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by unalone 17y ago
Entrepreneurs don't count unless they build web sites?
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by unalone 17y ago
So they're not start-ups in your sense of the word, but they're businesses self-started that make a living for the person/people in question.
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by unalone 17y ago
Couldn't be arsed is an old expression.
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by unalone 17y ago
If you want to belittle Wired or iPhone users or Twitter users (and Lord knows it's trendy to do so), feel free, but do expect to get hit with the occasional bout of sarcasm in response I've already responded to this. Wired implies that T
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by unalone 17y ago
Its design is brilliant—I am similarly a fan, though I don't Twitter—but my point was that "killer app" means something that "the best twitter client I've ever used" does not.
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by unalone 17y ago
Tweetie is good, but it's not a killer app. A killer app's something that annihilates its competition. Tweetie doesn't annihilate anything. The iPhone is killer, but when Wired is making the argument of "Instapaper justifies your owning a
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by unalone 17y ago
I know. I don't think it's just a matter of new users. It's a shift in what Hacker News is focusing on. The level of discourse has dropped.
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by unalone 17y ago
You and your fucking snark. Hacker News is a place with lots of smart people saying smart things. Snark is for when people say something that is obviously stupid and not worth a debate. If you want to disagree with me, do it earnestly, beca
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by unalone 17y ago
The other killer iPhone app is Tweetie, a $3 Twitter client that, if you’re a Twitter user and have multiple accounts, is as indispensable as a needle to a heroin addict. Oh, Wired. Continuing to destroy your credibility by insisting that
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by unalone 17y ago
Their product is better than okay. I can't think of anybody competing with them who does what they do better than they do.
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by unalone 17y ago
This is much more hardcore, though. It simulates disc changes and the like.
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by unalone 17y ago
There's a difference between popular and better. I'm not saying that Craigslist isn't good. I'm saying that if it wants to redesign, it should redesign because its creators want it to be different.
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by unalone 17y ago
Out of curiosity: What places have you been going now that you're looking for clothes? I'm where you were last year, and am a bit clueless as to where to purchase things. (Hopefully this isn't too much of a conversational tangent.)
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by unalone 17y ago
Isn't French Connection the company that created the whole FCUK trend five years ago? If so, they lost my respect way back then.
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't use Craigslist, but HN is not the same sort of site at all. There are features that would add positively to HN that wouldn't detract anything from it.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's why I said "different from any other site online." I don't think we're any more entitled princesses than Redditors or Diggers, though. I don't feel entitled to good service on HN (and thank God, because we sure don't get it), but I t
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by unalone 17y ago
Funny that you call fashionable people worthless shits while citing the essay that's used most to point out that lots of nerds are worthless shits. I don't see the point in denigrating people's passions, Bill. Paul Graham likes programming
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by unalone 17y ago
"I want simple, good-looking apparel that covers my nakedness and maybe even makes me look attractive." That's like saying "I want to read a simple, good-looking book that entertains me and even makes me look intelligent." You can't be that
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by unalone 17y ago
Don't think of it like it's judgmental. Think of it more as an indicator. If I'm reviewing a student's essay, and he's writing in a five-paragraph thesis model, then I know his effort is based largely on somebody else's idea of what makes a
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by unalone 17y ago
They're cooler because they so thoroughly document what they're doing, they have fun doing it, and they don't take shit from people in the process? As a kid in high school, 37signals was one of the sites that changed how I thought about the
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by unalone 17y ago
I only really started being interested in fashion over the summer, when somebody mentioned J Petermen, I followed the link, and fell in love with the site's style. So I'm very much a fashion noob. But from the first few forays I've made, th
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by unalone 17y ago
Sounds like it was written by somebody who's never walked into an upper-scale clothing store. Once you get too old for Hot Topic, the profanities disappear.
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by unalone 17y ago
Yeah, because Hacker News readers really feel entitled. Where is this arrogance you claim to see, and how is it different from any other web site online?
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by unalone 17y ago
literally changes What would a nonliteral change be?
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by unalone 17y ago
Do you have citation for that?
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by unalone 17y ago
Where does it end? It doesn’t. Why should it? Life is good, health is good, beauty and happiness and fun and laughter and challenge and learning are good. This does not change for arbitrarily large amounts of life and beauty. If there were
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by unalone 17y ago
HN would make a terrific startup challenge. It's already got a potential revenue model that would work: Charge for admission. It works for similar sites, and I think it would help a lot for this one.
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by unalone 17y ago
When you post online, you're saying something with your name. It's tied to you and who you are as a figure online. I've had things I posted on HN come back to bite me in the ass, not in large ways but in ways that indicate people are willin
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by unalone 17y ago
Hehe, not from where you're standing. But from where I'm standing 49 is way too young and a tragedy. I've got a weird idea of death, perhaps. I don't like it when it happens, but I don't see it as a tragedy. Personally my favorite book b
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by unalone 17y ago
I don't think there are. Some of us agree that parts of HN don't work as smoothly as they ought.

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