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Programming challenge of the week?
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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It might be fun to do as an intellectual exercise, but can you imagine supporting it?
I'd probably be shopping for machetes and machine guns, within a week.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One problem is that you can never accurately predict which application will meet with success.
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The social media wave has passed - it's all about antisocial networks these days.
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Member 12871252 wrote: I don't have the first idea ... I want to know ... It seems like
Look in a flower !
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I wouldn't say it's stopped being developed. However those that are developed didn't got attraction as much as FB and Twatter.
modified 5-Feb-17 13:51pm.
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Member 12871252 wrote: what is the biggest factor stopping the next platform of social media being developed to take on Facebook?
Not sure if you remember... but nearly every single media news organization was advertising for Facebook when they appeared on the scene... even many international news organizations.
Remember that tiny little Facebook logo on CNN, FOX, CBS and just about every news organization? Even more amazing that this was occurring years before they were publicly traded and had very little capital.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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One of the big things stopping a competitor from arising is that whenever a social network threatens to become popular, Facebook likes to step in and buy them.
And by social network, I don't mean things that look and much like Facebook. I mean things that people start to use instead of Facebook. They bought Instagram and Whatsapp because many people were starting to use Instagram for sharing photos instead of FB, and were using Whatsapp instead of Facebook Messenger. To be fair, the Whatsapp acquisition was also about extending Facebook's reach, since it's available on many feature phones where FB Messenger isn't an option.
Facebook isn't likely to disappear, but the risk comes from companies like Snapchat who siphon away the age 15-25 crowd. I think Mark Zuckerberg's worst nightmare would a scenario where all the young people have abandoned ship for a newer and cooler social network, and FB ends up being an echo chamber of old people grumping about politics, posting fake news, and sharing pictures of their cats. I'll admit that I mostly use FB for sharing pictures of my cat these days, so I'm probably part of the problem. 
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You just came out with an idea... 'Animalbook'. Sharing animal videos, social media that focusses on animals.
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Facebook has momentum. Back then, Zuckerberg just got licky. No, really, he just managed to fill the gap that the duying Myspace, Uboot and what else they're all called left. Right now, you have to convince existing FB users to switch to your platform and that's pretty impossible due to the laziness of human nature. One social network, ok. Two of them, what for?
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You'd need to offer something that FB doesn't offer that's compelling enough to make people want to use it...and that would take too long for FB to copy and you think is worth more than the $1 billion that FB would offer to buy you off with if they couldn't copy it.
How about this? The 'perfect' matchmaker. Takes every single bit of information about everyone online, and picks the _one_ person on the internet that is (currently) your perfect romantic match....and updates it every time a bit of information is added, so it's a constantly moving target. People who put more personal information and more recently would get better recommendations. Call it 'THE ONE'.
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The thing that facebook got right is making it not about you, but rather about your friends. That is why most people check in. Not to post but to read
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I think a big factor in Facebook's success was that it started out on college campuses with an already electronically connected demographic. Once you got the kids, you got [many of] the parents.
I've found that you can't find most of my demographic (born in the 1960s*) on Facebook, but you can find their kids. (Though this is changing, especially for those with grandkids, since Facebook is a convenient way to get pictures, announcements and all that.)
*Only after writing that did I realize that if you were born in 1969, odds are you graduated college in 1991, which is when, for all intents and purposes, the web started.
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An era ends. [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It's too early to say that an era end...
Interesting time ahead for Cuba, we shall know in a year or 2 how it's gonna be....
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Just heard Leslie Neilson is feeling a bit off colour!
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They are celebrating in Miami! ...and crying in Cuba.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The backup clue I had in case today's was not solved... just for fun:
How fighter jets are dispatched to a jester fight? (9)
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Why the "Jester fight" bit?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Anagram (scrambled) of fighter jets
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Brain: startup sequence beginning...
***OUT OF CHEESE ERROR***
*** REDO FROM START ***
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think this may be triggered by the famous Times crossword clue:
Gegs (9,4)
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