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by reso 15y ago
The headline is a misrepresentation of the article. In fact, my takeaway from it is captured in the quote "There is no such thing as disruption from the couch".
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by reso 15y ago
A thousand times this. One of my projects is SMS heavy, and I had to switch it to Tropo because Twilio wouldn't do Canadian numbers. The developer experience has been far inferior.
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by reso 15y ago
AppEngine is great, until you get HN scale traffic. The user should have been prepared.
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by reso 15y ago
Agreed. For a certain definition of the word, Facebook does "sell" data to advertisers, but not by my intuitive definition of "sell". To me, they "sell" targeted ad space.
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by reso 15y ago
Factually incorrect article. >First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and behavioral information into a massive database. Advertisers, big brands and Faceb
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by reso 15y ago
What a shitty article, right from the beginning. >Google Hates Facebook Sensationalism. >Facebook’s rapid ascension is arguably what prompted Larry Page to tell Eric Schmidt to step aside in January so that he could take the reins o
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by reso 15y ago
Facebook has 800 million users. All semblance of "exclusivity" and "cool kids club" has long since dissipated, but they've still added 300 million users since last summer. The method by which they launched the business seven years ago is no
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by reso 15y ago
Yeah, Mark controls 3/5 board seats for life. Investors are essentially just along for the ride.
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by reso 15y ago
Thank you for a well-thought out response that comes to a non-popular conclusion.
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by reso 15y ago
Sweet idea! I'd love it if this becomes widely used, and I can keep track of nearby hackathons more easily than the haphazard mailing-list/invite method of today.
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by reso 15y ago
I don't speak for facebook, but I'm virtually certain this is either a fabrication, or a side-effect which is not legally actionable in the slightest. Either: 1) The allegation is that facebook reappropriated Timelines' vanity url, which I
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by reso 15y ago
So... what do you need?
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by reso 15y ago
I'm actually not, but it is quite common among online tech communities like HN or reddit.
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The Disconnected Niche(blog.garethmacleod.com)
55 points by reso 15y ago|30 comments
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by reso 15y ago
This guy has obviously never worked for Facebook, and so has no idea how Facebook treats its engineers. Not getting invited to a particular f8 afterparty (which sounds like it was Spotify's deal and not Facebook's), is peanuts compared to t
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by reso 15y ago
"Creepy" is a personal and cultural term that is constantly changing. Ten years ago, having a feed of the conversations and locations of all your friends was "creepy", but now its normal. To make a meaningful negative statement about Timeli
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by reso 15y ago
"I've got an idea for an app" is the new "Will you read my screenplay?"
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by reso 15y ago
But this is the internet, where anything which in any way involves Facebook is Facebook's fault, and, furthermore, was completely intentional and malicious.
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by reso 15y ago
Well you have to decide on what your axioms are to start with. If you're developing a product you might decide your axioms are: "It must ship on time, its quality must be this high, it must sell x number of units", and then reason from ther
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by reso 15y ago
That's not a privacy issue, its a security issue. If you can't be bothered to log out your account on shared computers, people are going to get access to your account, and a malicious person will be able to do anything they please. Search t
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by reso 15y ago
httpbin looks awesome. You should give that its own thread!
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by reso 15y ago
Good nit-picky catch on the capitalization. I agree, the font is unconventional. I might switch it to something more conventional, but it definitely does fit the theme.
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by reso 15y ago
Its more streamlined that hurl.it (which is a great product), but also less powerful. The use case I'm going for is very basic: quick and dirty POST endpoint testing. URL, query params, then go.
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Show HN: Test Post/Get endpoints easily from your browser(httpposttool.com)
57 points by reso 15y ago|25 comments
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by reso 15y ago
As an avid appreciator of mathematical elegance, I actually tend to agree with the author on this one. This equation arises mostly from the construction of the complex plane, and doesn't actually represent a deep relationship between our us
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by reso 15y ago
I am constantly unimpressed with the quality of writing on Forbes. Its like The Economist written by highschoolers.
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by reso 15y ago
Then why are all the icons in the iOS interface the same shape? I wonder if this isn't a oversimplification.
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by reso 15y ago
I doubt it, their userbase is 50% bigger than it was a year a go. I think the last number they released was 750 million.
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by reso 15y ago
Facebook had somewhere around 1.5 billion in revenue in 2010 ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/facebook-revenue-2010/ ) Facebook had 500 million users at the end of 2010. Interesting that they were almost bang-on for revenue, but off by an
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by reso 15y ago
Headline: "People outraged at feature they actively enabled".

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