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i think the funniest thing microsoft did was rename lync to SKYPE FOR BUSINESS
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Lady Naga posted:Slack is Discord for yuppies and old people. Its an IRC reboot
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Aug 14, 2016 00:57
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CommieGIR posted:Its an IRC reboot Again, literally Discord with some yuppie paint.
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Aug 14, 2016 01:01
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Lady Naga posted:Again, literally Discord with some yuppie paint. technically if you go by release cycles, discord is slack for hipster gamers
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Aug 14, 2016 01:42
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Slack manages to combine the worst aspects of email and IM into a single communication system.
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Aug 14, 2016 02:05
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Discord is Slack with a much less plausible business model.
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Aug 14, 2016 03:55
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Plorkyeran posted:Discord is Slack with a much less plausible business model. Discord's business model is to sell cosmetic skins to gamers.
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Aug 14, 2016 04:02
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exploding mummy posted:Discord's business model is to sell cosmetic skins to gamers. i interviewed with them and i think their business model is actually exploiting their employees
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Aug 14, 2016 05:23
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the talent deficit posted:i interviewed with them and i think their business model is actually exploiting their employees But that's every startup.
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Aug 14, 2016 05:23
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MiddleOne posted:But that's every startup. it's all enterprises under capitalism, comrade
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Aug 14, 2016 05:43
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Did someone say Slack? 
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Aug 14, 2016 05:49
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Snapchat is in LA not SF so technically they're not an SV company
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Aug 14, 2016 05:50
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Yeah its Silicon Beach 
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Aug 14, 2016 05:51
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corn in the bible posted:i think the funniest thing microsoft did was rename lync to SKYPE FOR BUSINESS It's because ~brand identity~ is a thing that people actively care about and not just a thing where people occasionally remember an ad about a thing they now want to buy.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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corn in the bible posted:i think the funniest thing microsoft did was rename lync to SKYPE FOR BUSINESS You'd think that after 20 years of "Hey, people know (and possibly even like) our product X, why don't we name product Y with some variant of X", they would have learned that it doesn't work.
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Aug 14, 2016 09:20
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Wheany posted:You'd think that after 20 years of "Hey, people know (and possibly even like) our product X, why don't we name product Y with some variant of X", they would have learned that it doesn't work.
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Aug 14, 2016 09:39
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CommieGIR posted:Best Buy has been noted for their bait and switch tactics in the past. I briefly worked for Geek Squad when I was a teen, and was the only one actually with any certifications. Yeah, I worked for GS just after the acquisition as well, and got out when I got a better job as a datacenter tech, right before they decided to go to having all their software repair work done by remote techs. The amount of time I spent stuck selling printers because the PC sales team were incompetent while customer machines sat behind the counter not getting fixed was absurdly frustrating.
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Aug 14, 2016 12:45
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None of these email killers are going to have any staying power if they're proprietary.
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Aug 14, 2016 22:48
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Xibanya posted:None of these email killers are going to have any staying power if they're proprietary. Replacing email is one step beyond replacing facebook.
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Aug 14, 2016 22:54
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I don't know about the yuppie one but Discord definitely has no ambitions about replacing email.
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Aug 14, 2016 23:03
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If peeps are gonna disrupt anything I would like secure email.
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Aug 14, 2016 23:33
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cowofwar posted:If peeps are gonna disrupt anything I would like secure email. There was some talk a year back or so about Gmail and maybe Yahoo mail planning to offer some kind of user-friendly JavaScript-powered PGP or something on them, I wonder if anything came of that.
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Aug 14, 2016 23:54
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there's like a godwins law for tech poo poo where all "tech" conversations eventually trend toward bitchy anecdotes about best buy
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Aug 15, 2016 01:32
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Lol it really is true that this thread exists solely for jealousy inspired ranting about tech companies isn't it Slack is cool and good
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Aug 15, 2016 02:03
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I don't really know what Slack is and all I do know is that my company still uses Lync (which is still branded as Lync). We are fairly nimble for a large company though; it only seems to take about 3 years between a technology being released and us adopting it. Which I guess means another two years before we all get Windows 10.
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Aug 15, 2016 02:07
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Gail Wynand posted:Lol it really is true that this thread exists solely for jealousy inspired ranting about tech companies isn't it "Jealous" is a weird way to put it.
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Aug 15, 2016 02:12
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Where is the unicorn disrupting email with block chains?
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Aug 15, 2016 02:32
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Gail Wynand posted:Lol it really is true that this thread exists solely for jealousy inspired ranting about tech companies isn't it Yeah bro very jealous about these innovative companies DISRUPT THE WORLDDDD
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Aug 15, 2016 03:09
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if you need secure email i bet you work for the government and you make 50k/year lmao (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 15, 2016 04:24
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namaste faggots posted:if you need secure email i bet you work for the government and you make 50k/year lmao
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Aug 15, 2016 04:29
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Gail Wynand posted:Lol it really is true that this thread exists solely for jealousy inspired ranting about tech companies isn't it Slack in a ten person team is good. Slack in a 50+ person organization mutates into a shockingly god awful productivity leach and stress source. The first however isn't sufficient to support a $3b valuation so...
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Aug 15, 2016 05:07
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Plorkyeran posted:Discord is Slack with a much less plausible business model. I'm actually worried about this because I kind of like Discord and I want it to do well, but I also get this creeping feeling that no matter how good the product turns out to be, the company will fail regardless due to how they have absolutely no discernible business model. (Or at least it will eventually go down the same road Skype did in terms of degradation of product quality and functionality.)
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Aug 15, 2016 06:48
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We still use Microsoft Office Communicator, It's like using MSN back in the day except you are doing it in the present year.
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jaete posted:There was some talk a year back or so about Gmail and maybe Yahoo mail planning to offer some kind of user-friendly JavaScript-powered PGP or something on them, I wonder if anything came of that. quote:I receive a fair amount of email from strangers. My email address is public, which doesn’t seem to be a popular choice these days, but I’ve received enough inspiring correspondence over the years to leave it be. read the entire thing, it's good
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Aug 15, 2016 06:51
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namaste faggots posted:if you need secure email i bet you work for the government and you make 50k/year lmao *faxes u medical records*
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Aug 15, 2016 06:54
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:*faxes u medical records* has not stopped anyone since forever
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Aug 15, 2016 07:02
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It really was good. Thanks. I was disappointed that he didn't pursue the line that people who use gpg voluntarily probably also believe in bitcoin and The Singularity. God, I have a gen-1 PGP pair of keys somewhere. On 3.5" floppy. I used it to communicate with a friend when we had reason to believe that the consulting company we worked for was not above reading people's mail. Also because it was fun, in that lemon-juice-on-paper way. Those messages, if I still had them (I don't) are probably breakable now with very little effort.
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Aug 15, 2016 07:26
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It really was good. Thanks. I was disappointed that he didn't pursue the line that people who use gpg voluntarily probably also believe in bitcoin and The Singularity. I think it's simplistic to have that assumption about those users, but I do think there might be some (perhaps significant) overlap. The problem is that if the process required to encrypt your communications is too cumbersome, only very obsessive people will use it outside of a real top-secret scenario. Nowadays apps like Whatsapp and Viber, not to mention things like Telegram, offer end to end encryption in an effortless way. Of course, the funny thing is that most people are still terrible at securing their devices, and forget that encryption means nothing if anyone can easily access your phone.
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Aug 15, 2016 10:43
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I just write an email, print it, and then snapchat a pic of it to the other person.
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blowfish posted:It's because ~brand identity~ is a thing that people actively care about and not just a thing where people occasionally remember an ad about a thing they now want to buy. it sort of worked because i installed skype for business thinking it was skype but it wasn't skype so i uninstalled it
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