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01-23-15, 05:33 PM #11
Re: How flashy
MySpace always felt like the second-coming of GeoCities; like the Web-Two-Dot-Oh version of really ugly web pages. I did start a FaceBook account because it was (basically) a business necessity. Later we were thinking about building a version of our app into FaceBook and I wound up attending the first FaceBook Developers conference.
I met many smart, engaging, and motivated FaceBook engineers who were doing very interesting work and were going out of their way to share it with anyone who would listen. Most of them struck me as people I'd enjoy hanging out with socially. They were all about The Social. In fact, it seemed like none of them could go longer than 3 minutes without mentioning The Social Graph.
They couldn't wait to tell everyone about the exponential growth in their user base, and the similar growth in the data they were collecting on their users, and the extent to which they were willing to make most of that data available to anyone who wanted to develop on their platform. It was very odd to me that all of these very bright and motivated people who couldn't shut up about Social had obviously given absolutely zero thought to the actual social implications of what they were doing.
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01-23-15, 05:52 PM #12
Re: How flashy
No, I got that. But the mom example is perfect (so, thank you). If I try to set up Flash on mom's computer in a way that allows any sort of control, it makes mom's computing experience bad. If I set up Flash in the way Flash wants me to (always on, always tracking, always silently updating itself), it makes mom susceptible to every zero-day vulnerability - and there is no way they're fixing the old ones faster than they're introducing new ones.
I ditched client-side Java a while ago - before Sun died (and Oracle dissected the corpse for parts). That one was sort of sad for me. I liked the idea of the JVM (and JIT too). It's a solid tech, but they could never solve the client-side puzzle. Now that I think about it I suppose there's a decent argument to be made that Flash has persisted so long because they were willing to shit on the client.
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01-23-15, 07:45 PM #13Re: How flashy
Yeah, my parents are the same way although my father uses IE. I convinced my mother to use FF several years ago luckily (making any maintenance I do easier) by showing her that there was a browser theme for her undergraduate alma mater. Once the HTML5 players get more standardized things will be so much simpler (and by "simpler" I mean "I won't have to do shit").
I have Java pretty much for Starbound mods (the mod organizer needs Java) and for netalyzr with netalyzr being the only one I need in my browser. It's disabled when I don't need to run an analysis. I ditched my developer install since I'd rather work with (almost any) other language.
On the note of html5, it's also nice that there's vBulletin support for embedded html5 video.enf-Jesus its been like 12 minutes and you're already worried about stats?! :-P
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