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by sebst 7y ago
I guess temporary shares (like in Instagram stories or Snapchat) could be a good trade-off between the desire of 15 minutes of fame and privacy. Future social networks will probably put an emphasis on this.
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by sebst 7y ago
I don't see that happen as long as the non technical people don't care.
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by sebst 7y ago
Social networks are THE feature of the web and will always be. It started with usenet, geocities etc., followed by MySpace, now twitter and Facebook. A trend in this (e.g. Switch to private chat groups) would still qualify these application
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ThinkGeek Is Shutting Down(thinkgeek.com)
4 points by sebst 7y ago|1 comments
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by sebst 7y ago
While I hear your point that the explosion of cultural proceedings is below the utopia mentioned here, it may be worth noting that the WWW was invented by a guy born in London working partly for the French government. That was Tim Berners-L
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by sebst 7y ago
First, it's their site. If they don't want it to be scraped (even if their reasoning sounds silly to you), I'd advise you to obey their IP. (That's the moral pov) Second, IANAL, but the hosting location should not matter
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by sebst 8y ago
A German startup in the fintech sector (basically offering managed etf portfolios for retirement) started with a beta sign up waiting list a few months ago. I found this very irritating and a bit out of its time as a customer, not to mentio
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by sebst 8y ago
Would also be interesting to hear the reasoning of someone who has seriously considered using Elm but ended up with not using it.
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Ask HN: Anyone Using Elm in Production?
88 points by sebst 8y ago|72 comments
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by sebst 8y ago
You're making the point here. It's the software that makes our lives significantly better, which is the most important one. However, as software is everywhere, the original question is the same thing as "what physical inventi
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by sebst 8y ago
I've built something like that from a bunch of used hardware in my teens. DSL connections were just available (in Germany) and came with a data flat rate. I was in the lucky position that I could convince my parents to get such a contr
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International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service(iers.org)
1 points by sebst 8y ago|0 comments
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by sebst 8y ago
Some thoughts: - If there are too many relevant websites to display on one page, search vs. manual directory does not really make a difference. - The curated model was long kept up by DMOZ, which had an army of volunteer editors but eventua
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by sebst 8y ago
> Podcast feeds need to include _every episode_ with full metadata In my experience, most publishers just don't include the full series of historic episodes, but only the last 10/20/100/... This makes it even worse be
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by sebst 8y ago
Inappropriate market timing ;)
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by sebst 8y ago
The whole idea about REST was to get rid of the complexity of SOAP webservices, custom implementations and the like by using the verbs HTTP already has and using "speaking" URLs. The whole idea of GraphQL was actually to make comp
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by sebst 8y ago
SCNR, but this is the most German thing I've found on hacker news for a long time. I can hardly come up with a use case, for which this would be a better fit than just a tablet. Disclaimer: I'm German ;)
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In defense of functional CSS(mikecr.it)
206 points by sebst 8y ago|240 comments
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by sebst 8y ago
But then why did they not pay voluntarily when publishing companies asked for this prior to lobbying for this law?
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by sebst 8y ago
I sometimes have the same feeling,but I'm not sure it's true. From an economical point of view it makes no sense to put legislation in place that will strengthen the market position of mostly US, non-EU companies. Another reasonin
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by sebst 8y ago
I personally believe (without any evidence) that they are ambivalent, maybe slightly opposed. However, they needed to oppose in public, otherwise, this would have been a PR disaster: Publishers: "You steal our content and are unwilling
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by sebst 8y ago
> Do you have any statements or signaling you can link to from either of these companies to suggest they are in favor of this law? No, but I have to correct myself. I don't assume they are actively "in favor" but that they
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by sebst 8y ago
They are in favor of this. Maybe it's worse for them than in the current legal situation. But when the law comes into effect they are better off than any of their smaller competitors.
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by sebst 8y ago
That's shifting the problem a bit, but does not solve it. Which journalist would investigate a topic which is considered unimportant by most of the readers (and in this specific case the decision is also welcomed by most of the journal
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by sebst 8y ago
Yes, I guess this type of behaviour is why they have called it "inter"net in the first place.
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by sebst 8y ago
This is a decision that will end up benefitting the big players on both sides, i.e. regulatory capture. Google, Facebook and the like already employ filtering and copyright techniques and they can afford it. So, this law lifts the barrier t
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by sebst 8y ago
I'd rather not call it "uninformed". We pay good amounts of money to parliamentarians, including their personal assistants. It's more like a "bug" in democracy as such. As long as a topic doesn't have wide
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by sebst 8y ago
Two points: 1) You could argue whether the EU Parliament has democracy deficits or not. I assume it has (based on the legislation process itself with involvement of the Committee, but also based upon unequally weighted votes of citizens fro
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EU copyright law: A showdown between Big Tech and content producers(money.cnn.com)
1 points by sebst 8y ago|0 comments
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Update on special-case subdomain elision in Chrome–Google Groups(groups.google.com)
1 points by sebst 8y ago|0 comments

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