fwdbureau | 9 years ago | on: Are closed social networks inevitable? (2010)
This, or it's a comment by Nick Land
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fwdbureau | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
Something that kills proprietary feed algorithms on popular social websites, and lets you browse data chronogically
fwdbureau | 10 years ago | on: New social network, where you don’t need followers to start use
"We would like to inform you that, since you're from France, you can start sharing news, images, videos and things you loved with people in France area from this moment"
How did you manage to guess i'm from France? Even though i'm technically french, i am in Holland, my OS is in english and my IP german. Pretty complicated bareer of entry!
fwdbureau | 10 years ago | on: René Girard has died
I'm going to over-simplify, but according to Girard, the greatest social attempt to avoid scapegoating and civilize human nature has been christianity. The figure of the Christ, and his sacrifice, was a smart operation to replace real scapegoats by a symbolic one, allowing the community to unite against an innocent without having to kill anyone. This has been successful for centuries, but it's interesting to note that in his latest books, Girard sounds pretty disillusioned about this. "Achever Clausewitz" (strangely translated in english by "Battling to the end") is quite a frightening apocalyptic book that I would recommend to anyone interested in Girard's work.
fwdbureau | 10 years ago | on: Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
Ah, I wish i could edit the link, and point to the google cache instead, but seems that it's too late.. Feeling sorry now, must feel like a DDoS attack for the person who wrote this, and I believe it won't stop until the article goes away from the frontpage :/
fwdbureau | 12 years ago | on: Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf]
In the section about 'alt' tags, "If a user is viewing your site on a browser that doesn't support images" sounds like something coming from a very old text. I wonder if that's still relevant for anyone.
The second part of the sentence (screenreaders) taught me something, though!
fwdbureau | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Sketchology
yay! In the meantime there's always the possibility to export to web, save the tiles one by one on your HD and reassemble them in Photoshop like a puzzle. Quite a fun operation
fwdbureau | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Sketchology
First, congrats on the app and the selling method. Free trial and extras for sale are definitively a honest way to go on the app store!
I understand it's hard to export a svg, but how about exporting a hi-res picture? When choosing 'save image', the super resolution option disappears, and zooming before saving exports only a partial tile. It would be great to be able to save a huge picture, for pro printing, for instance
fwdbureau | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Name an established product that is begging to be disrupted
Gmail :)
fwdbureau | 12 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo privacy: A search engine that doesn’t track its users
Is it really deleted? Or are you simply opting out of having it displayed in your account's page? According to the FAQ, "If you remove items, they will be removed from the service and will not be used to improve your Google experience". Words are important. Your history is removed from the service, not the servers. It won't be used to improve your experience, but nothing says it won't be used for something else
fwdbureau | 13 years ago | on: Starting a Bike Shop
To be fair, that also applies to the whole music industry
fwdbureau | 13 years ago | on: How American Giant created the best sweatshirt known to man.
the 'esc' key is your friend :-)
fwdbureau | 13 years ago | on: Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
How about a css sprite for bootstrap? A complement to the standard glyphicons would be awesome, and if you goal is to see Batch in many designs as possible, that would probably help (beautiful work btw)
fwdbureau | 13 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom - Megabox, disruptive new music service
Not necessarily the next myspace, but bandcamp.com may be what you're looking for
fwdbureau | 14 years ago | on: The girl with the ANSI tattoo
It's even worse than this. When everytime you're "good" at something, you notice movies get it wrong, after some point you start to wonder, maybe they also get it wrong for all the things you're not good at, you just don't notice it.
So basically, it could be that movies get everything wrong.
fwdbureau | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: A company that doesn't repect the "don't email me" flag ...
What you could do is find a maximum of valid addresses for their domain name, and setup an auto-responder with a nice complaining message sent to the whole list. Each spam you receive will then trigger a payload. They should get tired of this before you do :)
fwdbureau | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some real problems that need to be solved?
Something 'simple' and not related to developing nations (or maybe related): Making internet access independent from the telcos
fwdbureau | 14 years ago | on: Does Facebook copyright "white text on blue background"?
But they won't sue every person, this applies only in the context of a facebook-related app, which is probably not completely unreasonable to ask
fwdbureau | 14 years ago | on: Groovr 0.9 - The FTW Music Downloader
Not sure this is a technical question, but your homepage being quite scarce on details: where do the downloads come from? Is it a supersecret grooveshark leeching tool?
The look and feel is terrific btw, awesome use of Air
fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Crunch Time for Spotify
well, the model works for others: millions (or hundreds of thousands) gladly pay a monthly fee of £40 on usenet + rapidshare accounts, and i'm pretty sure most of them renew month after month
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