Author, Do you really think Twitter's investors will accept taking a haircut and allow that company to go non profit ? That's a stupid assumption. Twitter has value, it is just over valuated right now.
lol, can someone write a generator that generates this kind of non sense ? This is the kind of bullshit statement that gets often upvoted on HN and I love it !
With neocons like Hillary Clinton who takes a lot of Saudi money anything is possible except bombing Saudi Arabia. And USA always needed a big bad enemy for fear mongering, Saddam, Bin Laden, Putin, US needs a "big baddy" to justify its insane military spendings.
Twitter is valuated $10B but it's hard to see Twitter selling for more than Yahoo. It's a tool that might be useful for a tiny part of internet users , marketers, journalists and drama kings/queens but frankly for most of us Twitter is useless, worse it is actually dangerous as it has ruined careers and was used to launch witch hunts or falsely accuse people of sexual crimes. I'm not touching that toxic platform with a ten foot pole.
How about writing libraries with clean API and encapsulation ? because basically your argument is "Our developers aren't disciplined enough to write clean API, so we need to force it with http calls ...".
It doesn't matter what you think. I advise anybody not to give a cent to that campaign until it is made clear whether the original artist supports it, or not.
They are putting his name everywhere in the campaign like he is involved or something. He is clearly not. That's misleading and can be potentially detrimental to the person's reputation if the campaign ends up being a scam.
Again they might have the right to use his assets, they don't have the right to use his name to get money from people like this. That's completely wrong.
Nice idea, I didn't find a good client on PC that does it.
But it shouldn't be up to you or your followers to sort the tweets, I don't understand why Twitter doesn't implement this basic feature. The hell it could be something done in the front-end with no server-side code involved at all.
It's not clear whether David is involved in this project. Nothing against it but if you're going to use someone else's assets make sure you get at least his blessing. The author of the campaign is NOT David Revoy but some unknown guy from Russia. I personnally would not give any money to this kind of project if the original author is not clearly involved, Creative Commons or not.
I wish Twitter really had a way to filter subscriptions by "channels". If you tweet about databases and I subscribe because you did, I don't want to get photos of your daughter's birthday, your wedding, your favorite gang-star rap music, or your opinion about Hillary or Trump. I ended up un-following a lot of prominent devs because of this.
If Twitter had a way to filter followed people messages by keyword or hashtag It would lead to a healthier environment on that platform. Unfortunately since Twitter basically locked access to its API, writing a fully featured client with that capability isn't even a viable alternative for the terrible UX ...
There is absolutely no gap in my logic. Tyrannies are often born from virtuous ideas and well intended people. The problem with concentration of power is that the people holding that power only care about insuring their own survival, not the good of the people they govern.
This is already true at the national level and even more true at the supra-national level in EU. I don't want to give more power to corrupt bureaucrates that are completely disconnected from national concerns.
> the Eurosceptics have undermined at every opportunity
The Eurosceptics don't want a political union for good reasons. It would devolve into a soviet style dictatorship. People that different just can't live under the same government. Europe is not USA. The Eurosceptics are the ones that are grounded in reality here, the other camp is trying to push an utopia that already had horrible consequences.
I'm sure Rackspace is a great service for established companies and startups but for the rest they were always too expensive. I never felt like the premium paid made a difference.