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by axod 16y ago
You're high. > "It has replaced email for social things" WTF? Maybe for you, if you say so, but people still get several orders of magnitude more social email each day that twitter messages have ever been sent. > It's where people g
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by axod 16y ago
There's no escape from politics. Even on HN.
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by axod 16y ago
I think it's the orders of magnitude out bit that people object to. Twitter is obviously fun and useful for some, eg journalists who want to pad their celeb gossip news story out with "X tweeted Y", etc But is it really worth $10bn to human
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by axod 16y ago
IRC Topics: #firefox #firefox-dev #firefox-users
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by axod 16y ago
Isn't this essentially what Chatterous tried?
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by axod 16y ago
It came across to me as someone who wants to learn programming for the wrong reasons. For example they heard it pays well. Rather than wanting to learn it because they love it.
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by axod 16y ago
Entering multiple crushes seems a crappy thing to do to me. Be interesting to see how many do that.
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by axod 16y ago
Yes I've written XMPP libs at the base level. It's mental. There's 15 hoops to jump through just to say "hello!", forms must be filled out in triplicate, several nested stanzas must be entered into. It's absolutely ridiculous at the protoco
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by axod 16y ago
XMPP? Knows what they are doing? Does not compute. Using document markup as a packet based message protocol is just perverse.
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by axod 16y ago
Either he just doesn't have the natural aptitude, or he doesn't love it enough to learn. I can't fathom how anyone could be a programmer/trying to become a programmer and not have constant side projects, partially written OSes, games, etc I
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by axod 16y ago
Choose another career ASAP. Find something you love. This is why there are so many bad programmers around. Depressing.
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by axod 16y ago
Yeah maybe I'm being harsh as usual. If I got funding I'd start panicking and thinking to myself "shit now I have to make them a return"... But it often feels like announcements of funding are more like "yay we have cash! Lets buy an office
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by axod 16y ago
Why do people say they got funded as if that's it. They've made it. Job done. Success is now a given. I'm not convinced ability to get funded matches with likelihood of profitability.
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by axod 16y ago
Can also dissuade good people from going into politics if their every expense will be scrutinize nit-picked etc. Why put up with all the BS and low pay of politics when you can go work for a big company and run up massive expense accounts f
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by axod 16y ago
As far as I know only 2 MPs or so were prosecuted. Considering the enquiry cost several million, that doesn't seem like money well spent.
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by axod 16y ago
...and google "babylist" returns surprise surprise babylist.co.uk It seems silly to try and compete with established players.
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by axod 16y ago
By my calculations, you'd only need to spin up 50 or so amazon instances, and they could cover the entire IP space in a day doing 1k pings/second each. That's pretty doable.
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by axod 16y ago
I'm not in the least... It probably took them an hour to find out, reply to the emails etc. They probably had to ask others etc. Their salary, electricity, office overhead etc. I'd expect it came to a fair bit more than £585 to deal with th
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by axod 16y ago
Neither of those are necessary. * users * profit (Or a clear path to getting there)
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by axod 16y ago
The irony is that entering into a debate with them about how much it cost, likely cost far more than £585 in their time spent finding out. Reminds me of the whole "MP's expenses 'scandal'" - the inquiry cost more than was paid out originall
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by axod 16y ago
> The name does, and it's great. People will go to babylist.com. They will probably copy the concept if it takes off. Bad idea.
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by axod 16y ago
Probably wouldn't take too long to check what % are pingable, which would give you a lower bound.
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by axod 16y ago
> "It isn't running out. It is out." I think that's an unfair assessment. When every ipv4 address is actually used , it'll have run out. We're a long long way away from that scenario though. Vast ranges are "allocated" but "unused".
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by axod 16y ago
I'm pretty sure nothing will happen. They likely have several blocks already allocated which give them enough headroom for growth.
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by axod 16y ago
Nothing. Even if you host websites, nothing until ipv4 actually gets scarce or costly. Just because all ipv4 address space is "allocated" doesn't mean it's used or even allocated to end users. I'd start worrying when you have to pay a lot o
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by axod 16y ago
Well ok, it's an added detrimental socio-economic impact.
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by axod 16y ago
You can realistically make a handful of products. You can advertise millions. Would you rather sell 1 product, or advertise a million different products? Your logic seems to miss that crucial point. Look at it this way. Paid subscription =
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by axod 16y ago
> "Why the heck does Forbes use this slideshow style of presenting ?" To artificially inflate page views and advertising impressions.
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by axod 16y ago
It's also a tax on the busy. I go to a petrol station, to buy petrol. Then have to wait in line for 10 minutes while some idiots buy scratch cards and lottery tickets.
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by axod 16y ago
> "for such a reputable company as Camelot" Um excuse me? Reputable? Given the way they conned the public out of a non-profit lottery, I don't agree they're reputable.

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