advocating anything but more about the page rank of the domains it links to. Lets not be naive. The content here is almost zero and could be summarized with one simple english sentence containing the word '
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by scrrr 16y ago
At first I thought it was Kevin Connolly, the actor from Entourage. That would have been something! :)
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by scrrr 16y ago
Uhm... isn't this just spam? It's hardly "Hacker News", is it? Granted, it's a well-made sales-page, but it's just a sales-page. (Interesting though how everyone doesn't seem to mind. Must be the same effect Groupon thrives on.) And who are
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by scrrr 16y ago
The main-point is: To really do something useful with all the data we produce on the web daily, we need to have public APIs that allow to access old data. In my opinion better than all Facebook of the world are things like HTML5, truly open
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by scrrr 16y ago
Ah yes. :) Yes, put the CrunchBase Profile up! Thanks for clarifying.
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by scrrr 16y ago
Maybe its the WikiLeaks debacle lately, but somehow my first thoughts were "cool, like that" and then "i cant use it, because i cant trust posterous with my data"..
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by scrrr 16y ago
Again one of these posts where the author doesn't have/write about own experience to back up his claims. (Example: "Most successful startups had a long gestation period" - proof? citation? something?) He doesn't even write his full name in
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by scrrr 16y ago
It doesn't get much easier than git once you have set it up and learned a few basic commands. Free, cross-plattform, fast and sexy.
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by scrrr 16y ago
In my opinion the only interesting advice comes from people that "been there, done that". I don't need to read any self-help crap from people that tell you how something is done without actually having done it. Sometimes they are right and
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by scrrr 16y ago
AMIGA game publisher "Thalion" once said "We're going to release this game without copy protection. If you pirate it, we'll go out of business, so please be honest." They went out of business. http://www.illusionware.it/commodore/lionheart
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by scrrr 16y ago
I currently have a use case for wave and would like to use it. Would you recommend against it? What's the current status. When will it go offline?
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by scrrr 16y ago
Hehe. I was considering implementing exactly the same thing, but currently I am working on other projects. Anyway, I wish you luck and I'm curious to see how it works out.
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by scrrr 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. It demonstrates nicely what is a common phenomenon. I'm also sure it's frequently used in politics and elsewhere to to hide a scandal behind a seemingly more important but in fact less important (or untrue) event. N
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by scrrr 16y ago
Perhaps not all information should be released, however, in the end perhaps it's only whistleblowers that can uncover certain things and force decision makers take back certain laws. (Fictional?) example with body scanners: The company maki
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by scrrr 16y ago
I think you totally misjudge the motivation of the people behind WikiLeaks and its supporters.
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by scrrr 16y ago
yes, i think you may be right. if yes, then this is an insidious tactic to get seo-juice, but sadly probably very effective..
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by scrrr 16y ago
You can say "Agreed." by upvoting. :)
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by scrrr 16y ago
Funny, I have the opposite problem. I need a biz-guy!
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by scrrr 16y ago
Shouldn't you be able to use a web-view inside your application where you display web-ads? Essentially your desktop-apps are web-apps anyway, as the target will (in most cases) be to open a browser-window and display a landing page. As for
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by scrrr 16y ago
I kinda like HN the way it comes by default, even on the phone screen. It loads quickly and can be easily navigated. However, I use http://searchyc.com to look up some older stuff, from time to time.
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by scrrr 16y ago
Btw. this reminds me of an idea me and a friend had over lunch on how to take down Google, Facebook etc. An evil hacker could theoretically write a virus, that only does one thing: Block Ads. Or install an Ad-Blocker. This could SERIOUSLY d
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by scrrr 16y ago
Ha, great. Ad-Blocking enabled by default and DuckDuckGo used for search. Good choices and good idea to differentiate your product from competition like that.

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