maxsavin

The problem is that platforms enable this kind of behavior. Once it's the open, someone will take advantage of it, and then others would only put themselves at a disadvantage by not doing it too. The real question is, how did our infrastructure become so exploitable?

That's not to say there aren't companies that don't play this kind of game. But on a spectrum of care and don't care, most are in the middle.

So long as these companies maintain their dominant positions, and no major market shifts happen (such as introduction of the global computer network), it's not likely that someone can challenge them directly.

However, they are being challenged by groups of smaller startups.

For example, Facebook is losing its appeal due to apps like Snapchat, Houseparty, etc.

Amazon is being nibbled away by direct-to-consumer companies, like Casper and Dollar Shave Club.

Google is getting challenged by voice assistants, chatbots, and so on.

A good way to think of it is not as who can challenge these companies, but which human needs can be served better.

My biggest gripe with these tools is that, because some of them are specifications, they have a viral property.

For example, if most data consumption APIs switch to GraphQL, you become "forced" to use the tool.

Introversion and extroversion is really a scale, but most people use it in a binary way. Plus, it varies by the context.

It has also taken on it's own social meaning. For example, shyness is often associated with introversion and that may not be the right way to look at it.

The big thing I've learned is that loneliness is simply your brain signaling you to go meet people - it's natural and there's nothing wrong with it. Meeting people is hard though - but there are plenty of ways to do it, especially now with internet. It does require a set of skills, though, just like everything else. I've found therapy can really help develop and tune them.

Thank you, my big anxious horror was relieved by knowing I'm not the only one.

And now, for a tinfoil hat moment: even though companies like Microsoft and Google are using Facebook's libraries, it is possible that they have some kind of private deal in regards to the patents clause.

It doesn't seem smart to use machine translation for anything legal related. I wonder if this kind of tool can get one in trouble. For example, a mistranslation causes the privacy policy to mean something else than intended.

From what my buddies in finance tell me, these things are expensed as dinners.

Perhaps programmers who use spaces also participate in satanic rituals

You might want to ask a lawyer to subpoena them. Time is ticking - I believe backups are held for only a bit of time.

The more honest explanation here is that our industry is producing apps that are junk.

Everybody enjoyed downloading apps because they got a kick out of them. Now the industry is mostly pumping decaf.

Genius is a strong word here

I had a hard time finding freelance work, and was like, everyone in the Meteor world needs a dashboard.. so here it is :)

Haha, funny thing is conspiracy theorists have been saying there is a planet 9 for long before all of this.

Facebook tracks your location and the locations of others. If it sees that you are around some people often, it might suggest you to be friends.

I thought it's April Fools

Assuming you're in the west, move abroad. You can probably stretch your money for a year or two and live very well. There, you can work or do whatever you want.

~"I genuinely wanted to help" and then.. ~"Why didn't that tactic work on others?

Probably because most consumers want something average / something that doesn't draw that kind of attention.

If you stop, you let the negative force win. Our default mode is to always be doing something.

I've turned an OS development tool project into a business. It all happened by accident.

http://meteor.toys

When did YC become a self help blog

SEEKING WORK - NY, EUROPE or REMOTE

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UI Designer turned HTML/CSS/JS Developer

Full stack courtesy of Meteor.js

For my works, please see: http://maxsavin.com http://meteor.toys

To your point:

'The initial public release of React in May 2013 used a standard Apache License 2.0. In October 2014, React 0.12.0 replaced this with a 3-clause BSD license and added a separate PATENTS text file that permits usage of any Facebook patents related to the software.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library)

Are you trying to grow beyond the two clients?

Hey thanks for the heads up! This seems to be a bug with the latest version of Chrome. Until I figure it out, please try on an older version or Safari/Firefox.

I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys

It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it.

The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it.

The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunity to make more tools, and the downside of having to maintain them, I decided to create paid tier for the tools.

It sure would be nice to get a real lawyers take on this.

Nice read. This part cracked me up: 'Interestingly, our CTO, Greg, had a different take: “There’s no way this happens.”'