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by huggyface 14y ago
What's faster? I've never read even the most fervent proponent advocate it as either a more efficient or speedy (from a usability) perspective. That isn't to harsh on it -- the compromise is better touch usability and purportedly better aes
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by huggyface 14y ago
I remember when RIM was bragging about their subscriber growth while everyone could see the writing on the wall. This seems kind of similar. Reddit has the inertia effect right now. The potential upside shrinks while the potential downside
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by huggyface 14y ago
Try to propose using OpenGL to a game developer and you'll be laughed at. OpenGL dominates the massive mobile industry (those billion or so Android and iOS handsets run and live on OGL ES 2.0), and OpenGL was the premiere desktop gaming
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by huggyface 14y ago
Alternately, you're just entirely too dense to have any participation in this conversation, completely miss the point in your haste to post "witty" and hilariously inappropriate analogies.
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by huggyface 14y ago
No, I'm not. The fact that you're a former reddit employee is entirely irrelevant, and if anything undermines your perspective on the merits of subreddits.
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by huggyface 14y ago
Your false dichotomy is an enjoyable bit of fiction.
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by huggyface 14y ago
The default state of almost every subreddit is endless meta discourse about the subreddit itself. Then there is the inevitable fracturing when some participants disagree, while the original sub descends into the most vapid of the commons. /
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by huggyface 14y ago
We're talking about Digg doing this as a differentiation. It is not commonly used because it is very heavy in IO and CPU for individual users (though a site like reddit could take a shortcut just by periodically ramping up some spot high CP
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by huggyface 14y ago
Payload data can be used to inform their advertising efforts. The data collected while a streetview car drove by can inform their advertising efforts? You really have to bear a serious anti-Google grudge to entertain such a ridiculous, te
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by huggyface 14y ago
Their major problem is: they won't help you find something you didn't know you liked. This is patently untrue. It is more likely to find you stuff that you didn't know you like than the lowest common denominator strategy.
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by huggyface 14y ago
I'm not missing the point of subreddits at all , and I would suggest that you are so far down the rabbit hole of the cure all subreddit that you refuse to acknowledge the point. I have never said that subreddits should go away. Ever. Each
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by huggyface 14y ago
Let me welcome you to the modern era. While you might have once had your content dictated by the radio station you listened to, or the one channel your TV could receive, here in the 21st century we have other, slightly more refined mechanis
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by huggyface 14y ago
While I'm being extreme, in practical application it would be a simple reduced weighting of negative correlation users. e.g. if five people I correlate heavily with liked a /r/programming entry, that will rise above a post liked by one hund
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by huggyface 14y ago
What exactly is fundamentally broken in subscribing to subreddits? "I like action movies" "Here's Megashark vs 747. You like action movies, so you like this" How is any given subreddit any different? Being into fitness does not mean you s
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by huggyface 14y ago
you say "hey, I'm really interested in fitness." With which you also say -- or so Reddit believes in its current level of imperfection -- "and I have complete affinity with everyone else who happens to vote in /r/fitness". Is that true? I
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by huggyface 14y ago
Why do you think they can't coexist? In fact my actual suggestion is that they should coexist. But the "just subscribe appropriately" response is fundamentally broken, and only provides a partial solution. This approach absolutely benefit
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by huggyface 14y ago
If you think that subreddits don't matter Categorization does still matter (in the Netflix example they can competently recommend and rank for me, but they still allow me to filter into specific categories). Subreddits are useful. However
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by huggyface 14y ago
Which subreddits do you subscribe to where you see that unwanted content? It shouldn't matter what subreddits I subscribe to (and the encroachment of certain trends keeps herding people to yet new subreddits. /r/gaming -> rage comics
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by huggyface 14y ago
Because a rushed product is imperfect? Digg at its highest peak was a grossly imperfect product. If project success depended upon trivia like type="text/javascript", the internet world would be a very different place.
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by huggyface 14y ago
They can through algorithms, which is something that is painfully lacking on most social media sites (including HN). Give users the ability to dislike something strongly enough that anyone who voted it up is excluded from all vote counts/ra
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by huggyface 14y ago
I bet they simply gained some self-doubt based upon all of the feedback and were worried about having a real failure if they stuck with the plan. Good on them, really, and the refunding of pre-orders while still promising the unit is amazin
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by huggyface 14y ago
because they earn their money elsewhere ? This is a terribly odd statement. Microsoft has shown, time and time again, that they can shaft their customers because many of them have, or at least had, few alternatives. Google might make a lot
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by huggyface 14y ago
He's "profiting" from a conversation. That's how things go around these parts (things always come in waves, and the people looking for hits will quickly get an opinion out. By the way, would you like to hear what I think of the new Apple ad
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by huggyface 14y ago
Not a typical Apple fan, but the Apple TV is an excellent device. It fulfills its role brilliantly, uses very little power, and is very inexpensive. It should be their most successful product.
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by huggyface 14y ago
You act as if "everyone else" sees results from FB ads. They don't. Most ads target a specific outcome: You buy a product, create an account, joining a mailing list, etc. Even the most technically incompetent advertisers establishes these
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by huggyface 14y ago
Out of morbid curiosity, are you always this obnoxious?
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by huggyface 14y ago
It would be a very, very short term financial incentive. Advertisers monitor to see performance on the other end, and when the campaigns don't yield actual success they move on. The only real exception to this are mega-brands that advertise
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by huggyface 14y ago
They run beautifully in Safari on the iPad. Indeed, they run quite well in Firefox (beta) on the Nexus 7. They ran quite well in the stock browser pre-JB. Those are only a couple of sample sites, but there is an endemic inefficiency of Chro
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by huggyface 14y ago
They end the bot section with "But let's move on, because who the bots belong to isn't provable." after saying that they weren't accusing Facebook of running the bots. The subtext is screaming out. Does me pointing out the barely shrouded
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by huggyface 14y ago
True, though quickly is still a period of time that is detrimental to the planet. Well obviously it was self-balancing historically, but add the natural methane with the enormous CO2 of humanity and you have a problem. http://www.epa.gov/m

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