ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
The alternative would be to be "Moving backwards". Why not discuss about their design choices instead? or their choice of programming language? Why do we need an invite to try it? What if the social networking fad wanes before they release
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by ignifero 15y ago
I 'd rather have a breakdown of how these ads perform wrt conversions, and how they compare to adwords
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by ignifero 15y ago
As they say in TV, video chatting with your clothes on is a bit pointless.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Good luck doing a job or phd interview on google talk. My understanding is that skype has patents on a myriad of things related to live audio/video. Plus it works really really well and does screen sharing too (which means you can do presen
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by ignifero 15y ago
To be fair, facebook platform was a mess even when they had competition from myspace.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You 're right wrt earnings (zynga had $0.85B vs facebook $2B in 2010). Zynga will probably earn $1.8B this year ( http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/03/02/zynga-revea... ). I can't edit the previous comment, though. Still, for a com
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by ignifero 15y ago
Crushing apps is not a big problem (Zynga still earns more than facebook itself). The problem is we cannot sign an SLA, or have any other contractual relationship with facebook, even though they take a 30% cut or ouf virtual currency sales.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Their platform changes are mostly about reinventing the wheel. They dont even introduce important features, instead they strip them ( profile boxes, notifications, profile tabs etc)
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by ignifero 15y ago
this argument comes up over and over when talking about facebook APIs etc, but this is an inherent risk in all kinds of online and offline applications: from the electric power company to the ISPs, to browser vendors, to facebook, there are
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by ignifero 15y ago
Facebook platform is only good for games. No other type of app can get traction there, because facebook is an entertainment medium , no matter how hard they 've tried to become more "serious". The thing is, it has gotten increasingly off-pu
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The technology industry needs to think long and hard about ethics.(venturebeat.com)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
one can take a multiparametric approach to traditional voting, like here: http://textchannels.com/page/about . Not much of progress compared to traditional voting, but it might help tailoring the comments to the subject matter.
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by ignifero 15y ago
thank you!
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's very gentlemanly of you. Tell me what you think of my favorite toy project: http://textchannels.com/
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by ignifero 15y ago
Apart from HN (i have them all in my bookmarks toolbar): http://twitter.com http://arstechnica.com http://news.bbc.co.uk http://www.boingboing.net http://spiegel.de/international/ http://www.technologyreview.com/ http://www.eng
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by ignifero 15y ago
There is nothing related to web development that you can do in other languages that you can't do with PHP. That should suffice for your first question: Do not rewrite any of your apps. If you want to learn another language, there are tons o
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by ignifero 15y ago
- Canvas apps can be bookmarked (i think they're bookmarked by default), which means your users will easily find them - Facebook can ban your domain for spam at any time, and then go figure. We had a simple redirect from our registered doma
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by ignifero 15y ago
How prevalent is this tactic of spreading FUD about competitors? And does it usually work in with blogs? Is every blog post we read a result of PR lobbying on the media/bloggers? Inside facebook says it's an industry practice, but i dont tr
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by ignifero 15y ago
Shouldn't we be hoping that more and more bots enter the markets? Sure, there will be a period when hackers will be able to exploit their weaknesses, but in the due time they will evolve and market will equilibrate, making today's speculati
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Anti-retroviral drugs 'help reduce' HIV transmission up to 96%(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
I wonder if this cold war is the reason facebook banned adsense from 3rd party apps http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2291336
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by ignifero 15y ago
I hope facebook has a good excuse for this. A note from Zuck saying "we apologize" won't suffice.
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by ignifero 15y ago
i can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it takes a blog and some fu money
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by ignifero 15y ago
Interesting writeup, thanks. OT: For all its fame, has any of you ever needed to calculate Fibbonacci numbers in real life? I haven't.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Not necessarily. Look at how none of the comments is about it.
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by ignifero 15y ago
So true. After a year, i started feeling isolated, so i started part time graduate school. There seem to be common patterns here http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
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Facebook Pushes Developers To OAuth 2.0 And HTTPS this time(allfacebook.com)
17 points by ignifero 15y ago|4 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
roughly correct insofar as there are undecidable mathematical statements. I don't understand though, how "we can study, meaningfully" these objects that our formal systems cannot compute. These statements do exist, and we can (interestingly
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by ignifero 15y ago
Math is about abstraction. It's OK to describe elementary maths and calculus with water-filling bottles, but it ends there, because the higher order abstract structures of mathematics have no real-world equivalent. If we start teaching peop
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by ignifero 15y ago
What's next, MS? LinkedIn?

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