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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply it means ONLY toilet, so I, uhm, thanks, but I knew that.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
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. What problem does app.net solve? Honest question, because it surely doesn't solve the problem of walled gardens.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Little hint for the next time.. "bog" is british slang for "toilet". At first I read "blog", then "toilet", and by the time I got to the article I was already in quite the silly mood, which is inappropriate for science.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Why, I thank you! But I will also have you know that "Sorry." is a sentence fragment. When correcting others, you should always try to correct them rightly, not wrongly, even if it may sound odd sometimes. (tee-hee :)
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Some things are only really useful as protocols. We don't pay for the email or http protocol either. We pay for the hosting, not for the ability to interact with others - we pay for the actual resources, not proprietary ideas. At least th
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
One thing I just don't understand, is how "show any page" is a better than "show random page". Other than that I love it.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
No need to apologize, thanks actually. I wish people would correct grammar more often, certainly mine, and doubly so when it comes to names.. why get used to writing stuff wrong, when I can get used to writing them right :)
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
> "It actually comes of as teen angsty and narrow minded." The site? Or some of the reactions to it? > "The type of nonsense ignorant people like to spew because they can't grasp that we can focus our collective effort on many thing
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
When one of those things occur in isolation, that doesn't automatically mean you're fighting for truth. For example, app.net was never in the being ignored phase, it's got plenty of hype and it doesn't even exist yet. Also, there's plenty o
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"There are people [VERB]" better?
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
So? Good for him. In the big scheme of things, money is the consolation price. This however is a spoof, it hits bullseye, and it's actually intelligent. You cannot buy that with money. How many posts have you seen on HN in the last days tha
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
that's funny, I'm the other way around.. whenever I see syntactic sugar implemented via javascript, I unroll it in my head and consider it overhead, compared to sending a bunch of more bytes down the wire which hardly matter after gzip.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
It also makes pages with a billion wrapper divs look much thicker! Therefore I use it to get an impression of the weight/awkwardness of the DOM of a page.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
There is something like that, and it does work. But... does anyone know more sites that support OStatus? I know of these: http://rstat.us/ http://identi.ca/ http://status.net/ Which is nice, but not really much. Wouldn't it also mak
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
there's also rstat.us :) ( https://rstat.us/about )
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
How do good defaults and options exclude each other? Also, we're talking about creativity here: you cannot be very creative without a toolbox and some options. And frankly, I think you're grossly underestimating "real people" (and good us
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"You're coming from the assumption that Germany got better" No, I live in it. And it did. Just think the green or now the pirate party - unthinkable decades ago. But where did I claim Germany is super free and the best, ever? I was simply r
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Just" being able to freely place them, choosing alignment (left, center, right, justify?), various fonts, selectable font color and maybe even an outline color and width (you can simulate that with a bunch of text-shadows) would go a long
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
As a big diaspora fan I was confused and dismayed by this at first. Then I realized they simply made another app based on what they learned/coded for diaspora, not "going into a new direction" or anything. THEN I tried it out, and remember
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Remember, the Stasi were first and foremost a populist movement, just like the Nazis before them. You don't get an informer in every family by tyrrany, you get it by willing collaboration what? you're talking about eastern germany, with t
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
well, if they don't do a single feature right, then of course the sum of that isn't great either. so far nobody mentioned a single thing facebook is good at..
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
exactly. let's face it (hurr hurr), the one big asset of facebook.. is that everybody uses it. or can you name even just one other feature nobody else does better (and please don't let it be farmville). I couldn't think of one so far, any
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
" I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage. " Same here!
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
> "Children must be governed. Free men govern the selves." That's silly rhetoric. The traits that cause children to require governance persist throughout life. There is no magic biological distinction that allows the latter to be autono
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Why not "aggressively" try to pay genuine attention, or make her laugh? Yes, be bold if you like someone, sure. And don't suck up too much either, nobody likes that, male or female. Showing someone you like them and then gauging their react
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
What if you want to enhance your local search to comments? e.g. "find entries which have X in one of the comments", or sort stuff by number of comments - anything really? You do nothing, because you can do nothing. You're basically screwed
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
My phpBB forums was swamped with spam for example, and when I installed a wordpress blog no human other than me ever read, I got plenty of spam too. Yes, I have a low traffic site, a few dozen visitors a day, but still - the difference betw
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"compared to old wordpress-standard-installations" Well, on my own CMS I had one single spam comment so far, and a few anonymous ones. generally not many comments, but no spam worth speaking of either. The captcha is nothing more complex th
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
No, it's an argument for not requiring an acount when it's not necessary. E.g. for simple comments. I came up with the following: email is optional, and used for notification as well as editing/deleting the comment. Assuming the email is us
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Are you talking to/about me? If so, what do you base this on? Lazy typing? And it's not a slogan either. What do you think democracy, in theory, is based on? On the souvereign citizens ruling themselves - we created and abide by the monopol

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