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by jmathai 12y ago
> Fixing the privacy policy - not sure what happened to the pdf upload. Thanks for catching. I've never seen a privacy policy as a PDF. Any reason for this?
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by jmathai 12y ago
Signal is a much more neutral brand than RedPhone. RedPhone sounds either like an adult network or spying app. At one of the Shuttleworth Foundation gatherings (where all Shuttleworth fellows meet bi-annually) I remember having a conversati
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by jmathai 12y ago
Curious why such a low target of £30k. They don't allude to it on the Kickstarter page.
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by jmathai 12y ago
I think the key point here is that it was profitable for the founder :)
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by jmathai 12y ago
Sorry for confusion. The TL;DR was the short version of what I wrote. They're both saying the same thing. I removed the "--" formatting in case that was confusing.
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by jmathai 12y ago
TL;DR It's not what you know but who you know. I've been slowly coming to a very different conclusion. Either go to community college for a decent education or pay up to get into an ivy league college to build your network. For th
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by jmathai 12y ago
They are working on it [1]. Behind schedule so they're anxious as well. [1] https://twitter.com/jmathai/status/491294401579077634
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by jmathai 12y ago
Who supports archive.today? How does one know that it'll be around in a decade? The Internet Archive is one if the very few organizations that I trust to preserve what they're capturing.
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by jmathai 12y ago
That's what we aimed to do for 2 years before leaving the consumer space altogether. I believe we delivered the user experience and ease of use but we couldn't find the market or the market wasn't big enough. See my post on w
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by jmathai 12y ago
I agree with that. I think the technology is the easy part. If we knew there was demand for a specific solution then there are plenty of folks who can build it. In fact I think we have built the technology on numerous occasions (i.e. Diaspo
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by jmathai 12y ago
We changed the model quite a bit in 2013 when we began focusing on serving the needs of businesses (namely, non-profits). When we were consumer facing we had a free account with upload limits and an unlimited account for $29/year. We d
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by jmathai 12y ago
I've spent the last 3 years in this space[1]. 2 of those were with a fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation[2]. I applaud all the efforts to free up and decentralize data. I believe it's the future but the way we're appr
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by jmathai 12y ago
If I were Facebook I'd want to control the entire process. I imagine for the majority of their users it will be easier to simply get a credit card on file and use that moving forward. WRT get a credit card on file . Why would Facebook
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by jmathai 12y ago
> Deal with the belligerent drunks, entitled rich boys, teenagers with too much car and no sense. Sounds more like an unpleasant job than a dangerous one. I'm not refuting your claim that it maybe dangerous but the parent has a vali
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by jmathai 12y ago
What is it about the company and idea which make it difficult for you to believe?
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by jmathai 12y ago
Small typo on the pricing page... Seats required for you team size. Otherwise it looks great.
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by jmathai 12y ago
That's one of the most fascinating reads I've had in some time. Some gems... The one major important distinction that sets him apart is his inability to consider failure. It simply is not even in his thought process.
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by jmathai 12y ago
Landing your first job is the toughest but afterwards your portfolio should be sufficient for many jobs. I suggest working on your portfolio as much as possible. It's the closest you'll get to having real life work experience. Hac
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by jmathai 12y ago
I know Synology runs Linux so it should be straightforward to set up but we haven't done it yet. This is the first time I've heard of this particular Seagate drive but the notion of having a drive you can connect to over wifi and
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by jmathai 12y ago
Haven't tried on a Seagate device. We've put it on WD MyCloud and NetGear ReadyNAS devices. I know others have got it installed on Drobos as well. Most of these NAS devices run some version of Linux which makes it trivial to set u
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by jmathai 12y ago
I spent the last 3 years under this hypothesis [1][2][3]. In those 3 years I've come to realize that users don't actually care that much. Sure a subset of users care but the majority don't. I think the "personal cloud&qu
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by jmathai 12y ago
Good questions. You can link to something below the header but I think the more interesting idea is to do the infinite scroll upwards. I agree that this approach is better than the pagination we've implemented when you link to pages 2+
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by jmathai 12y ago
Completely agreed. I definitely liked your approach. Making infinite scroll work flawlessly will be a combination of a series of "patches". Great work.
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by jmathai 12y ago
Clever. I wanted to point out there's additional issues introduced by infinite scroll; bookmarking, link sharing, etc. It's a problem we recently tackled on our infinite scrolling page. Combining modals, pushState (on scroll) and
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by jmathai 12y ago
Update on Twitter[1] from Googler. > The "Only Chrome" thing in google.com/hangouts/ is not correct and an error/confusing UI. Will be fixed. CC @andreasgal @angelinamagnum I'll leave it up to the reader to
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by jmathai 12y ago
> Regardless if this is for a local installation using Chrome Desktop APIs, the phrasing "Hangouts won't work in your current browser" seems intentionally misleading. Not providing a link for "browser" along side
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by jmathai 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. The messaging is terribly misleading. I'm not claiming they are doing it on purpose but they aren't expending much effort to make it clear that you're installing a Chrome app that can't be i
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by jmathai 12y ago
I think we could have faster progress if we could implement new protocols without the legacy baggage of providing backwards compatibility. Just don't think that works for email. Offering a side-by-side option is interesting. I think th
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Google Hangouts only works on Chrome(i.imgur.com)
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by jmathai 12y ago
Thanks. Super insightful to hear about your experience in hindsight. I would have said something similar - "if we provide a healthy home life, they'll be fine everywhere". Very eye opening!

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