Correct me if I'm wrong, but: 1. Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality. 2. Growing traffic isn't the best way to foster a community. I believe pg has…
A more interesting comparison if you're going to use medicine, IMO, is how it's the exact opposite for surgeons compared to doctors. If you believe The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can…
It's where people (think mostly the lowest common denominator of wannabe hackers like script kiddies and such, i.e. not just bad but fairly inept) go to learn how to and share information about stealing credit card…
I go to Wikipedia itself all the time. I just type 'en' + enter into my address bar because I'm so used to it, but I'm sure there's probably millions of people that always go to the first page instead. I still think it…
Blackwater -> Xe -> Academi. For trying to get away from the story book evil sounding-ness of an entity named "Blackwater", they sure didn't do very good with "Xe", which sounds even more mysterious and…
Well, until we figure out plausible ways to control weather reliably on a large enough scale, at least. Without killing the atmosphere or our species or anything like that.
It's pretty cool how hovering over the name highlights which person it is.
I don't know much about living in SF, but would people actually pay that much? It seems like people would only go for this if it was cheaper (to me). >Or for any modern city dweller for whom home need not mean much…
I was first introduced to computers at age 9 (I'm not that old, the internet had been around for a little bit) when my "girlfriend" got me to talk to her on a chat site over summer break. I started getting more and more…
Why does that make everybody happy? What I got from the article was that the difference in cost to the ISP for having someone connected at all and using a ton of data had grown increasingly minimal in recent times.
Weird. You only posted two minutes ago, but our experiences seem to have been much different as it loaded the next images instantly for me. The only delay was for comment pages, but that's to be expected.
The way they talk about spare parts, sneakers, etc. makes me wonder how we would ever be able to store all of that material. Maybe there will be ways in the future, but with that much variety in things they think we'll…
I'm probably not the average MU user, but 99% of the stuff I used it for pretty legitimate. Game files/recordings, map files, photo albums people were too lazy to upload one by one, personal videos between friends we…
Was that a smaller plot point of the book or have I looked up the wrong one? http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/03807929...
I agree, tacking on "of America" only makes it sound more positive to most people. Even I'm having a hard time thinking "SOPA is the Great Wall of America" doesn't sound really awesome.
Maybe if it recognized just thinking about that sequence, but I think having to deliberately focus on each direction (kind of like pressing a series of buttons in your mind, one after the other) would be too hard to…
Hmm. How long has Chrome removed the 'javascript:' when you paste into a URL bar? I assume it's to prevent users from blindly running JS, but is there a way to disable it?
>It bothers me when people apply a new buzzword to an old concept. Calling things like HN and forums "Social Media" is no more descriptive than calling a garbage truck driver a "sanitation engineer." But it's a…
>I can only imagine how bad it would be if people could choose to post anonymously. You don't have to imagine the past very hard. Was it really that bad just a few years ago?
For some reason it just doesn't feel the same ;) : http://i.imgur.com/3u1Rb.png I wish we didn't have to rely on a 3rd party.
> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil! Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
Are you saying that height doesn't matter, or just that being tall doesn't give you an advantage over being average? I've always heard it does, but that's just anecdotal. Short people are definitely at a disadvantage…
An analyst/associate is not going to be able to go off and start his own boutique if he can't even make it to MD in an existing firm(s).
I imagine most would. Even here (US), "professor of _ at Harvard" sounds more respectable than "top executive," including "top executive of Toyota" in certain circles (like to most of the public). One commands respect,…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but: 1. Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality. 2. Growing traffic isn't the best way to foster a community. I believe pg has…
A more interesting comparison if you're going to use medicine, IMO, is how it's the exact opposite for surgeons compared to doctors. If you believe The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can…
It's where people (think mostly the lowest common denominator of wannabe hackers like script kiddies and such, i.e. not just bad but fairly inept) go to learn how to and share information about stealing credit card…
I go to Wikipedia itself all the time. I just type 'en' + enter into my address bar because I'm so used to it, but I'm sure there's probably millions of people that always go to the first page instead. I still think it…
Blackwater -> Xe -> Academi. For trying to get away from the story book evil sounding-ness of an entity named "Blackwater", they sure didn't do very good with "Xe", which sounds even more mysterious and…
Well, until we figure out plausible ways to control weather reliably on a large enough scale, at least. Without killing the atmosphere or our species or anything like that.
It's pretty cool how hovering over the name highlights which person it is.
I don't know much about living in SF, but would people actually pay that much? It seems like people would only go for this if it was cheaper (to me). >Or for any modern city dweller for whom home need not mean much…
I was first introduced to computers at age 9 (I'm not that old, the internet had been around for a little bit) when my "girlfriend" got me to talk to her on a chat site over summer break. I started getting more and more…
Why does that make everybody happy? What I got from the article was that the difference in cost to the ISP for having someone connected at all and using a ton of data had grown increasingly minimal in recent times.
Weird. You only posted two minutes ago, but our experiences seem to have been much different as it loaded the next images instantly for me. The only delay was for comment pages, but that's to be expected.
The way they talk about spare parts, sneakers, etc. makes me wonder how we would ever be able to store all of that material. Maybe there will be ways in the future, but with that much variety in things they think we'll…
I'm probably not the average MU user, but 99% of the stuff I used it for pretty legitimate. Game files/recordings, map files, photo albums people were too lazy to upload one by one, personal videos between friends we…
Was that a smaller plot point of the book or have I looked up the wrong one? http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Eric-S-Nylund/dp/03807929...
I agree, tacking on "of America" only makes it sound more positive to most people. Even I'm having a hard time thinking "SOPA is the Great Wall of America" doesn't sound really awesome.
Maybe if it recognized just thinking about that sequence, but I think having to deliberately focus on each direction (kind of like pressing a series of buttons in your mind, one after the other) would be too hard to…
Hmm. How long has Chrome removed the 'javascript:' when you paste into a URL bar? I assume it's to prevent users from blindly running JS, but is there a way to disable it?
>It bothers me when people apply a new buzzword to an old concept. Calling things like HN and forums "Social Media" is no more descriptive than calling a garbage truck driver a "sanitation engineer." But it's a…
>I can only imagine how bad it would be if people could choose to post anonymously. You don't have to imagine the past very hard. Was it really that bad just a few years ago?
For some reason it just doesn't feel the same ;) : http://i.imgur.com/3u1Rb.png I wish we didn't have to rely on a 3rd party.
> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil! Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
Are you saying that height doesn't matter, or just that being tall doesn't give you an advantage over being average? I've always heard it does, but that's just anecdotal. Short people are definitely at a disadvantage…
An analyst/associate is not going to be able to go off and start his own boutique if he can't even make it to MD in an existing firm(s).
I imagine most would. Even here (US), "professor of _ at Harvard" sounds more respectable than "top executive," including "top executive of Toyota" in certain circles (like to most of the public). One commands respect,…