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by skeaker 3y ago
Felt so disappointed when I read that in the AMA thread. I guess it's not unexpected, someone stupid enough to make such an obvious lie would of course be stupid enough to also double down, but it really does dispel any remaining dropl
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by skeaker 3y ago
That would actually be hilarious. I hope the Digg team is scrambling to make themselves a bit more Reddit-like by the 30th, I sure would be.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Yeah, the whole thing really doesn't make a lot of sense at face value which is why the logical conclusion is "Reddit lied to try to justify their API decision by making him look bad."
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by skeaker 3y ago
I believe it was the phrasing of "going quietly." I think they thought he meant that he would slander(?) them if they did not pay the $10M. But of course that misunderstanding was, one sentence later, resolved, so Reddit going bac
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by skeaker 3y ago
Seems like the exact sort of problem that an open source codebase is designed to handle. Even just 10 random devs sending PRs to a github repo will always outpace the changes reddit makes since they're bottlenecked by having to push to
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by skeaker 3y ago
This is the part I don't get. Those things worked. They were successful and making millions. Why get greedy like this? I'll never understand it.
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by skeaker 3y ago
The awards on this are horribly tone-deaf. Yes, pay the man for fucking you over. I can't believe abstracting payment with goofy little icons makes people so willing to fork over their cash even in situations like this.
578.
by skeaker 3y ago
Meaningless in a court sense, maybe. Indefensible in all other respects.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Anyone wanna take bets on if this will take the throne as the new most downvoted thing on reddit?
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by skeaker 3y ago
The claim still stands, given that in the same call Reddit immediately and openly admitted that they misinterpreted him, only to later turn around and lie about it.
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by skeaker 3y ago
That money is pennies to reddit. Apollo was around long before the official app and established a majority mobile userbase which you could argue helped build reddit into what it is today. I guarantee you it 100% made reddit more money than
582.
by skeaker 3y ago
Consider reading TFA. The dev in question was actively lied to by reddit about the availability of the API, and DID have a plan for this scenario, just not one that could be executed in the unreasonably short time frame of the API changes.
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by skeaker 3y ago
How does this stack up in terms of noise versus the one in the OP?
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by skeaker 3y ago
More to your second point, I think the space for teens has simply moved from the mall to Discord. If you decide to count voice calls and group chats as hanging out (which I would say a lot of young people do), I would imagine that you would
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by skeaker 3y ago
Personally I think this would be very exciting. Currently there are a ton of projects to decompile older games (see the Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time de-compilations and subsequent native PC ports as an example), but those projects are huge
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by skeaker 3y ago
Is there an article for that? It sounds like it could make for an interesting sort of butterfly-effect story.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Right, since as I mentioned it was a gut reaction that I had previously. Reddit making such a boneheaded move does make slightly more sense when you learn that it was probably spurred on by dire news like this, but it's still a bonehea
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by skeaker 3y ago
My gut assumption just from the title was that the API changes are what triggered this valuation. The change is such a clearly bad move. I can only imagine the reaction will be when such a large percentage of users will wake up and suddenly
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by skeaker 3y ago
> So it's okay if the perpetrator thinks the target is rich enough? Yeah? When "rich enough" literally means such an unfathomably large amount of wealth that it is effectively infinite for the person that holds it (which
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by skeaker 3y ago
Not to worry, he's simply creating jobs by making it necessary to hire security for the security team. It's all for the sake of bolstering the economy and is just good business.
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by skeaker 3y ago
There's enough room in life for short term immediate reward. The most obvious example is having a nice meal. You don't need to spend time cooking or pay a lot for a fancy restaurant, and in hindsight none of it is really worth i
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by skeaker 3y ago
From the linked tweets: https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1663582603906088961 > Amazon served me with a lawsuit.
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by skeaker 3y ago
Great link, I'm impressed by the sort of animations that they were able to fit into a font.
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by skeaker 3y ago
On Android you can side load whatever you want at any time including exclusively FOSS if you want, so no, you're not necessarily the product there. On Google's store specifically, sure
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by skeaker 3y ago
Sure, but the change will be slow, and humans are fast. By the time that comes through, it won't be of use to us. Even if it were fast, there's no guarantee that it will be just as useful to us after the change, or of any use at a
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by skeaker 3y ago
It's really strange that your idea of a solution to the problems that you tacitly admit exist is to just not tell people about them.
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by skeaker 3y ago
This is what I often use, though I have noticed some weirdness where votes won't stick despite the app saying that they did and comment threads that are too big constantly refresh until all the comments are loaded. Might give some of t
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by skeaker 3y ago
The 3DS is the Nintendo handheld that followed the DS. It has a very robust homebrew scene due to having a passionate community and not so good security. Homebrew allowed for a ton of new features including surprisingly strong emulation, cu
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by skeaker 3y ago
A bug that is entirely inconsequential except for the very very specific case of a user exploiting it deliberately on their own device to run Bannerbomb3. This is a pointless distinction, the tech equivalent of "I'm not punching y
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by skeaker 3y ago
Things are different enough this time what with the technology boom and the internet and everything that I don't think those are entirely fair comparisons. That said, you're still totally correct that trying to predict the world a

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