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Is this the first time a twit has been submitted to news.yc?

• dfranke 18y ago
  Nope. Cringely gets submitted here with some regularity, for example.
  • SwellJoe 18y ago
    Say what you will about Cringely, he's had pretty stunning accuracy at predicting Apple's biggest moves for several years now...even the stuff that seems unlikely except in hindsight.
    • dfranke 18y ago
      Yeah, I just couldn't resist the snark and he was the first soft target that came to mind :-)
      • SwellJoe 18y ago
        And, I don't know if you've heard Joe Kraus speak, but he almost always tells the story of the serendipity that led to his success with Excite...and the first step in that series of unlikely events, the kind fellow who spoke to him was Cringely. He lined up their first customer and first investor and offered them lots of (bad) advice. But Joe obviously still feels very positive about it, because he's brought it up three times out of four that I've seen him speak. Cringely's telling of the story: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1999/pulpit_19990121_000598.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/1999/pulpit_19990121_0005...