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This is going to get ugly very fast. Just last week we had people coming out of the woodwork to say they could clone StackOverflow over the holiday weekend. Th
by jm4 17y ago
This is going to get ugly very fast. Just last week we had people coming out of the woodwork to say they could clone StackOverflow over the holiday weekend.
There can't be a debate about this because the article doesn't mention any specific improvements.
There could potentially be a lot that goes into this. There could be new hardware costs, integration of existing systems so ease the publication of information, new payroll costs, office space, etc. For all we know they could be putting together a whole team of people to run this thing. They could be doing something that's basically like starting a new company. Or they could be paying way too much for a Wordpress theme. The point is we've got nowhere near enough information for people to make the argument that it could be done better and cheaper because we really don't know what "it" is.
- edw519 17y agoThat's what happens when you violate the guidelines and add, "Could HN do it better and cheaper?" to the title. Kinda like adding the expression "in bed" to the end of any fortune cookie to completely change the meaning.
- Agathos 17y agoCould HN do it better and cheaper in bed?
- jdminhbg 17y agoThere's a weekend, and then there's $18 million. How much do you think recovery.org spent? And they're not 6 months late.
- codeodor 17y agoThat's true, but whatever they are doing, it still sounds like they've got money to spend so they are spending it. 9.5 million in 6 months? That's a lot of servers and a lot of programmers working on a web app.