kevintwohy

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by kevintwohy 15y ago
I also know the owner ( http://twitter.com/jmk ) - it's definitely real, and not an ad campaign :), though I do appreciate the skeptic instinct. He's been posting off/on to his personal FB/Flickr accounts about the stolen laptop saga for a
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Wow. Reading the negativity in some of these comments makes me want to think twice about sharing something I've made with HN. That's a bad thing. It's not perfect. It's not the first time anyone's ever had this idea. Maybe you wouldn't hire
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Try spamming somewhere else man - you won't get far here with that little effort.
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A Thousand Words: Thoughts on Small-group Sharing(kevintwohy.com)
1 points by kevintwohy 16y ago|0 comments
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
They're doing a difficult thing by making an effort to share progress as it happens in a transparent way, and I think that deserves a lot of credit. They never said they would be the anti-Facebook, they never said it would be perfect, and t
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Really great job for a weekend project - visual design is very slick. Look forward to seeing it a bit more feature-complete. Would love to use something like this with my team.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Just gave it a spin and it's a really cool product - feels a bit buggy at the moment but for the right application this would be a really valuable tool to have. Great job, guys.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
A better title might have been "Some thoughts on the Diaspora software license and contributor agreement." It's alpha software. It's not perfect. They're not going to get everything right on the first go, be it software bugs or maybe-too-re
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Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store (For Now)(macrumors.com)
2 points by kevintwohy 16y ago|0 comments
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Seems to have gone dead (coincidence?) -- related links: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-07/nsa-wants-p... http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/200768/nsa_per...
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Good example of how to handle a screw-up. Well put.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Hate to be the downer, but the problem with this is that people don't really care about privacy. The NYTimes and every other mainstream news publication has been running this exact same story for five years: "New edgy upstart ______ is aim
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Yeah. The same is true of certain actions like '[name] commented on [otherName]'s photo' - you used to be able to control those kinds of feed stories but no longer.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
I think the 'don't put anything you want kept private on the internet' is, generally, a good argument. I will say though, that I do think Facebook encouraged a reasonable expectation that certain data would be 'private,' and that's since ch
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Yeah - all the relevant details are in there, and he's technically right about the CC# liability bit, but the last way you want to come off in a situation like this is "it's not all that bad..."
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
They've responded here: http://blippy.posterous.com/ Not as apologetic as one might expect.
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On Facebook's new 'Instant Personalization'(kevintwohy.com)
3 points by kevintwohy 16y ago|0 comments
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
I wouldn't want to be the guy holding onto this internet-connected GPS device with a backdoor just for Apple. Lock your door, man.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
All these arguments would be valid if Apple was in the 'being a nice guy' business. But they're not.
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
This is honestly one of the most poorly-written 'articles' I've ever read: "The process of simplification of consumer goods in response to demand is what has delivered the enormous productivity gains that generate much of the wealth of mode
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by kevintwohy 16y ago
Congrats again, Sam! One thing that I'd love to see your guys' hands on is the notion of 'ownership' of FB photos -- this is something that was definitely in the DNA of Divvyshot, and it would be really interesting to see FB explore some mo
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Facebook has acquired Divvyshot (YC W09)(divvyshot.com)
196 points by kevintwohy 16y ago|108 comments
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Why I don't write about programming and why it's not really worthwhile to do so(marco.org)
115 points by kevintwohy 17y ago|86 comments
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by kevintwohy 17y ago
To be honest I found this post pretty annoyingly reductive. The essential thesis seems to be: 'I personally speculate that the design of Tumblr's signup page is better, ERGO Tumblr is kicking Posterous' ass.' There are a lot of words in the
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by kevintwohy 17y ago
Agreed, but Occam's Razor seems too tempting not to consider in this situation. What's more likely, that Google decided overnight to get wise to the 'evil-being' that they might have been underwriting in China for the last 5 years, or that
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Thoughts on Square(kevintwohy.com)
1 points by kevintwohy 17y ago|0 comments
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by kevintwohy 17y ago
It's interesting how difficult it seems to be for people -- in this situation in particular -- to formulate an opinion independent of their emotional bias(es) with respect to the parties here. It seems like the people who are fond of Twitt
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by kevintwohy 18y ago
I quite liked how you finished up -- very well put. I would say, though, that on the subject of religion-as-identity, we only permit this kind of accountability-dodging when it involves a monotheism. When someone tries to defend a shoddy po
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by kevintwohy 18y ago
Tried it out -- shows the user's cursor fine in my experience.
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by kevintwohy 18y ago
the proof tries to show that p!=np as an extension B" of some Turing machine B -- just read through it and it's all over the place. wouldn't get your hopes up.

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