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by unalone 17y ago
Too light. Not enough contrast/information density. I like some of the things, like the photo display, but this makes Facebook look generic and cluttered and "trendy". The best thing about Facebook's design is it so thoroughly denies trends
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by unalone 17y ago
Yeah, I can see that... but I also understand it. I've told people older than me to grow up before. Sometimes people are older/younger than their age suggests. And, in Ted's defense, back when he started writing he was in the right a lot. I
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by unalone 17y ago
Practice at a young age isn't a bad thing. But the music community, while it acknowledges prodigies, usually doesn't appreciate music more or less based on age. The first example that comes to mind is Chris Thile, who was in a Grammy Award-
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by unalone 17y ago
You see, the fact that I took your exact line and modified it to mention your web site instead of his web site ought to have ticked you off that perhaps I was trying to point out how immature your post was. I worked at Google, too, so I
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by unalone 17y ago
Cormac McCarthy famously said he didn't read Proust or Pound, because to him that wasn't literature, and it wasn't what he wanted to write. There are lots of artists who famously didn't do much work, because they preferred only to work when
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by unalone 17y ago
I actually liked all of those articles, except the Paul Graham one, which was part of later Uncov. Back in the day, Ted had the knack for saying exactly what needed to be said about a lot of ego-laden fellows. He's more a critic than he is
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by unalone 17y ago
This isn't a response to Raganwald. It's a response to this Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9s3ww/would_you...
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by unalone 17y ago
Ted's an asshole, and most of the time I'm pissed off by his writing. When Uncov came "back" early last year it was terrible. That said, this article I agreed with entirely, all respect to raganwald, and it pisses me off that people would s
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by unalone 17y ago
That's uncomfortably in the realm of PR bullshit for me. Give the answer, and don't spin it. The sorts of jobs you can only get through spin are jobs you don't want to have.
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by unalone 17y ago
What a snotty, immature response. Dziuba worked for Google before Pressflip, and is now working on Milo, which looks pretty sweet. But I don't blame you for needing to snark at other people after seeing adamhowell.org.
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by unalone 17y ago
What's wrong with doing something easy and fun that gets lots of media attention?
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by unalone 17y ago
I wish they'd have played a different song. While the instrument looks impressive, playing a generic sounding piece of rock means I can't help but wonder if three people couldn't have played the same piece with older instruments.
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by unalone 17y ago
What bothers me about posts like this is the unspoken underlying assumption that the younger you are when you start, the more "valuable" you are as an entrepreneur. Like, if you start at 12 then you're a better person than you are if you st
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by unalone 17y ago
Oh, okay. My site criticism still stands.
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by unalone 17y ago
KDE makes their stuff available for OS X. One day I tried Amarok, partly because a Linuxing friend used it and recommended it, mainly because the Mike Oldfield song of the same name is my favorite song of all time. It installed a bunch of c
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by unalone 17y ago
Smashing Magazine does this thing that really irks me, where they pick a bunch of good examples and then one or two very mediocre ones. It leaves me wondering if I'm insane or if Smashing really is making an effort there.
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by unalone 17y ago
Because you saw fit to mention your company in your submitted title, I gave your page a look. I'd never heard of Eldarion, but Pinax sounds vaguely familiar. I'd like to make a request, though, and that's for you not to highlight text so ob
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by unalone 17y ago
Instapaper started as a web site, which as far as I know spread by word of mouth. I was following him on Tumblr at the time, and spread his link right away. Remember that Marco's the second employee at Tumblr, which has an audience of nearl
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by unalone 17y ago
Okay, that makes sense. :-) My policy is, I buy from artists who I feel aren't big. I bought Joanna Newsom's album for a friend of mine after I downloaded it, and I just got a song from Pomplamoose, which is a crazy duo I found on Youtube.
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by unalone 17y ago
The former's impossible in the paradigm where the only way to make money off music is to sell songs. That's not true, though. A few of the models I'm going to be experimenting with: Raising money before you release an album, with certain
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by unalone 17y ago
I support this initiative to split sites. It seems overcomplex, but we need to try something to evolve the site and ease its growing pains. Maybe HN has the advantage of being connected to YCombinator, and thus has a reduced risk of this
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by unalone 17y ago
The pirates aren't freetards. I resent your accusation. The current model isn't working if it's so easily subverted. The solution is to figure out a model that's pirate-proof. They exist.
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by unalone 17y ago
It's been less than a day since this was announced. You cannot judge the effectiveness of a certain political move that quickly. We'll see the repercussions of this award over weeks and months.
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by unalone 17y ago
Inane in that Obama hasn't done anything to deserve it, yes. But it's smart if the Nobel committee wants to push the political scene in a certain direction. This award going to a young president will have an impact. Probably not what the pr
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by unalone 17y ago
Maybe that's because Obama doesn't want to break federal law like Bush did? You can't criticize Bush for doing illegal things and then turn around and criticize Obama for obeying the law.
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by unalone 17y ago
> Rightly so, but don't confuse this anything more than a political tool. That's what I was suggesting: They're doing this because of politics, because they think it will help. I don't hold faith in Nobel Prizes myself, but I agree with
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by unalone 17y ago
> So, basically you think the Nobel Peace Prize gives Obama the right to achieve his entire political agenda without any form of opposition? Right.... No, but it gives him a certain authority. When the right is going batshit insane like
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't know why people hold the Nobel Prizes in such esteem. It's like people complaining that Radiohead doesn't win enough at the Grammies, or that people let Slumdog Millionaire win the Best Picture Oscar. Prizes aren't some objective re
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by unalone 17y ago
I was going to respond, then looked at your history and realized you were a troll. Good game. Shame on whoever upvoted you.
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by unalone 17y ago
I liked that in Cat's Cradle, which is the only book of his I read. It was interesting having the Ice-9 tracked throughout the story, even before we knew what it was or what it would do. At the same time, it was a little exhausting, and it

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