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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
But the protocol used and the latency are not linked at all. You can use a proprietary protocol to run a centralized service, you can use a proprietary protocol to run a decentralized service, you can use a public protocol to run a centrali
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
if you cannot accept result of a democratic election then you should not be making statements about Constitution and the law. Nah, it's exactly the other way around. I see you did not address this at all: Putin violated Russia's own laws
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Two words: do it! If you can do it, and if you'd learn something useful for yourself, think about the consequences later as long as it's legal :P Google might just as well hire you ^^
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
There ought to be a way to bring IRC into all this..
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Sorry for being so snarky, but I really don't think you make any valid/coherent point I could see. Let me make a counterpoint, maybe someone can find holes in it: Imagine Twitter supported OStatus.[1] Anything going on between users signed
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/about/space_act1.html#POLICY (1) The expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space. (2) The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficienc
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
by definition decentralizedness means no one is responsible That is flat out wrong. In this sense, I would go as far as to say “Protocols are for when there’s no good centralized way of getting things done.” That isn't even logically co
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
How do people find other people to follow on Twitter? Not usually by looking at the global tweet stream, but rather by following links from homepages and blogs. So what's the point of a monolithic aggregator in the first place? That is made
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I know one thing I don't want, and that is clicking ads. So I don't.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"$50 for an extravagant meal, far beyond nutritional needs" "Would you discount those goods/services as "not improving the world" and not worth millions of dollars?" Yes. Considering how people actually starve because of speculation wit
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Oops! Paraphrase then o_O How the f did I jumble it up like that? I said that so often over the last 20 years... huh. Thanks, better late than never. I Should read the book again.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Because we need an aggregator. It's not like a blogging engine, where I can just use Wordpress. A social network needs people. http://status.net/wiki/List_of_servers http://encyclomundi.org/wiki/List_of_Independent_Statusnet_I... htt
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I know right? So let's try anyway :P The background image looks pixelated on a big screen. What's worse though is that the face of the guy is always exactly behind the black thingy. Use a differently cropped photo, or offset it in some othe
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." -- Oscar Wilde
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
What does "powerful" even mean? Lots of money? Knowing people with lots of money? That's nice, but hardly relevant -- why do they call an embeddable, centrally hosted forum "a new way to communicate"? There's already Disqus which I don't us
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I really, really want to implement OStatus in my CMS. However, this page is a joke: http://ostatus.org/2010/10/04/how-ostatus-enable-your-applic... And I couldn't find anything better, much less in-depth and comprehensive yet. What a sham
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
http://branch.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378004 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378123 , http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399450
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Sure you can catch some by that, but what then? The remainder will be resistant, and very used to how to phrase things, and also noticing attempts to play them into giving something away. We're also talking about people who exchange tips on
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
What can the feds do, other than take note of the information the predators exchange? How protective do you think pedophiles are of their real identity, or clues that might lead to it? Something you did not take into consideration. As if
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
And even that would not be actual murder. I remember when I was rather fresh on the internet, ran into Stileproject of all things (don't google that if you don't know it, it can be summed up as porn and gore, plus "funny mutilation" and m
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
The problem aren't the people who do it for money :/ Why would they ever meet up? What goods are there to exchange, other than, uhh, tips and tricks? I wish I could share your optimism, but I decidedly don't.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Way to quote me out of context.. I specifically said I wish they'd correct me more often. I never mind, and wish people could flag themselves as language learners or forgetful ^^ That said, I still agree with your complaint. Marking a rep
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I see we're going in circles, considering it's convenient that App.net is so clearly positioned as for-pay Twitter because trying to explain what Twitter is or why you'd pay for it is impossible if people don't already see the value in wha
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Well, of course it matters how often you do it. I would not do it in loops, or often called event handlers, such as scrolling. If you do it once on page load, sure, it hardly matters. But if you do it a lot in your code, that just means you
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Oh. Thanks, I get it now. I guess while syntactic sugar is usually considered a functionality of the language itself, it surely is used in the way I meant it, too... random search result: http://www.developerdrive.com/2012/05/an-introducti
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I was asking those who think app.net solves a problem which problem it solves; that includes at least the person who seemed to imply (I'm not sure if they did) it does, as well as anyone else. And it may even include you; feel free to give
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
What? The poster I replied to said I suppose it doesn't matter what product you have as long as you know how to market it and most importantly, solve a problem. So I asked, what problem does it solve. That's all. Since you're not even the
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I know... like televangelists.. I was merely wondering if there is more to it. I mean, people DO (intend to) develop apps for it.. how many of them are solving actual problems, and how many just make them in the hope that people will use
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
And TIL stands for what, exactly? Sure you would not simply equate "syntactic sugar" with "syntactic sugar implemented in javascript".. so what are "TIL javascrip functions"? I tried searching, but no luck, woth none of the permutations. Th
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
What? The argument is that people are X, and in what country they are X is completely irrelevant. It's called being a human, try it sometimes.

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