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Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #19

How is this different from popset?

It has a different name, is made by different people, the two apps have entirely different feature-sets and focus, etc

Both have the same value proposition. Flock has far clearer messaging.

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #14

Somewhat unrelated tip: The font on this blog is too small. I just measured and it is taking up only 20% of my screen. I'd suggest a bigger font to make it more readable. Over 85% of people use a screen bigger than 1024x768 [1]. Take advantage of that. :) [1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Over 85% of w3schools.com users have a screen bigger than 1024x768. Most people have never been to w3schools.

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #11

I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.

Flock math department here. Robots are software-limited, and Flock has more overlap with robotics on the software side than people might think. At Bump we have been writing software to exchange bits of stuff between computers that 50% of the population has attached to their bodies. Flock is actively making decisions for the human based on situational awareness. The machine learning and statistical techniques we are using are the same ones that are being using in robotics for e.g. situational awareness and path/task planning.

If anyone out there is interested in being a developer in my group and is handy with algorithms and fast data stores e.g. Redis, ideally in production, email me.

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #14

Somewhat unrelated tip: The font on this blog is too small. I just measured and it is taking up only 20% of my screen. I'd suggest a bigger font to make it more readable. Over 85% of people use a screen bigger than 1024x768 [1]. Take advantage of that. :) [1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Over 85% of w3schools.com users have a screen bigger than 1024x768. Most people have never been to w3schools.

I'm pretty sure their survey data comes from lots of websites, not just theirs.

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #11

I wish there was a way for ordinary hackers to work on electric airplanes, space shuttles, or robots on the side rather than photo sharing apps.

I think you'd touch a lot more lives if you worked on solving the photo sharing problem for 3 years than working on electric airplanes for 3 years. Also: your comment is rude.

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Over 85% of w3schools.com users have a screen bigger than 1024x768. Most people have never been to w3schools.

I'm pretty sure their survey data comes from lots of websites, not just theirs.

I'm pretty sure you haven't read the statements right before the table:

W3Schools.com is for people with an interest for web technologies. This fact indicates that the figures below might not be 100% true for the average internet users. (...) Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files over ten years, clearly shows the long term trends.

But if you're not convinced, you can read in their forums:

    - The w3schools Browser and OS statistics are based on the data
      collected over the w3schools site or do have more sources? 
    - Only the W3Schools site.
http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=35566

By the way: http://w3fools.com/

Re: Get all the photos your friends took with you, forward and backwards in time.

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure their survey data comes from lots of websites, not just theirs.

I'm pretty sure you haven't read the statements right before the table: W3Schools.com is for people with an interest for web technologies. This fact indicates that the figures below might not be 100% true for the average internet users. (...) Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files over ten years, clearly shows the long term trends. But if you're not convinced, you can read in their forums: - The w3scho…

I concede the point. I'm definitely wrong.
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