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Re:Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members? on Sunday October 17, 2010 @08:18PM (#1801838)
ahem, not the best measuring device, regardless

my account is less than a year old yet I attended Startup School 2006.

passwords get lost, hard drives fail

Re:Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members? on Sunday October 17, 2010 @08:10PM (#1801826)
why does this comment get hammered??

with the implosion of Digg, there has been an influx of users from digg to reddit and here, and surely from reddit to here.

trolls roll downhill, so to speak.

so why when a user asks what's going on with HN, the comment gets hammered? or is it the trolls doing the hammering.

I made a similar comment recently and it got just as quickly crushed.

something is awry at HN and some of us care. surely, the growth is good and there will be all types but shooting the messenger only proves the negative point.

New Browser Hijacking?

Recently I've been plagued by sites that hijack Javascript to not allow me to navigate away from the page (puts you in and endless loop of JS popup question boxes). Killing the browser doesnt work, nor does purging the chache. I run No Script in Firefox (on linux to boot) but it doesn't help. Sadly many of these links are from reddit et al.Does anyone know what the technique is and of any...

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after all the companies Microsoft has destroyed using this tactic, I'm surprised anyone even picks up their call. Sure the lure of big bucks is appealing, but their track record is very clear. This has been their M.O since the beginning. Just ask Steve Jobs.
why is this on hacker news??????
Re:Ask PG: What's the deal with search on HN? on Saturday May 08, 2010 @03:59AM (#1329838)
>The result is a spartan site with good content.

Umm, yah, content that users constantly gripe they cannot access (search) easily

it's 2010, search on a link aggregation site is, imo, fundamental, not "crap"