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by whughes 18y ago
Reminds me of the demo of Freebase Parallax: http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ The demo was very impressive, but in practice they just couldn't match the scope of Wikipedia or the wider Web. It may be the same way with Wolfram|Alpha.
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by whughes 18y ago
Storage will not be a major factor in the megapixel race. We're already seeing 16GB SD cards, and with the introduction of SDXC and the prevalence of high-capacity iPhones and other media devices that size will only go up. Megapixel increas
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by whughes 18y ago
It's a valid point, though. At what point is the line drawn? Political issues often result in uncivil discussion. There is also probably significant audience crossover with reddit that caused that post to rise up. Hackers may have an intere
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by whughes 18y ago
Actually, I've noticed several downvoted posts in my short time here. Caveat: I think this is more a result of trollish posting in many of the cases, but of course that is another problem on its own. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by whughes 18y ago
The comment implementation, however, does not appear to be substantially different from Reddit's aside from greater editor control. That means that lame downvoting is possible. If people start to downvote those they disagree with then we be
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by whughes 18y ago
At worst, we're talking about a stagnation, a flatlining in the exponential curve for a few years. I doubt that we'll get to that point. To see growth completely stop we'd need a nuclear war or something to that end. Life was still better d
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by whughes 18y ago
Walls are irrelevant if you have the whole world inside them. Facebook doesn't need to cooperate with other elements because it is a behemoth. There will always be a minority which wants to see more outside access, and Facebook can appease
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by whughes 18y ago
Drugs are not completely personal. Depending on drug and supply chain, we are also talking about drug gang activity, drug-fueled economies in the developing world, social problems related to drug abuse, and so on. If you grow a harmless dru
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by whughes 18y ago
My opinion is that despite the extra options and control, the OP's site is much easier to use than mycoolbutton.com. Most of the options there are hidden by default, making piecing together their functionality pretty difficult. This is in a
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by whughes 18y ago
One small criticism -- the 'Create' button is not immediately obvious, especially since it's up in the navigation section. Maybe make clicking the button do the same action and place the Create button more prominently by the options.
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by whughes 18y ago
Amazon.com/wii is not a reference to the Wii itself. The article's author got it wrong there, or at least fudged the truth slightly. It's a category on the Amazon site. Thus, amazon.com/books works (as someone else said), but shamwow doesn'
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by whughes 18y ago
Real article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03... The CNET posting is a short summary which doesn't bring much new material to the table.
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by whughes 18y ago
Is this going to be a huge issue for you? I can see these applications taking up 1-2G at the absolute maximum, more likely in the hundreds of MB. If those margins are significant for you, then you're probably already going to be seeing syst
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by whughes 18y ago
The old Gecko ActiveX control was designed to be a drop-in replacement for the Trident one. There was an IEPatcher which worked in some cases, though not always: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm#usingPatcher This is, of course
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by whughes 18y ago
Not the same bump -- Vista is bundled with IE7. Presumably we are looking at bumps for different segments of the population, using Vista and XP/IE6 respectively.
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by whughes 18y ago
Terrible video player. It's one of those generic Flash players which one sees pretty much everywhere, but it's incapable of skipping in the video properly for me, the times are often wrong, the fullscreen is buggy.. Just a horrible experien
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by whughes 18y ago
Making generalizations about rich and poor is very dangerous. It may well be cultural, and many areas which are poor happen to have that cultural attribute. Perhaps it is also related to media exposure. I doubt that happiness is directly re
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by whughes 18y ago
Next time you have a problem with your machine or with some code you're writing try your search on Google and on Twitter Search. Next time you want to buy something try Google and Twitter. Next time you want to look up the population of Tan
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by whughes 18y ago
Why is this important? Because in the end it will fail. Facebook is trying to copy one of the most efficent ways to browse content on the internet, Friendfeed. Sorry, which one is more popular? Facebook or Friendfeed? The masses have cle
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by whughes 18y ago
Depending on what your startup does, I'm not sure that the resiliency value will make much difference. If your site is down, in many cases you may be screwed anyway; the blog won't help you get new users. In a long-term sense, other people
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by whughes 18y ago
I think it's exaggerated slightly, but not terribly. They clearly considered it a high priority and put it in several questions. It's not as if the title was just extrapolated from an anecdotal experience.
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by whughes 18y ago
I believe that talking about "social real time search" as Google's biggest competitor is vastly overstating things. Twitter simply cannot produce most of the content that Google can provide. Short opinions, yes. Lengthy product reviews, no.
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by whughes 18y ago
Am I the only one who finds the attempts of TorrentFreak and others to popularize the term "King Kong defense" obnoxious? It seems like a weak attempt to create a viral phrase with very limited real application. It just irks me every time I
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by whughes 18y ago
The article doesn't mention this, but a potential problem: The Da Vinci Code doesn't have <goodnews> tags. For a text-to-spech system to truly be able to read books naturally, it has to be able to parse emotion out of a text and fig
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by whughes 18y ago
So I have no moral right to use a text-only browser? I have no moral right to browse without a Flash plugin or without JavaScript? I have no moral right to block ads to protect my machine from spyware and make the browsing experience palata
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by whughes 18y ago
I don't understand it. On the one hand you have people like you who make the claim that kids these days are developing an overdependence on society. On the other hand you have people claiming that our devices are preventing us from interact
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by whughes 18y ago
From a technological point of view, I think he's spot on. However, from a technological point of view I don't think any of what we've seen in the last ten years is really groundbreaking. Facebook doesn't really bring anything new to the tab
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by whughes 18y ago
Ayn Rand quotes align really badly with pro-Obama and/or anti-conservative ideas. First of all, she would most likely have railed against everything Obama is doing. The conservatives attempt to draw on the whole Randian capitalist ideal,
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by whughes 18y ago
That's what Print Preview should be for; I'm not sure how Firefox and other browsers handle this on other platforms, but OS X builds the Preview right into the Print dialog, so I don't see the Print Preview option. That would be the easiest
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by whughes 18y ago
While I admire what justin.tv is doing, I think that in a way it's arrogant of the "Web 2.0"/Silicon Valley community to dismiss TV so quickly. Silicon Valley and the kinds of people who are adopting justin.tv are not the people who are wat

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