vtlynch

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by vtlynch 10y ago
They were recently acquired by a Chinese company. Most stuff they have put out since their acquisition seems to imply that whoever is writing their text is not a native English speaker.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Thats my point though. You dont have to be liked to be popular, but it becomes a lot easier for someone else to become popular if you are not liked. And I do think the general sentiment towards Facebook is much more positive than LinkedIn.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Here is the main problem: Who likes LinkedIn? Sure, we can debate its usefulness, how popular it is outside of IT, etc. But I think across the board, no one LIKES LinkedIn.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Ignoring the requests was certainly dumb, and he is at fault for that. But a $30k penalty for that is excessive.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
HN is so myopic they cant conceive of anything else. Life is obviously an equation that can be tweaked, "hacked", and gamified.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
"For example DigitalOcean pays $200 per 1500ish" Most professional writers/reporters would consider that a terrible wage.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
The large majority of sites using Let's Encrypt certificates are first-time users of SSL. So far they are succeeding with that demographic and one of their key goals was to spread SSL to previously unencrypted sites.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
You are ignorant.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
"At $19, it's probably being subsidized substantially." Doubtful
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by vtlynch 10y ago
How often are the recommendations on cipherli.st updated?
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by vtlynch 10y ago
This entire ordeal has shown us the thin skin of VCs and VC culture. If HN/YC wanted to do the right thing, they should have taken some time to assess removing Pinboard BEFORE voting ended. Instead, what they did was game their own sys
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Well I jumped the gun then. I just assumed they would use the chance to show off their new format with a post about their new format. Guess not. Looking at the actual documentation site, its not bad on first glance.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Yikes. Seems that almost no one designing websites bothers to study the more important parts of typography. Recently, typography has been bastardized to mean "an expensive looking sans serif font." But there is really important kn
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Since when does innovating really mean making something new? I think that already has its own word: inventing. "Innovating" is a business buzz word. Its not meaningless, but I think that its meaning is far from inventing/crea
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by vtlynch 10y ago
>It matters that my child is safer than 40 years ago from better playgrounds. thats so great. we made the playground equipment safer so your kids can play on it, meanwhile, a black child is gunned down by police on that playground. All o
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by vtlynch 10y ago
When the only thing you can conceive of is how another product can fulfill a "need", than I guess yes, what an amazing future. But if you consider the fact that a large majority of americans are living lives that are fundamentally
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by vtlynch 10y ago
>Owning your own movie or game was never all that cool - what with losing them, or scratching the CD, or the platform changing so they didn't run any more. Steam beats all that, at a cost of course. So we replaced a flawed physical
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by vtlynch 10y ago
"[Quora] recently reported that it has 100 million monthly visitors... with 15 percent from India." Interested in knowing the ratio of questions:answers coming from Indian users.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Looked at your comment history and its clear you are either a xenophobe, or clueless.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
CNN, MSNBC, and the other "network news" companies rarely do reporting. There are literally thousands of reputable articles published by US outlets yearly - from The Atlantic to the Washington Post. Not everything they publish is
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Okay. Then lets let some disease carrying mosquitoes into all countries - including Western Europe and the US. We wouldnt want those ecosystems to be imbalanced.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
Ah yes, the dream of the free market. Create a product that is successful, only to be driven out of business by a monstrously large corporate entity that can take advantage of economies of scale better than you can. Ignore the fact that the
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by vtlynch 10y ago
No. If Amazon is willfully allowing clones that violate IP or other rights, then it is 100% in their interest to take action on that.
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by vtlynch 10y ago
He got very inventive, even using unicode characters for the moon and stars icons. Do you know if he is building those from scratch or using some sort of tool to assist?
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by vtlynch 11y ago
An ironic thing to say given how staunchly you are defending capitalism.
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by vtlynch 11y ago
I dont understand the appeal of this at all. The first demonstration gif shows how this mangles your text. Maybe this would be good for writing english for audiences who learned it as a foreign language.
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by vtlynch 11y ago
Those all seem like good points, which the article does not explicitly make.
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by vtlynch 11y ago
I am not one to argue that technology solves the problems of the poor. But, there are lots of holes in this argument: 1. The unbanked already exist in a world that expects them to be banked. Almost all jobs in America are paid in checks or
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by vtlynch 11y ago
This article is bad. The "threshold of utility" that you have to cross is VERY low. If you previously could justify a startup that competed withe very minimal features of many of these facebook products, than that says more about
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by vtlynch 11y ago
a great way to start thinking like start ups is to find ways to circumnavigate pesky laws that may be inconvenient for you and to lie about the effectiveness of your product/efforts. I think there will be a great case study published b

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