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joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Forget Revenue. Relevance Is The New Currency.

This sounds a lot like those "new economy" screeds in Wired back in the dotcom days.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Good languages for closed-source desktop apps

Maybe so, but it's still gonna stick out like a sore thumb everywhere. Meaning annoyed users, meaning the app is never ever gonna become a buzz on blogs and shit, meaning low earnings.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Help Pay My Bills: A HN Experiment

> Rebel XSi, so quality is not a problem

Because the camera is all that matters, right?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome

So, how do you do that then? Some extension I assume?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

Lots and lots and lots of sites fail because they depend on jquery hosted by google.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why isn't Plan9 popular?

> - UTF8 came from Plan 9

Not really, Ken Thompson certainly contributed to it, but they didn't invent it.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall

> got it for my son and he rode it to school his senior year in high school

So, what was his weekly wedgie average?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: The Ugly Truth About Classic Games. They Are Terrible.

Eagles on Pogo-sticks.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

If you have a few options, then you don't rely on a single company, do you?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users

The Chrome/Safari adblock has an extremely crap UI compared to Firefox adblock if you ever wanna add your own blocking rules.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Kindle found to be worse than paper textbooks

> basically the new "interactive CDROM" you had some years ago.

And I still kind of think that was a solution in search of a problem. Are there any evidence that stuff like that helps learning?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: The Very Last Thing I’ll Write About Twitter

Maybe this #newtwitter is just not going down several times a day. That'd sure be revolutionary.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: HDCP master key allegedly posted

I bet 99% of all people who might be interested in Blu-Ray does.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Why Tumblr Sucks

The no. 1 reason tumbler sucks: 1 original content site for every 1000 reposting shitheaps.

Also, people using it for posting info that would be much better presented in some other way. I'm looking at you safariextensions.tumblr.com, your site is pretty much worthless thanks to the decision to use tumblr.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Google Instant Search Released

Annoyingly busy. I sort of feel like this is a prime example why you don't put engineers in charge of UI. Just because we can is not a good enough reason to do it.

Also, having both a dropdown and a whole page refresh, what?

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: This is a fully working chess program with graphics. In 1024 bytes of JS. o_0

1024 bytes... and a 60 meg browser.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format

we should go back to that embedded shellscript thingy that was common back in the day. Its name escapes me.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does "the Cloud" mean to you?

To me it means not being in control of my own data.

joey_bananas | 15 years ago | on: Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science

Difference is, people die from bad science. No one does if a christmas tree is nomenclatured a holiday tree.