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Comment · 13 years ago
persevere
Comment · 13 years ago
Well, it would be redundant to send a user back to the page he or she just came from, i.e. back to the Google home page.
DDG is similarly self-effacing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search
Comment · 14 years ago
btilly has come full circle! It's still a great post.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850485
Coincidence that I should see this; I'm not really active on HN anymore, and just happened to click.
Comment · 15 years ago
VaporEdu?
Comment · 15 years ago
Sounds like someone always wanted a big brother.
Comment · 15 years ago
A relentless addiction to indignation
Those are exactly the words I've been looking for to describe my boss.
Comment · 15 years ago
For those of us using NoScript, it's 00 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, and 00 seconds. We get it first. Win!
Comment · 15 years ago
So Mike Tyson, the boxer, with his crazy facial tattoo, was just way ahead of facial recognition technology.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm going to be that guy:
"as a compliment to this paper" --> complement
"no higher complement." --> compliment
Thanks for a cool post.
Comment · 15 years ago
I started using Bing recently and I noticed that I was getting error pages intermittently, and then pretty frequently.
phpbb and topic view are returning error pages for me (on latest ff, cookies enabled).
Another way I'm reliably getting an error page is adding parameter &first=201, e.g. http://www.bing.com/search?q=stuff&first=201
This is the paging parameter, indicating you're at the 20th screen of results.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm sure there's some perfectly good explanation for "Gravity on the island", but I don't know what it is.
Comment · 15 years ago
I want to love electric cars, but I see two big issues: (1) if they go mass market, all that electricity will still have to be generated somewhere. Coal? Nuclear? (2) The batteries need rare-earth minerals, which are brought to market through environmentally-degrading open pit mining. Furthermore, at this point, most rare-earths are available almost exclusively from China.