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Your experience is not atypical, and it's been a struggle to win over ThinkUp contributers who've been around for awhile to the idea of spending time in IRC because of it. But just…

Sounds like you and pigbucket up there should have a chat. (Re: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685161 if you hadn't seen.)

Bluntly, I assume he's implying it's an appropriate parallel to the relationship between Oracle and its customers, as described in the post. (I may be reading into it too much.)

Some might miss the significance of the post title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_O

Reading the headline, that was exactly my hope. The details make that appear unlikely, but it may be the result regardless.

This basically makes Chrome a machine-independent development platform, right? They might actually pull off this web apps store idea.

Gosh, this is silly! You don't even have Excel listed. Amateurs! (The Oracle < $1m answer is a RIOT.)

There is no reason for someone who has read your first book to buy the Guide, correct? This is a reduced and reformatted field guide that contains no information that isn't in the …

I've been pondering how to solve this too. Bought a domain for it recently but haven't decided what form it should take. The CRM angle is one I hadn't thought of, though it's kind …

Yup. I think I actually played it more often as a door/chain on some local BBSs. (Still, from my 8088.)

Among other context splitting, I make regular use of virtual desktops. So there are rarely more than one or two browser windows on one desktop, and anything beyond the primary wind…

"Worse, how many of us keep tabs open as reminders of something we want to do or read later?" Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me t…

Reminds me of finding out the hard way that "paste" is bound to Mouse3 by default in Gnome and that on some mice I'll occasionally scroll the wheel violently enough to trigger clic…

Hilarious. I read bits of the letter to my wife this morning as she dashed about before work (she ordered her iPhone 4 a few days ago) and after the bit about bar display I said "t…

That is a lie.

It really isn't enough that _why's legacy be restricted to the things he made. What he contributed was so much more than software. This is the most fitting tribute I've yet seen an…

Looks similar. I'd never heard of Rupture before but it's funny to see that Fanning had a similar notion. Not something I'd have expected.

Solving my own need is definitely the inspiration, though honestly I don't game much anymore (certainly not as much as I used to!) The younger net-native generation is no doubt res…

An idea I've been sitting on for awhile is social networking intended for the fabricated and fractured identities of online gamers, with or without divulging the player's true iden…

For the first time, I wish I could mark a HN comment as "favorite".

You mixed up the thread :) I'd swear there wasn't a reply link under your post at the time.

He's definitely looking for attention here, otherwise why post an open letter ? No doubt. I stated that badly. It would have been better stated as "hadn't looked for any attention"…

http://socknet.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChange... There's the same page with the limit changed from the default of 7 days (May 19) to 30 (April 26). And of course Goo…

Network of friends = lock in, lock in => abuse Bingo! Facebook is the best available means of keeping up with geographically distributed and loosely connected friends and family, w…