jmzwar

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   by jmzwar 10y ago

   Congratulations - that is great to hear. Is the traffic mainly from google?
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   There isn't anything negative about doing it, just posting a list of stupid ideas peppered with satirised versions of common ideas.
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   If you accept that then you've missed the broader point. Not a single founder would want their idea to appear on next years board of stupid ideas to satirise.
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   My point isn't that stupid ideas don't exist, but that the great ones seem stupid. Dropbox was criticised on here; many thought AirBnb stupid.
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   Do you really need to criticise the actions of others as 'stupid' to make yourself smile?
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   How can 'Stupid Shit No One Needs' be classified as a social critique by any respectable semantician?
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   by jmzwar 11y ago

   Is this not the gratuitous negativity that Hacker News seeks to avoid? Satire is not universally good. Many start-ups in their infancy could be classified using that list. Indeed many of those start-up's founders come here for resource