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by nir 17y ago
Yeah, he's aware of that.. "And when the Justice Department lawyers arrive, briefcases in hand, to ask why America’s two national newspapers did these things in concert [..] you can answer directly: We never talked. Not a word. We read some
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Most users won’t pay for news, but if we move quickly, maybe enough of them will(cjr.org)
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by nir 17y ago
David Simon recently urged the NYT and WP to start charging, at the same time: http://www.cjr.org/feature/build_the_wall_1.php?page=all The cable model is interesting. Perhaps such sites could work out deals with ISPs - you'd pay a few mo
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by nir 17y ago
Is there a statistic on how many people use identi.ca? I wonder if it's reliability is due to better design or simply having less users.
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by nir 17y ago
WSJ charges for articles, seems to be working ok for them. Same with the New Yorker and IIRC Financial Times(?). I wouldn't be quick to dismiss this option. As for the Google Times option, I think it'll bring about more problems than soluti
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by nir 17y ago
Where's the hacker interest? Seems like ordinary "A-lister" douche vs. douche.
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by nir 17y ago
I pretty much agree with you. My comment was on the "online personality" part.
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by nir 17y ago
It's worth noting that it's an online presence backed by serious code, which makes Zed worth listening to (and hiring). It seems like many online presences have the attitude without supplying the code.
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by nir 17y ago
"We frequently break news before the WSJ and NYT" That's not so hard when you don't observe the same standards for verifying a story. The impression is that TC simply publishes early and often - statistically, some of it turns out true.
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by nir 17y ago
Weird... actually (from my limited experience) Java development is more similar to PHP than .Net, so the original comment actually makes sense. It seems like downmodding comments became a lot more common in HN recently. Not a good sign.
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by nir 17y ago
He may have invested in it because he thinks it's a good company, but providing it with a permanent space on his widely-read publication significantly improves the odds of his investment. I doubt even the most honest reporter can reliably c
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by nir 17y ago
You know, the scary part is that the people who run NY Times and co seem to actually take Arrington & his kind seriously.
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by nir 17y ago
1. “Make the very best products. Business will follow” - if there's one company who knows this not to be true, it's Apple, ca. mid-80s to late 90s. IMHO the web's rise as the main application was as responsible to Apple's comeback as anyt
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by nir 17y ago
Once you're at the capistrano level, deployment is a different game.. I'm talking about relatively small projects (I wouldn't deploy a big project on GAE anyway, if only to avoid the lock-in to Google) I totally agree on most of issues you
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by nir 17y ago
"If we can leverage JRuby to grab 1-2% of the Java market, we'll double the size of the Ruby community" - that's pretty incredible. IMHO it could be smart of the community to put some effort into getting JRuby on Rails working smoothly on
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by nir 17y ago
German companies are investing $555 billion on a huge solar farm in the Sahara to supply electricity back to Europe: http://www.solarfeeds.com/recharge-news/7540-german-group-to...
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Huxley & Orwell's Dystopias(fatpita.net)
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by nir 17y ago
AFAIK Comet's not really an XMPP alternative, rather XMPP works (usually) on top of a Comet implementation. BTW I posted a little Chat over Comet intro with some code, perhaps it might interest some: http://niryariv.wordpress.com/2009/07/1
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by nir 17y ago
Facebook and YouTube have a lot of user who spend a lot of time there. This at least makes an ad model possible. Twitter does not have that, especially considering how long it's been around (it was launched about 6 months after YouTube) and
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by nir 17y ago
They're in business with the money they raised. The fact that putting up a few content pages nets them an NY Times story probably doesn't hurt attracting further investment..
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by nir 17y ago
There's a good chance the company the recruiter was working for would actually hire your friend. Many companies were under pressure to increase their staff and show "growth" to their investors. I was working for a company with a super-talen
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by nir 17y ago
There may be more demand now (I don't about x10,000 more..) but there's a lot more supply too. Many of the "web consultants" Spolsky is referring to were people making 6 figure salaries for barely knowing HTML (not even CSS). The common "15
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by nir 17y ago
Playing with Google App Engine (& hence Python), very nice platform for quickly putting together small web apps: http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - SMS notes (reminders etc) to your inbox http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - send a URL, get a
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by nir 17y ago
From the article it seems he largely lives on stuff that he finds in nature or dumpsters. Occasionally he may be invited to a meal. Obviously he wouldn't have canned spam without a modern economy, but he would probably have a lot more wildl
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by nir 17y ago
"NB: you live in a fucking cave. Forgive me if this doesn't sound like the future of mankind" Forgive me if I say this sounds like a Reddit comment :) Why so negative? He doesn't harm or tries to convert. There is a difference between him a
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by nir 17y ago
To his credit, though, unlike many other Web celebs Winer at least has some code to back his ego. Twitter has ways to before its impact is comparable to RSS.
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by nir 17y ago
http://www.listable.org/json/url-shortening-sites :)
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by nir 17y ago
Might find this list of URL shorteners useful: http://www.listable.org/show/url-shortening-sites (can be exported as JSON/SQL/plaintext)
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by nir 17y ago
I've written a similar URL-matching-between-feeds system for my own use: http://crowdwhisper.com/crowd/1/items (the output is also fed to Twitter: http://twitter.com/crowds ) The code is in Rails, and could use some bugfixing, refactorin
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by nir 17y ago
I don't think there's anything uniquely American about it. It's the same - usually worse - pretty much everywhere. The sad part is that it seems that the Web, once seen as hope for improvement, is actually making it worse.

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