Hacker News: laconian

New comment by laconian in "Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name"

laconian — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:34:27 +0000

The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.

New comment by laconian in "Why you might never own a Google self-driving car and why you won't want to"

laconian — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:03:56 +0000

I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, because the cars are exactly where the previous person dropped them off. Autonomous cars would be able to relocate themselves to areas where they are needed, and could optimize their deployment very well especially if people scheduled in advance.

New comment by laconian in "Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.."

laconian — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:10:08 +0000

A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.

New comment by laconian in "GNU Emacs ported to Android"

laconian — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:22:43 +0000

I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them.

New comment by laconian in "Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch"

laconian — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:51:18 +0000

"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it."

Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.

New comment by laconian in "Get Facebook Likes in Excel"

laconian — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:09:48 +0000

What's the threshold for an "old account"?

New comment by laconian in "A Fee-Based Twitter Is No More Ideologically Pure Than An Ad-Supported Twitter"

laconian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:32:00 +0000

I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I know that the problems aren't exactly the same, but I would hazard to guess that they are on the same order of magnitude in terms of implementation difficulty.

New comment by laconian in "How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community"

laconian — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:28:47 +0000

This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall of an echo chamber for the sake of impressions.

New comment by laconian in "Wikipedia Redefined"

laconian — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:48:06 +0000

My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.

New comment by laconian in "Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack"

laconian — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:56:32 +0000

Security traded for convenience, back to square one.

New comment by laconian in "France backs away from Hadopi"

laconian — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:22:37 +0000

It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?

New comment by laconian in "Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family"

laconian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:17:53 +0000

I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font.

(and the monospaced version)

New comment by laconian in "Facebook loses 3 more executives"

laconian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:23:18 +0000

The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.

New comment by laconian in "Windows 8 hits RTM status"

laconian — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:34:06 +0000

Imagine having your arms in front of your face for an 8+ hour workday. That will be terrible. Chiropractors are going to make a fortune off Win8.

New comment by laconian in "Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes"

laconian — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:17:59 +0000

Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?

New comment by laconian in "Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes"

laconian — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:23:20 +0000

It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing teams.

New comment by laconian in "Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes"

laconian — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:07:49 +0000

Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?

New comment by laconian in "Google Talk for Developers"

laconian — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:28:38 +0000

And, let me guess, you don't want to pay any money for this?

New comment by laconian in "Business Insider recommends smoking, says it makes you smarter"

laconian — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:06:47 +0000

Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills.

"1. Coffee and cigarettes. 2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut. 3. Chew gum. 4. Doodle. 5. Red Bull. 6. Think about college professors. Don't think about morons. 7. Sniff rosemary. 8. Do NOT take an IQ test or be ranked by intelligence. 9. Have good relationships, be social and adopt other people's perspectives. 10. Exercise. 11. Listen to some Bach or Mozart. 12. Better yet, learn how to play some Bach or Mozart. Or learn any new skill. 13. Stop multitasking. 14. Guys, stay away from pretty girls. Don't even think about them. 15. Get enough sleep every night. 16. Finish what you start. 17. Lay down to improve problem solving. 18. Believe you can become smarter. 19. Try out certain nutritional supplements. 20. Feed your superstitions. 21. Talk to yourself. 22. Stay away from the color red. 23. Avoid situations where you feel out of control or powerless. 24. Avoid rejection. 25. Get a boss who thinks you're a genius."

Facebook earnings disappoint investors

laconian — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:01:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/technology/facebook-reports-a-loss-but-its-revenue-beats-expectations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4299174

Points: 4

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