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Thus, less experienced developers and lesser known companies follow the path these companies take and believe that this is how the Open Graph should be. There are many questions on Stack Overflow or the Facebook developers group from people inexperienced asking how to make articles automatically read when users arrive at their site (the news.read action).
Yes, because it is a pain. Try going on a vacation, you know the one where you don't use cell roaming. SMS is out, so then one must find a Wifi hotspot to use one of the smartphone time based tokens (edit: seems the token don't need a network connection, could have fooled me). And those time based tokens go out of wack if your phone didn't sync the timezone properly to match Google's setup, so every token ends up not working.
Use the print out backup verification codes on a piece of paper? No, because they are single use. So you end up using up all your backup codes depending on the length of your vacation. I've used 2 step for a long while, I liked it, but I really could not get used to whipping out my phone every time I needed to check something related to Google.
I've had other hiccups such as mobile provider down, phone died etc. Maybe my best option was to keep all the backup codes on hard plastic with checkmarks next to used backup codes and secure them the same way I do my banking cards, maybe, I'll just try this one day.
If one is going to jump through all these spy-style codes might as well just change your password on a regular basis, forcing all previous sessions to invalidate.
You think it's a big part but you are in fact making that personal connection weaker.
At the very most in the world technology, email would suffice for your family.
I never really understood how moderation works on Quora so I assumed there was none. Not to say that I hate Quora (I like it a lot), I just feel there is nothing preventing it from becoming Yahoo Answers in a couple years time. No barrier, no moderation.
From the outside look and the screenshots (because that's all Dustin showed you) it's a simple design and that's the point; it was never supposed to be a complex work of design for you to be proud that you could replicate it in 1 day in rails. Yeah, Dustin put some work into thinking what could work for the layout but once the application of the design is done, replication is beyond simple.
Clone all you want I think it's great but Dustin was really telling the story of the "network" the idea of a closely knit community of writers (pseudo-writers whichever you prefer). I look at it as similar to the Deck Ad network or Dribbble (before every desperate Designer begged for an invite). Or when an HN clone comes along, no one ever migrates across, they always come back here.
Point is, the one thing you are never going to have is the network, that human element that sets apart the clone from the real deal.
Other than that the apology wasn't well played out. That's a given.
Be humble, always give apologies no matter how offensive the messenger/complainer/customer?
Unfortunately, not every one has this skill and I hope some will realize that at some point you cannot give in.
Geeklist is the villain for giving in and letting it slide downhill (it is always a PR disaster after it hits the fan) but Kane was first to throw the rock. You don't win the argument by showing how angry you can be, you win it by being the most civilized and logical about it. This isn't a "Lighten Up" situation, this is a mind your tone and I can understand the serious nature of the issue without it.
> The page at www.pinwords.com says: Not a valid image.
Which to me, means it's either not able to scan the page for images or only accepts direct links to images.
Seeing that you cannot link to a page but must hot-link to the image then I am failing to see how the source is kept.
For example, here is a regular pin for http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/on-the-street-somewher..., http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642005/. The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com
Now trying with pinwords.com, I must upload the direct image (which makes sense, how else would it work to mark up the image) which results as http://pinterest.com/pin/189151253069642015/ The content is shown as coming from thesartorialist.com The content is shown as coming from pinwords.com. Though going into the original pin at pinwords there is no mention of thesartorialist.com in site.
I understand these are how previous bookmarklets have worked for other apps, yet I hate this so much. Not only does it make easier for users to mark up content they may or may not own, it makes it harder for Pinterest to remain mostly true about keeping content creators (the ones who actually produce the content) copyright concerns in mind.
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20868/hide-commen...
The first is that of the Brogramming meme. The definition at Urban Dictionary is a joke in itself. It's a joke accept it, don't accept it. No developer in their right mind goes around proclaiming that they are a brogrammer and if they are saying that they are serious (like some say in the case of Facebook and Zynga) you are being deceived [2].
There is a second definition which that I think everyone clumps with this meme and that is of the asshole/douchebag/sexist employee. He is everywhere. Not just in software development. These individuals are the ones making the majority of sexist comments, makes sexist jokes while a female employee is in a cubicle nearby, trying to hit on female coworkers during work hours and going to bars every night. They have existed long before any reference to Brogramming.
Now, I will say this. It was not smart of this individual to try advertise the meme to the SfGate readership. Just based on the prefix "bro" alone will bring about perception of sexism even if the original intent was not to be.
[1]: http://www.facebook.com/ariadoss/posts/305742279480205 [2]: http://www.facebook.com/getwiththebrogram/posts/373108606051...
This depends on current data for avg karma vs rate of comments which is not publicly available (to my knowledge). This also depends on whether users with the highest avg score actually give great constructive comments but I have not been able to find a way to list those users -- http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20612/list-users-...
See: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-withou...
Did some digging and found this
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8449696/project-doesnt-re...
This doesn't look like something to point someone in the right direction. Yes, you are working with proprietary code but you could think of ways to describe what is happening without disclosing information otherwise you are making users play the 20 questions game with your question (as noted by a moderator). A high rep and top contributor to the site (Jon Skeet) was trying to help you but you didn't seem to want to reciprocate with more information. As I said earlier, clear communication is key in SO, don't make users point in the dark. You are wasting their time and yours with the back and forth clarifications.
It would interesting to see how many users (who voted) actually paged through all 100 answers.
Take instead the Greatest Hits which do take into account data to determine value http://stackoverflow.com/questions/greatest-hits and you will notice none of these hidden features or list of x questions make the cut.
The argument used to keep them open is that they have value (which is why the notice was added), developers and moderators alike have said that they have gotten valuable information from these questions (Nick Craver, Joel Coehoorn, Bill the Lizard)
> This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site, so please do not use it as evidence that you can ask similar questions here.
As for the single binding vote made by a moderator this could have been a result of many flags made by users that he had to act on. SO moderators and to an extent SE moderators will always be called http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22overzealous+moderators%22+s... and that's something they just have to live with in order to keep StackOverflow a place that is different from a forum. SO emerged because of a need to get Q&A different from a forum. Elections (http://stackoverflow.com/election) are held every year to get moderators knowledgeable of the process and users the community trusts to make decisions the community might not normally. Most SO moderators never see the main site regularly and are stuck in the flag queue answering the community needs.
As communities grow they learn and change the scope and that's what has happened here.
The current list questions that are open are under close scrutiny by a few community members. For example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava... is cleaned regularly for duplicates, arranged by language and alphabetically sorted.
A site like the one you would wish for would be highly popular but no user would ever want to clean it up, instead they will add another duplicate answer that may have been mentioned 1-2 years earlier.
These are users flagging questions. Whether they are overzealous or not is a next question altogether. Moderators respond to flags not perfection. If 10 users flag a question as not constructive because of the new scope, then the moderators must listen to the community. The community at one time accepted these questions, now based on discussion in meta.stackoverflow.com , they don't. Communities change over time.
Also a flock of moderators cannot close a question. Ideally one. What you may have seen as a flock could be one of the following options
* 1 moderator (his/her vote is binding) * 1-4 users + 1 moderator (remember a moderator vote is binding) * 5 users
These users are ordinary community users not moderators. If their decision was wrong to close a question, it will be reopened by 5 other /regular/ users.
Additionally it would help to show these example questions that you feel were closed justly so that a /community/ user not a mod can tell you why it was closed or what chance it has to be opened.
So if you can reply with the question that was closed wrongly, maybe some of us /ordinary/ users can help you.
Otherwise I feel your accusations towards moderators are misdirected as most times these questions are closed by regular users just like you and me.
There was an article floating around somewhere on the concept of having an application with only 7 or so friends and how would a user deal with this restriction. Path is in the right direction for this. Also as opposed to Facebook, since a normal user does not have "Life Events" every day, I like the fact that Path has the awake/sleep feature (no matter how trivial it sounds).
Seeing that this is directed to the US users of Stack Overflow, I am not sure what the rest of the world should be doing other than spreading the message.
To play devil's advocate, since SO has dumps of their data under CC, anyone from another country can still get the content.
The community and the system of asking and answering questions are threatened, the previous data will still be around.
> But when I went to my URL, or at least what I remember my URL to be:
> http://www.facebook.com/dave.winer
The account Ben showed doesn't seem to be yours.
http://graph.facebook.com/100002526165063 (no username showed here)
whereas
http://graph.facebook.com/dave.winer (false i.e. gone)
Unless Facebook releases usernames after deleting accounts (or you remember that this is indeed your Facebook ID) I think these are all different accounts. There is also another http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001554391855 which as well does not show your username.
Apple being bad at social is okay with me.
[1]: http://cl.ly/ANI0 [2]: http://cl.ly/AMpv
- Those who comment? (These are hopefully looking for good content/topic for which to discuss)
- Those who lurk? (It should not matter for this group, they will just skip over the topics if need be.)
- Those who up vote? (This group in terms of the front page will push it to top and may not necessarily even read the article)
Since the group is actually all of the above, then the long tail new users (1 year and less) [I am assuming it is a long tail, it would be great to have data to back this] will be dominant and no matter what you do once it massively popular (not necessarily on topic) it will remain on the front page.
My personal workaround is to assume the users who signed up earlier in HN maintain a certain scope and flag and vote as appropriate and roll with news.ycombinator.com/classic for the next few days until it dies down.