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Deja vu when reading the Airbnb reply. Did they really repeat a paragraph, or is that an error in the blog post?

I was thinking the exact same thing. It's funny that he wrote that entire post and never raised the possibility of OTHER people sharing their contacts with LinkedIn, and that may e…

I was suspicious that something was up with Fireworks after purchasing the web bundle for CS6 and noticing that Fireworks didn't adopt the new dark minimalist design that Photoshop…

Instead of "if you build it, they they will come." For Altucher it's actually, "if you pretend you can build it, they will come." This is a common theme in some of Altucher's other…

Altucher is kind of known for his sensationalist article titles. However, in this case the content of the article is solid and pragmatic, particularly the bit about "picking a bori…

More efficiently? For two minutes of video? I could see if you were trying to stream Zombieland or Spaceballs... but porn?! I guess whatever inspires people to innovate is okay wit…

The flat look in gmail does seem to take out a lot of the visual noise. Here's metro influence gone awry: http://www.pepsi.com/en-us/d It's pretty close to a flat look, but I still…

Yeah, way ahead of its time haha.

Arguably more damage is done to society from a mass distributor of cocaine than a single murderer. I'm not saying that selling drugs is equal or worse than murder, just that there …

Didn't intend to be patronizing. Not everyone has witnessed the problem with their own eyes. They're left with the cartoon version of crack, the version they witness on shows like …

Cocaine use was a major problem in the 80's, which also gave rise to the crack epidemic which was even worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic Santos was considered a "K…

I thought I had seen it on HN as well, but I just searched around and realized it was a Quora post from 3 months ago that I was thinking of by the same guy. Apparently Santos went …

Yes exactly. 5,000 plays on Spotify or Pandora is not equal to a single play on terrestrial radio. A single play on terrestrial radio probably reaches closer to 10,000 listeners, d…

I always thought that the benefit of services like Spotify and Pandora was to get a band's music to people that wouldn't ordinarily be exposed to it. This in turn would prompt list…

I have to do a usability critique of a current website for a class I'm taking and I came across this article. Anyone know of any current, major websites that have usability issues …

I recommend reading the full letter from Prentiss as opposed to the summarized version on B-insider. The full-version presents a very clear cautionary tale about business strategy …

Next experiment: what happens when you sneeze in space?

How is this not a bigger deal? How does Sarah conclude that "No, Facebook is not that desperate for cash it’s just testing some outrageous price points in order to figure out how h…