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He demonstrated pretty clearly that he had no idea what he was doing when he lost all the data behind the site, and then revealed that he had set whole thing up
by blasdel 17y ago
He demonstrated pretty clearly that he had no idea what he was doing when he lost all the data behind the site, and then revealed that he had set whole thing up to run on OS X (a sure sign of a dilettante, as someone who had to administer other people's boxes running Mac OS X Server for several years) and that his backup scheme naively synced the in-use database files.
Now he's decided to change the name based on a ridiculously weak letter that anyone who'd even bothered to look at the introduction to the Wikipedia article on Trademarks would have brushed off with laughter.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, your social bookmarking site did much better. (My point here is that maybe things aren't as simple as you are making them seem. It is easy to critique other's mistakes, but it's not quite as easy to avoid them in the first place.)
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- idlewords 17y agoRunning a public, for-profit website for years without generating a single usable backup is a fireworks-party-on-the-hindenburg class of mistake. There is no excuse for that level of incompetence.