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by jdp23 13y ago
Very true! It's not like it defies the laws of physics ... but, it also shows how much effort is needed to get to something with hackpad's usability on the etherpad core: years worth of work from very smart devs. If collaborative
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by jdp23 13y ago
The ones Hackpad added :) And, raw Etherpad has a lot of usability problems as well. Plus it's challenging to integrate it with an outside authentication mechanism. I've looked at the code some and while on the one hand this coul
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by jdp23 13y ago
Congrats Alex and Igore, Hackpad is really impressive. Great move by Dropbox. What's the state of the opensource alternatives? Etherpad development seems to have plateaued a while ago.
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> I feel like there's a bingo card that has all of your half-assed excuses on it. You mean something along these lines? https://twitter.com/eassumption/status/451921312609361922
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by jdp23 13y ago
Interesting approach! Kudos to Coverity for jumping on it so quickly. Taint analysis is notoriously prone to false positives; as well as the reasons listed in this post, there are many situations where relations between variables mean that
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by jdp23 13y ago
Indeed. Facebook has a repeated pattern of going too far infringing people's privacy and then apologizing [1], so why would anybody trust them not to abuse the permissions once they've been granted? I just got a new Android phone
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by jdp23 13y ago
Tyler Lopez contrasted Byrd and Eich in his Slate article about Mozilla: After years of publicly promoting virulently racist ideologies, Byrd came to see the harm he had caused, eventually noting in his memoir, "It has emerged througho
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by jdp23 13y ago
Agreed that the collaborative editing from Docs is great, but I believe Docs already had that functionality before Wave. The kinds of things I was thinking of is that there aren't any "subsections" in docs (comparable to Wave
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by jdp23 13y ago
Back in 2009/10, we ran our startup primarily on Wave for several months. Several of us found it very useful; I thought it was a promising combination of email, Google Docs, and chat. On the other hand, the usability was horrible and
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I for one welcome our new YCombinatorial overlords!
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Thanks!
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by jdp23 13y ago
Excellent points. Are there any examples of guidelines you think would be good starting points?
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$19B for WhatsApp
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From phys.org's summary: In their first experiment, the researchers recruited 60 actual investors from the business world as volunteers. They asked each to watch videos of people making pitches for a project asking for backing (from ac
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by jdp23 13y ago
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has an excellent fact sheet for dealing with identity theft in the US. https://www.privacyrights.org/identity-theft-what-do-if-it-h... Not sure how much applies to Canada but there's some
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Microsoft’s Nadella Manages Legacy of Ballmer-Board Split(businessweek.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Well said!
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How I Quit Google(ideas.time.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Very true. And one of the challenges with static analyzers in particular is that most programmers think "oh this isn't really so hard, I could hack something like this up myself over the weekend". That said, the value certa
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Twitter and Facebook Must Stop Copying Each Other(wired.com)
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Very interesting learnings, and well-presented too! I have to say, I don't see this as abandoning crowdsourcing -- the "crowd" of experts is continuing to work together. To me it looks more like investigating various approac
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by jdp23 13y ago
Geek Feminism's page has some useful suggestions: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Recruiting_women
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On moderation in climate discussions(arstechnica.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Well said.
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Thanks! Agreed on both possible explanations.
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Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to do this. The top 20 are all guys. How many women are in the top 100?
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by jdp23 13y ago
Agreed, Gods of Management is an excellent book. Using that kind of analogy, Holocracy seems like it would be atheism.
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In Facebook News Feeds, Here Come Commercials(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Does any have experiences with Primus they can share? The idea of being able to insulate the rest of the code from the specifics of which lower-level library I'm using is very attractive. On the other hand, any abstraction layer can i
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Nock, Hoon, etc. for Non-Vulcans (Why Urbit Matters)(popehat.com)
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