Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories
by ashishb on Saturday May 19, 2018 @03:42PM
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I strongly believe that over time, all information would be modeled with an expiration timestamp. The fact that I use to visit a coffee shop 5 years back is neither useful for me or the advertisers.
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Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories
by YaxelPerez on Saturday May 19, 2018 @04:20PM
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Right, but nostalgia is a powerful thing. I'm sure if advertisers knew you watched some movie 20+ years ago they would target you even harder to make you watch the unwarranted reboot/sequel.
That seems like a case of something I would want to be advertised though.
Re:UIs that accidentally preserve memories
by samatman on Saturday May 19, 2018 @05:06PM
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This reminds me of the expiration dates on supermarket salt.
Data which reflects its time of creation is nearly always better than that which does not.
Numbers do not expire.
That’s an interesting meta-idea. Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share? I started going off on a mental tangent about how an algorithm would extend a WiFi hotspot’s expiration on your frequency / number of connections to it.
> Have any more thoughts on its implementation that you’d care to share?
In its most rudimentary form think of it as another "last used time" column in the database. A periodic job can delete all entries which are older than a certain last used time.