Twitter Acquires Magic Pony • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by Bombthecat » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 5:17 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #69

Alexey_Nigin wrote: post #38

This is very sad news. The #1 reason why I moved from Facebook to Twitter was that the latter service used straightforward algoritms for deciding what to show me. When I opened Twitter, I could be almost sure that the timeline would only contain posts from people I followed, arranged in chronological order. Of course, there were some exceptions. Firstly, they always had ads. I see how many people here get angry about…

I can't laugh hard enough at this. I agree I (sorta) hate the Facebook filtering algorithm, but I find Twitter even more impenetrable. It's just impossible to figure out what's going on. Here's my timeline, just opened it up for this comment: * Account I follow, 15s ago. * PROMOTED post from 5 days ago. (here I've already run out of browser real estate on a 27" display because the tweets take so much damn room. Scrol…

When you had to scroll through three pages to get what you want. They archived what they wanted.No?

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by zump » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 12:56 PM UTC

kami8845 wrote: post #2

Another sad moment for the London startup scene as one of the most promising startups of recent years get acqui-gobble-hired up by $BIGCO

Their product was only of use to a bigger company.

Just like the slew of CV startups getting bought by Snapchat.

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by drewstiff » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 1:43 PM UTC

abakker wrote: post #67

ben_jones wrote: post #49

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Don't mind the huge military-industrial complex that has helped derail education, health care, retirement-funding, ...

Remember that the US military Active Duty + civilian jobs makes it probably the largest employer in the US. Not everything they do is great, but they pay salaries and benefits.

A government employer for the sake of employment... Marx would be high-fiving himself in his grave.

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by leoc » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 2:00 PM UTC

sjg007 wrote: post #13

dharma1 wrote: post #5

I looked into these guys a month ago, they have a great team of young researchers. The main application I saw was applying neural networks to video compression, improving compression by 3x or more (I guess by regenerating the lost detail?). Not sure if Twitter has much use for that but it looks like they have patented a bunch of other stuff too, and I'm sure will be a great addition to twitter's ML team. Congrats to…

Pied piper?

It's almost too good to be true, isn't it?

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by rwallace » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

J_Darnley wrote: post #61

debaserab2 wrote: post #42

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Only on HN would someone compare starting a nuclear war to click advertising.

Global nuclear war sounds immensely more fun than the present.

To quote Douglas Adams: "No, not really."

Re: Twitter Acquires Magic Pony

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Post by MOARDONGZPLZ » Thu, Jun 30, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

simonswords82 wrote: post #62

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #58

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I think probably team of people who develop and fix bugs on the app aren't the same team that buys companies, so Twitter can probably do both.

Obviously it has the resources to do both. The point I'm making (badly) is that if their core product is broken perhaps buying other companies should be put on hold until they fix it.

Ah, gotcha. When you stated that the app is "broken" I assumed you meant buggy, not "broken" as in a bad core product.