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Predictions for 2010
- russell 17y agoLame humor.
- Miky 17y agoI liked most of it except for the blind Windows hate on the last one. I especially liked the XML one.
- coderdude 17y agoI was disappointed at first to see that the predictions for 2010 from (google.com) were actually some guy's sites.google.com site with "funny" fake predictions. I decided to humor the guy and I wasn't completely disappointed. #3 made me laugh.
- shaddi 17y agoI personally thought these were hilarious (esp #1). You bring up a good (if slightly offtopic) point. There should be something to differentiate sites.google.com pages from those officially published by Google. Just add the "sites." so we know the difference.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoThis has been asked for again and again. Apparently whoever maintains this site is busy with something more important. Huff.
- rms 17y agoThis is done manually by pg for subdomains on many other sites; this is just one he missed. You could point it out to him by email if you want.
- shin_lao 17y ago#14 is funny
- Raphael 17y ago17. Friendster revives to become the number one social network for gerbils.
- ctkrohn 17y ago"...after it's discovered that the entire banking industry is held together with Visual Basic 6 and Excel macros." This is truer than anyone here would like to admit...
- bradgessler 17y agoInsurance and healthcare information systems too.
- digitallogic 17y ago"8. The TARP bailout is extended to Microsoft after it's discovered that the entire banking industry is held together with Visual Basic 6 and Excel macros." That second part is eerily accurate.
- camccann 17y agoI would have added "Microsoft then gives the money back after realizing that accepting it requires them to support VB6 in perpetuity."
- camccann 17y agoThis is probably more accurate than most predictions you'll read elsewhere. For what it's worth, the author of this is clawrencewenham on HN, a consistent source of good content.
- christofd 17y agoNot sure this is correct procedure, exposing the privacy of a HN fellow. I personally would have second thoughts posting that.
- camccann 17y agoHe's posted several of his own articles before and acknowledged them as such (which is the only reason I know it's his!). I just wanted to make sure he gets proper credit. cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754119 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=754119
- christofd 17y agoAh, good to know :)
- petercooper 17y ago17. Inane shite will still make it to the Hacker News front page.
- uggedal 17y agoThats not a prediction, it happened in 2009.
- pavs 17y ago"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."
- clawrencewenham 17y ago18. Anthropologists find genetic and archeological evidence that ancestral man once flew between the stars and listened to Lenny Kravitz. A huge post-hoc revision in a popular sci-fi series replaces "All along the watchtower" with "Are you gonna go my way?" and comes out better for some weird reason.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago1 word: Erlang
- rms 17y agoplease no
- pwpwp 17y agoSince when is humor inane?
- chubbard 17y agoThe (google.com) ending is a little misleading since it's just someone's hosted site on sites.google.com. It's not google's opinion, but it would be a lot funnier if it was.
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- richardburton 17y ago"Somebody then does the obvious and ... gets one bunch of monkeys to write code and uses the second bunch to test it. A reasonably good clone of Windows 7 is banged out over 8 months with a budget of about $4,000" My favourite line.
- SamAtt 17y agoThe sad fact is I'd actually buy an OS/2 Phone. (It's true. More than a decade after the @#%$ that was Windows '95 beat us and I still can't let it go)
- theycallmemorty 17y ago"XML will continue to be a better choice than JSON or YAML for the same reason that McDonalds is a better choice than Arby's or Hardees" I'm not quite sure what he's driving at here...
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