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Ah shit, another site for my /etc/hosts I wonder reddit would be even more useless for me since half the content is from giphy.
You're probably thinking of imgur, which lost some steam when Reddit added their own image hosting. Only a few dozen giphy links get posed each day: https://www.reddit.com/domain/giphy.com/new/
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I can't grok this trend at all. All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm grateful communication on MatterMost at my company has not seen the need for reaction gifs emerge; the wildest thing we have is a custom emoji of a dancing banana.
“Grok” is actually a cultural reference; it is a made-up word from a very famous science fiction book. When people use it, it looks the same to me like if they were using “Live long and prosper” in casual conversation.
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Most likely because their operational costs are borderline obscene due to reliance on Google Cloud for their ML pipeline and moving all their metadata to dynamodb.
ML? For what? It’s not like it finds the GIF you’re looking for. Serious question.
They are literally setting money on fire.
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I use emojis a lot in Slack and texting. They can remove some accidental ambiguity in your writing, by making your intent clear. For example, the tongue out emoji can work to make sure people know you're being sarcastic.
Emojis can have ambiguity too. My friends and have been using the eye roll emoji to signal we're being sarcastic for about 10 years. The un-animated version of this emoji looks like "I'm not really thinking what I'm saying", especially on Discord/Twitter. I've recently a colleague who used the tongue out emoji for sarcasm and the eye roll one for, well, eye rolling with disdain in reaction to something. The first cha…
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I use emojis a lot in Slack and texting. They can remove some accidental ambiguity in your writing, by making your intent clear. For example, the tongue out emoji can work to make sure people know you're being sarcastic.
They can also be ambiguous. Some people think "high five" emojis are actually "prayer hands". Which convey wildly different reactions to something. Told your friend your Dad was diagnosed with cancer? high five
The official spec[1] calls it "PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS".. the keyword there is "person" (in contrast to, for example, "1FAC2;PEOPLE HUGGING" when there is multiple people). The emoji is of a single person folding their hands, which really isn't a high five unless you're somehow high five-ing yourself.
[1]ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
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It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.
Am I out of touch? No, it's the 1.6B daily active users who are wrong.
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I wonder what happened to employees who joined later on, with underwater options.
Not much, I'd imagine. It'd be like getting FB stock options upon joining and having it drop in price when the stock market tanked in March. That's the point of stock.
And the inexorable march towards tech companies owning everything continues. I wish anti-trust law wasn't such a joke across the globe.
Facebook does not have a monopoly on anything, and neither does Giphy.
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Won't that tracking capability be going away pretty soon?
Cookie-based tracking, sure. But there are plenty of other avenues for fingerprinting. This[1] help doc from Adobe Analytics even makes reference to a Subscriber ID header you can get mobile carriers to give you, if you get onto the carrier's whitelist. Nothing the vendors do device/browser-side to restrict tracking will help if your mobile carrier is transparently appending an identifying header to your request afte…
