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by gkoberger 5d ago
It's interesting that it brags about no AI as a feature, but the website (and maybe the product itself?) was clearly built using AI.
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by gkoberger 7d ago
Unfortunate this was the result of 23 years, not unfortunate it's happening.
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by gkoberger 7d ago
Well now you've heard of both, so their marketing is working!
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by gkoberger 7d ago
"Unfortunately", because Matt did a lot of good for the internet over the past two decades. WordCamp is (or was) really amazing, the community he built is really great, the Automattic Lounge was cool, he's donated millions of
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by gkoberger 7d ago
I was curious what this meant, so I looked into it. They asked Automatic.css to change their name: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1omrtrk/automatt... Automatic.css is a paid CSS framework sp
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by gkoberger 7d ago
Unfortunately, this is for the best. WordPress powers a large percentage of the internet, and I'm not sure what's going on with Matt (who I've always liked) but something turned the past few years. He's been behind unfor
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by gkoberger 7d ago
I run a similar service, and we get almost daily attacks like this. Sometimes it's a specific high-profile customer, other times it's broader. I can't speak for RTD, but I think it's less "documentation site" a
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by gkoberger 10d ago
If you read the article, it talks from the perspective of "I help lots of friends and family with IT stuff". For most users, they wouldn't know how to get to the larger menu or that Cmd+Shft+G lets them type in a path.
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by gkoberger 10d ago
I understand your point, but "Finder" does make it harder to organize things. When you save, they hide away folder browser by default, make it really difficult to navigate to different folders, and push for a "just hit save a
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by gkoberger 17d ago
Yup that's my point, and maybe the bigger issue isn't if people care or not but rather... can we distinguish between "they cared" and "they spent 30 seconds on a prompt".
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by gkoberger 17d ago
Sure but that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about the guy who wrote a 17,000 guide manually in monospace so that it was justified.
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by gkoberger 17d ago
The Super Metroid guide is the kind of thing that AI will render obsolete, which makes me sad. One of my favorite quotes is from Penn and Teller, "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might r
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by gkoberger 18d ago
Okay, then it's at about 0.0008% of discretionary global emissions. If we're going down the list of things to get upset about, Burning Man is pretty far down the list. Let people have fun.
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by gkoberger 18d ago
You can't just post an article about pollution and use that as a trump card. The pollution that comes from the Burning Man artwork, which is the crux of that article, is less than one plane from JFK to SFO. If we're going to compl
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by gkoberger 18d ago
I looked a bit into the author. His friend unfortunately died at Burning Man in 1996, as did two other people. Since then, he left and has been an advocate for shutting down Burning Man. They fought over the name for 10 years after that.
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by gkoberger 18d ago
Burning Man is easy to hate on. I've never been. But come on. The world kinda sucks. If a bunch of people want to go to the desert with no cell phone service and just do their thing, why do we care? If some of them need an RV to do it,
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by gkoberger 21d ago
Huge congrats to Clerky. They've been doing thins for a very long time, and have awesome support + a solid product (that just... does what it's supposed to do). Congrats Darby and team!
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by gkoberger 22d ago
That's my point. Here's pg's definition of a hacker: https://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html I left out that the rule at the time was all songs had to be reviewed by the administration, which I didn't comply
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by gkoberger 22d ago
Well, as long as the songs and films continue to make her estate money, I imagine she planned to continue sending out books.
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by gkoberger 23d ago
Eh everyone I know in YC answered this in an ethical way. In fact, I suspect YC keeps this wording to catch people admitting to something unethical while rewarding people who see something in a system that could be different. My answer that
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by gkoberger 26d ago
Thank you! I've been searching for this for years, and haven't been able to find it.
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by gkoberger 26d ago
If you're interested in this topic, I love pg's Why Nerds are Unpopular. It was the first place where I started to realize things like being popular, being happy and others require their own sort of intelligence and effort. https
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by gkoberger 27d ago
Agreed, which is my point: the framing of the article (specifically the title) is about Lady Gaga, and she's a pop star. There's a lot of good points in there, cheapened by the framing.
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by gkoberger 27d ago
Not overstating his uniqueness in being anti-corporate, as much as his uniqueness in being both anti-corporate AND mainstream. And you might be right that his mainstream appeal came later, but I think the point still stands.
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by gkoberger 27d ago
A band covering a song for a Hyundai ad? Michael Jackson did a parody of his own song Billie Jean for Pepsi ("You're the Pepsi generation")
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by gkoberger 27d ago
I don't know if I buy this framing. The intro Pearl Jam story is only noteworthy because it's unique. Cobain wasn't one of a million examples of counter-culture; we still talk about him today because it was uniquely his brand
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by gkoberger 1mo ago
This title really implies Corgi (or someone associated with the company) made the site. It was a shitty third-party with no association who did it.
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by gkoberger 2mo ago
I agree (although I do find ad breaks in text to undermine the content more than visual mediums, for whatever reason). But RSS made tracking very hard. And while I know that's your point (not wanting to be tracked), one reason it works
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by gkoberger 2mo ago
For what it's worth, and there's lots of reasons this hasn't and won't happen, I think micropayments are the solution here. But until that happens, ads fill a middle ground: users don't want to pay and creators want
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by gkoberger 2mo ago
Okay bear with me here. We blame the RSS aggregators for the death, which is very fair. But I don't know if blog writers ever supported RSS, either. With RSS, your words are read, which is great. But you lose the ability to control the

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