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Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by ColinWright »

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You know what? I was going to go back, find the URLs, compare them, offer a summary as to why they are different, list which ones have content and which ones don't, characterize their differences, and basically do all the homework. This, in addition to having taken the time to find the duplicates to start with.

Then I thought - why? Had enough, don't care, can't be bothered, and won't waste the time. I'll just let the front page full up with half a dozen or more duplicates, and not bother that it waters down the value of HN. It won't last.

So screw it. Thanks for the heads up - I'm deleting them all, and I really, really won't bother again.

ADDED IN EDIT: I was also going to defend pointers to duplicates, even in the instances when there is not yet substantial discussion, but I just don't care any more.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by forgotmypasswd »

ColinWright wrote: post #11
[deleted] wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You know what? I was going to go back, find the URLs, compare them, offer a summary as to why they are different, list which ones have content and which ones don't, characterize their differences, and basically do all the homework. This, in addition to having taken the time to find the duplicates to start with. Then I thought - why? Had enough, don't care, can't be bothered, and won't waste the time. I'll just let th…

RAGEQUIT

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by nadam »

Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies. (I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by ColinWright »

forgotmypasswd wrote: post #13
ColinWright wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know what? I was going to go back, find the URLs, compare them, offer a summary as to why they are different, list which ones have content and which ones don't, characterize their differences, and basically do all the homework. This, in addition to having taken the time to find the duplicates to start with. Then I thought - why? Had enough, don't care, can't be bothered, and won't waste the time. I'll just let th…

RAGEQUIT

Yup. I've taken the opportunity to review my HN usage, and I get significantly less out of it now than I used to, and it just sucks my time to nearly no benefit.

I may keep posting links - the bookmarklet makes it easy - but the discussions here now seem to add very little, so I'm not bothering any more.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by nakajima »

riordan wrote: post #4

Fridge built a really amazing product - Social groupware for people outside of Facebook. I'll be sad to see it go. I wonder if the team is going to be moved out to Mountain View or stay in NYC?

Looks like they'll be moving to Mountain View: http://allthingsd.com/20110721/frid-ge-acquired-by-google-to...
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