resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Did Google kill the long tail?
AWESOME!
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resnamen | 14 years ago | on: What It's Like On Day One As An Apple Employee
Lots of free lunches: the dregs left over after the salespeople have their noon meetings.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Did Google kill the long tail?
This infographic is like watching a politician spin their selfish agenda into a "think of the children!" plea. Pretty funny actually.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
I don't understand why the TC diaspora gets so much attention. Have they earned the spotlight for reasons other than just being inflammatory?
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
Something like Ars Technica, which is way meatier than the hyperbole and cheerleading that the PandoLemonCrunch school of venture journalism is capable of.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus
Wouldn't happen. Abandoning user choice and configurability seems to be in vogue with designers these days. We're just slouching our way toward our future as passive appliance users.
(I totally agree - either turn it into a keyboard shortcut, or a reserved 16x16px spyglass icon in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar...)
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Dear Rupert Murdoch: Let’s Talk Piracy & “The Simpsons”
Murdoch just knows that post-Season 8 Simpsons isn't worth streaming. ;)
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: RIM CEOs to Give Up Top Posts in Shuffle
Not if the status quo is terrible.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are the HN forums losing their civility?
I wouldn't mind moving the articles whose discussions have completely gone to seed into a separate subforum.
My favorite forums are ones that don't allow the discussion of politics or religion. The same is true for real-life discussions with acquaintances that you don't thoroughly know yet. There is nothing to be gained from a discussion when everybody's emotions are fully inflamed.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Google's "free food" is not free
This is SOP for negotiation. Candidates do this shit too, trying to claim some sort of inflated salary boost for every thing they give up from their previous employer. It's a game and the lesser negotiator loses out.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Google's "free food" is not free
> willing to take advantage of someone who wasn't skilled at the whole negotiating thing.
What? That is the ENTIRE POINT of negotiation. It's a game. The more skilled player wins, and it's true for job offers, house buying, car buying, street markets, everything.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. :)
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Ask PG: Can you display plus.google.com domains?
If the Chrome plugin works fine, can't HN just expose a toggle in the user preferences for injecting that same Javascript code? A bit of a hack, yes, but it'd probably do for the time being.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Pictos Icon Font Server
What are the advantages in using a remote service for this vs. hosting them yourself? I'm somewhat averse to taking out additional dependencies on other services if no compelling reason exists.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google
Then I can't see 80% of the "Show HN" stuff that enters the newsfeed!
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google
I count three ads above the fold. I believe the results below those top ads are still search results, just presented in different modalities.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Gmail Has 350 MM Active Users
New phone activations, maybe? Android phones work a lot better when they're paired with Google account - you might not use GMail, but you might like the backup and calendar sync features.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Page layout algorithm improvement
Their instant preview feature tells you exactly that. The paragraph containing your search terms is marked by a red rectangle.
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Larry Page: Google+ now has 90 million users globally
RTFA:
"Google’s Larry Page has announced that Google+ now has 90 million users globally, doubling the number from three months ago. Page also said that G+ has a 60% ‘daily engagement’ rate. This came as a part of Google’s Q4 and fiscal year 2011 financial reports."
resnamen | 14 years ago | on: The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA
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resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Das Keyboard now pre-ordering Mac version of their mechanical keyboard
I can see there being a market. My mom buys all her crap if and only if it says "Mac compatible" on the box. I remind her that it's all the same hardware standards these days, but the persecution complex that was ingrained in her from the bad old 1990s--countless ADB input devices, a IIsi with its own flavor of NuBus, and then later a couple awful Performas with funky PDS slots--she's just used to assuming that hardware just won't work unless it's specifically blessed as Apple compatible.
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