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Comment by jgilliam | Hacker News Reader

Twitter's new official app for the Mac violates several of these display guidelines.

The tweet box doesn't have "What's happening" and the user's name doesn't link to their profile.

The official app does the right thing, IMO, it just shows how silly some of the guidelines are. Particularly requiring "What's happening?" I bet most Twitter apps violate that one.

Could you elaborate?

Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like.

If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be afforded any rights or respect by the owner.

Eventually people will figure this out.

Eventually.

> Yeah but dey da boss > go sharecroppin'

If this is a reference to something, I don't get it. If not, why are you writing like this?

Edit: Thanks alnayyir. I knew there was something I was missing.

It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?

The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.

ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.

chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...

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