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by neuroscr 8y ago
Also a dev on loki-network, we have $4.1+ million USD so far invested in relays (and potentially exits). It's layer 3 (so think more like i2p) but newer crypto and much better latency. A good overview of the project is here: https:&#x
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App.net's MondayNightDanceParty has a final send-off with members/requests count(youtube.com)
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by neuroscr 12y ago
I thought that about their keyboard too but they just opened it up in iOS8. I believe things are changing.
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by neuroscr 12y ago
Bunch of z-machine games here: http://ifiction.org/
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by neuroscr 12y ago
Pretty neat project. I love seeing the base integration with the Android OS. And I think it's a wise move to have some sort of app on iOS. I'm an iOS user myself, however I can't run your app since I'm still on iOS6. I h
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by neuroscr 12y ago
I can confirm they did lay-off most of their staff though.
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by neuroscr 12y ago
The parent company is still there. It pretty much means, they're pivoting with all the money they raised.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Taking PHP Seriously is a great presentation that talks about why FB is using PHP: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history
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by neuroscr 13y ago
>pure PHP will become a less-tested second-class citizen on HHVM Not really true because HHVM has to run basic PHP before it can apply the Hack annotation. You can pull out the annotations and it's still PHP.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
>Someone's got some code for moving file handles around on GitHub but I can't seem to Google it up: https://github.com/sharvil/flingfd
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Sending your random seed over the wire doesn't sound like the right direction. For those listening, it always makes sure they have your seed. Did the NSA get them too?
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Excellent point. And as an app.net 3rd party dev, I wouldn't mind paying in BTC however I'm already paid up for the next year. I'm not going to prepare several years in advance either. So giving a 30 day window for ~$10k when
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Art can be interpreted in may ways. Just because the author reads it one way doesn't mean it was the intent.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
It was actually part of their original plan (See the beginning of http://blog.app.net/2013/02/25/introducing-a-free-tier/ ) First they charged and crowd-sourced for marketing and proving their concept. Pa
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by neuroscr 13y ago
It doesn't require a 3rd party app at all. For an invite an 3rd party app will give a bonus to the person that invited you. http://blog.app.net/2013/02/25/introducing-a-free-tier/
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Isn't DropBox's data api more granular (record-level). Where App.net is more coarse (file-level) and not really ideal for changing data. In fact App.net only has one primitive that you can edit and it can only store up to 8k of da
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by neuroscr 13y ago
This is app.net to Push. There are several was to get data on app.net and as well out of App.net. Mainly via 3rd party software and their open source PourOver app. I've written an IRC and IMAP bridge to get data off app.net personally.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Sometimes the article isn't that great but the comment threads are amazing. I don't want to up vote the article but I do want people to read the threads. It would be nice to be able to up vote just the comments of a link.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Ah in that context, this makes more sense. Thanks for the reply.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
It's not clear if the wallclock savings was consistent over multiple runs. And by moving one look-up out of redis into ruby, doesn't seem like the right thing to do. That increases complexity by now requires an application layer t
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by neuroscr 13y ago
What group chat app is that? If you're talking about photos in patter chat, there's an established annotation for it that most clients can read and use.
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Are open standards not important? Just the source? They have been starting to release the source code of the client applications they've built: https://github.com/appdotnet/
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by neuroscr 13y ago
They've embraced open standards: http://blog.app.net/2013/08/07/response-to-brennan-novak-par... And they have started releasing client source code: https://github.com/appdotnet/ a1
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by neuroscr 13y ago
It was a big mistake. Clinging on to the twitter model gave them something tangible to model after and improve on but the result of that is the API is largely for micro-blogging. They have some file storage now but the primitives for a broa
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Early adopters aren't tired yet because App.net's continually releasing interesting updates to the platform. And there's even a great example of 3rd party developers working together on their system to extend and support one
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Funny you should mention that. I feel that crowd-sourcing user interface development by given an open access to an API will lead to new experiments with UI/UX. I believe when Twitter was more open, we saw an explosion of clients and UI
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Users care because it's easier to pay $5/mo, than to set up and maintain your own infrastructure. Especially if you don't have any experience with servers (Think Grandma, Mom, Dad, non-techies etc).
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by neuroscr 13y ago
Well, I think they captured some imaginations, to the point where they were told it's impossible. So it's an interesting experiment. Especially since they've been success and on-target to deliver most of their promises so far
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by neuroscr 13y ago
App.net does provide an account export. But more important they've embraced open standards, see: http://blog.app.net/2013/08/07/response-to-brennan-novak-par... This type of interoperability combined wit
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by neuroscr 13y ago
App.net's API does providing more than a microblogging API. They have a file hosting (each user has their own quota), permissive messaging (point to point or group), and a search API so you can easily find anything on their system. The

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