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Everyone has mentioned this is ethically bankrupt, and I totally agree. Very little mention of the fact that this project is extremely ho hum from a technical

Everyone has mentioned this is ethically bankrupt, and I totally agree. Very little mention of the fact that this project is extremely ho hum from a technical perspective and in terms of creativity. This is maybe 2 steps up from a Hello World example app. It could have mostly been generated by Rails scaffolding script 15 years ago, not even mentioning AI could crap this out in 20 minutes. Most frameworks have build-a-twitter-clone docs that are actually more complex than this. And the idea of people having profiles with the ability to comment on them is pretty much feature zero on every social media app ever. I remember thinking this was cutting edge stuff 20 years ago on Xanga. Cool toy project I guess (morals aside) but not quite the proof of 200 IQ this guy seems to think it is.

1whizkid1 5mo ago
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toraway 5mo ago
Yeah, and telling the dean he spent 25 sleepless nights on this…
1whizkid1 5mo ago
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- jswelker 5mo ago
  The reason you don't see it is because it is a massive privacy violation, and also it was move for move done in the plot of the movie Social Network about young Zuck, not exactly a novel idea.
- jjulius 5mo ago
  >... I do think my design choice were directly responsible for how viral this was, which is something really cool. You've literally admitted to forcefully signing up everyone at your university, and then telling them that you'd done that for them. How can you not see that whatever "virality" you think you had is because of that choice, and not your "design choice"? Are you seriously this daft?
- ImPostingOnHN 5mo ago
  > the idea of auto generating everyone a profile This was what Facebook and many other sites did, over a decade ago, so it isn't innovative. It was also wrong for you to do, and as The Social Network illustrates, wrong of Zuckerberg to do, too. So, I don't know that you'll receive many accolades. Especially since you admitted you were posting rumors about those people, to draw them to your site. Bad. > all the discussion on that person happens on their page This pretty much describes every social media site out there.

1whizkid1 5mo ago

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toraway 5mo ago

Yeah, and telling the dean he spent 25 sleepless nights on this…

1whizkid1 5mo ago

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jswelker 5mo ago
The reason you don't see it is because it is a massive privacy violation, and also it was move for move done in the plot of the movie Social Network about young Zuck, not exactly a novel idea.
jjulius 5mo ago
>... I do think my design choice were directly responsible for how viral this was, which is something really cool. You've literally admitted to forcefully signing up everyone at your university, and then telling them that you'd done that for them. How can you not see that whatever "virality" you think you had is because of that choice, and not your "design choice"? Are you seriously this daft?
ImPostingOnHN 5mo ago
> the idea of auto generating everyone a profile This was what Facebook and many other sites did, over a decade ago, so it isn't innovative. It was also wrong for you to do, and as The Social Network illustrates, wrong of Zuckerberg to do, too. So, I don't know that you'll receive many accolades. Especially since you admitted you were posting rumors about those people, to draw them to your site. Bad. > all the discussion on that person happens on their page This pretty much describes every social media site out there.