jbenz's comments

You're making yourself look like a total Luddite by discounting quantum-computing-added drone-delivery-optimized software systems. I mean, thanks for playing, though.

After submitting this, I discovered:

If you click the coronavirus icon in the top left a few times, the data doesn't seem quite that bad...

The number one person in power at Amazon = the number one person in power at the Washington Post.

The Rock came out when I was 13 so needless to say, I'm a big fan.

I absolutely thought VX Nerve Agent was fictional until today.

Hey, I hired YouTubers via FameBit quite a bit ago to help make videos like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=Ko586_GPuR8

I have to say, it was a great experience. Famebit encouraged both sides to be open and transparent. They wanted to their YouTubers to include a note like "sponsored by so and so".

We wanted that too. As an advertiser, I'm not trying to sneak into the native content of unsuspecting viewers. I want everyone to know the scenario. The fewer surprises, the better.

And this type of thing works great on YouTube. Users aren't totally scornful of sponsored content. I wish more platforms were like this. Can you imagine how angry most reddit users would be if someone posted original content (even if it was great) and said "This is a paid posting by..."

Sadly, it didn't work out for long with FameBit. We were getting a lot of new storefront owners... but they seemed very young, and they had no concept of copyright issues. That's a story for another day.

I guarantee I never would have heard about this video (which sounds hilarious) if not for this news story.

Pretty sure the NRA knows who Barbara Streisand is. There were all upset about her movie, The Long Island Incident. Maybe they are not as familiar with her Effect.

Let's say Netflix asks the production company for the cast. DIC Entertainment went defunct 7 years ago. Let's say they were still around though. Would someone there have to dig through physical filing cabinets? Or would they just google it?

Bottom line: Henry Winkler voicing a shark as a meta-jumped-the-shark reference is brilliant.

I think it is easy for the design world (myself included) to take itself too seriously sometimes, and start to sound pretentious.

This seems like a great antidote. I think it's funny. Design needs more humor.

I love the scrolling "BUY TICKETS" and the rollover effect of the cursor gripping a wad of bills. Ha.

If you're choosing between "should I commit a felony or not" should it matter how often other are charged with it? What happens if law enforcement suddenly becomes more interested?

Disclosure! Yeah, the one that became the movie with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas. A man is sexually harassed by his female boss.

The book is kind of about that, but also about technology. It was published in 1994 and I would say it was futuristic, if not a bit misguided.

Crichton envisioned a virtual reality tool where -- if you wanted to find a certain file on your computer -- you would run down the halls of a huge virtual library, opening virtual filing cabinets and picking through files by hand. I think this was supposed to make finding your digital files "easier"... but seems hilarious now.

Who knows, maybe some version of that will still come true. It's been a while since I read it, so I might be mis-remembering.

Almost all of his books had some futuristic technology involved, including Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, etc.

If it makes you feel any better, I followed the exact same path. He was one of my favorite authors when I was a kid, but by the time Prey came out... yeesh.

But I still love Sphere, The Lost World, and so many more. I even love Disclosure, with its hilarious take on virtual reality file storage.

Maybe the name could instead reference a hardware bracket? Like something that holds up a shelf, or I don't know, holds up startups to be seen. You could swap out your sports-sytle-bracket-icon for something that looks more like this: http://sugatsune.com/products/Images/C-Bracket-SU-B-P60.jpg

I, for one, am hoping this word slowly seeps into public consciousness and then into dictionaries. If it is a subtle nod, it's a perfectly cromulent one.

I meant it in the sense of "will he ever comment again under the HN username of PG". For all I know, he might be commenting now under a different username, but if so, that's his business. Not mine. It has been a while since the PG account has commented. I was just curious if he plans to return to the PG account.

It's a beautiful site. Are you at all worried about the name Marvel? Especially now that Marvel Comics is trying to work with designers and developers too? [1]

[1]http://developer.marvel.com/

For the record, Jack Daniels sent us a Cease & Desist recently and it was not nearly as nice as this one. It was your standard "stop doing this or we will take action" C&D. (We had parody t-shirt designs in our user gallery.) A letter like this would've been easier to swallow.

>Why in the world would bot 2 offer the book for $11? It would know that nobody would buy it when there was one already listed for $10.

The author covers that point with this quote:

>In this case, buyers could easily find the "original" products for themselves, and pay less... but the search results are cluttered with millions-sold arbitrage super-stores

As I remember it, there was a feature implemented where leaders (veteran accounts with high vote averages) do get something of a boost when they comment, at least within the sequencing of the comments in any one thread. I think this was done to help improve the quality of the conversation, even before the removal of the vote totals next to each comment.

The sivers.org post tells the story through an anecdote. I'm with you. Who doesn't love a good anecdote?

I sure would love to see examples of some of her more successful Bebe or Modcloth facebook / twitter / social ads. Or hear about how many iterations it took them to to get to a successful system.