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by joebadmo 15y ago
Relevancy is relative and subjective. There's also not anything in the guidelines about relevancy in comments in the HN guidelines. Please note, too, that meta-comments are never strictly relevant, and that's what your first comment here is
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by joebadmo 15y ago
One of my least favorite things about working where I work (for another two days) is that I have to lock my screen all the time.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Interesting theory. I have two points: 1. The anecdote above was re picking out a video game, so I don't think any nudity was real. I can't remember, but I think it was a Grand Theft Auto game. 2. That doesn't really speak to the question o
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, what I find most interesting about listening to the Stack Exchange podcast is how much attention and conscious effort they put into constructing the community, and in a continuous fashion (i.e. it's never finished). That said, it seems
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by joebadmo 15y ago
If you're being serious, I'd love to hear more.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
1. The article is about an algorithmic way to try to shield people from the horrifying notion of seeing flesh-colored pixels. My story is about another perverse way in which puritannical culture considers sex taboo, but violence perfectly a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I was attempting to use sarcasm to agree with your sarcasm. Apparently I didn't do very well.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It seems to me that to wait for yet another startup to solve this problem and hope it becomes popular enough to become successful and continue to hope it doesn't outgrow itself or get bought by a big company to get neglected is not the way
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Maybe not wrong exactly, but definitely slimey. This particularly: But, the way they’re doing it is making it harder for you to maintain control of your personal information. That's maybe not strictly wrong , but it's definitely deceptiv
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's an interesting point, and I do think making browsers more keyboard-centric would make them more accessible, too. As an interim solution, I use the Vimium extension for Chrome. You can hit 'f' to open in current tab and all the links wi
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yep. And the classy and timely commentary they make on these Google issues really makes me think they're not a reactive monothilic opportunistic megacorp trying to cynically manipulate me at all. Those Microsoft guys... maybe they're not so
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by joebadmo 15y ago
A few years ago, I was in a big box store and overheard a young (~10y/o) child and his mother picking out a new video game. The kid excitedly picked up a box and asked his mom if he could get that one. She checked out the cover, then starte
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I pretty much agree with you that their landing page is a bit of a mess. Though, I probably should have given this link instead: http://openphoto.me/ My understanding is that the OpenPhoto Project is the open source project, and that site
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why recommend a Flickr replacement that has all of the same potential pitfalls of Flickr? In this context (HN) in particular, OpenPhoto seems like the best alternative: http://theopenphotoproject.org/
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by joebadmo 15y ago
A single instance of creating a link to a post that exists is probably not content creation. But curating an interesting/topical stream of content surely is. As discussed in other threads [0], Letters of Note, for example, provides a contex
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"...I don't think curating is the answer either. You can't easily distill quality content out of a sea of junk." These two sentiments seem contradictory to me. The fact that it's not easy to filter for quality is what makes curation valuabl
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hey, thanks for the reasonable reply. I think this is an important discussion to have. If you follow the links all the way through, they end at a gutenberg project book. It's already digitized. They did provide a source of evidence for the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wow. Talk about thick irony. The "original post" is an excerpt from a book. Which is itelf a collection - an aggregation, if you'll allow - of letters, essays, hymns, sermons, and prayers. And the content is reproduced more or less wholesal
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I don't think this article accurately represents the scope of Pancake's ambitions. Optionally hiding the url bar is a fairly trivial UI consideration. Clicking through to the Google group shows a more interesting (if a bit superficial) exch
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Copying Is Not Stealing(slate.com)
2 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
SPYW certainly seems like the only real, new issue. It seems to me like a clear case of sacrificing a product's short-term quality for long-term quality. I.e. diverting as much traffic as possible to G+ will drive up usage, which will give
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At Sundance, Kickstarter Resembled a Movie Studio, but Without the Egos(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Fair enough. And to be perfectly honest, I do go back and forth and the issue of privacy. It's certainly a complex and important issue, and I'm glad that there are reasonable people on both sides of it. On a meta-level, I find that while I'
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by joebadmo 15y ago
> We are paying for this with our privacy. I agree, and my point is that it seems like a pretty fair deal to me. Maybe where we differ is that I sort of see the end of privacy as a foregone conclusion. Credit card companies already ha
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that. Is there somewhere in the Facbook ToS that I can reference? I tried to find it, but couldn't.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I have no relevant experience in the matter, but I really don't see why not. If I was unattached and able to relocate, I personally jump on this kind of opportunity.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think this is more a problem with centralized services than with Twitter or any particular government. I'm with Dave Winer on this one: http://scripting.com/stories/2012/01/27/onTwittersNewFilteri...
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think this is what you're looking for: http://www.devbootcamp.com/
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Ask not what the Internet...(Dave Winer on Twitter Censorship)(scripting.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Let's leave the internal disquiet issue aside for now. The occasions of Google's data being compromised are notable for being exceptions, I think. Of course you're right that there's always the potential for misuse, and the only way to avoi

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