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by methodover 8y ago
Yet another article mining (mostly misplaced) FB outrage for clicks and views. Yawn.
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by methodover 8y ago
Wait. What's weird is that they already closed the vector that CA used three years ago when this was first reported. From the NYT interview from earlier this week, what FB is working on now is a feature that'll let you see what ap
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by methodover 8y ago
Also, sorry for the double response, but I had one other thought. I'm not sure that most people understand even now, after the CA story broke, what the specific issue was with CA, FB, and app permissions. CBS news characterized it just
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by methodover 8y ago
Someone elsewhere made a great point that I'm wrestling with. There are totally legitimate uses of friend-data for an API client, such as a custom news feed. Apps on Windows have access to pretty much everything. There are legitimate r
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by methodover 8y ago
Never said that there wasn't. I was responding to someone who couldn't fathom a legitimate use of the friend data.
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by methodover 8y ago
It's astounding. And much of the reporting is really, really terrible. Like just not describing things with any degree of accuracy at all.
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by methodover 8y ago
There are non-evil uses of that data, of course. A custom-built news feed for example. That would actually be pretty nice...
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by methodover 8y ago
People didn't seem to care back then, though. If you asked a random FB user about app permissions in 2011, I suspect that person wouldn't think it was a big deal. Social mores are changing, becoming better developed. The Internet,
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by methodover 9y ago
What knowledge, specifically?
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by methodover 9y ago
Loved this. And I agree with most of it. One thing I disagree with (and I know this puts me in the minority) is code review. Code review for trusted engineers is a waste of time. You're only going to find those bugs that are very hard
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by methodover 9y ago
I've had the opposite problem with juniors in the past -- rush to solve tickets and get them committed, but the work done is awful. I honestly preferred the lazy juniors on the team. At least they were doing poor work but there was les
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by methodover 9y ago
You may have more leverage than you think. The documents that they want you to sign are really important to them. We had an employee refuse to sign them after we fired them, for cause. A few weeks later he asked for a larger severence than
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by methodover 9y ago
Twitch/Curse hasn't really taken off with the community as much as Discord has. It's hard for me to pin down exactly what has put people off of it...
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by methodover 9y ago
I haven't experienced those issues with the client (on iOS or Windows). What's wrong with their privacy policy as compared to other chat services? Same question for monetization. And I don't understand the memes comment.
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by methodover 9y ago
Discord could do it. Discord SHOULD do it. There needs to be a serious competitor to Steam, something with significant enough market share that Steam gets scared. Steam could be so much better than it is -- I'm not saying that it'
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by methodover 9y ago
PC, I don't play console games. And like to be clear, I think you're right that it's a bigger problem than CoD. Absolutely. The toxicity in the other games I play isn't okay either. It hasn't been as extreme or conc
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by methodover 9y ago
I haven't seen the same level of vitriol in most other games. I also play World of Warcraft (off an on, hop in every other year or so), Dota 2, Company of Heroes 2, and a few other games. I'm also active in a couple different gami
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by methodover 9y ago
A lot of people have been talking about the evil of this one individual kid, or the irresponsibility of the police department, but there's another aspect being glossed over here: The first thing I thought when I read this article was,
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by methodover 9y ago
Was serious. Thanks for the response. My parents always kept separate bank accounts, always seemed to have clearly defined separations between who owned what. Separate cars, separate car payments. Separate careers, separate everything. I a
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by methodover 9y ago
Could someone help explain this to me? I don't understand why the wife shouldn't sign. As far as I can tell from the post, she didn't help create any aspect of the apps that her husband made which made them rich. I don't
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by methodover 9y ago
What do people use nowadays? Tinder?
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by methodover 9y ago
Wild is not a very well supported format though. From the game director, in response to a criticism from earlier this year, says as much: > I don't think we've done a good job historically supporting Wild enough. But I do think
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by methodover 9y ago
> with a lot of expected longevity This is a great thing to bring up, because Hearthstone churns out expansion packs on a two-year basis. The "standard" game mode, which is presently the most well-supported and popular, only al
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by methodover 9y ago
Sort of. Shareware... except the price of the game is actually unlabeled, and turns out to be hundreds of dollars per year.
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by methodover 9y ago
Well, many people have a problem with the lottery too. Also the X gold coins for $X is less of a problem. The old League of Legends style of a "free to play" game was great. They were one of the first to do it. You paid money for
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by methodover 9y ago
The true cost of playing is hidden. It's obfuscated behind a very complex set of systems. It's optimized to hide the true cost from the player as much as possible. It's problematic. It makes players feel bad, in retrospect, w
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by methodover 9y ago
> What they should really do is force apps to disclose the maximum amount a player can spend, front-and-center in the app store. And then also display other statistics - like the ARPU and ARPPU (average revenue per user, and average reve
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by methodover 9y ago
> All redirect URI's used by an app need to be listed in the Valid OAuth redirect URIs list in the app's Login Settings in order to be used in our OAuth flow. However, there have been two exceptions to this rule. The first exce
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In 90 Days, Facebook Login Will Require Strict URI Matching(developers.facebook.com)
1 points by methodover 9y ago|1 comments
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by methodover 9y ago
Videos are consumed, though, unlike these widgets you mentioned. There should be two choices you make as a consumer, for two separate things: One, your streaming platform marketplace of choice. Amazon, Hulu, etc. Two, the specific media you

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