I wonder what part of this comment was a reason to slowban me?
So basically people are learning that the first Google result, especially if visually "enhanced", is usually irrelevant advertising? That would concur with my personal experience, and is pretty much the same as what…
Airbnb's concept, however wonderful it may be when it does work, is full of practical and legal holes which are now beginning to emerge. The big question is: can Airbnb close those holes without significantly reducing…
How about, sit back, watch what happens and learn. Even if one of us calls it right, which is sheer luck with so little information, the OP clearly has most to gain from experience. That is the only way to learn to…
Or you could just do that. I once had a junior dev that showed up in a suit (okay, no tie) every day. And this in an Amsterdam broadcasting and advertising company, the kind of place that makes the way people dress in…
Part 32904 in the continuing saga of "my stand-ups suck, so all stand-ups suck". Sorry, not even going to bother with non-snark response. I did that the 32903 times before, and someone else already took the bait. But…
I see you're new to the internets. Sorry, that was cheap. However, in your haste to patronizingly chastise me you're making multiple faulty assumptions. a) I'm not new to HN. Just this account is. b)"Please, f... off"…
Learn English like a Dutchman and end up with a really confused British/American hybrid accent... ;-) Seriously, subtitles are the main reason most Dutch people speak English, traditional education has very little to do…
I did exactly this, almost instantly, and the next first thing I saw because of that was this comment... I don't understand how people even get it into their heads to immediately ask potential users for direct access to…
"Our template has as we speak been sold a 361 times within half a year and it's still increasing. Themeforest rated our template worth a $17." Yes it is. Which basically means the author is refusing to acknowledge the…
You're my new hero.
A 40 year old degree in anything alone isn't good enough to stay employed in any field. Except maybe teaching.
Wait, wasn't the discussion about Wordpress themes having to be GPL (being purely derivative works) over and done years ago? You create a derivative work of GPL-ed software and call somebody else a thief for doing the…
AirBnB may be the canary in the coalmine for tech, maybe more than the privacy issues surrounding the majority of the current tech business models. The industry idolizes "disruption" without taking any responsibility…
> "illegal theft of intellectual property" Say what? Such bizarre phrases make me seriously doubt the intelligence and education of the people who wrote this.
I'm tired of these kind of generalizations. Our open plan office is geared towards developers and quiet and peaceful 95% of the time. Standing rule is, you wanna talk, you take it outside into the kitchen or the meeting…
How does an incoherent paranoid extremist rant make it to the top of this thread?
My body language will tell you if I want help or not. What phrase is used to initiate that interaction is completely irrelevant, but attempts to entrap me in an interaction I don't want will always yield a negative…
On the one hand, I agree with the notion that "working with the established market" is a better business strategy. On the other hand, kissing up to reactionary incumbent market forces and even compromising your product…
This has been an issue since the day I started programming for the web, back somewhere in '95. It has regularly come up on HN, and pretty much any programming related forum I've used since the mid-90's. As an industry…
To me, Jaron's arguing for a robust middle class seems more like an opportunistic smoke screen than the actual core of his argument. Especially if you look at his utterings from the point where he first "turned against…
Lanier would like to make a living as a musician the old-fashioned way, by selling albums through the music industry. Since the copyright-exploitation industry has been under threat he has cobbled together all kinds of…
Doesn't that "gross an unappealing" apply to most US advertising. I don't know about you, but I thought commercials in my country (Netherlands) were stupid until I watched US television. I felt my IQ dropping with each…
If people would actually read what he writes on twitter instead of the sensationalist blog posts derived only from those tweets, they would get a much more nuanced picture.
This is an argument on par with "they hate us for our freedom". This kind of intellectually lazy and arrogant attitude will only serve to alienate SV further from the rest of society, which, not coincidentally, is one…
I wonder what part of this comment was a reason to slowban me?
So basically people are learning that the first Google result, especially if visually "enhanced", is usually irrelevant advertising? That would concur with my personal experience, and is pretty much the same as what…
Airbnb's concept, however wonderful it may be when it does work, is full of practical and legal holes which are now beginning to emerge. The big question is: can Airbnb close those holes without significantly reducing…
How about, sit back, watch what happens and learn. Even if one of us calls it right, which is sheer luck with so little information, the OP clearly has most to gain from experience. That is the only way to learn to…
Or you could just do that. I once had a junior dev that showed up in a suit (okay, no tie) every day. And this in an Amsterdam broadcasting and advertising company, the kind of place that makes the way people dress in…
Part 32904 in the continuing saga of "my stand-ups suck, so all stand-ups suck". Sorry, not even going to bother with non-snark response. I did that the 32903 times before, and someone else already took the bait. But…
I see you're new to the internets. Sorry, that was cheap. However, in your haste to patronizingly chastise me you're making multiple faulty assumptions. a) I'm not new to HN. Just this account is. b)"Please, f... off"…
Learn English like a Dutchman and end up with a really confused British/American hybrid accent... ;-) Seriously, subtitles are the main reason most Dutch people speak English, traditional education has very little to do…
I did exactly this, almost instantly, and the next first thing I saw because of that was this comment... I don't understand how people even get it into their heads to immediately ask potential users for direct access to…
"Our template has as we speak been sold a 361 times within half a year and it's still increasing. Themeforest rated our template worth a $17." Yes it is. Which basically means the author is refusing to acknowledge the…
You're my new hero.
A 40 year old degree in anything alone isn't good enough to stay employed in any field. Except maybe teaching.
Wait, wasn't the discussion about Wordpress themes having to be GPL (being purely derivative works) over and done years ago? You create a derivative work of GPL-ed software and call somebody else a thief for doing the…
AirBnB may be the canary in the coalmine for tech, maybe more than the privacy issues surrounding the majority of the current tech business models. The industry idolizes "disruption" without taking any responsibility…
> "illegal theft of intellectual property" Say what? Such bizarre phrases make me seriously doubt the intelligence and education of the people who wrote this.
I'm tired of these kind of generalizations. Our open plan office is geared towards developers and quiet and peaceful 95% of the time. Standing rule is, you wanna talk, you take it outside into the kitchen or the meeting…
How does an incoherent paranoid extremist rant make it to the top of this thread?
My body language will tell you if I want help or not. What phrase is used to initiate that interaction is completely irrelevant, but attempts to entrap me in an interaction I don't want will always yield a negative…
On the one hand, I agree with the notion that "working with the established market" is a better business strategy. On the other hand, kissing up to reactionary incumbent market forces and even compromising your product…
This has been an issue since the day I started programming for the web, back somewhere in '95. It has regularly come up on HN, and pretty much any programming related forum I've used since the mid-90's. As an industry…
To me, Jaron's arguing for a robust middle class seems more like an opportunistic smoke screen than the actual core of his argument. Especially if you look at his utterings from the point where he first "turned against…
Lanier would like to make a living as a musician the old-fashioned way, by selling albums through the music industry. Since the copyright-exploitation industry has been under threat he has cobbled together all kinds of…
Doesn't that "gross an unappealing" apply to most US advertising. I don't know about you, but I thought commercials in my country (Netherlands) were stupid until I watched US television. I felt my IQ dropping with each…
If people would actually read what he writes on twitter instead of the sensationalist blog posts derived only from those tweets, they would get a much more nuanced picture.
This is an argument on par with "they hate us for our freedom". This kind of intellectually lazy and arrogant attitude will only serve to alienate SV further from the rest of society, which, not coincidentally, is one…