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by staringispolite 15y ago
LOL well you don't know me so perhaps I should expect that you don't believe me. It's pretty obvious it's not /literally/ everyone I know - my parents, for instance, happily retain their jobs on the other side of the country :) I think the
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Everyone I know at Lolapps - the company that moved me out to SF in the first place - and then some. Roughly 100 out of ~114 people. And probably 80% of my friends in the SF bay area. You're right that I did use hyperbole, but it wasn't to
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Doubled the server, looks to be still a bit slow as the cache warms up, but loading again. Will keep an eye on it. Thanks for your patience!
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Apologies for the overload, all. Currently resizing the server, should be better shortly
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How it feels when everyone you know gets laid off(staringispolite.com)
72 points by staringispolite 15y ago|55 comments
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by staringispolite 15y ago
In my experience, hyperbole serves me well in my goals. "Produce more than you consume" is more defendable in terms of online critique, and you ARE right. But I have enough forces bombarding me with reminders to consume (advertising, intern
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by staringispolite 15y ago
I'm no expert, but two things come to mind: 1a) That is sub-optimal for ad publishers. I think in building such a system you have to assume they want to make the most money. And while ANY ad may not make much money, it's certainly not cappe
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by staringispolite 15y ago
I think it's a good thing in that it's led to the most commercially successful search and ads company in history (which - in large part - does deliver very relevant content, and relatively lower sadness than many competitors). But it's clea
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by staringispolite 15y ago
I applaud this fantastically succinct point: "Some foods taste good but kill you. Some drugs make you feel good but rot your brain. And some ads lead the curious away from knowledge." I do think, however, that it's incredibly difficult to c
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by staringispolite 15y ago
I see your point, but you ignored the next few words of my comment: "Based on the merits of the individual comment, sure." "Humor for humor's sake" is not what I, nor that TEDx talk, was referring to.
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Disrupting your industry? Comedy as a disarming competitive advantage(ted.com)
1 points by staringispolite 15y ago|0 comments
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by staringispolite 15y ago
I think Google is usually pretty forward about their privacy policies and letting you customize what data they store. (See those recent "this stuff is important" popups on virtually every Google property) Here's hoping they thought of issue
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by staringispolite 15y ago
Is sarcasm always unwanted here? I actually chuckled at the beginning until it turned too serious toward the end. There was a great TEDx talk on the (well-executed) use of humor, and satire in particular, to get points across when they woul
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by staringispolite 15y ago
And Google Goggles is already taken. WHY?!
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by staringispolite 17y ago
Heh, it may be that I'm running on little sleep, but I initially read the headline literally, and got excited about a sweet publicity stunt :) Looks to me, pipio is a replacement to almost every social site out there (facebook, friendfeed,