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Re: Yo

#51

Post by superuser2 »

fastest963 wrote: post #30
notduncansmith wrote: post #10

The onboarding process was really jarring. I expected to be able to use it instantly. Instead, I had to wait ~30 seconds while my username was registered, and now I'm sitting on my hands waiting for some SMS with a code that will allow me to login. Also, there's no easy way for me to use the app with other people without inviting them first (which, given my circle of friends and family, would have to be preceded by a…

That's weird I didn't have to do an SMS code on Android.

You presumably gave the app permission to (among other things) read all of your texts when you installed it.

iOS's sandboxing mechanism doesn't expose text messages to third-party apps.

Re: Yo

#52

Post by fastest963 »

superuser2 wrote: post #51
fastest963 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's weird I didn't have to do an SMS code on Android.

You presumably gave the app permission to (among other things) read all of your texts when you installed it. iOS's sandboxing mechanism doesn't expose text messages to third-party apps.

It doesn't have that permission on Android to read texts.

Re: Yo

#53

Post by ashrust »

In Europe and a lot of developing countries, where missed calls aren't charged for - this kind of 'nudge' communication is pretty common. I have no idea if it'll work in the US but it's certainly valuable when both parties already have known context, e.g. 'I'll missed call you when I'm outside'

Re: Yo

#54

Post by jacquesm »

dustingetz wrote: post #49
jacquesm wrote: post #7

> Without ever having officially launched, co-founder and CEO Or Arbel managed to secure $1.2 million in funding from a list of unnamed investors, except for co-founder, angel, and Mobli CEO Moshe Hogeg, who participated in the round. Stuff like that really gets me. I see tons of start-ups that would have a fighting chance given that sort of investment and then lame stuff like this gets funding. Of course they're ent…

Have you considered that perhaps the investors have more information than you, or the founders have an insight that you don't have, or that this is not their final product?

This may all be true. At least they have the M in MVP covered.

Re: Yo

#55

Post by jacquesm »

WildUtah wrote: post #40
jacquesm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, really don't do this, you could get someone killed like that (priority traffic causes tons of traffic accidents annually, if they follow up on a 9/11 when there is nothing wrong you are in very hot water, and rightly so). There are a lot of situations where one bit communications can make big changes. Sending a voltage down the wire to the 'launch' relay on some missile will do a lot worse. In the end, any actuat…

A technical note: Twitter carries unicode messages; the limit is not 140 octets but 140 code points [0]. This is especially useful when tweeting in Japanese. I believe there are more than 65536 code points assigned so a tweet should be able to carry over 2240 bits of information -- 2240+ Yos. --- Incidentally, in Japanese and BEV (probably adopted from jp), the word "yo" has an entirely different meaning. [0] http://…

A good one, thanks. Yes, that makes good sense. I guess that in some languages twitter really does carry a lot more information than it does in Latin alphabet languages.

If your language would only allow for 140 bytes you'd be really out of luck if your language routinely requires multi-byte sequences in UTF-8.

Hm. You could do a 'tweet compression' trick where you use a fixed number of bit from a subset of UTF-8 that you know is multi-byte (selected for the extra long sequences) in order to put longer messages on twitter, and then use a decompressor to turn it back into ascii.

Re: Yo

#56

Post by jacquesm »

markburns wrote: post #41
jacquesm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, really don't do this, you could get someone killed like that (priority traffic causes tons of traffic accidents annually, if they follow up on a 9/11 when there is nothing wrong you are in very hot water, and rightly so). There are a lot of situations where one bit communications can make big changes. Sending a voltage down the wire to the 'launch' relay on some missile will do a lot worse. In the end, any actuat…

What is the number 840?

6*140. But as your sibling comment points out twitter is not based on octets but on code points so there is actually a lot more information in there. I made the assumption that the limit was the 140 byte limit from GSM messages with a 'payload' of roughly 6 bits per character position but as was pointed out it is in fact now 140 UTF-8 code-points.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/counting-characters

Re: Yo

#57

Post by sytelus »

rlu wrote: post #3

I just...what? I don't understand. It's basically begging for you to switch apps after you get the "Yo" push notification. I can't really imagine a conversation which goes like this: Me: Yo Them: Yo Me: Yo Them: Yo ... What I can imagine is getting a Yo from someone, switching apps, and being like "what's up? [p.s. dont fucking Yo me anymore. Just message me using a real app.]". That "wut" app is similar in that you…

Have you ever seen late night TV ads for a golf club that allows you to piss in it? I never understood Instagram and Snapchat and the likes. I don't use it and I find it's ridiculous that there people who use it. But apparently there is whole mass of 17 yrs olds who live on this crap. It's similar to whole mass of 65 years old craving for pissable golf clubs. These kind of things either will inspire you to make more things like that or just brush them off as side effect of huge human population where even 0.01% of market is pretty big number.

Re: Yo

#59

Post by brk »

This just needs 1 more feature: the ability to reply "lo".

Re: Yo

#60

Post by kunaalarya »

rhizome wrote: post #39
jmduke wrote: post #5

It's Facebook's "poke" feature (which I honestly love) in 2014. There's nothing wrong with it, but I struggle to find anything novel about it.

The innovation, such as it is, is to get a zillion people to install an app that gives the company a direct line into your notification bar. Think they'll never put an ad there?

well they're not allowed on iOS so no
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