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Given that the guy's nick is phreakmonkey, I assume he took that into consideration and used a throw-away password that was gone before the video was posted.
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First, a meta-note -- if you want app reviews, don't mention that they're YC app submissions as that usually gets them killed. (Since otherwise there would be a bajillion apps getting submitted here.)
In general it's slick, presumably a good chunk of that coming from GWT usage. However, I kind of lost interest after a couple minutes flipping through stuff. There's no pain point that jumps out at me, i.e., "Oh, wow, I'd love to use that for [...]!" It's a natural tendency for geeks (myself included) to build platforms to solve problems rather than solving problems directly. Fight that. :-) |
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Reading the description it sounds virtually identical to what I know about CouchDB:
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Wow, three strikes on first contact. I'm becoming less and less enthused:
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This sounds a bit fishy to me. Of course Flash can be run from multiple processes simultaneously since it naturally runs inside of multiple browsers simultaneously, and I assume Chrome has some internal (socket based?) IPC that they're using anyway...
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The thing is, I think even this really overstates what actually happens there. I'd guess maybe 10-20 votes on any given day to all of HN stem from things being mentioned in there. It's not like the channel actually controls the site. If it's a conspiracy, it's a pretty ineffective one.
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This makes it sound like some secret society or something. It's the #startups channel on Freenode, which has been posted here about a bajillion times and has more than 100 people in it, most of them HN regulars.
The Defenders of HN, like much of what's said in the channel is tongue in cheek. And for the record, and I think this goes for any of the regulars in there, sure, if somebody mentions an article that I like and points it out in there, I'll vote it up. If somebody mentions an article that's crap, I won't. I do the same on HN by subscribing to the RSS feeds (via searchyc) of a handful of HN users that I find consistently post stuff I want to read. |
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I suspect the disconnect may be much simpler. In many online communities, unlike Hacker News, it's seen as imprudent to post your own stuff.
With HN's roots in the startup community, it's much more in the DNA for people to have an angle they're trying to hustle and there's never been a vibe of don't-self-promote. It may just be that the relative outsiders don't know that it's all good to post their own stuff here. |
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If you're old enough to be writing professional articles at a major news source, you're old enough to know that asking for goodies in exchange for articles is not ok. I can't imagine that he was confused on whether or not this was acceptable; he just made a bad choice and got caught.
The typical errors of young-adulthood are not those of moral incompetence, but simple bad judgement. |
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Transcribing common sense into policy is not the way to get more common sense.
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