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ok. wtf is going on. why does this story have 314 points? it's about a man taking a photo of a couple. Is this supposed to be a top quality post or what? Why does it matter that the man was Steve Jobs and not some random dude? Did you get more out of this story one way or the other? HN FAIL.
I've got a feeling the iPhone 4 Steve is a very clever marketing ploy by Apple. "I'll be buying an iPhone 4 Steve this friday." Emotional manipulation in its subtlest form.
exactly my thoughts. ima outta here.
-1 Seriously, a fantasy story about a man taking a walk in a park? is that it? 732 upvotes. sigh...
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truth is: the majority of end user don't care if they can only sign up with facebook. it's even easier for them as they have less choice to make. This is only a problem for highly privacy and technology aware folks, like tech bloggers or developers. Apparently, they are not the target audience.
google does this. They know everything about you. they know you better than you know yourself. and they have never fading memory with infinate storage
Cancer is terrible. this is a beautifully emotional heart breaking story. something i would expect on the front page of reddit. But what the heck does it do on my Hacker News with 350 upvotes?? Get off my lawn!
i think they did a pretty good job increasing the monthly page views to 1.6 billion..
this was very emotional article. very sad indeed. isnt it weird that all front page articles on reddit are overtly emotional? it seems that plain groundbreaking research papers will never make it to the frontpage...
My solution to this problem is to track everything I do. I use RescueTime and Toggl. Rescue time for automatic background tracking, and Toggl for tracking projects and tasks. I review my time sheet weekly and if I see a project or minor things take up a large portion of my time, I'll actively reduce that the next week and focus more on things that got neglected this week.
Before I started doing this, I often got distracted by doing productive stuff, i.e watching video tutorials, listening to podcasts or reading blogs, instead of getting down to coding the project. You gotta find a balance, monitor it and stick to it.
Google Correlate as well as Trends are awesome. Why is google providing these data mining services for free to everyone? How are they making money from it?
<blockquote> Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices. </blockquote>
I just wanted to highlight this segment as a perfect example of media neutrality.
> The best way to solve a lot of these problems might be from the inside.
Once you're an insider, you're the beneficiary of the system, so why would you change it?
>That diversity is IMHO valuable, and in case, it's probably unavoidable. Trying to force everyone into the same template seems to me a Very Bad Idea.
That's what the European Union is about.
The only legal option is to creat a world government, possibly extend the authority of UN. Governments need to match the size of multinational corporations.