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Here's some straight-up satire: Only a relatively small fraction of the population, mostly highly intelligent, and well informed, curious individuals use
by emin_gun_sirer 14y ago
Here's some straight-up satire:
Only a relatively small fraction of the population, mostly
highly intelligent, and well informed, curious individuals
used Reader.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391119
It's Lake Wobegon and all you need to enter is a Reader account and some outrage.
- thebigshane 14y agoSo give it me straight: not satire? You wrote a post to HN about how those who are complaining about Google Reader (a group you admit is not all programmers) should stop complaining about Google Reader's shutdown because these people could just whip up their own alternative? And you see no other facet of this situation that is worthy of being upset about? You very successfully just trolled HN. And that wasn't even your intention?
- emin_gun_sirer 14y agoMy post ends on this note: Wouldn't it be much better to channel all this energy towards something more productive? Like, say, writing a few thousand lines of Rails or Django or Node JS or Clojure or whatever code you like to implement a replacement, either from scratch, or by contributing to an existing OSS project. It's a big world out there, we have not "entered a darker timeline in the history of the net," and it's always time to make it better, not demand that someone else do that for you. If that perspective sounds like trolling to anyone, they can just click on any of the other submissions and discuss the relative merits of the Google Reader population over ordinary people.