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Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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Worst HN comment ever.

Huh? There's several hundred people on that list for me. It took 5 minutes to scroll through and decide which ones to click. It could have taken 2.5 minutes. Clearly this is desirable? If not, please explain.

You managed to turn a simple feature request into subtle anti-gay propaganda, whether you meant it or not.

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

#82

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Huh? There's several hundred people on that list for me. It took 5 minutes to scroll through and decide which ones to click. It could have taken 2.5 minutes. Clearly this is desirable? If not, please explain.

You managed to turn a simple feature request into subtle anti-gay propaganda, whether you meant it or not.

I see. I think people are being too sensitive.

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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A few days ago, my fiancee and her mom were talking about setting up a nice guy with my fiancee's sister. Unfortunately, said guy is in a relationship. My mother-in-law to be suggested it would be nice to know when the relationship was over (jokingly). I blurted out that I could make something that could do that in a couple of hours. By then, I knew I had to do it. The application was built on Google Appengine, Djang…

Would you be able to use real-time updates for this to avoid polling? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ I'm not sure if it notifies you on friends changes or just the user that authed your app. I assume the latter.

By the time the status changes it's probably too late for a significant number of cases, whereby 2 weeks later the status is 'in relationship' again.

However, there's probably some worthwhile activity in monitoring wall posts from ex's in the period running up to the status change?

Humans are completely unpredictable mind... haha :)

Re: Show HN: Breakup Notifier

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At the moment of writing this comment, this app has 88 likes and 446 tweets. I wonder if people don't click "Like" in order not to reveal that they're interested in using the application ;).

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This is hilarious. And fits nicely with the expression, "girls are like parking spots; the good ones are always taken."

This app is the equivalent of "circling" the lot instead of parking far away. Would make for good logo inspiration. :-)

That's called "vulching" among folks I know. (If you aren't familiar with it, the word refers to "circling like a vulture" -- at least in this case. A quick search turns up different uses of the word which are similar but not identical.)
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