masonlee

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by masonlee 6y ago
This reminds me of "the most popular reddit ad ever" the "Magic Internet Money" MS Paint wizard. https://medium.com/@paulbars/magic-internet-money-how-a-redd...
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by masonlee 8y ago
Does this dispute imply that Apple backdoors its own iMessage end-to-end encryption on states' request?
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by masonlee 9y ago
College is running an ad campaign, one of your co-workers saw it (consciously or unconsciously) earlier in the day, and that is what lead to the college coming up in conversation?
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by masonlee 9y ago
Are the founders hoping for additional kitten games? It seems that the game art is protected by copyright and trademark. And the breeding game itself is possibly covered by a patent. But what about representing this kitten data as cats e
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by masonlee 10y ago
This is a cool scheme to address the problem of URL-impermanance due to the fact that DNS name ownership/control can change over time. It allows you to specify a URL plus a date. I wrote a short blog post about the problem a few years
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by masonlee 11y ago
I thought this was an excellent reading of Tim Cook's letter: "Apple is signaling to us that the real problem here is the use of the All Writs Act."
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Mark Cuban's Blog: Apple vs the FBI vs. A Suggestion(blogmaverick.com)
5 points by masonlee 11y ago|3 comments
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by masonlee 12y ago
Interesting to think about for sure. Facebook's algorithmic solution seems to be that to the extent that any post is a true draw to Facebook, that post will get more likes and thereby be more likely to percolate up into other users&#x
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by masonlee 12y ago
Yeah, getting the main feed right is a general issue for Facebook. If someone really wants to know about a few bands in particular, liking some of their posts will cause more of their stuff to percolate up into the main feed. But they have
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by masonlee 12y ago
"Then you suddenly changed the way Posts are seen by people who have already followed a musician’s page to the net effect that an average post is seen by a tiny fraction of the people who have liked the musician." As Facebook user
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by masonlee 13y ago
And it's pants all the way down! Can we even trust our chips? But we stagger on.
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by masonlee 14y ago
This song made its biggest splash three years ago on Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html (Google trends graph http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Prisencolinensinainci... )
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by masonlee 14y ago
I would think it's that SMS and telephone features don't map well to multiple users. Would you share them across accounts or block them for all but one user? It's just weird.
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by masonlee 14y ago
"Of course, it's not handcrafted" LOL
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by masonlee 14y ago
Textie Messaging on iOS and Android is all SSL and doesn't scrape your address book. It can also text with people that don't have Textie by sending free SMS or email.
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by masonlee 14y ago
Unfortunately, there's no way to differentiate between an app using the address book locally and an app uploading the address book to its servers. Both actions require the same permission. It would be really cool if Apple provided some new
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IOS 6 requires user permission before accessing contacts and photos(macrumors.com)
2 points by masonlee 14y ago|1 comments
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by masonlee 14y ago
Is this an argument that future web services may depend more heavily on identity/reputation services?
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by masonlee 14y ago
It would be sweet for trusted computing if developers were able to submit source directly to an app store for the app store to compile, sign, and make available along with the binaries.
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by masonlee 15y ago
While the security of the hash itself can be a concern, the technique is always valuable: 1. In particular, the domain of email addresses is less vulnerable to rainbow tables than the domain of phone numbers. 2. Using salts and a slow hash
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by masonlee 15y ago
I would recommend sending hashed canonical values like we do in Textie. I posted this explanation for our users and anyone interested: http://blog.textie.me/post/17261989750/keeping-your-address-...
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by masonlee 15y ago
I agree that some prominent privacy statements would be very helpful given that the target audience hates being targeted for junk mail.
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by masonlee 15y ago
I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as the way to go.
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A better "industry best practice" for comparing address books(blog.textie.me)
2 points by masonlee 15y ago|2 comments
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by masonlee 15y ago
Phone numbers are easy to canonicalize: convert to international form. Email addresses can be effectively canonicalized by lower casing. Not many mail servers are case sensitive these days. Additionally, for the local part, you can genera
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by masonlee 15y ago
Beluga, Kik Messenger, Path, Hipster... Who else?
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by masonlee 15y ago
One can fuel a lot of user engagement by scraping the address book and notifying users every time one of their contacts signs up. The "Beluga" app did this, without user permission or warning, and it boomed ahead of competition that did not
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by masonlee 15y ago
The addresses from the user's address book should be hashed before sending to the server and compared to hashed addresses on the server. Then only positive matches are registered, and the server doesn't see more private information than it
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by masonlee 15y ago
Twitter should be paying attention to this experiment.
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by masonlee 15y ago
Could they tie Android Market comments to Google+ identities? Would that fix anything?

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