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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, mo…

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. Mas…

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 appea…

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…

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…

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 do…

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 …

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 chan…

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 ar…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 interes…

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 an…

The Quantum Thief is a really interesting book. I really enjoyed it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Thief-Jean-Flambeur-ebook/...

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 …

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 literatur…

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 a…

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 li…

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"…

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 threa…

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. B…

Really, really good speech

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…

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 the…