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This is probably specific to Twitter in some regard because they don't understand they partially get used because of the limitations decided in the past. They wanted SMS messages to work so 140 characters. Doing algorithms is hard, so just a raw reverse chronological post list. They instead are looking at Facebook and thinking they can close the gap if they just become a little more like them, and plus it'll make Twitter more attractive to advertisers because they can post huge tweets that will be rocketed up to the top of your timeline. So it's definitely a case of being overvalued from the start, turns out to actually be somewhat popular among certain groups of people, and now forced to make platform changes that appeal to possible sources of money, but not their users.
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This has been my experience at big companies in general (I've worked at Microsoft and Amazon). You're first extremely limited to what data you have access to, on a need-to-access basis. Then, there's often a big barrier between production systems and employee devices, and it often only opens for a short time. Employee devices are often strictly controlled and monitored for malware or even just programs that could cause a licensing suit. This even extends to phones, where you must give IT the right to completely wipe your personal phone if you decide to use it to access corporate email. You can usually download the source code you need for development, but are obviously tracked as you do so. It'd be a quick way to get reamed with an NDA suit. There's also now two factor authentication requirements based on smart cards, one-time pad dongles, or phone apps. Often these are only given to full time employees. Even if you do get to work at home (like I am right now!), you must do it through a VPN, which means that your actions can still be seen since all Internet access will be done through that. It's honestly probably a higher rewards/effort ratio to tailgate behind as someone walks in, or just listen in the nearby coffee shop.
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Okay then, I was completely wrong. Thank you for the correction.
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Basically, if I'm doing a job and I can't do anything but sit around and surf the Internet, I don't want that job because I'd rather surf the Internet at home where I can look at porn and poo poo and take naps, and don't have to drive to work.
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moller posted:This attitude seems to rely on not needing a job to not be homeless and internetless. pangstrom posted:"Sure, I get this 'money', but stringing together 9 porn- and nap-free hours? I don't think so. And don't get me started on driving places." This is old, but pretty much. I mean, to be fair, I personally, would probably not spend all my time on porn, but work on dumb little games and software and art and stuff that excite me but could never actually pay my bills. I recognize I'm a work-shy malcontent, though. But I think everyone should be, and that's the real goal of automation and tech and so on. I also know that I'm practically living the dream coming from a great school in a great field that tolerates so much bullshit from me. I just think that really should be the case for everyone. Mrit posted:Exactly. If you are fully qualified for a job, you will be bored. If in the long list of qualifications you are at least 50% of the way there, you should be fine. I know this is how things are set up, but this is an awful system and probably a good cover story for filtering out minority candidates. "See, Tia wasn't even qualified so that's why we didn't bring her in. Oh, but we just took a chance on Clint and he surprised us."
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blowfish posted:when you call something silicon $NAME you know you're a mediocre me-too tech hub late to the game Silicon Fen is home to the technofae, and adorable. 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:This is the stage where a lot of Kickstarters fall apart: they assume they can deal with Chinese manufacturing at arms' length, then they use up all their money receiving and returning shipments that don't meet their standards. A friend of mine ran into this with a guy Kickstarting large foam polyhedral dice. They were not well put together, had misprinted numbers and so on, and they complained to the factory. The factory responded by sending a picture of a worker. He was sitting at a desk with the foam and a stencil, spray painting them all by hand. I think he was implied to be the only worker. The Kickstarters stopped complaining.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Was he chained to his desk? Probably not literally. I think I remember another Kickstarter announcing that after they had ran out of stretch goals, they bought the factory to build nothing, essentially giving the workers a vacation. They actually did not get one normally. Basically, China has gained so much manufacturing because rather than making new machines or something like that, they can throw people at the problem. On one hand, hey, they have jobs, and it's not usually complete sweat shop slavery, just mind-numbing wage slavery. On the other, it really sucks, and will result in one of those famous crises of capitalism at some point.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy *cow*. Check out the mail these jerks sent to the developer. I don't know, the developer seems more wrong to me here. On one hand, he has no reason to change the name of his library, considering it already exists. On the other, Kik are very correctly describing trademark law in this case, and I could see how his first email seemed to imply he was planning on further competing with them. That said, assuming his library does highly different things, there's no reason that he can't keep being Kik, just as there is the Unity game engine and the Unity dependency injection framework. But even then, how hard of change would it be? How many users would be impacted? The dev doesn't even consider that, just sticks to his guns. He takes the involvement of the node maintainers as treason, rather than acknowledging he is part of a community that often places limits to work together better. Not that node needs the help, but if avoiding user confusion improves their product, or increases their user base, they should feel fine at asking for the change. The dev went Galt and if this was the real world, he'd be the rear end in a top hat. True, Kik is definitely ignoring how threatening it is to mention involving lawyers, though, even if they don't want to use them. And Kik is definitely hoping their corporate power will win, and underestimated the social power the dev had. Call their library KikChat or something and get over it. Both sides are being idiots here.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I talked to my friend the IP lawyer and she says the developer is completely in the wrong, legally, and that the most unreasonable person here is clearly the developer. I still feel that Kik tried to use a "we're all buddies here, please do this" tone when they weren't buddies and it wasn't a request. Yeah, I definitely agree. This sort of faux friendly tone seems to be the trend among corporate speak, and it annoys me how transparent it often is. Same way that Starbucks wants you to see them as a community, not a company.
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twodot posted:Even if their package is doing something sufficiently similar to the purpose of the Kik trademark, wouldn't that it's noncommercial prevent infringement? It not being commercial itself is not enough to excuse infringement, it just changes the damage calculation. If I am giving away free burgers as "McDonald's", I'm still impacting McDonald's ability to use their trademark to attract business.
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