mic47

Wait, isn't this just a quote from Hollywood movie?

> We might finally stop pretending they are perfect humans.

This is good thing. Once everyone will be embarased by his history,

> We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

This would be bad, I would rather this to happen: "We probably will stop pretending of being perfect and become more honest."

Well, that explain the bunny token ad I was seeing 1 hour ago :-) On serious note, it will take some time to implement.

I am actually glad they did it. This should make it harder for ponzi-like schemes to get traction, so hopefully, it will make price less volatile.

Thanks for adding more context! It's hard to get that from twitter, sorry.

> Facebook and Google? They use IRC internally for technical reasons. IRC doesn't fall over. Googlers internally revolted when they were told to use Hangouts internally.

I was talking about implementation of Facebook messenger, or Google hangout (which does not use XMPP), not what is used internally for communication.

Also, at Facebook, messenger is most used product internally. IRC is still used, but not that much (depends on org, infra devs use IRC more than product devs). But IRC is still essential, in case of emergencies (where you don't want to use your own product, as it may be down).

With this attitude of the XMPP Foundation, I doubt XMPP have any future. Better question would be to ask what should be improved in XMPP so that they could implement that properly.

Why? Facebook, google, slack are not using XMPP internally for chat products, because of technical reasons. They dropped XMPP gateway for mix of technical and strategic reasons. Instead of trying to be a warrior for technical correctness, XMPP foundation should rather seek feedback and try to make sure that developers integrating with XMPP will do everything correctly as easy as possible. Otherwise, more and more projects would be dropping XMPP support.

I have expectation of any reasonable manager to agree to some form of this; at least to work on that feature you need and support it so that you get unblocked. This is at least practice at Facebook.

Maybe because there will be replacements instead? I guess that changing behavior (and type signatures) of builtins is not backward compatible with projects that want to use Hack. This way they will be able to migrate at their own pace.

Can someone explain why people prefer implants over rings? Functionality wise it's same: read on RFID tag, maybe with some light computation.

People wear rings all the time, application is painless, easy to change once compromised or if there is a new model, and provides same features. Chips would have advantage if they would provide better IO, but currently they don't.

For me it roughly the right continent where I am (if I am on VPN, otherwise it also include greenland and arctic regions).

But with servers in more locations, and possibly accounting for network topology (could be mined with traceroute?), accuracy could go quite up.

Switching languages does not work for me well. I type in 3 languages, two of them has accents. I usually type in different language than is set in the keyboard, because I forgot to set it. My phone keyboard (default on galaxy s3) has learned it well, so it is not problem. I have another recomendation:

Let user to check which languages he is using (somewhere in settings) and then allow him to use them as he wish. Mix all selected languages into one, previous (or two previous word) should be enough to predict correct next word.