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by Zhyl 9y ago
Sure, but I'd argue the Facebook friend request is different to, say, the MSN friend request. One felt like adding someone to an address book, the other felt like officially adding someone to your circle of friends. Probably subjective
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I think we need to think of social protocols less as a technical solution and more as what I'd describe in my day job as a 'business process'. Sure, part of this will be tech-enabled and parts will be fully automated, but I f
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Or moreover it shows that money isn't necessarily the limiting factor in success that many perceive it to be.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Yeah, most people see the world like this: * Turn up to job. Nice people, good desk, good canteen. Benefits good. * Work is interesting - working on cutting edge, dynamic web experiences that are changing the way we interact with people. *
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by Zhyl 9y ago
It's an alluring proposition, though. The student who is just learning about computers and digital ways of doing things will see the problem of voting as 'solvable' and would be able to list a large number of advantages to an
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Yeah, my Irish family say 'mammy'.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
And Northern Irish.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Keybase is an amazing idea which seems to be trapped by the current zeitgeist. It implements smooth and intuitive PKI via a command line, a mobile app and a web/electron app and seem to be rolling it out as a slack and/or dropbox
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by Zhyl 9y ago
One of the best examinations of learning, especially with structured media as described in the article, actually comes from a video game: The Witness. A summary of how it does it and why it is so good can be found in this 10 minute demo fro
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by Zhyl 9y ago
The reality is that usernames are seen as a computery tech internet thing rather than a business thing. Unofficial, maybe even frivolous. In business you have customer account numbers, bank account numbers, membership numbers, invoice num
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by Zhyl 9y ago
If not, you can find it here: https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I read the opening paragraph and thought 'wow, this guy has clearly just taken the release statement from Duckduckgo's privacy app announcement (or possibly their much-upvoted AMA) and just copied and pasted some statistics.'
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I think tone on HN can come across as very derisive or dismissive sometimes. It's one thing to not be unary, but it is another to be able to write down a coherent set of thoughts which critique the platform without sledging it, and con
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by Zhyl 9y ago
And have been since the beginning. The relevant XKCD [0] is from 2006. [0] https://xkcd.com/192/
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by Zhyl 9y ago
That reminds me of the TED talk [0] Luis von Ahn did when he announced duolingo. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Not in the real sense of 'choose'. I use a computer. I have to use Windows to access certain common or industry standard software packages. I have friends. I have to use Facebook or miss out on events or similar. Alternatively, I
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I can imagine a world where instead of having a car you have a dedicated seat on your cul-de-sac's station-transit. Maybe set up in pods like a one-person version of compartments on 1930s trains.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
This makes me happy! Watrcoolr.us (linked in the bio) seems to be a parked domain though, just as a heads up.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I see that the DuckDuckGo app is retiring stories. I am sad about this as I really liked the mix of articles it would provide. @yegg, any chance of a stories-only spin-off app?
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by Zhyl 9y ago
And more people seem [0] to be exercising that choice. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Blockchain is to crypto what AOL was to the early web. We've had hashing, dencentralisation, public key cryptography etc for years, but all of it was kind of academic, kind of out of reach. Similarly AOL brought email, the web, IM toge
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Gabriel is known for creating the DuckDuckGo search engine.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
This is on of my favourites. * It is neatly packaged, wonderful UX and a little sweetening of humour that makes it palatable to the layman * It gives code examples that provide a little bit more in-depth exploration for the enthusiastic or
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by Zhyl 9y ago
In the current parlance, this is called the 'No Deal'.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Is it mandated that every top level comment on HN has to be some kind of cynical, nit-picky whining? Lighten up. This is incredible.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
> It's a bubble. > It's not a bubble. > Why can't people see it's not a bubble? > I got into bitcoin when it was still $x so I'm holding even though I know its a bubble. > <Quote from a famous pers
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Q: How do you know if someone on Hackernews doesn't have a Facebook account? A: They'll tell you.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
I don't think it has to _stop_ per se. It's a political opinion and should be treated as such. Whether it is an opinion that has a place on Hackernews is another question.
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Using it for a current project: Phase 1 Non-technical and semi-technical business analysts write scenarios as acceptance criteria for the requirements. They are still so high level that the devs need to re-write or refactor the majority o
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by Zhyl 9y ago
Why is it inevitable?

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