Exactly. The whole piece is < 900 words, mentions about 4 meaningful pieces of info (current Slack stats, names of 3 OSS competitors and a line or three about their rationales, history, 1-2 added features). Hardly "must-read" territory.
For those ~15 lines of unwrapped text, the whole page is 1900 lines in total.
From everything I've seen/read during the security research phase for my project, trusting in the computational/security integrity of endless P2P nodes is not a road I want to go down.
There really is nothing _a priori_ wrong with the centralized system, PROVIDED said system/operator makes strong Privacy / Data Sovereignity guarantees from the word go.
The piece and ars technica video show both the good and the bad of this new MSFT attempt:
Some good ideas, but let's be real - ultimately a total niche product at $1500. Compare that the surface pro 3 has been selling about 3-4 million units in the last year ( q3/2014 - q2/2015 revenue was estimated around $3b, on devices costing about $800 + $130 keyboard), while Apple sells about 20m Mac units in the same timeframe, which is in itself STILL a niche!
www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/
I just don't see how this is going to make any sort of real dent.
I've been saying the same thing for ages... there even was a hashtag around at the time in 2012 if I recall... #waronwords
Google could never decide if they wanted to G+ to basically be Instagram (not surprising given Horowitz' Yahoo/flickr background), or if there was something to be done along the Interest Graph angle a la Reader / HN / Reddit / asf. The info density for the latter has always been terrible on G+, not to speak of various other iniquities that text-heavy posts (or post shares) had to endure for years, like much smaller images in the stream for the longest time.
Really they should have just split these two use cases into either two separate apps (maybe to prescient for 2011), or at least provided alternative UI views. Of course, a solid API including Write could have solved it as well as you alluded to.
Blanket #surveillance, a domestic enemy to the Constitution? Discuss...
"I, [name], do solemnly swear that I will support & defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign & domestic...that I will bear true faith & allegiance to... same [constitution]; that I take this obligation freely, without any... purpose of evasion..."
4th Amendment to said U.S. Constitution: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, & effects, ... against unreasonable searches & seizures, shall not be violated, & no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, & ... particularly describing the place to be searched, & the persons or things to be seized."
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=== Just FYI... after opening this link, === and in short succession this nearby one: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404618 ("HTML is almost 100% responsive out of the box (fluidity.sexy)"), something sent my Firefox browser and then my entire Galaxy Tab 8.9 (which has been functioning pretty flawlessly for 3+ years) into an unstable state.
I may have to root/wipe it now... :(
I can't prove that it was caused by either this or the other link, but the coincidence is troubling... who checks these HN submissions for malware anyway?
=== Just FYI... after opening this link, === and in short succession this nearby one: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404218 ("Bootflat"), something sent my Firefox browser and then my entire Galaxy Tab 8.9 (which has been functioning pretty flawlessly for 3+ years) into an unstable state.
I may have to root/wipe it now... :(
I can't prove that it was caused by either this or the other link, but the coincidence is troubling... who checks these HN submissions for malware anyway?
For those ~15 lines of unwrapped text, the whole page is 1900 lines in total.