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by smokinn 17y ago
True, but it costs nothing to submit your competitor and given the devastating effect getting de-listed from Google can have on some sites the small chance is worth it. Ironically enough, I expect Google will get spammed with spam reports.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Doesn't Apple know that one cannot proceed by clinging on the patents and legal protections alone. They're doing no such thing. They're trying to slow others so that they can stay ahead. For the longest time I refused to buy new smartphon
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by smokinn 17y ago
I hate scribd too but it seems she uploaded the slides there herself: http://twitter.com/pamelafox/status/9873479432
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by smokinn 17y ago
I find it ironic that by going around and routinely downvoting anything jasonmcalacanis posts in these comments it makes them much easier to spot; I simply scrolled down and read everything in light grey.
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by smokinn 17y ago
It's pretty obvious the role they played. They're expected to be the arbiters of what the risk is. They were setting the risk value for things they had no clue about. It was simply incompetent negligence and no one should be trusting them a
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by smokinn 17y ago
If Goldman had wanted them they'd already be there.
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by smokinn 17y ago
I'm not sure we'll see many more of the OkCupid posts hit the front page. I think some sort of filter may have been added. I recently submitted their latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1129738 and it got upvoted a lot in the firs
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by smokinn 17y ago
No group by. Sucks. (Will eventually not suck when they hit 1.1 but they're only at 0.9.2.)
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by smokinn 17y ago
I tend to agree with the cynic in me that says it's because the guy's name was "Joe Stack". Had it been Mohammed something then it would've been terrorism.
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by smokinn 17y ago
What I find kind of funny is that both major JVMs (Sun's and IBM's) were both originally Smalltalk VMs that were basically abused (crippling them with Java's security model among other things in Sun's case, not too sure about IBM) to run Ja
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by smokinn 17y ago
Well it doesn't help when the people that say others should get over the UI issues then say if you do actually use the UI you won't really be getting much out of it and then supply command line examples of what they should be doing.
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The Case For An Older Woman(blog.okcupid.com)
103 points by smokinn 17y ago|7 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
Nowhere does it say he was saying the words "bomb" or "terrorism" out loud in an airport. He had flash cards. That's it. You're not allowed to scream fire in a crowded building but you're certainly allowed to have a book in which one happen
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by smokinn 17y ago
Practicing in his mind is actually the most important thing he did to land it. I watched a documentary on TV a long time ago that said that Olympic divers will typically spend several days rehearsing a dive they've never done before in thei
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Seeking A Database That Doesn't Suck(ai.mee.nu)
7 points by smokinn 17y ago|2 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
It was 79% sure my blog was written by a man but it was 74% sure my girlfriend's blog was written by a man as well. I'm not impressed.
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by smokinn 17y ago
They don't realize it because the rates are the same whether you get a free phone or not. If you buy your phone you'll be paying the same monthly fee as some other person who got his for free.
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by smokinn 17y ago
What's sad is that he refused the project rather than express his viewpoint. If his point was that beautiful code is rare and only refined through a long iterative process perhaps he could've found some code that was initially average or ev
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by smokinn 17y ago
In my continuing review of the dental primary literature I would love a post about your most interesting findings. Looking into the Vipeholm Study now.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Hmm, you're right. Maybe something like this then? http://jqueryui.com/demos/resizable/
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by smokinn 17y ago
The info box is cool but the layout of it is really annoying. Since it's a div, I can't resize it and scrolling to the bottom scrolls the page down as well when I hit the bottom so the whole thing is very jarring. It would be a lot better i
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by smokinn 17y ago
Something weird is happening in that layout though. Maybe it's just Chrome/Webkit but if you double click anywhere a grid overlays itself onto the page. It seems to be on purpose ( background-image: url( http://blog.peepcode.com/images/grid
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by smokinn 17y ago
Giles Bowkett has a quote I like that touches on that: (paraphrased) We [programmers] create things that didn't exist before; when someone who doesn't have our knowledge is calling the shots we are working with a subset of possibility.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Sorry for the title mixup, I saw the video of the talk you gave at Yahoo Brickhouse a long time ago. It was very helpful at the time; I was only just starting to get into user tracking and analysis. Thanks
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by smokinn 17y ago
I watched a video (Jeff Hammerbacher maybe? It was a long time ago back when he was still CTO) where the person mentioned that they had already tried to rewrite their frontend once in, I think, Python, but it was such a massive undertaking
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by smokinn 17y ago
I would be ok with this nonsense if it were a debate but it really isn't. It's science on one side and hysteria on the other. One side says show us the evidence! The other side points to dozens of papers showing no link whatsoever. The othe
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by smokinn 17y ago
After watching the videos it basically looks like a great idea poorly executed. The device itself is so thick and bulky. If Apple had decided to make basically the same device but with the typical Apple finish, now that would've been a pr
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by smokinn 17y ago
I wonder where the weight comes from. I imagine it's mostly from the batteries since there are 2, one in the keyboard base and the other in the tablet screen.
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The Touch Book(alwaysinnovating.com)
44 points by smokinn 17y ago|25 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
That doesn't set a very good precedent though. There's a reason designers scorn "spec work".

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