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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I guess I'm the first person to say that yes, I did cheat, and no, I don't feel guilty. What matters is getting the right answer. If you stop before you get the right answer, then you're responsible for that. If you take a shortcut to get t
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's silly. There's cool stuff on pretty much every platform. Gaming, Unix apps, online apps, iPhone apps...
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Then you'd probably have a good $8. We're in a tech renaissance. Lots of cool stuff is coming out, and they're all doing things in really different ways. It makes perfect sense that the game is constantly changing. It's exciting!
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Only 2009? There's always hypeware. Remember Google's SocialStream?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But Mibbit appeals to a very niche technical community. Gmail's market share is less than 20%, if I recall correctly. A lot of people using IE right now are either forced to use it for corporate purposes - my mother has to use it on her lap
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's a stupid argument. Would people stop using Gmail if it refused to work for IE6/7/8? Yes. They would stop instantly. Where the hell did Bing come in? Some people use Google Search and Hotmail. You're not locked into a company. Further
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's difficult because Google needs to compromise themselves enough to work for the IE majority. If they break too much then people won't get Chrome. They'll stop using Google.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What's so bad about companies not bullshitting? If Microsoft said "We think HTML5 isn't worth our time, and we won't lift a finger until we see it picking up," I'd like them a lot more than when they make empty claims. That way, when they a
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The headers I agree with, but big images look pretty, and I can't think of anything that would work better beyond the blank white that Google's made its visual trademark. Live half-assed between the two options, which I hated.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Did you paste ads in every single Wave mention? Because it's really annoying, and not the right way to appeal to a bunch of cynical hacker sorts.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm trying it right now, running my usual computer-dick test of running a lot of stuff at once. There's no lag so far.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Google Wave actually looks nothing like your product whatsoever. We already have real-time updates. What we don't have is a system where every sort of update is treated in a single place. That's what Wave is. If you want to advertise Browse
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The iPhone is known by every person who uses tech devices. Everybody who knows about it knows it's touch-based. I'd bet that most people who know about it have had a chance to fiddle around with it, since they've sold 17 million phones and
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's not quite criticism. It's pointing out that touch screens are mainstream. My immediate family alone has three. That's mainstream. Touch was a huge deal in 2006.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Very frequently, because I can't be arsed to join in most conversations. I actually try to post more when I don't expect my post to result in a debate, because I've learned that nothing good comes out of online debate.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
jrockway is a bright person who happens to be a smarmy jerk every time he gets into arguing one of his pet peeves. I've learned to ignore his jackassery and respect him for when he talks about the things he's really bright about. Operating
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You are about as wrong as anybody can get about anything. The Wire is an outright masterpiece. I can't see how you'd find it to be "cheap". It's got probably the most brilliantly characterized people I've seen on any screen. I'd understand
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's curious that this sort of game design is exactly the sort that's getting railed against in the progressive game design community. Fellows like Jonathan Blow and Jason Rohrer argue quite convincingly that games' focusing on artificial r
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
In Drew Curtis's book It's Not News, It's Fark , he talks about how more than anything, the media loves talking about media, because they understand it the most. That means any huge story almost inevitably turns into reports of "Has the me
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But it is how they work. Each person is able to choose their own idols. Disagreement is expected. You have aesthetic extremists who will tell you T. S. Eliot is a terrible poet, or that E. E. Cummings is modernist garbage. I personally th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's actually something I noticed on the Mac. It's good at staying sleek enough that on the desktop you notice a difference. On Windows I used Google Apps for nearly everything. The desktop equivalents weren't good enough to be worth swit
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If you're looking for design, ilovetypography and SmashingMag. If you're looking for "general art", you're dealing with an incredibly tough subject, because each specific field of art requires just as much focus as the field of computer pro
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Looks pretty basic. I'm curious not about the specifics of how the phone works, but about how smoothly it works. Why is it that the iPhone is the only phone that handles tap-and-swipe scrolling without making it feel terrible?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
My bible says that you keep as desktop apps those things which you are somehow personally invested in. So for me, that's my to-do list, Mail.app, iTunes, iChat, and Textedit. In other words, the things which I almost constantly use. Everyth
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But a community doesn't suffer when it lets its more extreme members ignore the things that would provoke them.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You're equating a physical reality with a virtual one. The whole of the Internet is about filtration. There's no "real" location that grows worse or that requires effort. Besides, a per-site filter won't stop offtopic posts from being flagg
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But Twitter didn't knock off Facebook at all. My bet is that Facebook doesn't die off, and it's because Facebook captures what really matters for social networking: keeping track of friends. That's why it beat MySpace. Before Facebook, no s
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm of the mindset that you never lose when the other person resorts to calling you names. If somebody's called out for their bullshit, then they've lost.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Valleywag is specifically about insulting individuals involved with companies. TechCrunch focuses on breaking news, even when a good deal of the time it's crap, and CodingHorror might be uneducated but Jeff Atwood is still writing things th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Why do you think selective filtering would ruin the front page? It's the equivalent of "don't click on Techcrunch articles", but it makes it much easier and removes the visual nag. (For that matter, has there ever been a social news site wh

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