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The last time this company was acquired, it was called Dodgeball. Google bought the talent, canned the project, and then the founders quit and reimplemented it under a different name (Foursquare.) I'd…

As much as I like comics as a form, I'm not sure the images add much here. I may have preferred to read this as just straight text. (Though maybe I wouldn't have read to the end in that case?)

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All of the real cruft on the internet wants to be in every search engine it can. The real gems are entirely oblivious to where their traffic comes from / could come from.

Beautiful. This type of thing makes me actually _want_ to learn web design, which hasn't happened in a loooong time.

Oh God. Css animations. :(

It's amazing that they didn't mention android once in the article. Seems like an important thing to leave out of a review of a product in a competitive space.

At the risk of making that statistic _dramatically_ worse. . . Heisen-audience-loss-tracking I suppose.

Does anyone know why they split these into so many pages? Is it really just ad impressions? I still don't understand that.

I give to NPR every year. I don't see much difference in how I should act towards the two organizations despite the newspapers ostensibly being for-profit (ha). I like NPR's product more, but they bot…

I subscribed to the San Jose Mercury News once because some kid came door to door signing people up as a fundraiser. I gave in because his pitch was so self aware: "Hey man, I know nobody wants the pa…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoM5fLITfk Yo.

My biggest problem is mail. I HATE getting mail. I wish there was some way to make it illegal to send it to me. Processing the endless quantities of crap every day probably detracts more from my happi…

It's very very slow.

The things you learn and the skills you demonstrate to become an Eagle scout are _Not_ arbitrary. To earn it you have to demonstrate that you can lead a group of people to do something useful, contrib…

That isn't really fair to Matt. What he's saying is, show them ranking for a query they shouldn't be, and then he'll start to be concerned.

Especially in music I think a large portion is how whether you were involved in music as a young child. Forming that baseline of literacy when your brain is still plastic is really critical for having…

This is a level of negligence that is beyond just being accidentally wrong. It would have taken less than 2 seconds for the author of the article to check whether Android has resolution independent u…

Well, that is what the article says, but that's flagrantly incorrect.

Android does this. Even windows 7 has a configurable option for the size of all interface elements. (I recently got my mom a laptop with a small but very high resolution screen and was impressed with …

Bullshit. Android does exactly the same thing.

Obama's "HOPE" poster seems like a great example.

> I'm not sure what you're talking about here. My take is that doctors and lawyers both have powerful professional associations that limit the supply of new doctors and lawyers by establishing com…

>but it takes about an extra second to load the page now, so I removed it You can search before the picture loads.

I'm amazed that the iPhone is still a contender without free turn-by-turn navigation. That and internet access are the only thing I use my phone for.

Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html?pa...

I have exactly the same existential cringe. :(

Yet again, Ars Technica shows that it's the only lay source worth reading on science topics. Thanks for the great article.

Wonderful Idea.