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I still need to make an "I feel lucky"-style random sample version of that page.
From u/buryat: SR-71 speed check One time we were going fast a small plane got on the radio and said "how fast am i going" the tower said "you are going fast" and then a bigger plane got on the radio and said "haha i think i am going faster how fast am i going" and the tower said "you are going a little faster" and then a jet fighter was going really fast and talked like a really cool guy and said "hey there, I sound…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722
I'm on my phone, hopefully that's the correct link.
Dropbox comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
This is the part where he loses any sympathy.
If it’s so trivial why was nobody doing it? It’s classic tech bro know-it-all-ism.
Plus yeah wow, without the 3% of people who run desktop Linux whatever will a business do?
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This explanation doesn't add any context. > When BrandonM wrote "I have a few qualms with this app", he didn't mean the software. He meant their YC application. Of course. Criticism #3 (arguably the funniest one) was about monetization: "It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating." -my sides- > The criticisms he was raising turned out not to be problems in hindsight, but were on point in 2007 They weren't rea…
Yeah I agree, dang's comment doesn't really address any of the issues that I or other people have with the original comment that we're talking about. Dunno why dang felt hte need to write that comment. No one felt the need to write the same kind of comment from Commander Taco regarding the iPod.
Who writes the checks that keep the HN lights on?
If anyone sees great examples that haven't been added to https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights yet, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We love getting those suggestions! I still need to make an "I feel lucky"-style random sample version of that page.
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It’s worth reading dang’s comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially… This is the part where he loses any sympathy. If it’s so trivial why was nobody doing it? It’s classic tech bro know-it-all-ism. Plus yeah wow, without the 3% of people who run desktop Linux whatever will a business do?
It was commonly done, and still is.