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121.
by sprout 16y ago
No, it does steal more. Whatever your monitor size the instant suggestions should steal enough space to knock out an organic result.
122.
by sprout 16y ago
That sort of thinking is what effectively killed Digg.
123.
by sprout 16y ago
He really doesn't understand Facebook. He also, I think, doesn't understand spam. He comes from a world where paper scarcity offsets the desire of marketers to send out advertisements. The idea that marketing is so easy that it needs to be
124.
by sprout 16y ago
Most human societies aren't stable enough for that. But visit most presently isolated communities, and you'll find that they're quite stable.
125.
by sprout 16y ago
Most modern fonts are designed to work around limitations of the display medium. It even seems reasonable you could design a font to account for a bad display algorithm.
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by sprout 16y ago
Transportation costs more by what metric? I think the population density would do a lot to offset the naive euros/mile comparison. I suspect there's a similar effect with housing, that cultural norms in the US create unnecessarily large h
127.
by sprout 16y ago
Presently I'm in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the country. Ohio is just the only thing I have for comparison.
128.
by sprout 16y ago
Meh. Flying into Baltimore is usually cheaper anyway, and DC area public transit is fantastic. (Well, compared to Ohio.)
129.
by sprout 16y ago
Well, it's a lot like any other web development client. Specifically I'm reminded of a situation at a company I worked at where a group of senior employees wanted a Sharepoint Wiki set up that it was impossible for anyone to print, email, o
130.
by sprout 16y ago
Yes, and who wants to use a game console that sounds like a man's genitals or a tablet computer that sounds like a menstruation guard. Names do not matter when you already have a product people want and need.
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by sprout 16y ago
When the service was launched, it did not. And I'm certain Facebook will make a similar 'mistake' again, now that the controversy has died down a bit.
132.
by sprout 16y ago
>FB Connect actually does a pretty good job at being "easy to use". Just log into your FB account and you are set. The only time I used OpenID, it was for StackOverflow. The workflow was exactly as you describe for Facebook Connect, exc
133.
by sprout 16y ago
Unless that site is Yelp. Or Pandora. Or... "Always" is meaningless for SAAS that you don't pay for.
134.
by sprout 16y ago
Can't put time on a T-Shirt. Clearly he's thinking 3-dimensionally.
135.
by sprout 16y ago
Okay, so do any of these studies control for the number of hours the students - sorry, I mean subjects in the trial - sleep each night? Without looking at the data, I'd hazard a guess that all these studies show is that if you don't get at
136.
by sprout 16y ago
They could really start improving their security model by not forcing me to whitelist them in noscript just to read a user page. Though I haven't seen that error consistently.
137.
by sprout 16y ago
If it were based on real science, it wouldn't be research, it would be simple engineering.
138.
by sprout 16y ago
Maybe this was intentional? If Apple had opened with a functional last.fm competitor, the discussion would have been about all the privacy concerns and do I really want to share every song I listen to with the world? This way the focus is
139.
by sprout 16y ago
He has nothing to apologize for. You use features clearly marked 'unsupported,' you are going to get burned.
140.
by sprout 16y ago
A handful of condoms would have the same effect, and even more people might use them.
141.
by sprout 16y ago
Maybe the ideal is that there are signals that permit bicycles and pedestrians, but if cars want to go they have to get out and push a button to get the light to let them through.
142.
by sprout 16y ago
He was referring to himself. Also you and I.
143.
by sprout 16y ago
Some of us administer networks where video is an unacceptable use of network resources (100 kb/s split among several dozen users.) I've always avoided video, and especially now that I'm responsible for this network. (To clarify, since appar
144.
by sprout 16y ago
Seems like buying ARM could set off antitrust allegations. Oracle already strong-armed itself into the chip business with the purchase of Sun, going for ARM, which aside from Power is the only credible x86 competitor gets on to pretty shaky
145.
by sprout 16y ago
Some of us are women. But I don't see why that requires we be polite.
146.
by sprout 16y ago
While I agree that the post was inappropriate, I don't agree that the post was inappropriate by HN's standards. (And I think flagging based on personal standards rather than HN's standards is not the way to go.)
147.
by sprout 16y ago
Shouldn't lights be optimized first to reduce accidents? I've always understood inefficiency to be an intentional safety feature.
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by sprout 16y ago
If Arrington is right McClure is wrong, regardless of what he believes. Just because you believe it's legal and moral doesn't make it so. (More so on the former than the latter.)
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by sprout 16y ago
>This strikes me as classism Sorry. What I mean to say is that the kids who are in the existing private schools have some sort of a support structure that has obtained the money for them to go to a private school, and it is that support
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by sprout 16y ago
1. How much of those schools' budgets are met through donations? 2. Could those schools actually operate at scale? Much of those schools' success is really due to network effects. You throw a bunch of low-income kids into that setting, and

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