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If it helps, I am running chrome 20.0.1132.47 on OSX 10.6.8.

Without being a registered user and thus not able to experience the rest of the site, I will say that the home page looks decent, but ultimately far too cluttered and loud. The ine…

He may be recognizable in a design discussion on HN, but hardly out of this context. Same goes for this guy. That of course is not to say that these sorts of efforts should be avoi…

And how are they going to recoup the heavy loses incurred when they release it for free?

How can people say things like this? Do you seriously believe that if Santorum were to be elected, the US would begin to participate in religion fueled executions? Or more importan…

I tend to agree. I love Zappa and the Mothers, but it seems as though anything and everything decrying the state of the music industry is fair game on HN now. I mean, is it really …

I won't dismiss this outright. I do find it to be fairly interesting. If a system like this were to gain wide spread usage, I think many invaluable insights on reading ( and all th…

Have the search results degraded that much in your opinion? I still find their results the most useful.

I don't understand this mentality... At least by judging from your response, it would appear that Google offers superior service for you. Why not use it then? Is the promise of no …

I suppose, depending upon your aim. (And by long-form, I assume you are talking about an article or something rather than a book.) If you aren't concerned with people actually read…

While I think that is one response to this, you seem to be diminishing the importance that extra cruft has upon the effective message conveyed. Simpler is more economic, but it als…

I don't know of anything analogous to codeschool and the like, and I am having a hard time imagining such a thing. Design is in many ways comprable to coding. It encompasses many d…

Hey, I just wanted to let you guys know that I really like where you are taking the design of this site. It is really a breath of fresh air considering the typical interface often …

I'm not trying to say that it isn't very effective, its just that when looking at it you are presented with a lot of information simultaneously, I'm sure that after learning it, us…

I don't understand the point of the 3d element. It seems like a great way to further complex an already overwhelming interface. There needs to be a way to encapsulate the different…

Even so, I as a user who comments quite infrequently will often times want to, after reading an article, look at the discussion about it. On an almost daily basis I have difficulty…

Sure, but then again, so is Google's, Wikipedia's, Reddit's, Mozilla's, The Pirate Bay's, Torrentfreak's etc... While I do believe Mr. Sherman isn't coming from the best of places,…

Oh, ha! I completely missed the sarcasm in that. Yeah,I can see it as being uncivil.

What was arrogant about the comment? He merely stated that he doesn't find the solution to be aesthetically pleasing. Are opinions contrary to those of the majority now to be consi…

Serious question: What might you want to reuse on the client side?

The focus of my comment was never about the morality of pirating, but rather my perceived difficulty in having an intelligent and honest conversation about it. While I did briefly …

Fair enough. Perhaps I should clarify, and say "the illegal distribution of material protected by copyright". Its incredible how obtuse people become when discussing this issue.

Can you honestly say that the pirate bay isn't dedicated, and almost exclusively used for the distribution of material protected by copyright? Drawing attention to the fact that he…

I don't understand how a gestural interface would become a guessing game any more than physical buttons would be. Regardless whether your interface be gestural or physical certain …

I mean, I don't think you need to be particularly tech-savvy to have come across the adage "never keep your eggs in one basket".