Mahn

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by Mahn 14y ago
Figuratively speaking. "facebook steals, facebook doesn't care about people, all facebook cares is money" is stretching it a bit for what should essentially have been "facebook makes a mistake involving money and neglects to correct it".
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by Mahn 14y ago
No one says he's not allowed to be upset, Facebook DID do a mistake here, and it is legitimate to be angry about it. But calling names and posting a public tantrum about it is not the way to get it fixed; Facebook is not "stealing", they ju
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by Mahn 14y ago
He's indeed overreacting. Apparently that works though, because it made it to the front page.
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by Mahn 14y ago
It's fun. If you can find joy in coding, you would most likely enjoy discussing said code with others, getting feedback, learning about it, improving it, etc. Open sourcing code makes all this possible and easy, and when there are no ulteri
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by Mahn 14y ago
"Hey Internet, I know you don't like us, but just so you know, you are wrong about your complains, and we are doing just fine" Well, what a brilliant piece of PR there.
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by Mahn 14y ago
So basically OP realized he could resubmit it thanks to the url change and went for it. I see.
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by Mahn 14y ago
I was wondering what is this doing on the front page again. I guess HNers can never get enough of discussing the virtues of Vim :-)
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by Mahn 14y ago
...unless you want to implement some sort of server-side automated correcting that improves bad quality comments for instance. Rare, and possibly not very practical, but I've seen attempts at it here and there.
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by Mahn 14y ago
As soon as Google realizes they still have it online, probably. I'd be willing to bet the reason it's still alive is that they plain and simply forgot about it.
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by Mahn 14y ago
How does that work? I guess the resulting bitcoins are divided between the people who participate in the pool of there's any success?
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by Mahn 14y ago
I keep wondering whether I should be buying bitcoins now, but I have mixed feelings about it. I'm pretty sure its value will continue going up for a while, but I guess I'm still skeptical.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Well, he has a point, but I wouldn't call that visionary; many people have suggested before the possibility of a future where an important part the connected population never used a PC before and rely exclusively on their smartphones. And u
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by Mahn 14y ago
IMHO, there are plenty alternatives out there for those who have facebook fatigue and are looking for something simpler, e.g. Path or even Google+. If it's beautifully executed it might have its room to breathe, but I think you'll struggl
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by Mahn 14y ago
Looks interesting, but I don't really see it taking off. I just can't picture normal people thinking "wow, this is just what I needed, I'm so downloading this!"
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by Mahn 14y ago
The problem comes when you realize if you unfollowed everyone who posts unteresting stuff on facebook you would end up with an almost literally empty feed.
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by Mahn 14y ago
He refers to Facebook, but he mentions he wishes Twitter were like this, hence the question what utility would this have for Twitter.
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by Mahn 14y ago
That... makes sense. To some extent. I guess.
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by Mahn 14y ago
But what could possibly accomplish doing this? I can't picture the rationale behind it if it really were the US Govt itself.
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by Mahn 14y ago
This is very immature and very irresponsible IMHO. Poking fun of NK on the internet is only going to aggravate the situation, because I'm very sure NK will end up interpreting it as "US doing", rather than some random individuals.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Not sure about the freedom part, personally ever since starting bootstrapping my startup I feel I don't have time for anything, and when I do, it's hard to justify spending time and/or money on yourself when both things are running against
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by Mahn 14y ago
> so many startups get so excited about features and growth yet fail in their analysis of retention I think it's just we write less about it, not so much that we aren't aware of its importance. "How we managed to retain our users for 4
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by Mahn 14y ago
Baidu, QQ, Tencent, Alibaba... I'm not American though :-) I would argue this isn't a big deal. Sure, many Chinese companies would be very happy to have more brand awareness, but overall it's still working out very nicely for them.
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by Mahn 14y ago
I always imagine this as the average case for everyone buying a new laptop now. I don't know, I really don't want to hate, but I have yet to hear of someone happy with W8 as their main OS.
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by Mahn 14y ago
The number seems to be misreported as someone else mentioned here, but still, you'd be surprised how lazy people can be when it comes to (large) OS updates. There's an enormous amount of friction if what you use already works. This probably
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by Mahn 14y ago
Nope. On SO at least there are lots of folks who amassed hundreds of thousands of reputation merely for being on the site early enough to be able to answer simple and common questions like "how I can remove an array member" and the like.
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by Mahn 14y ago
This might not be the case in the silicon valley, but here in Europe I find companies consistently try to offer as little as they can get away with, no matter the position. If you want a salary you think you deserve, you have to ask and be
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by Mahn 14y ago
> effort is reciprocated with more money :)
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Anastasiades: Cyprus will not leave the euro(m.guardian.co.uk)
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by Mahn 14y ago
Forget it, if there was a time when Facebook could have bought Twitter that might have been 4-5 years ago, but that ship sailed for good.
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by Mahn 14y ago
According to TechCrunch the press invitation says "Come see our new home on Android"; if they were to take Amazon's approach I would expect them to omit mentioning Android completely, so I guess this tells something.

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