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Arun Thampi
Personal blog · mclov.inprogrammingstartups
Arun Thampi writes arun thampi, a personal blog at mclov.in about programming and startups. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arun Thampi's February 2012 post on Path uploading iPhone address books, with step-by-step instructions, as background for the privacy controversy. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
is it still time to build?
Most-linked posts?
- Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-02-07
What Hacker News says?
Dave Morin, Path's CEO just responded in a comment: http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-... > Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help the user find and connect to their friends and family on Path quickly and effeciently as well as to notify them when friends…
Comment linking /2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
on “Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers”Submitted Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers as a story · 834 points
HN discussionSpeaking as someone who has never heard of path before today I have no idea what they are apologizing for, and I'm scanning the HN comments hoping someone will list some background. For the benefit of anyone else who is confused: http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-...
Comment linking /2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
on “We are sorry”Submitted Panic-Inspired Stats Dashboard powered by Rails (Gameplan's side project) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionthat is not included in the step-by-step instructions at the end of http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-... i agree that, if it was done, then the transfer is more secure, but, as i said, that does not appear to be the case.
Comment linking /2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
on “Anger for Path after Privacy Breach: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining”Submitted The similarity between the iPhone in 2010 and Ruby On Rails in 2007 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI like the distinction made between sign-up-friction and onboarding, in that the former is essentially about the sign-up process (i.e. forms). However, it's too bad all of the bad practices listed at the end have to do with ugly, shitty forms. Going back to how the OP defines onboarding, it's: "*the process of getting a new user to a must have experience and a set of best practices to get them active" If one of the…
Comment linking /2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html
on “The Best in User Onboarding”Submitted Experiments with CouchDB Map/Reduce Views (i.canhazthread.com) as a story · 2 points
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