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Re: Foursquare: will it be bigger than Twitter?

vezquex — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:02:21 -0000

Word on the street is that Yelp will move into this space and kill Foursquare, due to already amassing millions of users.

Re: Console price war finally arrives as Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 price by $100

vezquex — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:54:42 -0000

PS3 is very cheap, considering the total cost of ownership, including peripherals.

Re: Miley Cyrus New Song: Party in the USA Hits The Web (VIDEO)

vezquex — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:39:44 -0000

Billionaires don't need your charity.

Re: ZooLoo Creates a Master Dashboard for Your Online Life

vezquex — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:06:02 -0000

Painful interface. It's as if Facebook had an ugly baby.

Re: Overgrowth Soundtrack on YouTube

vezquex — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:35:47 -0000

You can create an artist page on Last.fm and upload your music there.

Re: Things I've Found | With our API, developers will have the ability to...

vezquex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:47:24 -0000

Have you had a chance to look at Joyent's Smart Platform? Basically AppJet done right.

http://becoming.smart.joyent.com/

Re: hackerific: Git: failed to push some refs

vezquex — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:31:26 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Technorati Top 100

vezquex — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:00:21 -0000

Congratulations. I guess this means you've "made it".

Re: tlrobinson.net / tom robinson

vezquex — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:59:55 -0000

Hey, dude.

Re: EtherPad Blog: Google Wave Joins EtherPad in Real-time Collaboration

vezquex — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:50:30 -0000

I think Wave has 50 people working on it, so I guess it makes sense for the 3 of you to think smaller. I'll probably want some real time functionality in my apps at some point, and Wave looks promising with the combination of robots and gadgets. I would suggest that Etherpad gain at least one of those two to stay interesting.

Re: How Twitter is Dethroning the Old Guard

vezquex — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:23:51 -0000

Wrong x 3:

1. Facebook is the successor to MySpace, not Twitter.
2. Twitter search is largely useless. There is almost no distinct information in the stream, just the same phrases repeated. And as for just asking in a tweet, not everyone has a pool of 20,000 followers to answer questions for them. It's a waste of time to manually answer when Google can actually find what you want from anywhere on the web. It is indexing new content constantly and can show you today's and the past's results.
3. Some people are using Twitter as a primary communication tool, but it is only one among the tons of avenues such as email, IM, and web message boards (including social networks and social news). The stream is filled with so much garbage that you can't have a real discussion without seeing tons of automatically posted updates. Twitter is good to have open in a window and just glance at it occasionally out of boredom, not to be used for actual correspondence.

Re: Digg dumps Shouts for Facebook, Twitter and email

vezquex — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:18:25 -0000

They figured they'd use the spam to reach the vast numbers of Twitter and Facebook users rather than just annoy each other.

Re: Wolfram Alpha: I can’t believe it’s not Cuil!

vezquex — Sun, 17 May 2009 05:22:18 -0000

Give it time.

Re: The Pop-Alypse

vezquex — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:38:04 -0000

Wouldn't you want to keep radioactive dust out of your lungs?

Re: Things I've Found | 4. When a user has connected their account and is...

vezquex — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:25:15 -0000

Ridiculous policy, requiring programs to be graphical in nature.

Re: Non-lethal fights with lethal weapons

Wilbefast — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:21:28 -0000

Hmm - it makes a good point... how do I side-step this one? Let's see...

The thing about those games is that your opponent is a human being, so feuds and so on can emerge without needing to be simulated algorithmically. I the same way I pen and paper game where a human "game-master" controls the reactions of NPCs makes for a non-linear experience. Thus it's not really a virtue of the game itself but of the performers behind it - the author can't claim credit for this and neither can the medium itself.

Your move white king :P

Re: Non-lethal fights with lethal weapons

vezquex — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:41:20 -0000

I always thought Monopoly and Risk had fairly engaging non-linear story lines, so it is feasible to make players run the simulation manually. Just, board games need to have a reasonable, intuitive calculations and some kind of visual representation the game state.

Re: What tools does an artist need?

Joshadow — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:36:00 -0000

Yeah, I just recently got Parallels, and it works reasonably well, speed is not much of an issue really, but rather would prefer it just being in one OS.
It's not quite as seamless as it could be, and can be a bit buggy, running two OSs at the same time.
For example it doesn't manage input devices like tablets well which is a bit of a bummer =/

Re: What tools does an artist need?

vezquex — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:28:55 -0000

You could try Parallels for running various Windows-only 3D modeling programs on your Mac, but I don't know if performance would be adequate.

Re: 5 Very Weird URL Shorteners

vezquex — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:53:55 -0000

More like 3 URL shorteners and 2 lengtheners.

Re: John’s Computer

spacemarine1 — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:43:07 -0000

Haha. I have never heard the term FreeCell box before, but I like it.

Re: John’s Computer

vezquex — Fri, 01 May 2009 04:40:46 -0000

I've got a FreeCell box running Windows 98. 64mb RAM, 4gb hard drive, Pentium 3.

Re: 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month

jason — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:59 -0000

the x-axis is time, in a manner of speaking. what the axis is tracking is reach so that you can compare apples to apples with facebook and myspace.

so when all three services had a .5% reach into the internet population for example, what was their retention rates. you see, not every website gains it's share of web reach at the same time. sometimes it can take months to do and others maybe a few weeks so looking at calendar time isn't a fair metric.

Re: 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month

vezquex — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:21:39 -0000

Shouldn't the x-axis be time? You referred to past rates, and this really can't be seen on the graph.

Re: http://hnstartups.com/startup/212

vezquex — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:32:59 -0000

That's a lot of votes. I wonder how many were legitimate.