joeblau · HackerTrans

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We used this in 2011 at the startup I worked for. 20 positive and 20 negative words was good enough to sell Twitter "sentiment analysis" to companies like Apple, Bentley, etc...

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A few weeks ago, I bought some shampoo and conditioner from Amazon. I wanted a bulk size and the bottle looked like it was form the official manufacturer. When I got the bottles, opened and used them, I could tell they were fake. The consistency of the product was terrible and the smell was overly harsh. I returned both of them and just ordered the products from the company website. Funnily enough, the company website didn't even have the sizes that were listed on Amazon. Over time, I've become more wary of buying household products Amazon's website.

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Yeah, this is pretty much what a few people brought up. Consumers seem to actively want to give their data away for "features" which usually aren't worth the data they are giving up.

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I have an TV and I feel like Apple is doing a decent job of trying to prevent selling user data by any means.

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I was talking to a few people in a slack channel the other day about the potential market for a whole set of "dumb" appliances. At the end of the day, we came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a able to reach mass market because the mass consumers seem to care more about price than security.

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If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?

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I totally agree with this and this is actually something that my Engineer Brain and Product Brain are constantly in conflict about. I ran gitignore.io for 6 years and it was not "hard" to run. It was two commands on a web server. The problem was when I was on vacation or at work and AWS/Heroku crashed and I got flooded with GitHub issues/Tweets telling me the service as down[1][2]. All of a sudden, I have to go take a look.

Martin Fowler said something in a talk a few years ago[3] and I think it speaks to this exact mindset. This post is lacking any economic reasons for people to run their own mail server — tell me why me running my own mail server saves me time and/or money.

As another tangent, I'm actually looking at running my own mail server. For me, it's privacy which coincidentally is not even mentioned once in the article.

[1] - https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io/issues/369

[2] - https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io/issues/2

[3] - https://youtu.be/DngAZyWMGR0?t=460

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If I wasn't an iOS developer, I would probably switch back to Linux as well.

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I've already got that covered[1].

  …/~ cat /etc/hosts | wc -l
  50773

[1] - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

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I can't even get to Facebook anymore on any of my devices. On all of my Macs, my `/etc/hosts` file includes:

  0.0.0.0    facebook.com
  0.0.0.0    www.facebook.com

And then to double down, I have a custom 1Blocker rule to prevent accidentally opening up any Facebook links on my iPhone:

  https?://([a-z\.]*)?facebook\.com.*

joeblau

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One of the interesting parts about Moments, is that I used TweetBot and that feature is nowhere to be found. That being said, I don't even feel like I'm missing anything. It seems like ownership of the product experience is fragmented and the best implementors of the product experience aren't Twitter.

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This is actually one of the companies in SV that I really like; I would love to work there, but I don't think they have a lot of mobile application development; That being said I still congratulate them because I love their product.

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It's probably because it has 10 million registered users. When you compare that to something like Instagram, Twitter, or even mobile apps like WhatsApp; it's not a huge user base. That being said, I like GitHubs business model a lot more because their product actually provides me with a lot of value.

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