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Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

#73

Post by anttiharju »

mikeyjk wrote: post #69
charcircuit wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself. 2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally. 3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be…

You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

#75

Post by oxalorg »

khazhoux wrote: post #64

I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them so…

1. re: the first part, many people want something plug and play. and even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience (on windows at least) with online drives generally sucks.

windows for sure doesn't hide latency well (CIFS is bad, SIMBA etc. are worse), and most apps are written as if the disk was local, and assume, for example, accessing a file only takes a few ms. if the server is 80ms away, and you do 2 "wow" accesses per second (e.g. the open file common dialog listing a directory and poking files for various attributes or icons) serially, suddenly your UI locks up for _seconds_ (joel spolsky summarizes this well in his article on leaky abstractions.) ditto saving any file; how can you stay updated on the ever growing wow library? sure for some random memes of a few hundred k it's fine, but doing work on large repertoire of Owen Wilson "WOW"s on an online drive feels like walking around with cinder blocks tied to your feet. anyway, the point of that rant was that WOW API uses an _online_ hosted version which resolves within 20ms, much faster than using the mouse to find files in an online mounted drive, which is an important difference :)

2. true, if you're both not at your computer and on another computer without net access, this won't replace a usb drive :) but the case i'm worried about is being, for example, on a server you own, and the wow api will let you get the most recent version of your wows at the time, and will work on any scripts and crons you write (without you having to physically copy anything or really do anything to your server rack.)

3. there are some unannounced viral parts i didn't get to show in there :) it'll be a freemium model. up to x gb free, tiered plans above that.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

#76

Post by 867-5309 »

rohfle wrote: post #15

https://rohfle.github.io/wow/ a quick and dirty ytmnd-like loop using videos from https://owen-wilson-wow-api.herokuapp.com/wows/random?result...

or, if you prefer, a concatenation of all the videos listed by this API in chronological order:

https://youtu.be/yW2gKsiCYtw

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

#77

Post by carlmr »

khazhoux wrote: post #64

I have a few qualms with this API: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and copying all the Owen Wilson "Wow" audio (.ogg) files. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive full of Owen Wilson "Wow" clips. Most people I know e-mail "Wow"s to themselves or host them so…

Wow

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

#79

Post by szundi »

mikeyjk wrote: post #69
charcircuit wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself. 2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally. 3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be…

You are responding to a satirical comment, riffing on the 'hacker news famous' comment that was criticising Dropbox during its infancy.

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