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by wtmt 8y ago
For the sake of the employees and for the sake of the rest of us, I believe that Sundar Pichai is not CEO material at all. He should go or be pushed out, and Larry Page and Sergei Brin (or one of them) should take a stronger role and have a
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by wtmt 8y ago
If paying for the real thing meant they were priced appropriately (there are many facets to this) and didn't shove tons of ads and didn't track users, it has a chance of working. Take Ars Technica as an example (I'm not a sub
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by wtmt 8y ago
Have to agree. I've observed that there seems to be some hero worship in Facebook that employees use as justification for continuing to work there or being inspired to work only in Facebook (not anywhere else). The same process is also
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by wtmt 8y ago
> ...like Facebook (which has enjoyed numerous native integrations in Apple products) That was a thing of the past and doesn't have any value now. The integrations in Apple's OSes were removed more than two years ago. [1] [1]:
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by wtmt 8y ago
There's nothing that can fill everything that Facebook offers, with the most important part being your friends will probably not use whatever you choose, even if it's only to keep in touch with you. If you're looking for a Me
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by wtmt 8y ago
Though Google is in the tracking business, the increasing lack of diversity in social media platforms is highly disturbing. Now Facebook (with all its platforms) is the biggest, and the next is...who? Probably a limited service with a singl
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by wtmt 8y ago
I dislike Facebook and rarely use it, but this article and the study were a refreshing change in that they showed both what was and what wasn't for the study participants, without being one sided or appearing to be biased. I hope more
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by wtmt 8y ago
> iOS upgrades are not mandatory by any means. The upgrades are not mandatory, but the downloads certainly are. I've had to delete the iOS downloads several times over years (including the downloads for iOS 12) because iOS doesn&#x2
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by wtmt 8y ago
> I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me. Can't help on the fonts thing here, but for colors, there are a couple of things to consider. You can use color wheel
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by wtmt 8y ago
The real world equivalent that I can think of is being stalked even after moving to a far off location taking care not to leave a trace but inadvertently left one or two things around. With many user hostile and invasive solutions, browser
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by wtmt 8y ago
When Instagram copied Snapchat and released the stories feature, Snapchat should've quickly copied everything else from Instagram (except all the nastiness that Facebook pushes) and offered those as optional...like storing snaps perman
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Following a string of similar experiments, he now suspects that just a few species in the gut — perhaps even one — influence the course of Alzheimer’s disease, perhaps by releasing chemical that alters how immune cells work in the brai
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by wtmt 8y ago
What about updates for people who don't update often or don't even see that there's an update? This is way too critical a bug for people who don't follow the news to not be taken care of (their devices, I mean). Apple ke
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by wtmt 8y ago
What I’m most interested in is knowing how moderation works behind the scenes. It can’t be that dang and sctb (and other mods I don’t know about) read every single comment. Yet they rely to comments that violate the guidelines and warn user
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by wtmt 8y ago
I don’t understand on what basis you made that comment and what you intended to convey. There certainly is a “WhatsApp account” and has been for several years. WhatsApp calls every number as an “account”. I deleted my account when WhatsApp
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by wtmt 8y ago
Neither Signal nor Wire (or Telegram, for that matter) deal with SMS. On iOS, third party apps cannot access SMS. SMS is accessible only to Apple’s Messages app. But Wire does have video calls and chat.
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by wtmt 8y ago
[Note: while submitting this, I had to edit the title to reduce the length since the original is a lot longer than what HN allows] This is very disturbing. The article also states that the other major party, The Indian National Congress (us
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India's Ruling Party Volunteers Use WhatsApp to Fuel Fake News Before Elections(time.com)
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> It's basically a good crypto library with a terrible UI around it. In my experience (after trying it a few times every year for the last few years), even its backend platform is unreliable and slow. So I'd call it as "It
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by wtmt 8y ago
> AFAIK, end to end encryption can't really support having multiple clients all using the same account. Improving your AFAIK here. Signal Desktop works independently without proxying communications through the phone (which is what W
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by wtmt 8y ago
I'm repeating some of this from elsewhere on this page. I'd recommend trying out Wire first, since it's better than Signal (message delivery, speed, reliability, doesn't require a phone number to sign up, has usernames,
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by wtmt 8y ago
I have just the opposite feeling. Facebook is going to remove end to end encryption as the default from WhatsApp and turn it into something like Messenger or Telegram, where chats are by default not end to end encrypted, and the user has to
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by wtmt 8y ago
You could try Wire and see if that would be easier to sell to friends and family. You can sign up with an email address and use usernames. There's no need to reveal your phone number. It has better reliability and user experience compa
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by wtmt 8y ago
Ideally, you should've deleted your WhatsApp account when Facebook bought it. But it's not too late to wean yourself off of it and get rid of your account (though you have given more information to Facebook through WhatsApp all th
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by wtmt 8y ago
> all the "product" people at Facebook are going to destroy WhatsApp as we know and love. Well, let it just die quickly! There's not much to love in products from a company that's repeatedly so hostile to its users. I
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by wtmt 8y ago
https://hackerweb.app is also nice if you'd like to skim through the story list and the top level comment threads using a better interface (YMMV). You can also expand specific comment threads.
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by wtmt 8y ago
You seem to know better already. In your early days, the more you can avoid known pitfalls and issues, the better. So you must avoid taking this person in. Otherwise either you and/or your co-founder may quit in frustration because of
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by wtmt 8y ago
Tangentially, I wonder how the world would be if Jeff Bezos had become a theoretical physicist and hadn't founded Amazon. Perhaps he could've done just good-good instead of good-bad (tilting more and more to the bad side). Would s
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by wtmt 8y ago
> A side effect of this is that Notion is unusable on my mobile device since I have no email on it. It’s unusable for me as well, but for a similar reason on the computer. When I’m on a computer, the last thing I want is to be forced to
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by wtmt 8y ago
That’s from 2011. If you compare issues introduced, remedies and preventive actions by the said conpanies since that time, you’d still find Apple leagues ahead of Google or Facebook (and Is say that Facebook isn’t even in the running).

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