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by thorax 17y ago
Yeah, there are lots of people who have the current feed as their daily interface to the entire site. It seems a little mean to break their daily routine. I'd prefer there just be another feed that takes you to the comments (which I would u
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by thorax 17y ago
I was skeptical when I clicked the link. Neat, though. I like it well enough. Comments: * It incorrectly thought I was 1200 miles away from where I am. Probably due to another ISP recently acquiring my local ISP and GeoIP databases getting
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by thorax 17y ago
That's a very good point, I'm probably in the same boat. Yet on the other hand, if I thought his redesign was amazing, then I'd probably put up with an opinionated snot as a short-term contractor if it got our site something our customers l
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Ask HN: Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com
2 points by thorax 17y ago|4 comments
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by thorax 17y ago
Any response from AA.com may be his point and would serve well in drawing more attention to his rant/redesign. I agree that I'd like to see less rudeness overall, but I suspect that's the marketing gimmick here to gain attention.
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by thorax 17y ago
I agree-- they're probably pulled in lots of different crazy directions by marketing and branding teams who dictate how the site should look. Firing that web design team shouldn't even be on the list-- it should be more about firing the exe
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by thorax 17y ago
It's a decent (though light) link-- it doesn't deserve #2 status, but I still upvoted it. It made me think a bit about what our own company focuses on for measuring ROI. In the book Good to Great, there's discussion on finding a good "denom
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by thorax 17y ago
You're 100% right. I picked a too outlandish number in my devil's advocating and back-of-the-napkin'd the engineering wrong. Sorry about that-- can't correct my comment anymore, unfortunately. You shoulda slammed me sooner. I can't see any
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by thorax 17y ago
This is at least the second time this year that they've had a serious/major issue for an hour. The other being the snafu where they marked the entire world as malware. They respond awesomely, but they're not immune to major issues and I dou
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by thorax 17y ago
I agree that process can be a demoralizing effect, but I like to play devil's advocate. An hour of Google's revenue lost from 14% of their customers costs them about $350,000 (judging roughly by Q109 revenue numbers). Had it been 100% of cu
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by thorax 17y ago
I predict it doesn't obsolete anything except for power searchers and data researchers. People are still going to type "how many calories in a big mac" into Google and get specialized sites that answer those questions fine. I don't think th
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by thorax 17y ago
Yepyep, you did it. This is excellent. I can't find anything that I wouldn't pay for-- this would help out our team if it turns out we can avoid firewall problems with the video streaming. Seems like that part would be the most likely to ca
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by thorax 17y ago
I neither disagree or agree-- which is why I'd love more clarification, actually, to understand the positions. Overall, I prefer not to see 1-word answers at the top of any comment chain-- they're upvote bait that are typical of sites that
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by thorax 17y ago
To be fair, I recommend taking the "doomed" comments here with a grain of salt-- HN readers aren't likely to be the sort to enjoy a service like this, so there could be a lot more pessimism than you'd see in wider audiences. In general (and
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by thorax 17y ago
Major upvotes for a single word answer? Please clarify your perspective so he understands why you're so adamant.
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by thorax 17y ago
It took a little bit of looking through your tour before I really understood it's usefulness. To help get it across, it might be useful to have something that highlights the value a tad more concisely on the front page, maybe "it's the budd
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by thorax 17y ago
Installous/Crackulous/etc seem like they're pretty popular. I know semi-casual users using them.
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by thorax 17y ago
I'd prefer they just open source theirs, actually. I like having more browser choices, but it'd be nice to see them open up more..
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by thorax 17y ago
Today and yesterday: PHP/CI, Flex, Javascript, Python/Django, C++, C#/XAML, bash scripting. Fun!
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by thorax 17y ago
Does it just do the DNS support (i.e. CNAMEs) for those services or does it somehow register you for them and get them setup for that domain? The screencast stopped short of showing what it actually did. I assume it's just setting up the CN
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by thorax 17y ago
Reminds me somewhat of the story of Demomotus. A notable ancient greek philosopher for 5-6 months or so: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/demomotus.htm
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by thorax 17y ago
The large pic stuff works great now. Still getting the "too much text causes the floats to misalign" problem sometimes: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1719.png
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by thorax 17y ago
The site seems not to recognize URLs that use IDN and/or unicode (e.g. http://✿.ws/beauty ) Here's a list of lots of Twitters users using some of them from our service, tinyarro.ws: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%E2%9E%A8.ws+OR+%E2%
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by thorax 17y ago
I really like the idea. You need to work on icon display, though because some are huge: http://pics.gd/2009-05-06_1608.png and for long tweets, it's causing the lines to wrap oddly. I think it makes sense to have the default page show the
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by thorax 17y ago
I tend to see just as many using code.google.com/p.
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by thorax 17y ago
I wonder-- are they stripping out the reply/quotations somehow, or are those going to be showing up on the blog, too? Long, long streams of >>>>>>>>>>>>>||||>>>> make for c
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by thorax 17y ago
Occam's razor says to me that if they didn't take the time to make one-way hashes, they're not doing anything especially clever with the storage. Certainly no dual-machine way of handling them because that's surely more complicated than usi
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by thorax 17y ago
> How is what Noscript is doing any other than other spammers? The whole reason we're even talking about this is because the situation is different than a normal spammer. NoScript is an extension and thus is doing things spammers can'
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by thorax 17y ago
You know, honestly, I wasn't grokking much about how cool YQL could be until I saw this example. This helps a lot. Thanks.
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by thorax 17y ago
Sorry, man, I kind of can't take "disingenuous" accusations seriously as that was the word on the tip of my tongue when I read your surprising statement earlier in the thread. It doesn't sound like the same person I read before, nor from so

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