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fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Breakup Notifier Shut Down By Facebook

Although your app was an awesome piece of tech, did it come to your mind that they may have disabled it only because it's slightly disrespectful towards people? I mean there are real people behind every FB face, and a breakup can be sad or painful. Maybe for an undetermined percentage of the population, the effect of breakup notifier may be like a knife in the chest?

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Why nothing can go faster than the speed of light

But it still makes you wonder how this idea should be understood: Does it mean it is actually impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, or just that you can, but bad things will happen (like coming back too late, or so big that no one will see you, etc)?

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Riseup

Great point. Let's imagine a group of right-wing survivalists starts using the service: they probably don't support capitalism, but they're all for "self determination, local autonomy, ecology, and communal economics", in their own way. How long before they get booted? It's funny and highly illogical how the term 'activist' these days means solely left-wing militants (i don't specificaly condone right-wing survivalism here, this is just an observation)

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: The silent icelandic revolution the media don't tell you about

Not sure why you've been downvoted here, you make a valid remark. I'm pretty sure the flag on this site's logo is the flag of the jihad. Since that wave of 'revolutions' in the middle east has started, a lot of disinformation has been spreading, and some wolves seem to be hiding behind the cute flock of sheep. It wouldn't hurt to care of where we're picking our news from, and take everything with a pinch of salt

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Automation & Outsourcing

Offtopic: you should consider using typekit faces for titles only... this is the first time an article about outsourcing makes me cry :)

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Using Real Names has Real Consequences

I agree with you that using nicknames is hankering back to the "old" way, but I can't see why it wouldn't be possible anymore to separate on & off. Simply because a couple of IT moguls (Schmidt, Zuck and such) have predicted one future for us? We humans have enough talent and imagination to escape, distort and nullify those bleak predictions. AT least I hope so.

And yes, using a nick on FB means exactly this: you don't want anyone to call you. I simply don't want to network with my friends & family on facebook (better ways are available), but i needed access to the API ^^

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Using Real Names has Real Consequences

I did the same thing two days ago for the exact same reason, with the name "Aleph Zadik", and it worked like a charm. Is there a human being deciding what looks like a real name or not, or is it algorithm-based?

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet

On a local level (which is on par with this whole open insurgency thing), opening up your WiFi and using Bonjour services (and why not some kind of custom landing page) seems like a brilliant idea. Big plus: it doesn't require a computer degree so that's something that can spread easily, and cover a wide range.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it amazing to have all the elements at hand and already working, and never having thought of this

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: The PNG Gamma Dilemma

That's because the article seems to be really old (refers to safari 2 instead of 5, and there's no mention of chrome)

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO

Hold on a minute, you think that asking for, let's say a public data retention policy is just a meme? For a big company, "we take our end-user data privacy incredibly seriously..." is generally the mandatory first sentence in a 30 pages document. This is not just about ads.

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to lose 200+ GB of personal information :/

Hi. It's too late for that now, but next time you buy a drive, i suggest you look at the partitions table. Most hw companies now tend to include a tiny additional partition where the bloatware sits and waits (happens also on USB keys), so before doing any backup on your new drive, crush that table and create a shiny new unique partition. This can avoid later problems :)

fwdbureau | 15 years ago | on: Myspace to “lay off 550 to 600 employees tomorrow”

Maybe this is too small scale to be relevant, but i recently designed a site for a rockabilly clothes webstore, with a complete panel of tools: myspace (traditional friending, exchanging thankyous), facebook (fanpage & paying ads), google ads and twitter... And since day 1, myspace has been the nr. 1 referrer (to such an extent that bandwidth quotas exploded, and my customer had to upgrade their hosting plan). So I would say that for some niches, myspace is still nr. 1. Also, coding css for myspace is really fun, if you like a good challenge
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