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It's true that Jobs isn't necessarily the best presenter in the world. But I haven't seen anyone who can continually present their products with the purpose, passion, and pride tha…

Nod. If I had a nickel for every web app I've thought of and could have executed on but didn't, only to see others take the same idea and launch...I might have a buck fifty. I shou…

I tend to find myself influenced by the karma count more than anything else. I have to log myself out after commenting to increase the cost of checking the change to my net karma. …

Have you never seen a feature implemented that was (a) kind of obvious, and (b) a long time coming? I can appreciate that not everyone thinks this was an obvious idea. I'd apprecia…

Which, of course, helps Amazon figure out what it doesn't sell, but should. I'd say it's a brilliant idea, but I can't help thinking, what took them so long?

An actual inbox requires many clicks to clear all unreads, assuming you actually read them. What I'm proposing clears all unreads with one click. Alternatively, just have an asteri…

Over a week ago, I put in a feature request to give users a karma point daily just for visiting the New page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433004 Another idea is simply to d…

It happens even if the comment I'm downvoting was posted a minute ago.

> Bad developers whine and complain that their product has been stolen. "Bad" as in "being a bad sport", not incompetent.

Thanks for pointing this out. I suspect there may be something genuinely broken with my downvoting, though, because despite having only upvoted for a good while, my downvotes conti…

I have downvote arrows on comments, but at some point they ceased to affect the score. Which is to say, I click on the downvote, and the points go down by one, but upon reloading t…

What's the half sentence?

You mean The Dungeon? ;)

DM MS '08.

The one I have personal experience with is this: http://www.amazon.com/Human-Computer-Interaction-3rd-Alan-Di... Which is not particularly well reviewed, but it is adequate, and yo…

The word he's looking for is "gestalt". Objects that are grouped together are perceived to be related. Personally, I would not have put those global navigation links anywhere near …

To encourage more people to visit the 'New' page and upvote stories, give users one point per day for visiting it.

Yes. Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

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