mrvir

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by mrvir 16y ago
These blogs will continue beating facebook as long as that gets them a flood of page views from confused/concerned users. FB has a PR problem. If it fails to communicate the intent and vision people will run around seeking the story from el
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by mrvir 16y ago
I see your point. More optimized data flow which could enable them to even use diskless storage servers.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Hmm, at least they fixed it and apologized. Orkut privacy settings fit in one tab. There are seven settings of which five have just two options. All in simple English. I don't need to read a blog article to understand them. What is your exc
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by mrvir 16y ago
Next FAQ item: Q: Do you use any file compression on the storage servers? A: Yes, we use unix compression program: rm -rf
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by mrvir 16y ago
There are already several alternatives to facebook. For example Google's orkut.com Seems to be popular in India. All the developers I work with there use it rather than fb.
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by mrvir 16y ago
True, CNN doesn't get your Facebook data directly, but if FB automatically creates a connection and CNN gets added to your interest then, if i have understood correctly, that network can see at least basic info about you.
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by mrvir 16y ago
During that time MD also used SCO Unix widely. I worked for a retail systems company where the SCO sales guys always bragged about it.
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by mrvir 16y ago
I guess letting users run nodes presents some man-in-the-middle security issues to be solved as well.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Basic engineering approach is to look at the direction and the rate of change to estimate where the system is heading. The decline of privacy in FB has been well documented by EFF among others. FB has taken 900M of investor money. What is
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by mrvir 16y ago
Not very likely scenario as the CEO has publicly stated that he's not a big believer in Internet privacy. It is already evident that they are ready to take bad press in slowly loosening the privacy. The real issue that Facebook has with pri
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by mrvir 16y ago
Exactly, seeding a long array has never been pretty. Some languages allow you to get rid of the comma but that's about all. Get over it.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Facebook interface issues are silly. The privacy settings are made confusing deliberately. They have plenty of talented people and could fix this quickly if they would want to. IMO the root problem is not interface design.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Devenir vieux, c'est quand on ne peut pas fumer les plantes que nous cultivons. Just joking ;-)
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by mrvir 16y ago
Never lived in the US, but getting an impression that the political system also contributes to this binary syndrome.
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by mrvir 16y ago
No, I think it will be great fun for your grandchildren to learn about your online obsessions.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Facebook will die, but your profile data will live forever in some company's database.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Not that simple. You visit FB, then visit some other site. Your visit to that other website causes FB to subscribe you to an app of the site that has access to your data. How much profiling and tracking is reasonable to expect? Are other se
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by mrvir 16y ago
HTML5 really makes sense for the online viewing. Guess PDF will stay as popular offline reading format. At least until we get some universal cross-platform/cross-browser webarchive format. Could be an idea for a start-up ...
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by mrvir 16y ago
That's a neat story :) Did one interior renovation myself with tight budget/schedule before we could move in. My wife still wonders how we survived that. I nowadays take very seriously the advice my in-laws gave me: "Concentrate on doing wh
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by mrvir 16y ago
Who has the story about our software engineer? Talk about hangover after birthday party...
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by mrvir 16y ago
Sure, will be interesting to see how Reality-Distortion-Field [tm] works in court :P
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by mrvir 16y ago
Creating targeted ads is one thing, identifying you personally is another. FB knows your name, birth date, gender, city. That pretty much singles you out. When combined with all the data about your page views on partner sites that could bec
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by mrvir 16y ago
This is exactly what bothers me: Talking about open standards and then making their own versions of them. The Redmond strategy. Makes me want say the same comment about Jobs open standards sweet talk as he made about Google's slogan... That
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by mrvir 16y ago
They can totally CONTROL what html5 can do in their devices.