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by unalone 17y ago
Fair enough. I try not to overuse it—I treat it like any ordinary language—but I'm not averse to using it specifically.
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by unalone 17y ago
You can be both playful and eye-grabbing. Example: "Buy this magazine or we'll shoot this dog."
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by unalone 17y ago
I only half agree. What we think of as blogging will fall faster, but the idea of independent electronic publication will stick around longer than newspapers did. Flexibility trumps everything.
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by unalone 17y ago
Aw, c'mon. The title's so over-the-top you can't take it seriously. I thought it was playful.
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by unalone 17y ago
I only used "fuck" twice and "shit" three times. Tough crowd.
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by unalone 17y ago
You could always subscribe (whoo, self-promotion!), but the stuff I'm interested in's a bit out there sometimes. I'm also trying to avoid the edge as best as I can. I wrote one thing in May that was submitted here without my wanting it to b
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by unalone 17y ago
It was actually a Hacker News comment that I wrote; the thread was deleted before I posted it, so I revamped it a little bit and published it, just in case it'd be something worthwhile of discussion. I'm still in the process of getting a ne
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by unalone 17y ago
> Why does Author care enough to close a twitter account, not once, but three times? This seems strange to me. I started one when Twitter started, got rid of it, tried keeping a "public" Twitter account for a while, got rid of that too,
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by unalone 17y ago
The New York Times is a century and a half old. Techcrunch hasn't even passed half a decade. Blogging's ten years old. Give it another ten and where do you think it'll be? Blogs already cover politics and technology more thoroughly than pap
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by unalone 17y ago
When I stopped eating junk food I was astonished at how much I could snack and not gain any weight. It took almost no dieting to start to drop weight.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm a huge Reich fan. City Life is incredible.
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't see why not. It's similar to my political beliefs, where I an extremely distasteful of people with extremist beliefs. Think of it as my being against negativity. I'm okay with everything but people who put other people down. And smu
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by unalone 17y ago
This one I think is an interestingly specific question. I'm not upvoting it, but I'm not flagging it, either: It might lead to interesting answers. Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians does it for me. It's a beautiful, pulsating piece, with
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In Defense of Idiot Masses(marinich.tumblr.com)
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by unalone 17y ago
Rush Limbaugh also uses tons of fake quotes without checking them. I agree with your point, but I'd hate Rush to appear in a remotely favorable light.
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by unalone 17y ago
I've seen a lot of articles on Mayer before. She's not at all an unknown. It's just that those weren't submitted to Hacker News, and this was.
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by unalone 17y ago
Yeah, and a year later they had the app store, and they nailed that. That's the exact point of the guy you replied to. Apple doesn't always win feature battles, but it always wins in terms of how perfect its existing features are.
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by unalone 17y ago
This isn't a tech article. It's a women's fashion article.
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by unalone 17y ago
Hey! Geez, you've been here longer than I've been. I was on Writer's Beat. I think David/TGO introduced me to it? I just went on and checked how it today, out of curiosity: I was ronoxq.
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by unalone 17y ago
Dan Fischer's still around! Small Internet: I used to be a moderator on a forum he owned.
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by unalone 17y ago
You're stretching yourself mighty thin conceptually there. Finding hidden patterns in music listening? The only pattern we might find is that certain types of music are listened to more among programmers than others. I'd place bets on Led Z
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by unalone 17y ago
Wait till you get more caught up in certain parts of the community. I still occasionally feel the need to go to /r/politics and argue my point of view, and there be crazy people.
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by unalone 17y ago
Hot damn! I'd never have expected him to find his way there, but it seems like it would be a good fit. A smart ambitious guy who hates bullshit, and one of the few companies that it's impossible to accuse of bullshitting. I wish them both l
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by unalone 17y ago
The way you write make me feel that you're writing more for the publicity your writing will get than you are because you have a personal itch to write. It feels very corporate. Your first few articles occasionally really interested me, but
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by unalone 17y ago
I really don't have that negative an image in my head of you. You're talented at what you do, but you don't do much in terms of functionality, and the way you style your articles constantly strikes me as sensationalist rather than logical.
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by unalone 17y ago
I have my misgivings about Reddit too, but I'm still a fan of the site as a whole. What in particular don't you like?
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by unalone 17y ago
Thank you for the link! That's a brilliant set. I sometimes feel autistic online, because I don't understand how people come up with the need to clutter the way they do. When I design, I start feeling cramped if I've got more than seven dis
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by unalone 17y ago
While I sympathize with you, you're a part of the blogosphere and you're acclaimed. With that comes the criticism you deserve. Would you claim to be perfect in skill and intent? Are your writings brilliant and your designs unilaterally brea
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by unalone 17y ago
But no community can leverage that well, because Facebook already exists for that. Adding real names to a community of strangers doesn't help much. I'm certain I've trolled under my real name before when my name didn't matter.
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by unalone 17y ago
SomethingAwful's the perfect example. They're the best at what they do, and their forums, while a bit immature for my tastes normally, have hands-down the most talented people there than I've found anywhere. I'm astonished at the artistic a

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