someplacecold

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by someplacecold 16y ago
I understand the rate of conversion to any religion via websites to be quite low. Wouldn't it be better to encourage that children ask pertinent questions about belief systems that they can't really avoid hearing about?
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by someplacecold 16y ago
How a site's look affects traffic patterns and revenue is an incredibly complex and well-researched nebula. For example, Marissa Mayer talks about how a couple pixels of whitespace and subtle differences in color shades drastically affect t
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by someplacecold 16y ago
There are some good points here, but that shorthand they use makes a lot of the post a guessing game. If you wrote this, it might be really great if you fleshed it out so that other people could understand it easily.
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by someplacecold 16y ago
Yes, but the story of why Facebook is successful is more involved than that, and much more useful than you give it credit for. Facebook started because Mark Zuckerberg was notorious for hacking yearbook pictures out of a sort of Harvard-off
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by someplacecold 17y ago
OP here. Without opining one way or another about the debate happening here... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158589 ...I'd just like to let you all listen to what someone with an IQ that high actually sounds like. Regardless of whi
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Christopher Langan: the other guy with the "highest" IQ on the planet.(youtube.com)
4 points by someplacecold 17y ago|3 comments
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Chilean Earthquake shifts earth's axis; shortens day by few milliseconds.(businessweek.com)
7 points by someplacecold 17y ago|1 comments
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by someplacecold 17y ago
HA! You just don't get it. ALL the processes for which the internet provides a mission-critical service are going to freeze. What happens when MasterCard suddenly can't access the balance of its creditees anymore? What happens when you need
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by someplacecold 17y ago
Obvious, huh? http://uxmag.com/short-news/these-are-your-users-read-and-be...
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by someplacecold 17y ago
He said that the internet is not something that society absolutely cannot function without. He is wrong. Society very much depends on the internet. The fact that not everyone has a Faceboook profile is inconsequential to this, and I would p
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by someplacecold 17y ago
On the contrary, even if you don't use the web on a consistent basis, you actually do still depend on it. When people coordinate shipping groceries, they use the internet. When people plan any aspect of any product you use, they use the int
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Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems.(uucsc.tumblr.com)
56 points by someplacecold 17y ago|57 comments