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You are basically right, but when you are talking about a website that is designed and promoted as a sales catalog, you have to be more open to the notion that is OK to have advertising. Unlike a movie, commerce is the visitor's reason for going to the site.

In all these subtle ad cases, anti-ad people can avoid the ads, and people who honestly don't care will ignore the distiction and click the ads. How much coddling can we insist a site do for its mentally-laziest non-paying users, possibly acting against their willingness to view ads?

Outbrain ads specifically put the nail in the coffin on seattlepi.com's long slide from legitimacy. It is sad, because seattle PI used to be he leading real newspaper for Seattle.

I would say the same for CNN, but CNN became a worthless organizationon before Outbrain showed up.

Gimped. Stiff leg. Limp.

MIT has been doing it for a decade, except for the coordinated enrollment (study groups) and automatically graded exercises (both of which are nice enhancements, but the ML class exercises are mostly pointless.) http://ocw.mit.edu/

That's puffery. These courses are not Stanford quality. The lectures maybe, but not the homework and assessments, and there is no research at all.

Do you have any research about this inverse proportion? The bubble was in the news the whole time. People just didn't care. http://seattlebubble.com is entirely funded by real estate advertising.

Why would Virgin migrate to SABRE??

If it's a no-brainer, why aren't short sellers flooding the market and driving down the price to the post-lockup price?

How does that work? When you short, you immediately sell the shares you borrowed. Why aren't those shares available to be re-borrowed from the new owner? The only reason I can guess is that the new owner isn't connected to the liquidity system, which I would guess would have been a solved problem by now.

Make $325k/yr, get finances by parents, and have no dependents. Yeah, that's a good way to stay afloat. Nice work if you can get it, indeed.

Why the heck are you saving any cash when you have credit card debt, and how the heck did you get a mortgage with 50% back-load debt ratio?

You need to cut back on your spending, and with rent our your too-expensive house or walk away from your mortgage.

Stack depth limits avoid some non-termination by changing them into crashes. It is still a failure, of course, but a bit different and generally less troublesome than say, a tailcall eliminating recursion that actually spins for hours until a human notices and interrupts it.

Strangest line of python is introductory Haskell. The use of 's' and 'st' and 'state' is the most bizarre part. Why not 'sta' to maintain arithmetic progression? Or s t u since brevity is the goal?

An inflection point is where progress starts to decelerate ahead of a possible reversal in direction.

The complication is that most life choices are to some extent reversible in case of mistake. Suicide is not, and therefore is subject to more delicate considetation. Also, for anyone not a hermit, suicide affects other people who may have moral or legal claims of dependency.

Sometimes high, sometimes low. It's up and down.

Something weird happened. Ubuntu used to be amazing: hr easy to install and use district, the world-changing help forums and wiki. Then Unity seemed to upendded everything. But look: MacOS is getting phased out by iOS. Google is converting all their apps to a touch-optimized UI that makes no sense on a desktop or laptop. Windows 8 is doing the same, and trying to convince people to buy a touhscreen 27" monitor.

Something weird happened. Ubuntu used to be amazing: hr easy to install and use district, the world-changing help forums and wiki. Then Unity seemed to upendded everything. But look: MacOS is getting phased out by iOS. Google is converting all their apps to a touch-optimized UI that makes no sense on a desktop or laptop. Windows 8 is doing the same, and MS's TV ads trying to convince people to buy a touhscreen 27" monitor.

Maybe they are right, and the future of mass computing is in entertainment consumption and not productive work. Maybe the dream of a popular powerful OS is dead. Maybe it's time for power users to return to being a.nich

It is hard for a dev to say a crash is a feature. It is easy for a designer to say an unusable UI is an intentional exploration of a new paradigm for modality in transhuman existence.

If there is something you don't like about Gmail, just click the feedback button and let Google know.

http://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/hide-about-th...

The pencil icon, obviously. Or maybe the square with a rectangle on top.

Usually it is a variable margin that wasn't tested on a screen the width of a normal human's.

IPhoto computes city/state automatically from zip code.

Linux will never work properly on a laptop or any interesting consumer hardware. VM is always the way to go. The stable drivers on uniform virtual hardware solve the problem in a way real hardware driver will never be able to do.

I don't understand why no PC manufacturer has done something different like a very gentle ratchet or mild Vel-cro to get YankSafe functionality. Or even just slightly differently laid out magnets.

Does anyone who is not a startup founders think kitschy foreign ccTLD domain names are cool? They just confuse users. I am waiting for the day the new Libyan government desides they don't want American companies exploiting .ly. That will be interesting to watch.

Share function belongs in the browser or in Web Intents. It would be less work for all the sites, consistent UX for users, and much better page load speed.

If you could, how much would you charge someone to "subscribe" to "buy off" the share buttons for their pageview? Same question goes for ads.

If the price isn't too high, someone should just start selling crapblockers that make everyone happy. I guess the challenge is that you can't price a crablocker until after you've inundated someone with crap for measurement purposes.

Until then, it is only magical.

Why? Zynga hit the (hypothetical) $20B in far less time and employees than Apple did. That is far more return on invested capital.