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by Mahn 14y ago
You do remember Instagram was bought for $1 billion having generated exactly 0 revenue, right?
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by Mahn 14y ago
Very surprising the company didn't end up acquired by a major player, I remember it was all the rage in 2010. Good luck in your future endeavours Ade and team.
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by Mahn 14y ago
First time ever I see someone on HN with negative karma.
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by Mahn 14y ago
No one would likely be able to cram enough code into a single plugin to manage to get "all" your information and still have a functioning plugin in only JavaScript. Does not compute. I don't see the logic in this statement.
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by Mahn 14y ago
This is bad. Facebook doing this can potentially lead other devs following, and if this happens we'll end up in a ecosystem mess where every app does whatever it well pleases.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Very nicely done. I find interesting how an intro of this kind makes clearer information that is already to be found within the site itself; it doesn't create new information, it just forces the user to focus on the different areas of the
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by Mahn 14y ago
> G+ can't be google reader for two reasons Don't be fooled, though, the fact that he is asking about Google Reader does not mean they intent to implement a feeds reader within G+. They most likely believe RSS is an old technology tha
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by Mahn 14y ago
"No traffic" is relative; I'd say it easily had somewhere around 50-100k users. This might seem like a lot, but it's sadly peanuts for Google.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Did anyone try to use Pulse ( https://www.pulse.me/ ) as an RSS reader? it's not strictly one, but it might work, I'm thinking about switching to it.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Just for the record, The Old Reader is listed as free, but according to their blog they plan to go freemium eventually.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Not really, if I understand correctly this is capturing only the requests, "caching" them in a way, so when on playback mode if you do an action that fires this request, it's fetched from the recorded store. I think its use is limited to wh
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Why Google Reader Matters To Us (2011)(amirhm.com)
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by Mahn 14y ago
Most likely the later, sounds like we should take care of preserving them ourselves.
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by Mahn 14y ago
So what if it works, it's not like you are going to have to scale it to millions of users. Just make sure it's firewalled and you're good to go.
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by Mahn 14y ago
> We get upset that VC's respond with boilerplate Even if it sounds impersonal and lazy, this is just called being polite, most people still prefer an answer of this kind to "lol no, sorry, you suck". And that's why we do it aswell. Per
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by Mahn 14y ago
Actually Babak Parviz (the original inventor) is leading the project, which I suppose reports directly to Sergey ( https://plus.google.com/100149980664588993669/about )
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by Mahn 14y ago
This is actually being used to comply with data privacy laws here in Germany, in a way. Right now it's not entirely clear whether it's legal to use these social buttons, so to be on the safe side, many sites opted for this "click to enable"
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by Mahn 14y ago
"That's ok, we'll just make it up for it with a 12px font-size"
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by Mahn 14y ago
I guess the social buttons are a little bit like ads on Google: we don't use them, we don't know anybody who uses them, but they are somehow used.
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by Mahn 14y ago
On a semi-related note, it's silly how there isn't a "canonical" StackOverflow-like site for open discussions yet.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Generally speaking when it comes to SE, I've noticed the smaller the site the bigger the tolerance towards discussions, and codereview it's not quite a big community yet.
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by Mahn 14y ago
I'm having a hard time trying to picture people on HN reading the comment and thinking "cool! yourdomain.com! I wonder what's in there!"
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by Mahn 14y ago
Now all we are missing is a lengthy discussion here on HN about how to get things done properly.
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by Mahn 14y ago
> It's non-intuitive that you have to press enter to activate the timer. It felt pretty natural to me. We've been entering text in a box and pressing enter after we are done for decades.
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by Mahn 14y ago
...unless they copied the JS files instead of linking to them directly, of course. Note to self: add remote self-destruct function within any JS I ship.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Sigh.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Get over with this already. Everyone who's been paying attention to the company for the last, say, five years, knows that most of what they do doesn't in fact revolve around ads. Just because the company has a boatload of money and data d
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by Mahn 14y ago
Makes sense, I wasn't thinking of a community with a focus on show/ask HN kind of posts. Make it happen then ;)
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by Mahn 14y ago
Make sure the people want it; I'm for example native from Spain, and there's nothing that comes close to HN in Spanish, but I know an attempt to make something like that would fail miserably because the people simply don't want it (that's p
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by Mahn 14y ago
The problem is that if someone from HN were to start a news aggregator site competitor it wouldn't be long before they started looking for profiting posibilities (people reading HN like making companies, in case you didn't notice :-) ). At

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