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by smspence 14y ago
Start small and iterate? If built by knowledgeable engineers, I could see it being decent. It won't be awesome at version 1.0, but what ever is?
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by smspence 14y ago
We have no idea what the code looks like. Maybe some knowledgeable engineers took a look at it and figured it would be better in the long run to just design and build something new themselves, instead of inheriting someone else's hairy, wa
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by smspence 14y ago
Redirects to Reddit.com... clever. In my opinion, Reddit is kind of fun in small doses, but the groupthink and mob mentality over there is unbearable.
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by smspence 14y ago
Pretty much. And isn't that what Spotify is? or is it implied that Spotify doesn't have a library as big as she wants? Lately, I have been listening to Slacker Radio with a Premium account ($10/month), and it is very much like Spotify an
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by smspence 15y ago
Would you consider rephrasing that? I don't understand what you are trying to say.
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by smspence 15y ago
Here is the link to the real website, instead of the blog: http://www.urbee.net/home/ It's not a full car that is downloadable and printable. It's not at all what the misleading title of this post says.
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by smspence 15y ago
The title here is a little misleading. They didn't create the whole car with a 3D printer. They just used a Stratasys FDM machine (the "3d printer") to make the outer body panels... basically just the outer shell of the car that is painte
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by smspence 15y ago
It's called a "weekend project", not "this is a rock-solid, time-tested piece of software that works in absolutely every browser perfectly". If you would like to help out, go ahead and download the source and make the necessary modificatio
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by smspence 15y ago
I'm using Firefox 10 and it works great for me. Do you have weird custom javascript settings, or are you using any extensions like No-script that might be interfering with it?
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by smspence 15y ago
Did you actually read it?" Yes, I clicked the provided link and read the entire article from start to finish. First, I want to say that I hope my first post did not sound like a personal attack on you. I was only trying to present my vi
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by smspence 15y ago
Instead of answering my questions, you have just copy-pasted more speculation and hyperbole from an opinion piece written by just another blogger. What I am trying to do here is get people to actually think logically about these things, no
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by smspence 15y ago
I'm not sure what this has to do with my question. What you linked to has nothing to do with either Google or email.
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by smspence 15y ago
Facts and logic are not going to stop the bloggers from creating FUD and link bait.
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by smspence 15y ago
What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could or would happen in the future? When you do web searches, your personal emails start popping up within the results? That actually happens, or i
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by smspence 15y ago
Could you give a specific example of a search that you've done on Google that gives you bad results? And that would give you better "unbiased" results on DuckDuckGo? I would like to try and do a side-by-side comparison. Also, what do y
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by smspence 15y ago
I don't understand. Can you please explain how they are "cannibalizing their core cash-cow"? Can you please explain what they are gambling or betting on? They aren't getting rid of search as we know it. They are just adding additional
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by smspence 15y ago
"Google is playing with fire... If they break search, they will die." Please explain how they might "break search". I keep seeing comments on HN about how Google is messing up search, and also G+ is ruining peoples' lives somehow. I hav
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by smspence 15y ago
"This ignores the fact that H.264......" What ignores this? This article is talking about the market share of different web browsers.... What are they ignoring? I don't understand how this comment has anything to do with the article.
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by smspence 15y ago
It was arguably only the dreaded "version 4" redesign that caused the failure of Digg. And it wasn't necessarily the look that everyone hated, it was the fact that every single aspect of functionality was completely changed in a way that m
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by smspence 15y ago
I highly doubt it. The 3GS is available only on AT&T, whereas the 4 and 4S are available on several US carriers.
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by smspence 15y ago
I started typing a response, and then I realized that there is absolutely no point to this discussion. Are we really going to speculate on the financial situation of every school in the United States? We have no idea what the financial /
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by smspence 15y ago
Where did anyone say that kids' parents will have to buy these? And where are you getting this "thousands of dollars" figure from? Most high school students don't have to buy textbooks at all. The school provides them. And nowadays, mos
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by smspence 15y ago
I don't understand the point of this comment. Can you elaborate?
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by smspence 15y ago
Seriously? Installing a network printer on Windows 7 is super easy and almost completely automatic.
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by smspence 15y ago
I don't see how this is relevant. Where did the parent poster say that you should be doing this 20 times per month?
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by smspence 15y ago
I love TotalFinder, and also can't live without flux. I don't really understand the excitement over Alfred/Quicksilver though... what does it do that spotlight can't? Just activate spotlight by pressing Command+Space, and type in whatever
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by smspence 15y ago
I don't really understand the appeal of Quicksilver. If I want to quickly launch some random program, I just press Command + Space (activates spotlight), type in the first two or three letters of the program name, and press enter. You can
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by smspence 15y ago
Please keep these kinds of things off of Hacker News. We don't need HN turning into /r/politics. This isn't news. We don't need it here.
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by smspence 15y ago
Honest question: Why is this on Hacker News? I would expect to see this kind of post on Reddit, but not HN. For the record, I also want the "war on drugs" to end, but I also don't want HN to turn into Reddit.
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by smspence 15y ago
"What happened?" Investors just raised another $1 billion for Zynga. That's what happened. I don't understand the point of this article. The author is trying to make Zynga's IPO sound like a failure, when it is not.

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