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Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

#51

Post by USNetizen » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 2:14 AM UTC

wtvanhest wrote: post #45

USNetizen wrote: post #43

So much for changing the world, making a dent in the universe and all that, eh? How can someone build a COMPANY around a feature that does something so inconsequential and is basically "cute" at best? This is neither revolutionary nor innovative in my book. I don't get it. No offense, but if this gets funding, then the Silicon Valley echo chamber has officially spread east and legitimate tech companies are doomed. Th…

Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.

Yeah, you're right. Creating, supporting and maintaining nationwide systems and applications for everything from medical research and detecting fraud to enhancing the entire way the IT infrastructure of our nation's largest government and commercial agencies operate piece by piece is not very important.

Sorry, but what I do is far more meaningful than a COMPANY that creates an APP that replaces one picture with another. That is a feature, not a company. I'm sorry if honesty hurts your feelings, but this is not a world-changing application and it's hard to believe someone formed a company around it.

I'm hoping they "pivot" into something else with real meaning.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by cfv » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 3:15 AM UTC

Hi. So, I made a list, called Kirchner, full of keywords related to the argentinian government and its neverending quarrel with everybody else ever. I then inmediately search for "Kirchner" in facebook (one of my keywords in the filter"), and I still get to see all of the things I blacklisted in there. What is goin on?

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 3:59 AM UTC

USNetizen wrote: post #51

wtvanhest wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.

Yeah, you're right. Creating, supporting and maintaining nationwide systems and applications for everything from medical research and detecting fraud to enhancing the entire way the IT infrastructure of our nation's largest government and commercial agencies operate piece by piece is not very important. Sorry, but what I do is far more meaningful than a COMPANY that creates an APP that replaces one picture with anoth…

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Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 4:01 AM UTC

USNetizen wrote: post #51

wtvanhest wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.

Yeah, you're right. Creating, supporting and maintaining nationwide systems and applications for everything from medical research and detecting fraud to enhancing the entire way the IT infrastructure of our nation's largest government and commercial agencies operate piece by piece is not very important. Sorry, but what I do is far more meaningful than a COMPANY that creates an APP that replaces one picture with anoth…

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Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 4:06 AM UTC

USNetizen wrote: post #51

wtvanhest wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.

Yeah, you're right. Creating, supporting and maintaining nationwide systems and applications for everything from medical research and detecting fraud to enhancing the entire way the IT infrastructure of our nation's largest government and commercial agencies operate piece by piece is not very important. Sorry, but what I do is far more meaningful than a COMPANY that creates an APP that replaces one picture with anoth…

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Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

#56

Post by martyscorsese » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 4:30 AM UTC

USNetizen wrote: post #51

wtvanhest wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever you are doing is likely not as important or helpful as you think it is.

Yeah, you're right. Creating, supporting and maintaining nationwide systems and applications for everything from medical research and detecting fraud to enhancing the entire way the IT infrastructure of our nation's largest government and commercial agencies operate piece by piece is not very important. Sorry, but what I do is far more meaningful than a COMPANY that creates an APP that replaces one picture with anoth…

Cool story, bro.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

#57

Post by pearjuice » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 12:42 PM UTC

kriro wrote: post #32

djtriptych wrote: post #29

Love the concept. Good luck :)

+1 there is some pretty annoying stuff I'd like to zap (annoying "go pray now", "Jesus 4 the win" etc. stuff mostly)

Atheism. So edgy.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by al1x » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 2:56 PM UTC

pearjuice wrote: post #57

kriro wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1 there is some pretty annoying stuff I'd like to zap (annoying "go pray now", "Jesus 4 the win" etc. stuff mostly)

Atheism. So edgy.

It has nothing to do with being "edgy". It has everything to do with not wanting to be flooded with Bible verses, prayer requests, and mindless proselytizing. It's obnoxious.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by al1x » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

mccolin wrote: post #16

I'd like to see something that makes people more comfortable with the idea of unfriending folks that overpost annoying things, rather than covering up and hiding content over and over. That said, the technology behind this looks like it could have a lot of practical uses. I especially like the example with TV show spoilers.

There are social consequences of unfriending someone, regardless of how annoying their posts are. De-friending someone is the digital equivalent of saying "I don't want to be your friend anymore". If you don't want to come off as abrasive, simply block the user from your feed.

Re: Show HN: Left Buzzfeed to launch this

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Post by al1x » Sat, Nov 09, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

cmb320 wrote: post #24

kmfrk wrote: post #11

Interesting project, which might help serve to mute my Twitter feed the same way Tweetbot does. Unfortunately, its filters make a really obvious mistake, which is to include very normal queries; I mean, c'mon, I hate baseball and everything, but does it seriously make sense to filter tweets with the words "yankees, tigers, indians(!), pirates, and giants"? I'd really love a way to save and export filters, so I could…

We currently allow you to add any keywords you want. We'd like to eventually allow rather to communicate with things like tweetbot, so tweetbot can just pull from what you hate, etc.

I think what he's suggesting is that a topic-based filtering system would be more ideal than a key work based one. I don't want to have to spell out "block yankee's, tigers, indians, pirates, and giants". I just want to say "block all baseball", or "block all sports", and have the system know that posts about the yankee's, tigeers, indians, pirates, or giants are inclusive in these categories.