sinaiman

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by sinaiman 16y ago
Sweet write-up, I've used Etherpad way more than I've used Google Docs/Google Wave, it's so quick and simple. Not having to sign in is one of the best features. My team of 4 people use it as a huge to-do list and basically it's evolved into
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by sinaiman 16y ago
This is so awesome and inspiring, congrats!
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by sinaiman 16y ago
But will it blend?
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by sinaiman 16y ago
Oh I see, it's polling every 30 seconds :) I've tried Orbited on Rails with success, it does fake comet with an easy-to-use Javascript API so you can push messages to subscribed clients. Also looked at Hookbox, which is by the same guy who
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by sinaiman 16y ago
It wasn't updating in real time for me in Chrome, I'll give it another try later. Sweet idea!
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by sinaiman 16y ago
I've always wanted to be like these guys, living with nothing but a laptop and a mission haha! This has been my dream since high school, it's really inspiring to see that it's not as crazy as I thought it was.
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by sinaiman 16y ago
"I say, bad advertising is about being annoying, and good advertising gives something back." I totally agree with you here. All I was saying is that it would be interesting to see if this idea would work, that's all. One way to figure that
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by sinaiman 16y ago
This is a good point. I'd imagine that if enough users cared about these sorts of privacy issues then traffic would end up declining enough that companies would have to either dismiss Facebook or Facebook would have to stop tracking users.
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by sinaiman 16y ago
Sure, you could look at it like that, but this is what marketing is at it's core, really. You run a campaign and you then judge whether it was effective or not. And yeah, when some marketing effort isn't effective, it could be because it wa
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by sinaiman 16y ago
And I might set up a separate Twitter called "ShittyVideos" Haha just kidding, I think this is a cool idea/experiment, it'd be interesting to see what user reactions would be. Initially I would try to have a "dismiss" button just so you can
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by sinaiman 16y ago
This mentality should also extend to any sites using the "Like" button...they should all be mentioning that they (and their affiliates) place cookies on your system. Right from Time's privacy policy: We use cookies to understand Internet us
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by sinaiman 16y ago
People should just read more. Everything is in Facebook's terms and privacy policy, isn't it? If you can't agree with the terms of service, then you shouldn't use the service IMO.
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by sinaiman 16y ago
Having webrick out of the box was awesome when I first started using Rails. The big difference, however, is that Rails includes a web server because Rails is a framework for developing web applications, while this proposal seems to want a w