mariorz

who cares? The post is either good or it isn't, where the poster works or his intentions are unimportant.

"Cracks are finally starting to form in Ticketmaster's money-encrusted shell, but the competition doesn't inspire confidence. Everyone looks at Ticketmaster's 30% surcharge and thinks how good all that undeserved cash would look in their pocket."

Too bad the karma leader-board/system doesn't really encourage self-control. Not that I'm in favor of banning anything, but I do think something is clearly not working when this is the top-story on HN.

Well, the subset that doesn't do looting at sea, aren't.

not really, since nobody used it. I think FB sells ads btw.

Oh like this story you mean? Thanks for bringing this to HN btw.

I don't get it. I plug a bigger monitor to my laptop when I'm at my desk. Why the need to detach the laptop screen?

Nobody used pets.com

let it go

FWIW your first two issues are addressed on the post. <fb:serverfbml> can be used for extended permissions and some other js provided by FB for automagic iframe resizing.

I agree with your point though, I think not requiring FBML apps to reload all the FB chrome would be a better solution. He mentions that this is in the plans at the end.

I hate this kind of article, 10 pages and little content. At least put up a "print" link.

I think you're confused, here is the robots.txt from this site (linked by you)

User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply?

user is not disallowed anywhere, vote? and reply? and x? are, but they are not content, they are actions, basically all of the content of this site is indexed.

Your idea of site owners being selective about SE makes no sense to me. Would users then have to use 5 or 6 different search engines to accommodate all possible webmaster preferences?

So, ideally for you, SEs would have to be opt-in and do forceful revenue sharing with page creators?

You realize there is no way something like google could have been created in your proposed environment?

The author seems to be confused about that chart and Tufte.

The p2p bit at the end makes no sense to me.

Dupe

You should never follow advice blindly. The reasons he gives for the alphabet thing don't seem to apply to something like truemors. In general, the advice seems very reasonable.

This is interesting. I wish I had something like this 5 years ago. I think Internet phones will eventually destroy SMS.

Why do people who are arguably familiar with these things insist on using "RSS"? RSS is but one format, atom is growing rapidly and it is I believe already used by most Google services including Blogger. "Feeds" is the correct term and while not perfect surely better than some unpronounceable acronym.

We already have feeds, might not be the best but at least it's more accurate than "RSS".

Invites are not spam by themselves, but they're abused by many apps in a way that makes them spam. And you're very wrong if you think the silent majority enjoyed the FB spam fest a while back.

Abusing invites with more "viral channels" will only get the app into a lower invite threshold. FWIW I think a free TV is a pretty good incentive and will have people choosing the friends most likely to use the app. I do agree on promoting more the contest and the free tv thing, people tend to not read anything without flashy colors and big fonts.

I would draw the line whenever he stops doing his job right. No difference from someone who watches TV on his free time.

He does no such thing, he basically just argues it's not as valuable or useful as Google is. Big surprise there.

It's also my main form of communication. You're pretty safe jailbreaking, worst case scenario: you don't update the firmware until reading whats up on a couple of websites.

The better alternative is to jailbreak your iphone and install ssh, a shell, python and many other free unix utilities you may want. I don't know why people are even voting this up.

They're called wiki vandals. Nothing has been hacked. Interesting thing could be that maybe now wiki vandals are automated, but "hacked"?! seriously?

OK, thanks. So should we flag other kills like that in the future?

Yeah, I was hoping that the small note in itself would spark interesting discussion.

>Crappy article, probably not HN worthy.

Sorry. I found it quite interesting.

BTW, about the singularity, I do not think it means what you think it means.

edited to something less linkbaitish.