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by unalone 17y ago
Ohh, and that is why the singularity doesn't exist. Hm? How does that follow from your first statement?
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by unalone 17y ago
Probably because he's saying love is not like Romeo & Juliet, which is exactly what you're saying. You've refuted a comment Sivers didn't make. I also need to jump in as resident literatus and say that Shakespeare was saying the same
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by unalone 17y ago
Jagger was one of the most famous pop musicians of the day, and Andy Warhol has a reputation for being a freak. He never comes across as a very inaccessible guy. Formality's best unlearned at as young an age as possible.
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by unalone 17y ago
Yep! You can blame marketers, but that's their job, and it works. Until society becomes a lot smarter and more cynical, people will be paid to make things popular, and they'll do a lot of really obnoxiously cheap things, and it'll all work.
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by unalone 17y ago
Depends on what your service is. Certain names work for certain products. "Club" suggests a certain environment that's quite separate from "Premier", and "Platinum" is another service entirely.
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by unalone 17y ago
Marketing people aren't dumb. They just know that consumers are . "No blades you can stick your fingers in" is accurate, but buyers want catchy and memorable, even at the cost of slight factual inaccuracy.
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by unalone 17y ago
He did apologize profusely and say that his beliefs had been proven irrevocably wrong. I'm willing to cut the guy some slack, even if he did fuck up on a level most people aren't allowed to fuck up on.
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by unalone 17y ago
You're talking two entirely separate ballparks. On the Mac, Apple has no ability to block products from release. Furthermore, the environment of OS X seems to be a positive reenforcement for developers, because I've seen more beautiful soft
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Jason Scott presents a hundred memorable BBS files(textfiles.com)
7 points by unalone 17y ago|0 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
This is why you teach yourself to have a distinct writing style. It gives you the personality and the privacy. When I launched a site in February with a friend, we got a lot of email feedback complimenting us directly for our About page, wh
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by unalone 17y ago
Reading comments on Hacker News isn't "reading carefully". We're operating on a pretty shallow level of conversation right now. What I find funny is that you chide me for assigning things an intrinsic value, and then go right ahead and try
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by unalone 17y ago
I made a point to tell barrkel that I hadn't met him and that I wasn't intending my remarks personally. I don't feel comfortable judging somebody by what they write online. The friends I'm most in touch with from my hometown are gamers. By
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by unalone 17y ago
The desire that's built in is the online tower building. But I don't do it for that. I do it for the thrill of seeing how efficiently I can make my pieces. The graphics are beautiful. The soundtrack is incredible. The humor is perfectly exe
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by unalone 17y ago
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Wave solves a slew of little nagging issues I have with other mediums all in one go.
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by unalone 17y ago
Tom Lubbock. Says so right up top. He also writes the Great Works series. My opinion is separate from Lubbock's, but I'll chip in and say that "significance" is a crock of shit in the art world, up there with "important". Art is either good
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by unalone 17y ago
What I find fascinatingly baffling about Google Wave is that it's partly one of the most impressive communications tools I've used, and partly a compilation of features I saw removed from other sites for being poor design.
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Are Hirst's paintings good? They're not worth looking at. But he is famous.(independent.co.uk)
2 points by unalone 17y ago|2 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
I got this with the Steam Indie Pack; it was one of my favorite entries. (If you're looking for games beyond this, let me also recommend Blueberry Garden, Braid, and Everyday Shooter.) I can't support the design trend of simple gameplay wit
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Michael Dell: Netbooks go sour after 36 hours (theregister.co.uk)
5 points by unalone 17y ago|4 comments
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by unalone 17y ago
Because drama ought to be a part of the structure of a piece. When there's a logic to the drama's being there, then it's fine. When it's just drama added to a very simple idea, then it's excessive and a waste of reading. Perhaps I'm biased,
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by unalone 17y ago
It indexes quickly, but that's not live search. I can't pick a name and see what people around the world are saying about it. Google's just never designed anything to do that. Twitter has. So while the Internet's existed for a while, this l
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by unalone 17y ago
Haha, fair enough.
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by unalone 17y ago
What do you get out of snarking towards things that really aren't worth snarking towards? There is no live search as valuable as Twitter's. Google doesn't do live search. Stop making up shit that the article said and then making fun of it,
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by unalone 17y ago
I couldn't disagree more. When you start using Facebook, it becomes a must have. When I went about deleting all my online accounts, it was one of the two I didn't get rid of. If I got rid of that, I'd lose the most valuable communications m
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by unalone 17y ago
Can we please stop using those silly names? "Painkiller vs Vitamin" is patently stupid. How about just calling the article "Tips for organizing your start-up" or something honest? If you can't get upvotes without a shitty title, you've writ
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by unalone 17y ago
I actually just got out of an advertising class (like, literally 3 minutes ago), and we discussed this. It's dead on. Television advertising is in many ways the exact same as radio advertising: New techniques have been developed, but the ph
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by unalone 17y ago
Beckett, on the other hand, who was Nabakov's moral and intellectual superior, developed his style as an antithesis to Finnegans Wake and cited it as his greatest inspiration. Ulysses is similarly a masterpiece, but if I could only pick one
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by unalone 17y ago
How was Raw Shark? I heard it praised as being an ergodic piece, but the preview I read seemed fairly straightforward.
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by unalone 17y ago
House of Leaves - What literature should be. Innovative both in design and in prose. It's very long but you can finish it in a maddening evening, it's hilarious, it's terrifying. Along with Steven King's It , one of two books to give me ni
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by unalone 17y ago
The way one of my teachers described it a few years ago is that we get uncomfortable around beauty without purpose. Beauty feels good, but only when there's a logic to its being there. Often it's better to be plain than to attempt overt bea

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