ivraatiems

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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I'm not talking about my specific social circle, I'm talking about general trends. With regards to Facebook Messenger, take a look at its one-star rating on the Apple Store, or the dozens and dozens of blog posts and tech articles
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I've said it a lot on HN, but in my opinion, there's nothing rotten in the state of social media. Social media itself is inherently rotten. Twitter, Facebook, et al taking away users' rights, pushing crappy updates and change
1503.
by ivraatiems 12y ago
Based on my experiences with Twitter, this is totally correct, but you forgot one key part: echo chamber. In addition to doing all that you describe, Twitter also encourages you to ignore anyone claiming otherwise - somebody has a differenc
1504.
by ivraatiems 12y ago
I don't think it's presented as a "big deal." I read it as a fun little experiment.
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I think it would still be significantly too fast. That oversubscribed PHP hosting is still sitting on a dedicated server that does nothing but serve TCP/IP all day. My hunch is that the code is very heavily optimized for most productio
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
For sure, it might be, but what I'm saying is that's not the primary intention. It would be nice if it happened, but it's not necessarily going to unless this gets serious traction.
1507.
by ivraatiems 12y ago
Hmm, I hadn't considered that. It could be. I dunno. Anyway, they definitely want to keep their acquisitions pretty separate for the time being.
1508.
by ivraatiems 12y ago
Absolutely! That's exactly my point. And again, I'm not saying that's wrong or bad. I'm saying it's the smart, albeit cynical move.
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I'll explicate a little more. Obviously, I'm not Bolt and can't know what their thought process was. If it were me, though, here's what I'd do: I'd be angry that they're probably stealing my app's nam
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
With acquisitions, Facebook has generally left the acquired company mostly alone (if it's big and successful already). Instagram, Occulus and WhatsApp as examples. Instagram competes with Facebook in some ways, too, but it's still
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
This is a well-written appeal. I'm sure, however, that there's no intention of getting Instagram to actually do anything - the fact it was posted publicly, along with the "hurts us more than it hurts you" line makes that
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I don't think this is a worthless or uninteresting article - but I think the author is missing the point. WE are the dragons. Us. Human beings. We're the evolutionary exception, the ultimate apex predator, and so on.
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
Probably just long enough for them to make a too-polite-to-be-ironic "thank you for using our development environment" blog post where they shut it down and shunt what's left to a private API for the apps they're current
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
Given all the people in this post that are talking about wanting a 3D Star Trek game that lets you explore ships, I think I should plug RPG-X, a free game based on Star Trek: Elite Force that lets you do just that. [1] Full disclosure: I he
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by ivraatiems 12y ago
I tried to use StartSSL to secure a small non-profit website which happened to (totally separately) process donations through PayPal, and I was unable to get them to comprehend that PayPal provides its own security and their certificate wou
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Snapcat: A whole new way to share your cats. YC '14, here I come.
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Personally, I'm not sure that it does provide Facebook anything - same for Instagram. That said, there is an argument I think could be made as follows: Facebook (and Google) is essentially about data. The more information they have on
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
I enjoy articles like these because I have a certain inborn hatred of social media and social networks, and I get schadenfreude from seeing them fail. That said, I'd like to believe it - that Facebook and Twitter are happenstance lucky
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
If you're blocking third-party ad cookies by default, and at the same time supplying your ads, that seems pretty clear to me. (1) (1) http://adage.com/article/digital/iab-fight-mozilla-privacy-m...
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Well, what are they doing now? Obviously it's been successful in keeping them open. Is there evidence they are actually in financial trouble and need this help?
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
This seems like a massive amount of hypocrisy on the part of Mozilla. "We don't want you to ever have to see ads in your browser -- except our ads!" I had an angry knee-jerk reaction to this, and while in practice it probably
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Well... guess it's time to go back to Chrome. I'm just going to hope I woke up in bizzaro-world and this is not actually happening on Earth Prime.
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Have you considered that rather than this being a calculated attempt to affect mass opinion on something, this is in fact primarily a mother expressing her distress about what she perceives as an attack on her child? I didn't read it a
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Because somebody should think of the children. And the geriatric. And the disabled. Part of the point of having a developed society with a developed healthcare system is using it to sustain people who can't sustain themselves. I think
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by ivraatiems 13y ago
Just because it's not a topic which is gender-related doesn't mean gender can't color your opinions of it.
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by ivraatiems 14y ago
This looks really interesting. I'm working on a lengthy fiction project right now, so maybe I'll give it a shot. Some feedback: An export to Word/OpenOffice/PDF feature would be nice (any of those options, especially Word, would be helpful)