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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Whoops! -admonished zimbabwe
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Thank you very much for the link! I'd just Google'd "web browser usage" and took the w3 link.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Good read, but the findings aren't surprising. We all know there are social rules that aren't set in stone but still adhered to. Being a dick online leads to people hating you. Past that simple fact, the details aren't that interesting, sin
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'd love to hear your story when you've got time. WW isn't a site we hear a lot about on HN, and I've always been a little curious.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Seriously. As I get older I'm realizing that there are very easy ways to get smarter, more successful, more in shape, more active, etc., but I still find it hard to fully admit that a little hard work helps everything. It's made the "get-X-
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
-5 because he signed his comment with an initial? That's silly. He asked a question that led to a set of useful comments. Signing a name is a little silly, but I don't recall its being against HN etiquette and it's too minimal to be conside
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You put too much of a focus on developers. Most people don't care about development within the browser, they care about development within web sites. The philosophy that the browser ought to merely be a window to other sites with as little
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is currently the most popular, yes, but Chrome's been growing (slightly) faster and it's still in beta, not to mention it has the full support of Google behind it. How profitabl
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I've had the opposite experience: Many frustrated friends have abandoned Firefox for Safari and Chrome. Very few of my friends ever use add-ons, either, and that's the only thing Firefox is good for anymore, what with its shitty UI and rela
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Newsvine is a good example of tags making a community more focused and easier to handle.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I think you're right that over time, pressure will stop people from publishing quizzes publicly. In my own sphere I've seen almost none in the past two weeks. It's like how "tag-other-people" notes got old half a year ago. I agree with all
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I wish kids were taught this at a young age. I learned it at seventeen; two years later, I'm still struggling with a lot of the things I've needed to unlearn. I have friends my age who still don't believe this, who are forcing themselves on
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Holy fucking shit, the guy who made CD Baby wrote this? That blows my mind. Just today I was looking into CD Baby as a means of music publication - never thought the guy who made that would keep a blog, or read Hacker News. I love this co
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You're thinking kids jumped on Facebook because it was hip. It's not - it's cool. There's a subtle difference. When MySpace got huge, it was because of the social tail. Big bands joined, lots of kids joined to talk to those bands, those kid
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I wouldn't bet either way, but remember that profit isn't a linear progression. Right now, Facebook's not making much money per user. If they figure out a way to convince its average user to pay for something, suddenly they'll be in for a
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Agreed. I don't know who you are, but I've seen this blog four or five times in the last week and I've liked almost everything I read.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
"Twist" this? I'm trying to answer your question. It's not worth cheating in an online dick-waving contest. I'm saying, very clearly, that complaining about being bored doesn't automatically make your life boring, not when you have the choi
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
"If you deactivate your account, we'll kill this kitten." Actively threatening a life. "Your friends will no longer be able to keep in touch with you." Suggesting there might be passive harm caused directly by a user's action. Yeah, tho
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But your friends all use their service too. What's to say Facebook doesn't have a good reason to remind you of them?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Manipulative? Yes. Tacky? No. They're reminding you that you have friends on Facebook. Tacky would be them telling your friends to convince you not to abandon your account.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It appears to be completely random. I got entirely different selections on two separate clicks.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's not a trend so much as it is a redefinition of intelligence. When you get older, you realize that somebody can be bright/wise/funny despite being fairly stupid in so-called "quantitative" terms. Somebody who can't read and isn't very l
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You can send friend requests directly to email addresses. My middle school brother just found me on Facebook that way.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Connecting people and trying to sell them things they might like is hardly evil.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
In some cases, I just like being part of the talk. Right now that's Hacker News and Something Awful, because Reddit people frustrate me and the idea of losing days to Metafilter scares me. I'm also a little obsessive re:design. I like click
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
There's a difference between being bored and thinking, erroneously, that your life is boring. It's much easier to complain about being bored than it is to actually be bored.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's essentially what I said, but you're nitpicking my use of the word "design". I hold that by how I define "design", Apple's design is the best out there, by several orders of magnitude. There is no user experience more painstakingly cr
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Again: I listed the things I did this month , from my house, with a handful of friends. I won't even try to make a list of super-exciting experiences because there are so many things. When the possibilities range from "learn to sumo wres
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Even if you read the license the first time (and I don't), how many more times are you going to read it? So Apple can put in the license whatver they want? It really isn't about that. I just don't want to tie myself to proprietary softwa
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You have to write software to do any thing, any where. Strictly speaking, with Linux you need to write software just to have a GUI. All of the "trivial things" you can do with your computer are things people wrote software to allow you to

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