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by nir 16y ago
Well, bubbles do pop. The market was hot 96-2000, then cold say 2001-2005, then got hot till the mortgage crisis, then cold until a few months ago etc. Great programmers can create a lot of value, in the right context . Boo.com ( http://e
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by nir 16y ago
I should certainly hope so
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by nir 16y ago
Would you expect the newspapers not to print what Obama says, if it downplays WikiLeaks importance? Or that a google search will not find you some stories that understate them? Or that when someone with Assange's prominence is charged with
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by nir 16y ago
Half these stories report the US government saying the leaks aren't that important, the other half are op ed columns saying the same. The BBC, WaPo, NYT and Slate all covered the leaks extensively. What would you expect them to do? Not repo
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Why tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. - Jan. 22, 2007(money.cnn.com)
6 points by nir 16y ago|1 comments
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by nir 16y ago
But no one can possibly catch all the errors in all articles (esp since many of the worst ones are not factual errors, but context issues)
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by nir 16y ago
>The media [..] been minimally interested in the leaks themselves Here are two leading newspaper sites' special WikiLeaks section: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/statessecrets.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/wikileaks
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by nir 16y ago
These type of comments are what makes me really wary of what comes after the current mainstream media implodes. Instead of becoming more skeptic of what they read, people just replace blind faith in one source with blind faith in another.
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by nir 16y ago
I'm not a fan of Wired, but Salon (and certainly Greenwald) have been doing a very similar kind of reporting.
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by nir 16y ago
Indeed, the pundit for the Reddit generation ;)
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by nir 16y ago
I don't understand - I thought the media was (justly) all over WikiLeaks, with special features in Guardian, NY Times and others? Short of the 2008 elections, I can't think of stories that got similar attention in recent years. I don't get
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by nir 16y ago
Very cool. I guess J. Peterman knew it all along :) I've a question to people following Ariely & co's work: Is there anything there that might help explain why people have no problem paying a few bucks for coffee at Starbucks, but not f
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SiteCake - Site Editing Made Easy(sitecake.com)
2 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I don't think so - in HN we create the content. If Time editors have a discussion about the magazine's choice for Man of the Year, it's different then when readers do. (BTW how many commenters here actually read Time?)
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by nir 16y ago
I think we're starting to need a "dislike" button for HN submissions. How does this get to #1? Time is a private publication. If you don't like its choices, don't read it. If you have to vent about it, you'll find a lot of friends in Reddit
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by nir 16y ago
I know some pretty capable devs who find Obj C challenging, certainly in comparison with JavaScript. There's a reason good iPhone/iPad devs command a high hourly rate. Also, your hard earned Obj C knowledge will be pretty much useless outsi
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by nir 16y ago
Few webapp concepts can't be reimplemented in a short amount of time. Seems to me often the key is in user base and quality of execution (tech & non-tech) which stealth doesn't really help with. Of course startup founders can think diff
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by nir 16y ago
Fair point - but, this relies on the user actively using Twitter over some time, which seems like the minority. Couldn't companies achieve the same with Facebook pages, which seem to have a larger and more devoted audience?
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by nir 16y ago
Depends what potential uses you're referring to. If it's context-sensitive advertising, ICQ did have (has?) ads and supposedly could match an ad to a message text or a user's history.
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by nir 16y ago
Seems to me Twitter's shareholders are doing the smart thing - converting transient hype for lasting cash.
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by nir 16y ago
Question is, in the ~13 years since, was ICQ worth its $400m price? Is Twitter really worth x2.5 that?
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by nir 16y ago
Damn, gotta open CNN to see what people are tweeting about this!
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by nir 16y ago
Can't seem to get Adioso to recognize Canada's capital city. "NYC to Ottawa" works fine on Bing, though..
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by nir 16y ago
These type of articles seem to come from a basic assumption that non-teens do tweet. There's a gap between both MSM and the blogosphere and reality here. The blogosphere is attracted to Twitter since it likes new technology and constant sel
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by nir 16y ago
I have a working (but far from perfect) App Engine based one here: http://qkhack.appspot.com/ Only Firefox for now, due to the editor UI. If you'd like to help integrate Skywriter/Bespin, I'd love to collaborate. The code is here: https:
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Communication is Power(processliberation.org)
1 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
When WikiLeaks published the docs, I thought it would be great as it would expose Westerners to how most of the world lives & operates. Clearly it didn't. Which nation would the commenters here recommend as host of WPFD, in place of the
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by nir 16y ago
Because we can only upvote.
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by nir 16y ago
Don't know the point of this post, but anything that's code or output of code gets my vote over the "everything I need to know about startups I learned in Kindergarten" submissions.
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by nir 16y ago
Having a functioning product isn't that relevant. Take Yammer - it's not difficult to build. People made identi.ca in their spare time, for free. If Yammer turns out to have a real market, competitors in the intranet space can easily add a

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