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It might just be me, but I found that to be one of the most baffling, mumbo-jumbo-laden things I've read. I honestly have no idea what he's talking about. The l
by paulsmith 17y ago
It might just be me, but I found that to be one of the most baffling, mumbo-jumbo-laden things I've read. I honestly have no idea what he's talking about. The leaps in logic, the speculating and the unfounded assumptions, the inside-baseball jargon, the pulling bits from all over and smashing them together and calling it a theory -- sometimes you just have to shake your head at these folks who are so lost in the weeds.
- jazzychad 17y agoNot only that, but he called their bluff... and lost. As per a comment by Paul Buchheit himself: "To be clear, Twitter has made available a realtime replacement for the firehose (the replacement is called "birddog"). We have not yet started consuming that new API because we're waiting for the lawyers to come to agreement on the terms of use, which I hope will happen soon. I think Twitter's legal team is simply overbooked at the moment."
- jfarmer 17y agoThe article is by Steve Gillmor. Every single article of his reads like that -- totally incomprehensible.
- BigDamnDeal 17y agoEvery single statement of his reads like that.
- randomwalker 17y agoThere was a previous Hacker News thread about this guy ("Steve Gillmor's Commenters Revolt"): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453250 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=453250 What I find hard to believe is that continues to write these incomprehensible articles, apparently sincerely, even though he must know that his readers find them incomprehensible. I half expect to wake up some day and find out that Gillmor is a bot or that the joke was somehow on us all along.
- ojbyrne 17y agoMaybe it's just me, but I find this article slightly more comprehensible than his previous articles.
- jemfinch 17y agoHonestly, it reads like Markov chain-generated text.