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by zimbabwe 17y ago
He was called the most trusted man in America. For a long time he was the most famous anchor on television, back when TV was how most people got their news. He had a stalwart reputation, which is rare among anchors (especially compared to t
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Elizer, I'm going to respond to you not because I disagree with what you said, but because you stated concisely the view that's opposite the one I hold, and I figure it might be neat to provide the foil view. I don't hold my mind's current
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both dropped acid. I'd bet they both did weed, too. The magic secret of entrepreneurship is that the people with big ideas and strong work ethics know who they are already, and them doing drugs doesn't stop them fr
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The Kindle is absolutely worth buying. Just break the DRM on the books you get, take back-ups, and remember that The Pirate Bay is your friend when Amazon does something stupid. ( http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5003507/1984_-_George_Orwell
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I don't know who downvoted you - you're absolutely right regarding the human ability to influence others. You didn't word it well, but the core of what you're saying is completely correct. I've never been able to watch any Bill Hicks routin
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Yeah, that's the joke.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
TechCrunch also gives YCombinator sites tons of write-ups. It's not anything underhanded, just a relationship that both sides benefit from - at the cost of the people who think Hacker News would be better without Arrington's peculiar brand
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The Apple remote vs the Microsoft remote(marco.org)
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Facebook is wonderful - but I use it with only 23 people and disable Highlights, so I only see what I want to see. What I love about Facebook is that if you want to use Facebook "responsibly", you can, and when you do Facebook doesn't nag
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I respect him for that. He's trying to express his beliefs to people he thinks might benefit from it. That's a noble thing to do. Hell, that's half of why I'm a user on this site. I don't think that time spent encouraging people not to wast
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Upon reading the diss of Marissa Mayer I found myself liking Twitter a little more. But then, that's a very geeky reaction coming from somebody whose friends imitate the Marissa Mayer laugh for fun.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
As much as I'd love to see this happen (more power to VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb and, hell, even Mashable), Paul and Mike are friends so it's not happening. As much as I get my hopes up every month when this debate comes up, the guy who c
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
For the curious: This is available on the 99¢ Classics app on the iPhone, and it looks beautiful there.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
The previous conversation: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=706403 I agree with the thoughts on the other story more. Palm hacked the Pre in a bad way, tried to make it emulate an iPod. I think that Apple ought to open up iTunes more,
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Sorry; I wasn't trying to offend. For what it's worth, I didn't downvote your original comment. You were at 0 and I thought your post was worth a debate. It was smug of you to suggest that we didn't like Zed because of feelings of inferiori
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't know that there was a better term for the guy that suggests people don't like Zed Shaw because he's better than them and they're jealous, when the man in question used to title his site "ZED'S SO FUCKING AWESOME" and spe
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Let me respond as somebody who was the target of one of Zed's rants. When Zed gets into one of his little rantboxes, he absolutely refuses to listen to the other side. He's very often right, but he's not comprehensively right, which is to
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
A well-written satirical post knocking some stuffing out of the guy is A-ok in my book. Zed's obviously bright, but he's an asshole about it, and as much as he says he writes the stuff he writes just to get change happening, he revels a bi
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Huh! Perhaps it's a fault of the virtualization software, then? I'm using a Macbook Pro, the drivers of which I'd assume are in fairly common use, but I can't get audio to work properly. Would virtualization have anything to do with that?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Apple's ad responding to this philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZRcYS88BwQ
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Facebook degrades quite gracefully, actually. I'm surprised their site looks as good as it does on IE 6.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'd have thought you could install the window manager along with everything else.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I get that argument a lot here, and I've written lengthy counterarguments before, but that's not at all the case. Look at the features that Facebook introduced to the Internet. They introduced the public feed in the first place, they introd
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What makes this different from any other theme? Why submit this one to Hacker News? Because attempts to dupe OS X have been around for a decade now; the existence of this one isn't newsworthy unless it's a nonshitty theme, but that's not th
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Except for the fact that all the theme files of OS X are modifiable and hackable to your heart's desire. The fact that no large theming community exists for OS X is that Aqua is a very, very satisfying theme.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Can't you run Gnome/KDE on OS X?
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That and the gradients, the look of the graphite buttons, the folders, the log-out button where Spotlight ought to be (there's no launcher bar equivalent that could be themed to look like Spotlight?), the spacing on the dock, the theming on
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
What is OS X86?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I booted up Ubuntu just now. I support the JWZ quote. Ubuntu is the best Linux has ever been, but there's no competition in any way with OS X, and I'd probably choose Windows 7 over it if it didn't instantly support all my drivers. This is
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You're one of a few hundred thousand people who think that in the midst of a sea of a hundred million who are just getting used to Facebook. Luckily, the Internet is free so everybody can use whatever they please. You can even Tweet your Fa

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