speckledjim

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by speckledjim 15y ago
No. I'm in no way basing this on my own preferences. I'm basing it on data and numbers. If advertising didn't work, it wouldn't be a $multibillion industry.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> I'm willing to bet your workplace isn't covered in advertizement posters and have an intercom and/or tvs constantly blaring ads all day unless you work a particularity shitty, most likely retail, job. Why not? If you could just decid
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> I don't believe in the eradication of advertizement, just that it has reached a level of permeation that subjecting my visitors to even more of it is something I do not believe in. Most people can tune out things they're not intereste
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by speckledjim 15y ago
This is the sort of uneducated attitude I'm talking about. Advertising is not 'sleazy'. It works, and it provides a service to both advertiser, publisher, and consumer. Do you also consider online dating to be sleazy, or job posting sites?
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> It's just that it makes clear that advertising revenue is a hard way to make money. Respectfully, that's a very naive conclusion to draw. You may as well try selling wooly hats and coats in the desert, and conclude that making money
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I think for a community devoted to startups, having a particular dislike of online advertising, and a strange "That's not real income" mentality is unfortunate. If you rule out advertising income because you don't like adverts, or because y
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Then respectfully, you're doing it wrong. There's unfortunately a lot of people who believe all you need to do is slap ads on any website and watch the money come in. It actually takes time, effort, learning, and to some extent skill to kno
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by speckledjim 15y ago
It says nothing about online advertising. Reddit is pretty much the worst website to try and advertise to. The community is extremely anti-advertising, anti-capitalism anti-big-companies, etc etc. Coupled with that I don't think the demogra
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Has anyone on HN ever actually used one of these in code they've written? I've never understood why y-combinator is useful or impressive. Interesting, maybe, but not really useful.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Disagree strongly. Every time I get passed a github URL, it plonks me in a daunting page full of source code. If you scroll down a page or 2 sometimes you can see a text README file that tells you WTF the project is about. On Google code, y
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by speckledjim 15y ago
So now when your email address gets hacked, ALL your usernames and passwords to every website are also hacked! At least with normal un/pw you need to request a password reset from the website. I don't think we should be tying logins to emai
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Most will fail gracefully though. For example that one will just render as a normal text input on older browsers.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Surely the recent spate of websites being valued in the Billions rings some alarm bells that something is seriously up? I don't know how you can reasonably value a company that has only existed for a year or two at that level. Things can
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Are you seriously using the words "fame" and "famous" without sarcasm there? Perhaps "well known within certain programming communities" would be more apt.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I think it's more the prima dona aspect that I'd expect will put people off wanting to work with you.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
When there's a massive bubble frothing money all over the place, it probably pays to take advantage of it.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Stranger things have happened. Look at the games console wars. Sega? Atari? Once completely dominating, then in a very short space of time dead.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
One of the big wins with android, is that you can choose from literally 100s of phones. From loads of different manufacturers. You can get a basic pink square phone, or a massive phone with HD display. That's never going to happen at Apple.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Publicity is only any use if you have a good product. See also: cuil.com
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Creating new languages doesn't create any value. It's not solving a problem. It's just solving the same problem that has already been solved countless times before.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I'd add "writing it in a new popular language" != value. The amount of time reinventing the wheel in hip new languages is truly staggering.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
yes. I believe that people should have the freedom to believe what they like, as long as it doesn't encroach on others rights.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Once again though, you're trying to impose your views on others. If people want to read the bible, and believe it as factual "news", they should be able to. As I say, if people want to live in blissful ignorance, they should be allowed to d
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by speckledjim 15y ago
Good example of mob rule vigilanteism rather than due process.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
IMHO You're incorrect. The line between news and entertainment is an arbitrary one. Who are you to tell me not to watch Fox News? Why shouldn't I buy a tabloid paper to see who some celebrity has had an affair with? You're inflicting your v
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by speckledjim 15y ago
They're measuring completely different things. Number of raw searches != number of users That said, Compete numbers have always been hilariously random.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
A large amount of people enjoy reading these papers. Just as a large number of people enjoy watching X-Factor, big brother, and other things you may not enjoy. It's sad to see such intellectual crap condemning the masses for enjoying what t
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by speckledjim 15y ago
> The difficulty of an attack has nothing whatsoever to do with the severity of the resulting offense. My point which you gloss over is in the definition of "attack". Whether browsing to a publicly accessible url with no security is an
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by speckledjim 15y ago
I knew you'd cite the grauniad because they're pretty much the opposite politically to NOTW/The Sun etc. Of course they'd be attacking.
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by speckledjim 15y ago
FWIW, The paper costs £1, so with a readership of 7 million or so every week... That's around £350m / year. The top advertiser, Sky, spends £2m a year with the paper. So I find it hard to believe that advertisers are all that important.

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