18 year old, cool man. Respect.
thank you :D
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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#142Good idea. I think there’s a lot of room for some kind of internet social network that gives you a space for a custom profile, chatting with friends about anything, no algorithms dictating what you see, no heavy handed moderation, etc. wish you success
I live and breathe on the internet and have never been moderated once, even freely expressing myself, insulting people who deserve it, etc. My point here is that if you think the current social media options have "heavy handed" moderation, you're probably the problem, not them.
Maybe you don’t have any out of the box ideas that goes against the ideals of corporate America, but I’m certainly glad that other people do.
Imagine if current Twitter was around in Galileo’s time.
* Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed the consensus that the Earth is the center of the Universe, just as God willed it.
Or what if George Washington was relying on social media during the formation of our country?
* Independent Fact Checkers have confirmed that paying taxes to Britain is good and beneficial to the Colonies.
Many good ideas shatter the existing “consensus” dramatically. I’m glad that boundaries can and do get pushed because that’s how we come up with better ideas and systems.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have controversial views This is nowhere controversial. Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...
> originalist You mean the folks who think a black person is worth 3/5th of a white person? Yeah I imagine they have it rough.
You're forgetting a aspect: the Constitutional clause has been superseded by the 14th Amendment. So in this case, an originalist would rule based on the Amendment, not the just Constitution's original text.
And this display a crucial point, there is a legal process to amend the Constitution not relying on a few scholars re-re-re-interpretation. I'm all for a Constitutional Amendment on abortion, as long as it's the Will of the People, not the Will of a few jurists. If you can get a Constitutional Amendment for the prohibition of intoxicating beverages, you can certainly get a Constitutional Amendment behind abortion... unless it's less of a consensus as you make it seems. Also, using one's 14th Amendment Right to privacy to "legalize" abortion is a pretty weak argument.
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#144How is this not copyright infringement?
IANAL but maybe the parody exception would protect them.
Kinda like, Nathan Fielder's "Dumb Starbucks".
Also, is website design even copyrightable?
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#145As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…
These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
haha, wish I could see the comment you're responding to.
> I bet you will get a job too. The same way that Hollywood is simply making remakes and people are accepting this as new. A Nuclear bomb would be nice right about now. Covid was not enough humble pie
how did you grab that
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty certain we were at the same conference. There development practices horrified the group I was with in the audience. At a time that a new competitor appeared (Facebook) they made the fatal mistake of rewriting their software in dot Net. No new features for a year or more. Joel Spolsky wrote a pretty famous essay about the wisdom of doing that. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Performance was the feature. Friendster should have been social network of that era but they couldn’t scale and had to shutdown new user registration. Same thing happened to Twitter but they had no competitor in short form social networking.
Pownce?
"Twitter on steroids" [0]
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
for it to be legitimate you need to use ColdFusion and then do a half assed port to .net.
I was at a CF conference with MySpace as a speaker and they talked about how often they went down but that they were switching to another CF engine with .net capabilities (BlueDragon). Their discussions and jokes about instability and going down due to bad code updates were really cringy and gave the impression that their platform was a mess.
I had an older friend that worked at CF when I was a teenager. He taught me a bit about relational databases and some other important stuff as he was one of the only developers I knew growing up.
I remember him telling me how I was wasting my time building in php/MySQL since CF was the future and serious companies wouldn't be looking for php developers. Glad I never pulled the trigger and bought their expensive IDE.
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#149Is it still vulnerable to the Samy Kamkar worm?
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have controversial views This is nowhere controversial. Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...
> originalist You mean the folks who think a black person is worth 3/5th of a white person? Yeah I imagine they have it rough.
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