ignifero

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by ignifero 15y ago
You sound as if you 're one of them.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I wonder, did you read about this on hacker news or some other blog first? Are you guys monitoring the forum/bugzilla/support requests, or you just wait until it gets to the HN frontpage?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Technically incentives are not allowed, but most apps resort to emotional tricks. Best applied psychology experiment ever.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Yep, that's always been the problem as far as i can remember. The same thing happened with facebook requests, notifications, profile boxes. If something can be spammed, it will be spammed. However your solution means that apps will have 0 e
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Ask HN: Hacker culture becomes mainstream. What's next?
8 points by ignifero 15y ago|7 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Good news, guys, you can sell your foursquare accounts for $60 each.
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's right, because of a) the effective monopoly of facebook in the space, b) of the secretive facebook-zynga deal and c) of the sheer size of the developer community who depend on the platform financially and the investments on it In the
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by ignifero 15y ago
No it's not a good response. Shoot first, ask questions later? They should have a) let the developers know what they need to fix the apps and b) stop these apps from posting to the wall (not ban the apps altogether)
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's not a specific day, it's all days, but most of the bugs i remember were not fixed on weekends. Here's a bug i was watching: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=16197 aka http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.c
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think the parent is right that it has to be more social- than gaming-oriented
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by ignifero 15y ago
A few months ago, Facebook banned adsense from apps, on the premise that it's not "safe enough" (while at the same time allowing ad networks with viruses). No matter how many attempts have been made to get facebook's response, not a sound:
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by ignifero 15y ago
Those are the results of Operation Developer Love: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/417/ . Imagine what would happen without love ...
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by ignifero 15y ago
They have an incentive: FB credits generates significant revenue to them already, plus games are a contributing factor to user retention. It may become more significant to user retention by filling the void now that social activity has peak
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's their dreaded friday push which usually breaks things until monday. Dont expect reinstatement until then.
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by ignifero 15y ago
It baffles me why there are no large competing social gaming web platforms. Google, Zynga, EA (playfish) could easily start one. It's a guaranteed success: people love games to be social. Facebook developers are so disgruntled with the FB
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by ignifero 15y ago
I dont think it's a security issue. VAT numbers are public (like registration numbers for companies), it's just that every country keeps its own registry, and this is a tool to verify that a VAT number is valid.
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by ignifero 15y ago
To be fair, James Maxwell is an indirect link to the word demon. I like the word, despite it's evil nature. I imagine daemons as devilish little programs hiding behind your back as you work, and I 've always been a fan of the freebsd demon.
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by ignifero 15y ago
A combination of incompetence, byzantine bureaucracy, under qualified personell, uncooperative subsystems and obscure security here in godforsaken greece
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by ignifero 15y ago
to stay true to their ancient greek origin, you should pronounce them 'deh-mon
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A wirelessly powered and controlled device for optical neural control(iopscience.iop.org)
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Each US state is not a single economy, whereas Greece is an independent economy with pegged currency. Multi-speed economies exist in many countries (believe it or not, even inside greece).
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by ignifero 15y ago
To be fair, this might not even have to do with germany, as it queries other countries' VAT registries online, many of which are down for maintainance many hours a day. The weird thing is that, even though there is a system for VAT id inte
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by ignifero 15y ago
I dont believe Joyent has vested interests in Node.js, even though they are supporting the project. They are running a cloud hosting service (and my joyent servers don't even have node.js installed).
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by ignifero 15y ago
... which are used to build web pages sent through a synchronous, request-response protocol that is HTTP. I understand asynchronous events are used in GUI design, where you have actual asynchronous sources (e.g. mouse), but what are the be
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Node.js coming to Windows, Azure with official Microsoft support(arstechnica.com)
48 points by ignifero 15y ago|18 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
I 've been doing it for 3 years and i don't see these "cons". I presume people who choose to work on their own are usually self-motivated enough so as not to mind taking the blame, fixing their time schedule, and dispensing with everyone el
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by ignifero 15y ago
a lot of people feel the same
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by ignifero 15y ago
never say never
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by ignifero 15y ago
Agreed, but what about invasive or partially invasive electrodes? Technology is advancing fast and at a point it may be as trivial as nose piercing.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The ultimate control device is a brain-machine interface, and some products are already getting close. I don't see the reason why people would invest their time developing something else at this point in time.

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