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by harryf 11y ago
> Lower quality content results in monetization becoming more difficult, and thus prevalent. More prevalent monetization leads to ads Don't you mean scarce not prevalent here?
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> while i agree that unifying the yahoo-tumblr experience is a good direction That's what happened to Flickr... see http://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-... > The Flickr team was force
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From 3 minutes playing, junctions are cool... #!/usr/bin/env perl6 if 3|4|5 == 5|6 { print "Junction found\n" } else { print "No junction\n" } ...or using arrays this
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popular with employees?
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> Evernote has shoved so many features into the product that they haven't been able to sufficiently hone individual features. ...and that's a really hard problem to fix as you need management (who may not understand the root ca
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> Secondly, almost any use of social media trains me to crave more -- it genuinely is addictive, and the unreliability of the novelty ("refreshing in the hope of seeing something new") makes this all the worse. That's pret
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You get me thinking about side projects... http://getstream.io provides Twitter-like feeds as a service. For personal use wonder if it's possible to build a better newsfeed that Facebooks on top of the same content?
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Interesting somewhat related talk from Tony Schwarz in the Leading @ Google series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tke6X2eME3c "Demand is relentlessly rising. Our capacity is not keeping pace. The traditional solutio
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Also good is "The File: A Personal History" by Timothy Garton-Ash ( http://www.amazon.com/File-Personal-Timothy-Garton-Ash/dp/06... ). The author returns to Germany after re-unification and researches hi
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> Uber has also asked the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, to intervene, and an official European investigation into Germany’s ban on UberPop — along with similar rulings in France and Spain — is expected to
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> At some point your bug tracker becomes noise and you just never deal with it. Judging from the graph it looks like Jira is the tracker in this essay. There's so much horrible UX in Jira it's very likely to be part of the prob
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I get where you're coming from. At a certain level nothing replaces meeting someone face to face and shaking hands. But I'm talking empowering social "power users" with more tools to make them more efficient. Googles Gma
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> Toxic clickbait is an investment with a substantial and proven return. So is selling arms to third world countries. > What is the revenue model for effectively scaling communities Similar to AWS - pay for usage. There are enoug peop
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It's expensive and the potential for scientific discovery is too low?
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> The alternative to closing it was endless policing by him and Rumi Josephs, an artist who served as Boring Dystopia’s second admin. “It didn’t work at that scale This is my biggest beef with all popular social media platforms today. Th
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You might expect Amazon to take a stance to reassure AWS customers. Their AWS sales people like to tout AWS's encryption capabilities and the fact that they weren't part of Snowdens leak
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> And don't even get me started on the worst usability disaster of the last 5 years: Material design. Would be interested to hear it. To me it seems to work pretty well in the Google Maps app on mobile - mostly intuitive. What probl
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Kinda ironic that Google employs Vint Cerf who spends his time trying to raise awareness of bit rot - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/13/google-bos...
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So the next question to ask is "why are the jobs here?". Parallel to that its worth wondering why Britains second largest city Birmingham is not also an attractive center; in fact when was the last time you heard of Birmingham?
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Sadly they care less about content theft - http://youtu.be/IrD96dNfHxk
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Historically the other way round, while much celebrated (4th July, Bastille day) tends to be the statistical anomaly
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What makes me snarky is the replacing of '%s %s' % ('one', 'two') With '%s %s'.format('one', 'two') The latter is just more annoying to type. Stupid argument I kn
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Once could make the argument that having an MBA is actually a hinderance in tech...
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The "genius" of Zuckerberg is simple. Back in 2005, while the rest of us were building an idealistic Internet full of democratic freedoms and such, Zuckerberg's breakthrough was realising that when the unwashed masses finally
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Huh? Digits (for example) supports over 200 countries - https://get.digits.com/international-growth Twillio also enables this if you want to roll your own - https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/01&#x2F
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Users only need to remember their own phone number - you send a temporary activation code via SMS to register - as painless a signup as you can get Meanwhile it sets a higher bar than an email address for fakes signups; as a developer you h
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Why username / password? On mobile this is a dead approach. See https://docs.fabric.io/android/digits/digits.html
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> right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face. One of the biggest problems facing kids in the west is digital addiction. Society as a whole is stil
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Kik's user space app approach is novel - https://github.com/kikinteractive/starter-kit - basically allows developers to extend Kik with simple apps written in html / js. That said the most popular apps seem t
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Sure but don't make that your excuse for continuing to disenfranchise Muslims who live with us.

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