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_3ex7on Diaspora's Proposed Social Media Model

Duh, silly me.

_3ex7on Diaspora's Proposed Social Media Model

The farthest I go into "social networking" is Reddit and HN. That being said, why dont they, or anyone, just glue together the popular social networks in a portal-type page?

Flickr for photo sharing, Twitter for status updates, etc. Isn't that a distributed network? You might not own your data, but at least no third party owns ALL your data. I am dumbfounded by the idea of seeds, and what that is buying you. If I request a page from someone on Diaspora, whatever was in that page is now on my pc (somewhere). It has been said many times, but if you dont want it out there, dont put it out there (and this is why I dont do "social networks").

Someone please correct my misunderstandings

_3ex7on The Vast and Endless Sea

Meh, if they did do this, I could see the blogosphere bitching every couple of months because SO is asking for money.

Its almost as if...

    The only winning move is not to play

_3ex7on The Vast and Endless Sea

Ads do suck, but it is a small price to pay, and for us, the end user, that price is free, for the service the site provides.

I see this article follows typical codinghorror-notation.

EDIT: I think SO and reddit are "ads done right". Anyone remember '97?

_3ex7on Words I'd ban from all websites

oh, well did you read my comment? That is exactly what I was speaking of.

_3ex7on An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

But what about PG ?

(for the record, reddit is my #1 site)

_3ex7on Words I'd ban from all websites

I was really trying to hate on this chicks page, and then I checked it out, and it is the type of conciseness I could only dream of.

EDIT: I was being serious? There is not any fluff, nor a wasted word.

_3ex7on What To Do With Your Millions

    Appreciate the trees.

One step ahead of you

_3ex7on DHH: Being at the right time at the right place is not the secret ingredient.

luck = preparation + oppurtunity

- Jim Greco

_3ex7on Interviewing programmers: coding test results.

I worked it out with converting z_terminated to a list inside condense_by_removing, and then returning "".join(z_terminated), but yea it does change the problem

_3ex7on Interviewing programmers: coding test results.

I am curious to what the Python solution was, since the C requirement was to do it "in place".

_3ex7on Ask HN: Developers, do you play computer games?

What games?

Just curious and apoligies if this is common knowledge.

_3ex7on Are we still doing OOP?

Proper name

_3ex7on Hey. You. Get Off Of My Cloud

you dont know me and you dont know my style

_3ex7on Django 1.2 released

whoa, easy there

_3ex7on Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new.

> ... so the risk to you as a customer ...

If you are trying to differentiate yourself from other banks, I would stop referring to your users as "customers". CUs call them "members". I have always preferred "comrades".

_3ex7on Moot’s Investors Revealed: Andreessen, Conway, Dixon, Schachter and Lerer

no its moot

_3ex7on Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new.

Being FDIC insured is pretty standard nowadays.

Also, you only get charged fees if you use a "service" of the bank, such as overdraft protection.

If their revenue model of "interest margin" uhm.. interests you, I would suggest joining a local, state-chartered credit union. It is how they have been doing it for years!

[EDIT] and if you are young, time is not in short supply and is actually on your side

_3ex7on Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new.

Its like Check 21 I guess .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_21_Act

_3ex7on [dead]

Yet the domain is somehow relevant!

_3ex7on Lessons Learned While Building Reddit to 270 Million Page Views a Month

>I don't know why people keep using reddit as a reference for how to do scaling.

I dont know if people really use them as a reference, but Reddit is one of the few sites in the sweet spot of getting a lot of traffic, and being pretty open about their architecture. Any presentation done on behalf of Reddit (pycon '09, '10, this) is great fodder for the technical Reddit users, such as myself.

_3ex7on Write Down Your Password

I take my passwords straight out of the obscure underground hiphop lyrics I listen to everyday.

_3ex7on Ask HN: Hacker Hobbies?

Cooking is mine as well. It is an invaluable skill for man, woman, and child.

_3ex7on Ask HN: Please help test Mugasha audio player on linux distributions

The browser back button does not work as expected in Vista + FF 3.6

_3ex7on Quit Facebook Day is May 31. Will you quit?

Same, but a long time ago (before it was cool to do so)

_3ex7on The most important programming language today

You read Yegge also?

_3ex7on Patterns in Python

    from foo import bar

_3ex7on Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

This is strictly my opinion speaking, but the Macbook looks like the "default" laptop. Much like how the "default" video game controller was the old school NES controller (but probably has since been replaced with the ps2/3 dualshock).

_3ex7on Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"

To my knowledge[1], Apple never pays for product placement.

[1] read something online somewhere once.

_3ex7on The mess Django's in

>Even simple things like setting up and tearing down the database is awkward. You have to actually make an outside call to a command-line script to do it.

... Because I want to be able to do that WITHIN my webapp?

As a side note, I wish this guy would of pointed to some specific examples instead of speaking in generalities.