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Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

#91

The best answer to this is... Who cares anyway? PS: In the end if this proves to be something user FB will buy it and then we'll have a change in the user terms, and... You get e idea.

Interesting that there wasn't an actual question.

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Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

#92

Ah...the results of the race to be the "Instagram of Video". Vine is no different than any number of recent video sharing apps. Vine does nothing new but sets new arbitrary time limits on the videos they support. Just like the others Vine will try to convince you that through focus groups they have found "3 second" videos will revolutionize video sharing and discovery, but this is nothing new. Examples: Threadlife: S…

Result of artificially constraining an activity by arbitrary parameters can be wildly creative, not to mention hugely lucrative. Think of something like Bollywood - get rid of serious, credibile drama, and replace with mindless 3 hour melodrama with 5 titillating songs per film, your film finds a guaranteed million plus audience, no matter what garbage you churn out:) Intellectual filmmakers in India who fight this market and mindset with "improving content" are very quickly driven to bankruptcy & become Roger Eberts for the local trade publications :))

Programming languages are ultimately an exercise in artificially tying up your arms & asking you to type with your left toe. Try coding a naturally recursive catamorphism in a language that doesn't support recursion. Try storing a billion emails under a megabyte with clever supercompact data structures. Try coding functionally in imperative C. All of these things can & have been done. Why do people do these things ? So also Vine.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

#95

There appears to be no way to enable the Flash applet when viewing the site with FlashBlock turned on. Is it under some sort of transparent overlay that doesn't pass the right clicks to the applet container?

Instead of using flashblock, turn Firefox's native click-to-play in about:config by setting plugins.click_to_play to true. EDIT: then you don't have to click the item. You can click the icon in the address bar and enable flash for that site.

Not acceptable.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

#99
post #82

This is pretty awesome and I can't quite explain why. It seems to have a similar quality to the things the people in /r/asmr like. The only thing I miss is the ability to view more if I find something interesting. Perhaps this restriction is exactly why its so effective, though.

This is far too loud and random to be similar to /r/asmr. Those videos need to be > 5 minutes and much quieter.

I meant they're similar in the way that it's able to captivate someone, despite being not really exceptional. I should have worded that differently.
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