Duh. I am sure of one thing what is going to happen for pretty little Giphy service. Instagram was cool. now, I see sponsored Ads for every two posts. It is annoying to be in Insta nowadays. I suppose this is going to happen for Giphy as well. How frustrating if you are searching for quick witty gif and you see a sponsored ads in it.. you never know FB monster can do this.
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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Stealing is illegal, as is assault, and you are not convicted of assault in cases of self-defense. Similarly, calling fair use "government sanctioned stealing" is a bit of a stretch.
That's exactly what it is. Fair use is a government granted exception to intellectual protectionism. The government is the one determining what counts as intellectual property violations, and what counts as exempt from punishment. Without intellectual property law, you would be free to copy anything. The barrier to copying is the government. The free pass to flaunt their rule, when qualified, is also the government.
I fail to see how this situation differs from the distinction between assault and self-defense.
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I'm sorry but... what? you turned down a 200k salary?
200k is fairly normal if not low for a senior backed role in SF. Especially considering that any stock options you got would end up being worthless.
I feel like you can quote just about arbitrarily high number for an SF engineer salary and someone will come out of the woodwork to tell you that it's actually low.
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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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…
> My friends and have been using the eye roll emoji to signal we're being sarcastic for about 10 years. But why would you assume this works for a random stranger? It seems much more logical to assume they’ll interpret the thing you’ve written as being said while actually rolling your eyes. That said, it seems entirely appropriate to look down on someone that doesn’t test their code before deploying.
I think at some point you "forget" what some emoji really mean. I've kept my circle of friends quite small in the last couple decades, and we're all using this emoji for sarcasm. It's akin to private jokes, that crack you and your friends up every time, and then when you try one of those with other people, you're the only one laughing.
My other colleagues were not confused by my usage of the emoji, although they've known me for some time now, and they know that I'm not the type of person to actually roll my eyes while talking to someone, or even look down on them.
At least it was a nice reminder that our ways, customs and habits, no matter how normal they seem to ourselves, can still look crazy from the outside.
But I agree with you, it may have been one of the best sentence to use this emoji with. :)
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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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.
I the only time I need giphy is when there is no appropriate (custom) emoticon. Giphy takes way too much space. Also, why does Teams not have a :shrug: icon. Seriously?
If you're on Windows, windows key + period brings up the system-level emoji picker. Just thought I'd let you know in case you weren't aware there was even such a thing as a system-level emoji picker (I sure wasn't until someone on my team told me about it).
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly what it is. Fair use is a government granted exception to intellectual protectionism. The government is the one determining what counts as intellectual property violations, and what counts as exempt from punishment. Without intellectual property law, you would be free to copy anything. The barrier to copying is the government. The free pass to flaunt their rule, when qualified, is also the government.
I fail to see how this situation differs from the distinction between assault and self-defense.
assault and self defense were my analogy of something similar. im saying they are not different in kind. akin to self defense being government sanctioned murder.
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Am I out of touch? No, it's the 1.6B daily active users who are wrong.
Look at it as at a bad but addictive habit. Hundreds of millions of smokers do harm their health, and through it their own and their neighbors' wealth. But quitting is indeed hard.
You can’t seriously compare smoking and keeping up with friends and family, which is the reason that drives most of the usage of Facebook.
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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S3 bucket, FTP folder, imgur... for your custom gif's and then you can paste a URL and get animation. No frills.
If I paste a URL, I get a URL, not an embedded image. Then people have to click it to see the gif, and they don't, so it defeats the purpose.
That is a preference you disabled. By default URLs are expanded inline.
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. If this is an ironic joke, it's a good one. If not, it's painfully un-self-aware. Because "feels like I'm in Darmok" is just an meaningless in isolation as "Temba, his arms wide."
```It is a genuine source of hilarity to me that “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a potentially really useful popcultural-reference shorthand for “a situation where two groups face a difficulty communicating because one group speaks exclusively in memes and popculture references”```
-- https://twitter.com/venatrixlunaris/status/11852863701068595...
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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Do any of these services let you share your own gifs over slack? Last time I tried: dragging in gifs (or mp4s or webps) resulted in an attachment, not an inline gif, giphy wanted money to upload your own gifs, and gfycat had some kind of slow and inconsistent review process so that your gifs don't show up in search (or in the slack plugin) for weeks to months after you upload them.
Couldn’t you just... drag the gif into Slack?
Just typing /giphy is so easy though.