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by zimbabwe 17y ago
It's the same with many of these big niche products. Nothing wrong with niche, but the people who call FriendFeed the wave of the future are the people who have the most to benefit from FriendFeed's becoming huge. Twitter is miniature compa
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
This is why we don't snip quotes to make them sound better for our own snark. FTA: Amazon has announced a larger, more expensive Kindle DX for textbooks and periodicals, which it will test-market to college students. Last year I paid $5
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
If you treat your phone like a feature list then the iPhone has competition. Its best apps are vastly cooler than anything else on a mobile platform, but the iPhone itself is simply a very good phone feature-wise, nothing incredibly standou
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Spoken like a low karma user. /grump
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'll vote for part of the language. Something this widespread isn't a meme. As an English dick, I'm fine with "Fail". It's simple and to-the-point. Much better than "Fmylife" or similar flippant things.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I agree, but I've had comments that were in the eighties and I think one topped a hundred, and they don't show up here.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Either this has a cutoff of a few weeks (likely, since I've seen higher-rated comments than the ones here), or HN suffers from insane inflation.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Have you tried it out, out of curiosity?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Do you have experience with PRGMR? It looks great, but I don't know how trustworthy it is.
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Johnny Chung Lee - Foldable Display Tracking using the Wiimote (youtube.com)
2 points by zimbabwe 17y ago|0 comments
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
That's exactly the sort of scenario I was wondering about. Thanks a lot for your response! (Also, out of curiosity, what's your app?)
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Okay, thanks! So you have experience with Slicehost? Moving up to larger slices is a painless task?
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm glad you commented as well as submitted, or else I wouldn't have gotten the satisfaction of downvoting you for your spam.
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Ask HN: What's necessary re: server RAM?
17 points by zimbabwe 17y ago|23 comments
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
In the Jackson 5 and up to Thriller he had a gorgeous voice, even if his pop wasn't exactly cutting-edge in any other way.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
Going to http://vyoom.com , here's how I can predict this site's eventual failure without having used the software at all: * The header design is lifted from Facebook, except for the login, which was made artificially bigger and uglier. *
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
You have to admit that Michael Jackson was just plain weird. But then many of the greatest innovators were also considered weird in their time. I think that in particular is what I'd want to emulate: He was weird because he did a lot of s
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I don't know enough about Michael Jackson to be able to respond well to this, but he made his career out of it, invented his own moved, and genuinely seemed to love what he did. That's not enough to say it was of his own accord, but I'd lik
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
But really, folks, is it a good idea to claim Jacko as an ideal to which people in this community might aspire? The man took something that was considered to be geeky and odd - dancing - practiced it feverishly and from a young age, and a
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm going to disagree with you about his music, even though I'm not a huge Michael Jackson fan, because he had a killer groove. But Jackson was never a musician first and foremost. He was a dancer. He was the best dancer of this last half c
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
So far nobody's invented a device that's capable of shape-shifting, so replicating the interface via touch is as good as you can get without actually buying the calculator.
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HP releases iPhone versions of classic calculators(macworld.com)
12 points by zimbabwe 17y ago|19 comments
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
So you're really happy that Facebook offers right-off-the-bat filters for all three of those things, right? Because that solves your problem without your ever having to worry about seeing the other things.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm aware of the style - even have a Rococo polo shirt. I was referring more to this philosophy wherein smaller and more compact is better. Does it allow for the more maximalist expressions, or does it hold that they're flawed in their phil
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
They also get the privilege of only interacting with quality people. It must be nice not having to deal with as many idiots.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
I'm curious if anybody has thoughts regarding the work of maximalists. The only person coming to mind right now is the prolix writer David Foster Wallace. Is his method of writing entirely flawed? Or are there cases where being over-the-top
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
From the article: We have identified this bug and closed the loophole. We don’t have any evidence to suggest that it was ever exploited for malicious purposes. Yeah, it's not like Facebook already solved the problem. It's fun thinking of
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
When you email me I don't need your entire fucking website. I don't need your navigation bar and I don't need your multipaneled displays. If you have something that complex, either you're too lazy to edit your copy or you have something big
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
They could, but in cases like this ease of access is everything.
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by zimbabwe 17y ago
They put an OK phone into the markets ahead of it's time (with V1) and whipped up a demand. Just for fun, last week I had some friends over and we streamed that iPhone keynote where Steve Jobs first announces what the iPhone is capable of

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