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For me the bare-minimum of required functionality for SM is friending and JWZ's Law, so no.
by rhizome 8y ago
For me the bare-minimum of required functionality for SM is friending and JWZ's Law, so no.
- 0xffff2 8y ago>JWZ's Law Could you expand the acronym? I've never seen it and search results aren't helpful.
- gpderetta 8y agojwz is Jamie Zawinski[1] of Netscape fame. The law states: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
- rhizome 8y agoWhoops, yeah, I should have used the standard "Zawinsky's Law."
- beat 8y agoI think of it more in terms of deliberately addictive behavior. HN is fun, but it doesn't have basic functions like infinite scrolling. The closest it has to addictive social media behavior is the upvote/downvote buttons. (See Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism for discussion about that problem.)