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by unalone 17y ago
Doesn't look like the poster works for Mashable. On the other hand, Mash is where he saw the information, so why not post the link there? It's not a bad thing to link to the site that you personally rely on for news.
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by unalone 17y ago
They've got time before they have to worry about profit. Something as large as Twitter is almost definitely monetizable, so it makes sense for people to invest now on the incredibly high chance that one day it makes insane amounts of money
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by unalone 17y ago
This is of course true. But don't forget that much social behavior is about fitting-in better with ones peers. It's a signal that says "I belong here" or "We are a part of the same tribe". Again, not unique to the internet at all. It's jus
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by unalone 17y ago
_Spark sounds too Orwellian for my tastes, I guess. Like, Spark is such a weird-sounding addon descriptor that I automatically assume it's being attached to something low-quality.
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by unalone 17y ago
I feel bad dissin' her, since the whole Internet's dissed her by now, but let me throw in the fact that she only became famous when her first album's tracks leaked online, because that's the killer for me.
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by unalone 17y ago
Why is it that every other company on the planet can name things without them sounding lame and corporate? Microsoft has this bizarre design deficiency that I've never heard properly explained. Good design is not as hard as they make it see
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by unalone 17y ago
I've never heard of Sometimes the Dragon, actually. And it's not about meme transmission: They've always been fast. The thing is, memes reflect a community's insider aspect. If you see a meme and allow it, you're allowing that self-congratu
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by unalone 17y ago
I've actually been there. It was a surreal feeling, one that is hard to explain in words. There was something about that place that made me feel alive, free from constraints, for some reason I could think clearer, and hunt for the answers.
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by unalone 17y ago
Erlang was more of an inside joke. I'm referring more to the Kanye jokes I've seen here, and similar mainstream memes being quoted within the month or so since I started using HN again. Used to be people memeing like that would be downvoted
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by unalone 17y ago
I love charts like this, but I don't believe in them because they use something arbitrary like SAT score. I'd hate to live in a world where people were judged by SAT scores; the people within my SAT range are very frequently less interestin
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by unalone 17y ago
This is just people being nostalgic to the past. There are people that claim that site was 'never good' and people that claim all of the 'newfags' are 'the cancer that is killing 4chan.' I was referring to the fact that once upon a time 4
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by unalone 17y ago
I'd bet they top themselves within a year or two. The chans may have peaked in size, but what that means is the people who are most interesting there are going to be finding new ways to branch out to avoid newfags. I'd bet they consolidate
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by unalone 17y ago
Zappa came to mind largely because I'm still not happy with how he's treated by the music media. Here's a guy who changed the face of rock, inspired the greatest band of all time as much as the Beach Boys did (though they get mention), an
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by unalone 17y ago
Better than the Velvet Underground as an example: Look at Zappa, whose album Freak Out! provided the technological impetus for the Beatles to record Sgt. Pepper's, which then got all the attention for its tech experiments. Zappa was never a
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On the absurd advertisements for "Windows 7 parties"(log.valhallaisland.com)
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by unalone 17y ago
But the R only curves so that its leg meets the base at a logical angle. Arial's straight leg looks straighter, but if you isolate it as a piece itself then that straight part cuts off at a diagonal angle to maintain the flat bottom.
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by unalone 17y ago
It's used, but it's not the enormous wave that Gmail was. There's no way Google Wave is ignored, but there's every chance it becomes useful only to power users and niche groups, just like how Google Docs isn't viewed as a competitor to Micr
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by unalone 17y ago
Damn straight. It seems like a bizarre OS, a little clunky, but it's also very innovative. Now if only they've got quality hardware.
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by unalone 17y ago
Google is on a roll right now. Wave looks great. The question is if it'll become as prevalent as Gmail or as ignored as Google Docs.
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by unalone 17y ago
You make something that's so good you want to use it. You have your friends use it too. If your product's so shitty your friends won't use it until their friends are there first, then you've made something bad and should fix up your product
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by unalone 17y ago
Most people don't realize that the Ivy League is a sports distinction. The assumption is that they are distinguished on academic grounds alone.
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by unalone 17y ago
But TechCrunch is wholly unprofessional. They have no standards. You can't have morals when you're dealing with amoral people. Say what you will about Mashable—and I could say tons—they generally play the game earnestly and fairly. While I
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by unalone 17y ago
That's a position I've been in a lot too: I've had an idea, but can't code it to see how cool it would be. I took the lazy route out—I found a cofounder who codes—and as a result the site I started working on two years ago still hasn't come
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by unalone 17y ago
Wow, a hacker's party? How does that work? What do you do? I'm fascinated.
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by unalone 17y ago
I spent a month at Princeton this summer, working alongside current Princeton students and a handful of the people that work at Princeton. Princeton people are usually very bright. Not all of them are—many of them are capable of regurgitati
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by unalone 17y ago
Dude, we're talking morality over a list of recommended people on Twitter. That's Twitter's way of saying "We like these people!" Saying that their removing TechCrunch is immoral is like saying that it's immoral to stop dating a girl who ch
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by unalone 17y ago
So TechCrunch behaved like jackasses and showed stuff Twitter didn't want to have shown, while according to your theory using Twitter as a way to make money, and that's okay? It's called biting the hand that feeds you, and it's an old old s
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by unalone 17y ago
Whoops! My bad.
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by unalone 17y ago
I do, because I like offering web sites I enjoy a chance to make money off me, and because I actually feel slightly empty when I go to a site designed around a Deck ad and don't see it. Tasteful ads make a web site look better.
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by unalone 17y ago
By the time I went to reply you took out my favorite quip of what you wrote—"That's the kind of line a politician would say." The article was about entrepreneurs. It was not about your idea of startups. Your comment was defending a concept

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