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My original point was that "These guys are some of the best real-time web programmers in the world." is pretty silly. For one, 'real-time web' isn't hard, and secondly, there are people who have been doing it for years.

I hate this trend of coming up with fantastic buzz words and making people believe they're something new/hard/fantastic.

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1. you are pretending that all real time applications are equally hard, they arent, etherpad has a level of complexity beyond most things people do.

2. because people have been doing it for a long time means it isnt hard? there isnt any way to read that that makes any sense, brain surgeons have been around a while, its still pretty hard.

like most people who complain about buzzwords you are actually putting more emphasis on the 'buzzwords' than the actual point.

You're probably right. Maybe I'll take a break from commenting on HN.

I find the recent trends in the industry to be extremely depressing.

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