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by firasd 11y ago
This is counter-productive for FB in the long run. When zero-rating hollows out net neutrality, what stops WeChat from teaming up with an ISP to undermine WhatsApp and Messenger? Imagine if MySpace had struck deals with network operators al
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by firasd 11y ago
Yeah the search works well now. When iTunes 11 just launched it was a disaster. (If I remember correctly it kept trying to 'group' searches by album instead of showing individual songs.)
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by firasd 11y ago
Agreed. I posted a couple years ago: 1999, WinAmp: type a couple characters of a song title and play it. 2013, iTunes 11: Try finding a song forever, go "forget it", hit shuffle.
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Mobile Wallets in India: Growth Opportunities [Slide Deck](medium.com)
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by firasd 11y ago
What if you dynamically updated the same mp3 file instead of updating the media file URL (and changing the guid.) As far as cached mp3s that are already downloaded, I don't see why that should have a huge impact on ads. The most import
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by firasd 11y ago
I was aware of podcasts when they launched around 2004 (and worked on some related sites) but a lot of the early hype about podcasts as a business didn’t pan out. I suspect it may be misleading to look to the past this point—the upsurge of
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by firasd 11y ago
I suspect at some point JavaScript developers got together and decided: why say "server-side rendering" and "editable" if you can say "isomorphic" and "mutable"?
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by firasd 11y ago
I understand (and agree to some extent with) the argument but I think the excerpted paper doesn’t work well as an example of the issue. The concluding paragraph is lucid and a bit poetic, and upon clicking the link it turns out the title (a
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Mobile banking: don’t assume M-Pesa is the model(medium.com)
2 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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Why You Need Cohorts to Improve Your Retention(amplitude.com)
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by firasd 11y ago
This is so important. Many people create async requests and overlook the state indicators. This seems harmless until the user doesn't know they need to wait for something to load, messing up their whole understanding of the widget. Rel
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Facebook’s Internet.org: Zuckerberg elides the facts(medium.com)
3 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 11y ago
I think the way forward would be for WordPress hosting to come with a version of node.js with standard packages which plugins can use, in combination with the new REST API. So even if we would move past PHP we wouldn't move past WordPr
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by firasd 11y ago
Marc Andreessen: “A very large number of people came out of investment banking, came to Silicon Valley in 1999, cause they thought they were gonna make a lot of money, and in 2001 they all turned around went back to New York and created the
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by firasd 11y ago
The problem is that with low scale and low growth prospects, even a profitable business can end up stagnating. Will everyone (founders, employees, investors) want to stay on? Especially in this case: the business isn’t in a high-margin nic
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The Prescient Joel on Software: ideas I read that came true in my career(medium.com)
1 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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The Prescient Joel on Software: ideas I read that came true in my career(medium.com)
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by firasd 11y ago
I wrote a response to your comment: https://medium.com/@firasd/things-i-read-on-joel-on-software...
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by firasd 11y ago
Makes sense. After EC2 evaporates our cash it has to precipitate somewhere…
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by firasd 11y ago
Exactly. The problem isn’t that we can’t believe Dorsey’s intentions, it’s that Dorsey’s intentions don’t necessarily create the reality of Twitter’s future. Whether it’s Twitter or Facebook (or others), these companies will keep changing t
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by firasd 11y ago
As far as his reference to Google, it seems the next sentence is what he means: “I understood the rule of cash, so we did everything we could to manage for revenue, and the rest is history.”
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by firasd 11y ago
Fair point; although I’ve done a fair amount of work as an external developer I haven’t actually tried to get work on those sites.
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by firasd 11y ago
The trick is to avoid looking for work on platforms like oDesk (now Upwork) where the world is underbidding you. It’s a positioning and deal flow issue. Ideally you want clients to refer you on to other clients. And maybe you should call yo
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by firasd 11y ago
This is a good point that both supporters and opponents of this initiative should gather more information about: who actually accesses services using this Facebook program? Is it in fact the previously unconnected? And vice-versa: when you
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by firasd 11y ago
The geographic distance claim isn’t accurate; this program ran into its first organized opposition from net neutrality activists in India.
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by firasd 11y ago
Facebook might be monopolistic in some contexts because that’s what people want to use but the issue with internet.org is that communications networks are licensing public spectrum and then cutting deals for preferential access to certain
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by firasd 11y ago
The slowdown caused by JS isn’t due as much to the rendering speed as the HTTP requests.
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by firasd 11y ago
About static vs. dynamic rendering on the server side, the Movable Type CMS used to do exactly as you suggest and it was difficult to make changes on large sites. Imagine if you want to change a link on a sidebar and have to re-build every
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by firasd 11y ago
Yeah. So in my experience “state” based UI really pushes your app towards “real-time”, almost like a multiplayer game. Given that your entire UI is rendered from a certain set of data, you definitely don’t want to be in a position where yo
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by firasd 11y ago
Given that Flux was made to go hand-in-hand with React I think all those XHR requests are somewhat non-idiomatic. Wouldn't it be better to just have a WebSocket sending across a large list of the latest data, sending a new list any tim

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