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Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by achompas » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 3:25 AM UTC

epistasis wrote: post #84

achompas wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't hand-wave away the fact that Gmail, Docs, and Maps are best-in-class.

Of course I can, particularly if they are best-in-class in a class that is not relevant to me. I'm not going to use web apps for email or for office documents, except for edge cases. And that is the case for most people in the world, web apps are a nicety, but not the primary use case. Maps, as I said, are different.

I think you're extrapolating your opinion to "most" people. Gmail is extremely popular, and while Docs is no Gmail, it has no serious competition for cloud-based editing.

Even if you're not using Gmail's webapp, it's an entire email infrastructure serving as the backend for Mail.app or Mailbox or whatever you use. At this point, if someone doesn't have their own mail server, they're probably using Gmail.

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by aclevernickname » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 9:28 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #69

aclevernickname wrote: post #59

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what kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?

Me. I have never watched much TV, skip most movies, and am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Plus I think that I should respect copyrights. Let me turn it around. What true nerd would consider consumption of mass market media a defining characteristic of nerdom? As opposed to, say, burying your nose in a math text for fun?

Thank you for calling me on the No True Scotsman fallacy, then perpetuating the same in your reply. :)

Shame about your respect for copyright in the digital age; I'm in full agreement with you otherwise.

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by aclevernickname » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 9:29 PM UTC

seldo wrote: post #62

aclevernickname wrote: post #59

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what kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?

I didn't say I don't use RSS ; I just don't use it for news (or any kind of reading). I plumb it into automation quite often, though.

and you use google reader for your plumbing? does that not seem a little robust for such an activity?

Re: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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Post by aclevernickname » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 9:32 PM UTC

MostAwesomeDude wrote: post #224

aclevernickname wrote: post #59

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what kind of geek doesn't have EZRSS and a few other torrent feeds fed into Sickbeard or FlexGet for automatic television/movie/game downloading?

I would never participate in automatic torrenting; I am pretty discerning about what I watch. Additionally, RSS feeds just seem pointless to me; I visit web sites when I want to consume information from them. I dislike the idea of turning my computer into a television.

You can still be discerning in your automatic torrenting. For instance, Flexget has an option to download S01E01's of television, and the ability to check Metacritic ratings for Games/Movies before downloading (I have a threshold of 75% or above). While I tend to find a bunch of tripe television (the wife enjoys it, and I built her media center out of love), I happily delete the awful stuff, and don't add it to the list of "automatically download this title" shows I've curated.