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Aral Balkan
Personal blog · aralbalkan.compoliticsdesignculture
Aral Balkan's personal blog at aralbalkan.com covers politics, design and culture. Since 2008, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-10-03
- "Twitter Terrorists" - Big Tech Conf Co. Steals, Threatens, & Libels3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-07-16
- Ello, goodbye3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-09-26
- Spyware 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-28
- Aral Balkan – The Camera Panopticon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-05
- Why you should learn HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for mobile development2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-19
- Codename Prometheus2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-02
- /20672 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-03-30
What Hacker News says?
I'm afraid this is the Silicon Valley way of doing business. I believe it's what you get when dealing with VCs. Read more about that here: https://aralbalkan.com/notes/the-camera-panopticon/
Comment linking /notes/the-camera-panopticon/
on “Stop Using LinkedIn”Submitted Free Schnail Mail for life as a story · 260 points
HN discussionAlong the same vein, I highly recommend this read from Aral Balkan[0] on how advertising and analytics data is now really just a fancy word for what we considered spyware back in the older (freer) days of the Internet. [0]: https://aralbalkan.com/notes/spyware-2.0/
Comment linking /notes/spyware-2.0/
on “Exploiting Android Users”Submitted So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish as a story · 191 points
HN discussionI agree with everyone that this should be open-source, but at least this has one benefit over the other proprietary solutions out there: This is not just a secure messenger, but also a beautiful one. If you want to convince - and I do - those who use Facebook Messenger and iMessage and don't necessarily consider their privacy, it needs to have a great user experience on top of the technical foundation. On the other…
Comment linking /notes/codename-prometheus/
on “Pirate Bay co-founder aims to launch surveillance-proof messaging app Hemlis”Submitted Beware of geeks bearing gifts as a story · 152 points
HN discussionApparently it's VC money: https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/
Comment linking /notes/ello-goodbye/
on “'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands”Submitted How PayPal could have killed an independent conference as a story · 110 points
HN discussionIn regards to selling your data, apparently they've taken at least a bit of venture capital, so it's probably a realistic worry in the future... https://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello-goodbye/
Comment linking /notes/ello-goodbye/
on “'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands”Submitted My Sys-Con Nightmare as a story · 108 points
HN discussionYeah, Sys-Con are a sketchy company. http://aralbalkan.com/2022
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on “Is MySQL Doomed to Extinction?”Submitted Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThe limitations are well known, just Google around. A relatively good overview can be found here: http://aralbalkan.com/1504 It was discussed in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_threa... It definitely depends on the kind of app you are doing. From my experience GAE is great for websites with high ratio of reads to writes. If you have a lot of writes or any non-trivial background pr…
Comment linking /1504
on “Google Appengine now supports HTTPS”Submitted Ello, goodbye as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThe actual article is here: http://aralbalkan.com/2067 The link just points to the root aralbalkan.com, which is the landing page.
Comment linking /2067
on “SysCon attacks prominent blogger”Submitted SysCon attacks prominent blogger as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThe post he links to, http://aralbalkan.com/2508 , is pretty good too.
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on “Why Adobe’s mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed”Submitted Google and Yahoo’s Flash indexing is revealing… too much? as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSys-con as in http://aralbalkan.com/2022 ?
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on “Oracle and IBM Tinkering with OpenJDK Rules”Submitted Trickle‐down technology and why it doesn’t work as a story · 13 points
HN discussionIsn't this sys-con.com site catching a lot of crap for rebranding content form other sites? http://aralbalkan.com/2067 I can't find the original link for this post but I'm sure there is one.
Comment linking /2067
on “Do you Outsource External DNS? Think Again.”Submitted On false dichotomies and diversity. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWhat about the other 473 issues? http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list Shouldn't we vote for them too? Not that distributed transactions wouldn't be yummy but having worked on App Engine myself (as recently as yesterday in fact), I can say very confidently that they have much bigger fish to fry at the moment than distributed transactions. If people don't take my word on this, and why should they, plea…
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on “Star issue 313 to encourage Google App Engine team to provide distributed transactions.”Submitted Schnail Mail: free real mail for life as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codename Prometheus as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Adobe’s mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Web 2.0 killed the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design is not veneer. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make your web content look stunning on the iPhone 4’s new Retina display as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aral Balkan – The Camera Panopticon as a story · 3 points
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