anthropodie

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by anthropodie 4y ago
I am reading lot of people are moving to mastodon. I never thought federation was the future but the more I think about it the more it is starting to make sense. The good part is federated alternatives do not look like massive echo chambers
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Discussion from - a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652677 - 8 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512955
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Better source: https://www.dw.com/en/russian-missiles-cross-into-nato-membe...
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The End of Ownership (2015)(youtube.com)
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by anthropodie 4y ago
And only people on HN know this. Millions and millions of other people don't care. They enjoy shorts and spent quite some time on it.
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by anthropodie 4y ago
In India, the only thing people use email for is when they are applying for jobs or other official requirements. Email is never used for personal communication. Forget about general public even the IT crowd does not use email for anything p
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by anthropodie 4y ago
We actually have D-Mart and they are quite huge but not comparable to Walmart. These are present at multiple locations in tier-1 cities but are hardly present in tier-2 cities. The thing is even though these are very popular they are not sh
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Those millions who moved to middle class are also helping the layer below them. These lifted households are spending their wealth on house helps, local grocery stores, taxis/autos and a whole lot of other local businesses. This trickl
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Here you go https://pixelfed.social/discover . No idea why they would not put that on homepage.
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by anthropodie 4y ago
While everyone is talking about Mastodon because of Twitter, I want people to know that there is https://pixelfed.social which is alternative to Instagram. Theoretically you should be able to follow anyone from pixelfed on Masto
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Can we consolidate Twitter threads into one? I am seeing at least one or two new threads here every hour all discussing same thing.
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by anthropodie 4y ago
I was talking about private space company. I mean who thinks like I'm going to start a private space company that will launch freaking rockets in space. I don't think any private company did that before SpaceX
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by anthropodie 4y ago
> Musk might be good at building and running engineering companies, but Twitter is not that. The social aspect is far more important than the underlying technology, and Musk and his advisors are terrible at that. Agree
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by anthropodie 4y ago
There is no security. You never know when things will go wrong. When pandemic happened software companies like Twitter were untouched but millions of workers felt its impact shaking them to the core and hence preparing them for better choic
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by anthropodie 4y ago
For me, if I were at beginning of my career I would have definitely joined Twitter. Because I have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save my job. I think that sort of culture would make you sharp than others in your field
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by anthropodie 4y ago
No they dont have managers or a separte QA team. 30 is their entire tech team which handles everything. They are largest broker so others might be sales, legal, marketting, hr guys
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Hell I don't like what Elon does most of the times but you have to admit he did built successful companies from ground up in fields no one was even looking into. Twitter might succeed or it might fail but Twitter in its current form bo
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by anthropodie 4y ago
People might choose based on their preferences: You want stability? Join stripe You want to be sharp? Join Twitter
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by anthropodie 4y ago
That option is kind of dormant in app I think and gets enabled from backend. I updated two phones at same time around a month ago and one of them did not have that option until 2-3days back.
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Here's story for you A team of 30 works at zerodha for serving 6.2 million users. They are largest trading broker in India. There story is worth a read https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/ Edit: Apparently
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by anthropodie 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if future generations looked at these few decades and wondered "crazy times". You are right this is new and it would take decades before we master this new "space".
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by anthropodie 4y ago
I agree people are not rotten to the core but we keep blaming system and thus get rid of any personal accountability. Both are important. But so far it seems people have forgotten "looking at mirror". Everyone keeps blaming everyo
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Chrome Banishes Photo Format That Could Save Space on Your Phone https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/chrome-banishes-photo-fo...
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Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve
210 points by anthropodie 4y ago|268 comments
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by anthropodie 4y ago
I said this in another Twitter thread and I will say it again Here's an idea: stop trying to fix social media and instead try to connect with people in real life and we as a society might be happy again
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Here's an idea: stop trying to fix social media and instead try to connect with people in real life and we as a society might be happy again
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by anthropodie 4y ago
> you can even run it on a Raspberry Pi! Here in India so many of us want to do this but almost everyone is behind CGNAT. I know there are solutions that exist like cloudflare tunnels but I just wish I could host at home without any thir
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by anthropodie 4y ago
It has to be experienced by the individual.
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by anthropodie 4y ago
Why would I buy when I can generate my own? lol
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by anthropodie 4y ago
I love Jebrains IDEs. They can save you lot of time. For example, VSCode does not even come close to Jetbrains git branch comparison. It's insanely good. I think a proper IDE is always better than adding 10s of extension to get similar

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