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by sedev 15y ago
Yeah, I added a bit of a qualifier there to try to make it clear that I was talking about how humans read reviews - for all I know, Yelp reviews do algorithmically get less important over time. That'd be a smart thing to do.
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by sedev 15y ago
I wish the article headline had said that the piece was by a restauranteur. Most of what they have to say about Yelp falls under the heading of "more of the same." I think that restaurant and venue owners are wrong to hate Yelp - but it's
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by sedev 15y ago
I'd argue that "I don't mean to X ..." has actually fallen victim to the euphemism treadmill ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill ). It can still be used earnestly for its original meaning, but that usage has bee
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by sedev 15y ago
I notice a lot of comments taking on Al3x's comments about the way things are, but almost none taking on his comments about the way things will be. It'd be a little to facile to just say "skate to where the puck will be, not to where it
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Paypal Is In The Censorship Business Again(zdnet.com)
3 points by sedev 15y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 15y ago
On a personal note, I had a workplace bathroom once that was worse than this, also in trash bins. The one you were supposed to throw paper towels into after washing your hands, had a spring-loaded lid that required at least two pounds of
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by sedev 15y ago
If you're feeling uncharitable, you can go look at the source code of PHP and see how many times they run afoul of these guidelines. (not like the items in the article are Holy Writ, but they're sensible guidelines , and it's kind of sad t
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by sedev 15y ago
"Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest. My partner, Penn, and I once produc
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by sedev 15y ago
Unfortunately, that's incorrect. The cable channels, as mentioned upthread, early on promised "since we can restrict access, unlike broadcast, we can just charge people and we won't show ads." That's not true in 2012. It is extremely, extre
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by sedev 15y ago
Those are good, yes! But there's also a lot of survivor bias there. Sturgeon's Law still holds: for every individual Freakazoid! there's a posse of Dumb & Dumber (yes, real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_and_Dumber_(TV_series)
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by sedev 15y ago
The author mentions this a little in the article, but I feel like they probably could have expanded on that point - the "$I" cost of piracy can change depending on the seller's track record. As noted recently in the Oatmeal comic about pir
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by sedev 15y ago
I have strong opinions about the politics of this (i.e. giving people power without accountability always causes problems, whether it's on this scale or the Department of Homeland Security scale), but since we're on Hacker News, I think it'
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by sedev 15y ago
"My argument is that use of the word "fascist" itself prevents us from rational discourse of the trends and problems at hand by driving us to extreme positions." I call foul: you say that now, but you're participating in preventing people
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by sedev 15y ago
Assume that the US is a fascist state and you're one of the beneficiaries: you'd see the same thing that you're seeing now. You would also see the same thing if we assume that the US is not a fascist state. So that argument is of null i
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by sedev 15y ago
"If you want to overkill, on November 1st you could read the election issue of The Economist cover to cover, whatever political posts are on the front page of HN, and the Wikipedia pages for the major issues. Then sit and think carefully fo
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by sedev 15y ago
"Those are content-consumption devices, occasionally branching out into cutesy creation." Haven't we had this discussion way too many times before? How many HN stories have there been of "look at the feat of content creation this person pul
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by sedev 15y ago
"This is nothing but feel good linkbait for the Apple fans to lap up." "After all, this is a site where Gruber and Sieger get top billing but Paul Thurrotts Winsupersite is shadowbanned totally from even appearing on the site, probably due
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by sedev 15y ago
I really wish people wouldn't use "secure" to mean "laden with broken DRM and other misfeatures that serve publishers by antagonizing users." That's not "secure," that "broken."
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by sedev 15y ago
And-or get an SSD - the heavyweight disk-space users like movies and music are trivial to move to an external drive on a Mac, and with an SSD so much disk-thrashing pain just goes away. It's pretty great.
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by sedev 15y ago
Speaking of John Edward, I still hope someone tries this on him: http://www.pvponline.com/2002/04/04/thu-apr-04/ Of course, the subsequent strips probably have the outcome portrayed accurately. :(
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by sedev 15y ago
Ian Rowland's book is great stuff. I also recall a Malcolm Gladwell article that travelled some of the same territory and used Rowland as a source: http://www.gladwell.com/2007/2007_11_12_a_profile.html Of course, that dealt with the poss
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by sedev 15y ago
Or, more to the point, American culture finds sex far more obscene than violence, racism, or anti-semitism.
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by sedev 15y ago
I'm in Arizona right now. I cuss out the static electricity about every other day, so, yes, around here I'd use an ESD wrist strap or something if I were going to handle DIMMs.
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PHP Is Not An Acceptable COBOL(chipotle.tumblr.com)
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by sedev 15y ago
Why do you think the search volume on mobile is a hockey stick at Google? I could take a guess. "Google Exec Testifies Before Senate That Two-Thirds of Mobile Search Happens on iOS Devices" http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/21/google-23rds-of-o
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by sedev 15y ago
Well, I think that they currently aren't doing so, at least based on a track record of articles like this one: http://www.asymco.com/2011/11/09/mobile-games-the-denouement...
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by sedev 15y ago
Maybe a silver mine, but definitely not a goldmine. Apple is still taking home the lion's share of the profits in mobile, which the author of the article rather ignores.
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by sedev 15y ago
I'm really glad to see someone scrutinizing the use of JavaScript this way. JS is great for a lot of things - but part of the price of using it the way we are, using it do to more and more things formerly done by native code, is that it ope
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by sedev 15y ago
The takeaway for me is this: Android and iOS' creators made different tradeoffs in their UI programming. The iOS creators, overall, correctly predicted that a fast, smooth, responsive UI was something that users would care about enough that
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by sedev 15y ago
I base my personal guess of "no" on the fact that Carrier IQ is currently advertising several job openings that ask for deep knowledge of Android internals, and zero job openings requiring similar iOS experience. Of course, the possibility

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