Web 2.0 was a big heart of love.
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#82I want to make an Instagram that will only ever have 42 followers ;)
Instagram has one of the least interesting APIs of all popular services, with basically just 2 GET endpoints or something. So if you do want to build this, you're gonna have to do a lot of reverse-engineering of the smartphone application. Probably a fun project on just it's own.
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#83I really liked this video, it highlights that a lot of software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working. The frequently updating title thing is cute, it'll be interesting to see what dies first - YouTube pulling the "title update API" or Tom's script running wherever he's put it
All the software we write is ephemeral and will one day either be retired or stop working.
You can say that about anything we do.
However, at my previous job I integrated an LFBGS[1] implementation into our production code.
That was written in the early 80s in Fortran '77.
The code outlived all hardware that it ran on when it was first written (we ran it on an OpenMP cluster for a scientific-computing problem related to lithographic mask optimization), if not its authors.
It will continue to exist, and run, for a very long time.
Sure, all software is ephemeral. But as you say so, you probably used SciPy/NumPy. Deep inside, there's an implementation of LAPACK/BLAS doing the heavy lifting for you[2]. It started in 1979, and is still kicking.
(And it's still in FORTRAN)
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory_BFGS
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprogra...
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#84I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…
I also remember vividly those optimistic times. You should show this video to your friend as proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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I don't think that changes the fact that the gimmick, that gives the name to the video and the submission in HN, is pretty unimpressive.
Who said it has to be impressive? It's simply something fun that relates to the deeper dive he takes in the video.
I'd go further and say that it needs to be simple above all else, to help communicate the message. Confusing that with the ideas of video editing/compositing and uploading would make the message less effective.
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Not sure about open source and paid hosting, but there is node-red, https://nodered.org/ , which is open source and easy to get started with. Combining stuff is something Zapier excels in, https://zapier.com/ , and the free tier can suffice for some tasks (not open source). You could also try my attempt at a spiritual pipes successor, https://www.pipes.digital/ (but it's also not open source). If there is something m…
So, the requirements of open-source + have entity with paid hosting are both equally important. First one to ensure I can continue using whatever I setup on the hosting, in case the entity behind it cannot. And the paid hosting is important because it gives better odds towards the service actually sticking around. What I likes with Yahoo Pipes compared to NodeRED (at least as far as I looked at NodeRED, I might be wr…
I don’t think those requirements will be met until people like us who miss it put our money where our mouth is ;)
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Vimeo does have such a feature. The ability to do such could be based on karma on YouTube.
Another downvote? Really? For factual information? https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000817648-Rep... Geez, HN has become worse than reddit.
Maybe they aren't downvoting for the fact, but they disagree with you that tying to karma solves the problem.
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> I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before back to English, just for kicks. Yahoo Pipes was one of the greatest services I used, just when I started getting into programming. Maybe it was so cool because I was naive, but I really miss being able to pipe services together in the same way. Anyone know of any similar attempts that is open…
From a quick search, it looks like someone is recreating Yahoo Pipes here: https://www.pipes.digital/ Unfortunately, it looks like it's not open-source, their Github repo is only for bug reports: https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes
Yeah as I mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641615
A Yahoo pipes! clone really needs some open source love. Too bad the maintainer is more interested in making it a one man SaaS.
The video is interesting because I thought he was talking specifically to me about the http://2fb.me product. But anyway I think this is a reminder that even though API’s have gotten more restrictive that more creative ways of using them bubble to the surface. :)
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#90I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…
There was a lot of interesting promise in Web 2.0 that was completely wasted and then died. I think a big part of the problem was even things like Yahoo Pipes were too complicated for a lot of people and anyone trying to use third party APIs for commercial purposes ran afoul of EULAs or just plain old rent seeking. Once privacy invading advertising became the norm APIs were further restricted or discontinued because the user wasn't running a bunch of client side code tracking and scraping all their behavior on a web page.
It didn't help that a lot of Web 2.0 darlings sold out to on-the-way-out Web 1.0 companies \cough\Yahoo\cough\. Yahoo's management couldn't even monetize money, let alone Web 2.0 properties. So instead we got social media silos. You can put stuff in but good luck ever getting it out. You can share it with whomever so long as they also join the same silo.