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Falcon9··on LivingSocial Is Laying Off More Than 50 Percent of Its Staff
They work best when you have a very inexpensive product where you can still make a profit by doubling your MSRP then selling for "80% off". Doesn't do wonders for your brand though, which is part of why the company I work for which has been doing this for the better part of a decade is trying to move away from the model.
Falcon9··on Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
I want this website so badly!

Please keep it up and continuing to find a way to make it more complete. Right now I can find appearances by Daniel Negreanu by searching in iTunes, but not through Podcat. Also it would be awesome if there were a way to include information beyond the RSS feed of a podcast - for example Arcade Outsiders only includes information from the most recent 20 or so episodes, though there have been 89+ episodes overall which are all still available with information on the Arcade Outsiders website.

Another possible feature: strip out the repetitive portions of episode descriptions on the results page when the displayed text is always the same for all the results on the page.

Falcon9··on A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG
I, for one, hope that when this is released I'll find out about it here!
Falcon9··on AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
It is now.
Falcon9··on Some ad-blockers are tracking you, shaking down publishers, and showing you ads
You have to keep your spam report numbers very low as the sender of such things, if you want to be allowed to continue to legitimately send them.
Falcon9··on Google AdWords Switching to 4 Ads on Top, None on Sidebar
Isn't a $200 sale from a free click better? (I see now that there are other arguments for running these ads, but this doesn't feel like a legitimate one to me, assuming you organically rank #1 for your brand.)
Falcon9··on Show HN: Markov Job Posting Generator
Objectives: * Propose design concepts based on new design concepts based on new design concepts based on new design concepts to non-design people;
Falcon9··on ‘Serial’ Season 2 Lets Bowe Bergdahl Tell His Side of Afghan Story
This 2012 Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings (linked earlier by BryantD) provides relevant context from nearly two years before Bergdahl was released: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/americas-last-pris...
Falcon9··on ‘Serial’ Season 2 Lets Bowe Bergdahl Tell His Side of Afghan Story
I've never been in the military, but my understanding is that you don't get deployed without knowing better. I'll take Bergdahl at his word with regards to his intentions, but it's still an incredible reckless and irresponsible thing to do. He's lucky to be alive.
Falcon9··on How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street
At some point (according to Wikipedia, the start of the fourth season), Monday was replaced with a new girl, named Tuesday (naturally).
Falcon9··on The Macro
Went to check out Kevin's own website (roundedbygravity) and the css seems to be 404ing.
Falcon9··on World map of the difference between solar and clock time
London sitting pretty at (of course) +0 GMT and right on Solar time as well.
Falcon9··on Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’
"Positive ratings post immediately; negative ratings are queued in a private inbox for 48 hours in case of disputes. If you haven’t registered for the site, and thus can’t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews."

So you can opt out by not having a cell phone number, the rest of us can opt out only of having "negative ratings" posted. For better or worse, aren't they disincentivizing their potential users from registering accounts with this policy? (I suppose they know their potential users better than I would.)

Falcon9··on The Most Misread Poem in America
How do you get the title of the poem incorrect when commenting on this story?
Falcon9··on From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
This is exactly the shot I've been hoping for since we got that first image of the Earth from DSCOVR. I tried to make an educated guess of how large the moon would appear from a million miles away, and I have to admit I far underestimated how large it would appear.
Falcon9··on A 390-year-old bonsai tree survived an atomic bomb
Essentially immortal? The article seemed to indicate the expected lifespan of this tree was around 200 years, despite it having lived nearly twice that long.
Falcon9··on Pixar Online Library
Somehow really fascinating despite being ridiculously far over my head. The pictures help :-)
Falcon9··on ISO 4M camera
Incredible; I'd love to rent one of these for a weekend.
Falcon9··on Razer Acquires Ouya’s Software, Tech and Dev Teams in All-Cash Deal
"Created" is a strong word for Microsoft's contribution to Halo, given the original debut of the game at MacWorld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2RMHeMGDDU
Falcon9··on Why we're all-in on virtual reality
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
Falcon9··on Why we're all-in on virtual reality
Have you watched live webcam footage from the Space Station? From the Eiffel Tower? Cool stuff, but hardly engaging for more than an hour or so. I'm not sure that adding an extra dimension is really going to sell the technology. (I have no doubt that VR will find its use cases and killer app, just doubt that this alone is it.)
Falcon9··on NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
My favorite thought is that they've sent probes millions of years ago and we could send a request to watch some HD surveillance of dinosaurs roaming the Earth. It'll just take ~3k years to receive the requested footage.
Falcon9··on In Silicon Valley, many want sharing salary info to be less taboo
I suppose I'm a poor negotiator since I'd be well pleased with Buffer's salary for my position. Not sure how me being a good negotiator would add more value to my company though, so calling it a tax seems mean spirited and self serving.
Falcon9··on Homejoy says goodbye
Give new customer priority to the contractors that have a high in-service retention rate, perhaps. If you have a history of customers who stop using the service after contracting with you, you stop getting customers.
Falcon9··on Why Web Pages Suck
I get those kind of rates on welcome e-mails and product specific follow-up e-mails, but not for general blasts. That said, there are some segments of super fans that will consistently click through at a 40% rate (especially in Canada for whatever reason).
Falcon9··on The Really Big One
Politically it could never happen, but what's stopping a high minded mega genius ultra billionaire who doesn't mind getting labeled as a super villain?

   ...   Bwahahaha  ...
Falcon9··on Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish for $575M
A different take on Milled, perhaps?

http://milled.com/

Falcon9··on Pixar's Scientific Method
Fascinating insight about how observation is so important to their work, and how the brain so keenly notices the absence of things (i.e. when you look to the side, your eyes look first before you turn your head) as strange, even if it wouldn't help you describe what is normal.
Falcon9··on Slack adds emoji reactions
It's a new an interesting usage for emoji, could end up being trend setting, and lots of people use Slack so it's relevant there as well. I would not have thought to use emoji in this way, but seeing it in action I grok the value immediately. That is intellectually gratifying for me.
Falcon9··on Pens Are Making a High-Tech Comeback
I will leave specific recommendations to others, but I favor http://www.jetpens.com/ for being able to easily buy singles of many different pens and notebooks and try them out for yourself.
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