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Why don't you just make an open alternative is this is so disconcerting to you?
by asow92 8y ago
Why don't you just make an open alternative is this is so disconcerting to you?
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- asow92 8y agoSure downvote me for asking you to be accountable for your dispositions.
- rtkwe 8y agoHere's the thing 'if you have problems with it build your own' is a useless response. Anyone can totally point out issues with a thing without knowing how to fix them (especially if the concept is fundamentally flawed). Expecting people to go out and found a whole standard/business every time they make a blog post about the problems with something is ridiculous.
- melq 8y agoAnd further, just because you find something to be harmful doesn't mean you have any motivation to replace or fix it. I don't like Facebook, but I certainly don't have any interest in writing my own open sourced Facebook.
- asow92 8y agoWe're a community of builders, makers, and entrepreneurs. If we aren't here to fix the issues we see in the world, what are we doing? All I'm saying is if OP truly feels the way they do, they should try to be the change they wish to see in the world. Especially since what w3w is doing isn't technically complicated.
- qntty 8y agoI have lots of complains about the world, and only so many hours in the day.
- asow92 8y agoThen call others to the cause. Be constructive. Don't just complain, as that provides no value.
- qntty 8y agoIt does provide a value. If people are dissatisfied with something, it gives someone an opportunity to do better. If everyone accepts subpar quality, why bother making something high quality? Makers need consumers with the ability to appreciate their product. Complaining together with others is a way of sharpening your and others ability to appreciate something good when it comes along.
- asow92 8y agoWe're both advocating for action here.
- reallydude 8y ago> .@what3words is bad technical idea > ethically terrible too. I don't understand how someone would hold this tweet up as anything but an echo of their own opinion. There's nothing technically or ethically wrong with the product, despite a few pages of rambling about what they think is right or wrong, morally.
- glonq 8y agoIt could have easily been designed to work both offline or online. But it only works online. That's a bad technical idea. And "open washing" is ethically terrible. So is patenting an idea that takes a weekend to code. So is pushing an unnecessarily expensive system onto vulnerable third-world countries that need a solution to their addressing/geolookup problems. So yeah. Terrible.
- reallydude 8y ago> But it only works online. That's a bad technical idea. That's an opinion. Starcraft 2 is online only. That's not a technical idea that a player can rationalize, it's a business oriented technical solution. > And "open washing" is ethically terrible. > So is patenting an idea that takes a weekend to code These are based on what rationale, other than your personal preference? SMH
- toss1 8y agoNot OP, but I'd expect that it is because W3W is a basically a marketing campaign for a technology that doesn't actually solve a problem (or, more precisely, solves one corner of a problem while destroying many much broader solutions) Creating a knock-off that solves the OS problems still fails to recover from the broader problems that the W3W 'solution' provides zero ability to actually navigate without a continuous link to their server. A knock-off with better OS cred would still fail the same way.
- asow92 8y agoOP reads as if their main issue is the lack of inherent openness. All I'm saying is make an open alternative if is really so bothering to OP.
- toss1 8y agoYes, I agree that the article spends waay too much print on the lack of openness, and too little on the fact that W3W is just a bad idea that solves nothing. So, yes, if that was his only problem, he should definitely organize an open version. (it'd just be a bit less pointless) BTW, did you see this? Somebody posted it above and it is hilarious - especially the Vision, Facts, etc pages... http://www.what3fucks.com/ http://www.what3fucks.com/
- rtkwe 8y agoThere are already alternatives to getting people to not use W3W is the whole goal.
- IshKebab 8y agoGoogle maps now includes plus codes which are open so I don't think W3W stands a chance anyway. Not should they. It's an idea you can implement in half an hour. It doesn't need to be a commercial business.
- Anderkent 8y agoI'd still rather remember/type/say three words than something like 5P56+4Q. I'm really surprised that no one thinks pronounciability has value.
- glonq 8y agoWords do have value, but what W3W takes away from you (money!) has more value.
- NikkiA 8y agow3w has been around for a few years, and it hasn't caught on, so it's fair to say it's pretty much just a zombie of an idea now.