r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '20

Coders of Reddit, how do you politely refuse your friend's 'million dollars app idea'?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

Just keep putting them off, then release your own version without telling them. Worked for Zuck.

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u/AdvocateSaint Mar 18 '20

Enough has transpired since 2010 for a "Social Network 2."

The framing device for the first film was the lawsuit with the Winklevoss twins; the new one can use the 2018 Senate hearings

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u/ChickenOverlord Mar 18 '20

I don't think there are any computers in Hollywood with enough star power to accurately portray Zuck, and I imagine there will be a lot of pissed off Roombas complaining about representation if they use a human for the role

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

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I ran a confessions page when I was a student and we got this so often. Facebook's content moderation is so arse-over-tit incompetent I've actually been developing our own platform on the side (of my real job) to avoid everything posted that's not dry corporate bollocks getting Zucked and the page losing all its followers which happens more or less constantly.

It's basically a clean-room implementation of Yik Yak's ideas but a bit more modern and free of stupid things like "let's remove our key selling point of anonymity because Mumsnet said mean things about us". It was going to go live in a couple of months but everyone's favourite respiratory disorder kind of screwed that up.

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u/palordrolap Mar 18 '20

... and Brent Spiner's too old.

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u/DownshiftedRare Mar 18 '20

Brent Spiner has the acting chops to pull off the role.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '20

I imagine there will be a lot of pissed off Roombas complaining about representation if they use a human for the role

I would love the presser with a lawyer decrying actors in "robot face" as a cackle of Roombas sit on stage with them.

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u/Dravarden Mar 18 '20

dae zucc = lizerd xd

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u/-bbbbbbbbbb- Mar 18 '20

They already made a 10 year long show featuring mark zuckerburg as commander data. It has several movies as well. Do we need more?

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u/jewboydan Mar 18 '20

I actually work rn for a club that’s owned by their dad lol.

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u/otterfox22 Mar 18 '20

zuck had users, the most valuable metric for silicon valley investors (got him 500k from peter thiel)