HN user
ElllisD
Virtualization, clustering, availability
I find HN addictive. It's earned a button smack in the center of my bookmark toolbar.
If I had to quantify why it's because of quality content. Especially with regard to comments. The headlines change relatively quick.
And come to think of it, +1 for cloudwalking's comment. There's reduced friction here. eg. minimal visual noise.
Searching my email / Paypal accounts for orphaned / unlogged receipts.
I'd have a room with rear-projection screens for walls. The wallpaper & hanging pictures would change depending on who came over.
It would be used to virtually attend concert events.
There'd be some sort of virtual reality mode that scaled images to adapt and make the corners invisible, so it could look like I'd be eating my microwave dinner at the top of Mt. Everest, or underwater in a coral reef.
At the moment the page loads on my Verizon Wireless Blackberry.