da5e
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14 years ago
Nice design but it doesn't add anything to the site experience for me. The header seems too big for orange. I used the option to turn the color of the header on HN from orange to white to further simplify the look of it. I do kinda like the number of comments bubble though. I'd love to see a link on the 404 pages.
da5e
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14 years ago
Apple...Gandhi? Really? I thought the article was being ironic. The thing about a big fail like Mike Daisey's is that it shuts down valid debate. Apple ends, great. Means? Iffy.
da5e
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14 years ago
The worse thing is that Google lets ads like the "look younger" one buy time. They offer a sample to try for free, but if you don't return it they sign you up for a year's subscription for a $100 a month and you also get charged for the "free" sample. Simple ripoff.
da5e
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14 years ago
da5e
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14 years ago
True but it seems this intrusion gave the team an excellent problem to focus on. The system is better for having solved it.
If considered in relation to scale, what per cent of its wealth did Facebook have to spend on this? Not much.
da5e
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14 years ago
I used to use memrise, and enjoyed it, especially the gamification and the ability to put your own mnemonics in as well as see what images others used. But when they changed to a garden metaphor I lost track of what their algorithm was doing and went back to more traditional flashcardexchange.com mostly. I'll take another look though.
da5e
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14 years ago
Sounds like a great habit. There are some studies that indicate problem solving ability is highest when you're "groggy" so maybe skip the coffee. Many authors have developed the same habit during their early days when they had a day job. Mark Cuban said, "You're only at your best once a day."
da5e
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14 years ago
There's sort of a force multiplier with Google protesting online. It's that Google also has lobbyists who are pointing out and explaining the online protests to legislators.
da5e
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14 years ago
It's interesting that Reddit will get a huge number of hits by people going to see it go dark. Too bad there's no way to monetize a dark site.
da5e
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14 years ago
Nice. I like my lay-down desk which I also sleep in. Churchill used to work in bed for four hours every morning. Hugh Hefner too. Netbooks are good for this.
da5e
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14 years ago
Some Iowa cafe owner, dubbed his creamy chicken salad as the Santorum Salad. Apparently without irony.
da5e
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14 years ago
>They're putting their collective time, effort, and (most importantly) money into something
The Occupy protesters put their BODIES into something. Both approaches are important.
da5e
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14 years ago
The title of the article was linkbait.
da5e
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14 years ago
shorter: flashover occurs faster than investigators thought.
That is the sole myth the article even mentions.
da5e
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14 years ago
Fun page. Even has a little easter egg when you point to the cheese. I think this spawns an adage: It's not whether you're first, it's whether you're first to hit HN front page.
da5e
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14 years ago
This should make the guy who left out the var during his product's launch feel better. No one is too big to fail.
da5e
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14 years ago
I think you misinterpreted my remark. This actually wasn't a "silly" error, it was, as many have pointed out, an avoidable error. I think many don't take javascript seriously and it bites them.
da5e
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14 years ago
>>You act as if my mistake had the potential to ruin a business. Of course it didn't- I picked up on it before the code had even been pushed to the remote repository.
Not to beat on you, but didn't you discover the error after users started using it in a big news day?
da5e
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14 years ago
Well sure. I actually wasn't trying to be harsh OR sarcastic. It's not pop psychology (I think it goes back to Freud) that in some sense there are no mistakes. We all make errors and I was just saying that two errors about the same issue might be a hint that one has "issues" about the, er, issue or that some self-sabotage in important matters might surface under stress. You're the only one can answer that. I admire your courage in sharing your experience with all these crack programmers.
da5e
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14 years ago
Hmm, so you wrote a careless typo while describing your "careless" coding? Not to be harsh, but maybe it's a hint?
