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Good for him. Now, why should we give a shit? since when should we care about who does what? sorry but for what I remember, this must be the third attempt to go viral with this crap. TLDR: another carpooling app.

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Who asked you to 'give a shit'? Who even asked you to weigh in on this? TLDR: Nobody.

Everyone upvoting it on the discussion site news.ycombinator.com

I think the intended intent behind an upvote on these news aggregation sites is that the actor oneself "gives a shit" about the article -- rather than "wants others to 'give a shit'" about the article. Of course, in practice, it's the latter, especially for one's own submissions.

Being homeless and finding a way to release an app is a good example of resourcefulness.

>‘Homeless coder’ saga shows connections matter more than coding skills (washingtonpost.com) 2 points by Libertatea 2 days ago | 0 comments | cached > https://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filt...

Leo The Homeless Coder (media-results) (imgur.com) 1 point by Empathenosis 3 days ago | 1 comments | cached > https://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?filt...

> The Real Story of the Homeless Coder (youtube.com) 4 points by danboarder 5 hours ago | 0 comments | cached

those are just the first two pages. Now, My point is : "bravo leo. but enough with this Oprah shit."

IMHO this story is borderline spam.

I find your comment pretty harsh, and I think you have a narrow view of the story: it's not about how amazingly innovative this app is, it's about how a man who has nothing but a laptop could learn how to program and release something that is useful for many people.

My question to you is why shouldn't we care about another human being?

imo the problem is that you're so submerged in the industry-driven world that your mind believes the value of a person is based on their capacity to create the next Big Product... it's sad.

No one succeeds with their first app. Failure leads to success. We should applaud him for actually releasing an app. That's a feat in itself.

Yeah. I'm gonna have to agree with you here. I'm all for charity, but in the end, an app is an app. If we want to be truly unbiased, why should we care that the guy who wrote it was homeless? Shouldn't we focus on the quality of the app? And after enough homeless people "learn to code" at what point does this story cease to be newsworthy?

The biggest problem for apps right now is discovery and this is a smart way to get discovered.

Ladies and gentlemen... HACKER NEWS! Tada!

Not everyone can think of the next genius app on their first try. Unlike you, apparently.

Every time...

Conspiracy theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

Potential examples:

  1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885123
  2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6365495
  3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448409
  4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6857739
  5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035263 - This is the most obvious one.
  6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6902563 - Cover up.

I'm going to just keep on collecting these links and post it on every instance I see. This will be added as the 7th.

The pattern is obvious, but I don't know why you think there's a conspiracy behind it. People don't need conspiracies to act like that.

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