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joey_bananas

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    Comment #1752803

    This sounds a lot like those "new economy" screeds in Wired back in the dotcom days.

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    Comment #1751511

    Maybe so, but it's still gonna stick out like a sore thumb everywhere. Meaning annoyed users, meaning the app is never ever gonna become a buzz on blogs and shit, meaning low earni…

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    Comment #1748112

    > Rebel XSi, so quality is not a problem Because the camera is all that matters, right?

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    Comment #1747991

    So, how do you do that then? Some extension I assume?

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    Comment #1733469

    Lots and lots and lots of sites fail because they depend on jquery hosted by google.

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    Comment #1733438

    > - UTF8 came from Plan 9 Not really, Ken Thompson certainly contributed to it, but they didn't invent it.

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    Comment #1732163

    > got it for my son and he rode it to school his senior year in high school So, what was his weekly wedgie average?

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    Comment #1724961

    Eagles on Pogo-sticks.

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    Comment #1723372

    If you have a few options, then you don't rely on a single company, do you?

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    Comment #1722117

    Well frankly, If you rely on some other business for such critical functionality, you deserve to lose.

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    Comment #1720691

    The Chrome/Safari adblock has an extremely crap UI compared to Firefox adblock if you ever wanna add your own blocking rules.

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    Comment #1704555

    > basically the new "interactive CDROM" you had some years ago. And I still kind of think that was a solution in search of a problem. Are there any evidence that stuff like that he…

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    Comment #1697501

    Maybe this #newtwitter is just not going down several times a day. That'd sure be revolutionary.

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    Comment #1690143

    I bet 99% of all people who might be interested in Blu-Ray does.

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    Comment #1673828

    The no. 1 reason tumbler sucks: 1 original content site for every 1000 reposting shitheaps. Also, people using it for posting info that would be much better presented in some other…

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    Comment #1673008

    Annoyingly busy. I sort of feel like this is a prime example why you don't put engineers in charge of UI. Just because we can is not a good enough reason to do it. Also, having bot…

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    Comment #1666840

    1024 bytes... and a 60 meg browser.

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    Comment #1666512

    we should go back to that embedded shellscript thingy that was common back in the day. Its name escapes me.

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    Comment #1665309

    To me it means not being in control of my own data.

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    Comment #1664497

    Difference is, people die from bad science. No one does if a christmas tree is nomenclatured a holiday tree.

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    Comment #1657780

    At the risk of sounding like an Apple apologist, I strongly suspect the content providers are the reason for the Apple TV's reliative lameness. I don't think it'll be possible to b…

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    Comment #1656887

    I suspect the fact that Ping seems to be engineered to be strictly top-down has more to do with it.

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    Comment #1652611

    No one said they weren't allowed to make the jokes.

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    Comment #1652500

    Yes, nothing like rape for a good chuckle.

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    Comment #1639588

    People think it sounds kinda cool, and if Apple if secretive it must be good, right?