What if he does? Would it be such a bad thing? V8 Javascript isn't slow.

Yes, but think printing or other media where Javascript isn't allowed to run at all.

What if replies to a progressively hellbanned user were themselves affected by the ban (tainted)? That would address the fragmentation.

It would also result in a lot of good content written by respected community members being hidden.

I would've thought that the widget/tile implementation technology would be Silverlight, not HTML5/Javascript. Didn't we also see a playing down of Silverlight at MIX11? Has Silverlight fallen out of favor?

Silverlight is dead, Jim

Netflix still uses Silverlight, correct?

Netflix uses Silverlight because it supports DRM.

It is the only way to get an app on their phone that doesn't use their game development APIs. So it might be dead on the web, but it isn't dead yet.

If it comes to be that a significant majority of the book market is locked by DRM schemes, then no, Amazon ought not have the right to do as they please, and a regulatory agency should be established to ensure fair and equitable access to the materials.

Education, water, electricity, communication, and healthcare are all fine and proper examples of what happens when incumbents reach "escape velocity" and their past innovations turn into today's rent seeking.

Hmm, might be interesting to see the results of numbers presented in a ring, equidistant from the cursor...

As long as you rotate the starting positions of the numbers on the ring and track both the chosen number and the cardinal position of their chosen number on their board. Maybe people are biased to numbers falling at the "three o'clock" position, that would be interesting to find out.

Perhaps, but you don't turn around and give the shampoo producer intimate details of your life. Instead, you probably forget that you have the sample and end up throwing it out 6 months later.

They're different businesses, I'm not sure that you're comparing apples to apples.

We don't know how many people sign up because someone said it was cool or invited them and then forget that they have a Facebook account.

It serves Facebook to publicize a giant number to make them appear unbeatable, but the numbers that count aren't about number of users - they are about usage.

I think it's a reasonable analogy.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2348156

tl;dr:

A->B: "pickles is the new word for f-r-e-e s-p-e-e-c-h. free speech."

<forbidden word detected: free speech. call terminated>

B->A: "So, we were talking about pickles... "

Looking over IRCCloud's subscription plans, why would I want to pay for features that have been offered free forever? Is the idea that since I can't run an IRC client on my iPhone that I'd pay for this? I don't get it.

We're essentially a nicely designed web-based irc interface with integrated hosted bouncer.

You don't usually get that for free afaik, you'd have to run a bouncer yourself on a vps or something, or attach to screen and use irssi.

Plenty of our users are former screen+irssi users, and many of them are perfectly capable of running a vps+bouncer+whatever themselves, but choose to use us because it's less hassle / more convenient.