demachina

6 ms·

1.
by demachina 7y ago
Twitter can be fine, it can be priceless. The problem with Twitter: Their client is bad and they mostly killed off good third party clients. I build my own client to solve this, most people can't or wont. I want a client that prioriti
2.
by demachina 8y ago
There's Mastodon, but last time I was there it was only really big with a slightly creepy Japanese anime crowd. There just wasn't that much interesting English content to read. Mastodon's API's are mostly open source st
3.
by demachina 9y ago
No... large numbers of people committed fraud. Countrywide, and one of its execs, were convicted of fraud in one of the egregious examples of "the hustle". The problem was an appeals court overturned the conviction in an inexpl
4.
by demachina 9y ago
It was also about mortgage fraud ... bond rating fraud ... multinational banks selling fraudulent mortgage backed securities based on the previous two frauds. Almost no one went to jail for any of it, the few who did were little fish. The
5.
by demachina 11y ago
So true. There is certainly skill involved, one of them is almost certainly the ability and willingness to exploit your fellow human beings. I'm completely lacking in that skill so, woe is me, I will never make a billion. It seems I wi
6.
by demachina 11y ago
I don’t, especially when you experience the things you will have to do to get it and keep it. You might want to read some thoughts from a guy named Siddhartha. Craving a billion dollars is just going to make you miserable until you get it,
7.
by demachina 11y ago
There are new Reddit threads from veteran Amazon employees about what a horrible place Amazon is for their developers, and its gotten much worse in recent years. You can find them from here: http://www.geekwire.com/2015&#x2
8.
by demachina 11y ago
The SpaceX design should be dramatically suprior to the aging Atlas and Delta designs because they are designed to be cheaper to build in the first place and they will be game changing if they manage to land the first stage and immediately
9.
by demachina 11y ago
On the other hand Apple, Google, Faceobook, Twitter, Amazon and LinkedIn are increasingly sucking all of the oxygen out of the rest of the software ecosytem. Software developers are increasingly being painted in to a corner where all the u
10.
by demachina 11y ago
No he did not mean just don’t depend on LinkedIn. He meant don’t place the fate of your software and company in the hands of any third party. The list of companies who have burned developers includes Twitter, Apple and Google just to name
11.
by demachina 11y ago
Yea but Twitter's clients also suck and their management and engineering team seem completely incapable of developing interesting, innovative or easy to use clients. Their one size fits all clients also don’t accomodate power users, m
12.
by demachina 11y ago
Mobile devices will presumably jack in to large monitors or head mounted displays of some kind, plus a good keyboard of some kind, and pointing device(track pad). Thanks to Moores law you should be able to have the equivalent of a desktop
13.
by demachina 12y ago
I suspect he was referring to the FriendFeed founders giving their user community the middle finger by cashing out to Zuck. People are going to do what is in their own self interest so you can’t exactly blame the founders for that. As I rec
14.
by demachina 12y ago
I have no interest in taking sides in #gamergate but it should be pointed out that someone trying to make #gamergate look bad could have posted the threats on twitter. As heated and complex as this dustup has become you really can't ta
15.
by demachina 12y ago
The Quantum Thief is a really interesting book. I really enjoyed it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Thief-Jean-Flambeur-ebook/...
16.
by demachina 12y ago
I cringed most of the way through Atlas Shrugged when I first read it. Having encountered more than my share of bureaucrats , inept big corporations and NGO's since, I can say she did have some valid points. The world is full of peop
17.
by demachina 12y ago
Anathem was really good, probably the last good book Stephenson's written. Reamde was awful. Daniel Suarez is top of my list to replace Stephenson. His books aren't great literature, and not as great as Stephenson when he was at
18.
by demachina 12y ago
They are leaking potentially confidential information to a third party company running the service, in this case Slack. For all you know they could be doing stock trades based on all the insider info they can glean from their chat traffic a
19.
by demachina 12y ago
Anyone who places any confidence in references from former employers is kidding themselves in the first place. Most employers wont give a negative reference on any employee, the liability risks are simply too high in our litigous age. Not
20.
by demachina 12y ago
You seem to have a natural tendency to side with the authority figure which is just as bad if not worse :) How did you jump to the conclusion the CEO's version "was just the facts"? You seem to be saying because he is the b
21.
by demachina 12y ago
If nothing else the Streisand effect insures Reddit is going to get about a million times more bad exposure, now that its going viral, than they would have when it was just a thread from a disgruntled ex employee. People were starting to qu
22.
by demachina 13y ago
Might have been a better choice to make your point about headlines to not use an example that is flame bait and slamming a significant percentage of HN's readership, pg included. Blaming boomers for everything wrong with this planet i
23.
by demachina 13y ago
Really, really good speech
24.
by demachina 13y ago
First you kill off all Twitter replies, those are where the most noise is on a lot of entities you follow. Then you prioritize entities who consistently post interesting stuff, and you quickly filter out people who use Twitter as a chat to
25.
by demachina 13y ago
Pretty flawed writing on Dave Winer's, like this part right here: "Ayn Rand's philosophy might have worked in an agrarian society when people lived far apart, and couldn't pool their resources." Agricultural coops w
26.
by demachina 13y ago
You can be fairly confident there some startups out there founding by 20 somethings, populated by 20 somethings, who think having someone over 30, or certainly over 40, on their team or even in their office would be akin to the plague. The
27.
by demachina 13y ago
Not sure I'm seeing the hypocrisy there, please expand. I am mostly just getting tired of YOU trolling Hacker News, That is one hypocrisy I'm seeing, you complaining about trolls when you are the one doing it. This thread just isn't product
28.
by demachina 13y ago
Dude… you get "personal" all the time. It takes a pretty serious double standard to be so sensitive about it when its aimed at you, versus when you are dishing it out being fine with it. Not sure I've actually seen much aimed at you on here
29.
by demachina 13y ago
Yet when there was a thread on here about your product, Fargo, last week you seemed to be quite fond of Hacker News, asking people on your blog to vote it up so you could get more publicity. If you don't like Hacker News why don't you stop
30.
by demachina 13y ago
Please expand. I quite carefully read your comment about anonymity and truth, which suddenly morphed in to anonymity and cowardice when I called you on it. I appreciate maybe I bent your meaning a little when you said you are nice to people

More ›