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this account is abandoned! i've been unnecessarily snarky via this account so i'm starting fresh with 'j2d2j2d2' instead.
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j2d2··on Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010
Or install extension.fm :)
j2d2··on Diaspora: An Overdue Update
Why the condescension? The user's name is clickable and his profile shows he hasn't used the site since March. Instead of being rude, perhaps consider why his experience wasn't sticky.
j2d2··on Diaspora: An Overdue Update
Head's up: You probably shouldn't have a testimonial from a guy who hasn't used your site in months (Prakash)
j2d2··on Ask HN: Diaspora hasn't updated their blog in a month.
My guess is they've all got their heads down trying to hit that deadline.
j2d2··on MongoDB 1.6 stable released
Mongoengine is pretty tight for python/mongo
j2d2··on New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
One anecdote for another. I'll take it.
j2d2··on New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
Interestingly, I met many people in SF who had signed contracts that disagree with this law.
j2d2··on New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
That is actually a great point. When was this law made?

Also, this only protects people who are aware of it and willing to fight for it

j2d2··on New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what the VCs say
This is garbage. California does this as much as NYC.
j2d2··on Rethinking the iPad Browsing Experience
I couldn't watch the video on my iPad. They should rethink that.
j2d2··on [dead]
To me, this behavior solidifies further Google's transition into the Microsoft of the 90's role. I guess that puts them at 2020 for being virtually completely removed from innovation and fully in the role of a differentiation defeater.

Microsoft could turn around and so could Google, but it's very hard when they're so established that short-term risk to profits becomes a major concern.

j2d2··on Ask HN: What are you working on today?
Tornado, MongoDB and using Emacs to do it.
j2d2··on Please review the iSound.com beta - (Pandora for new music)
Aren't you going to be sued, like everyone else that has tried this?
j2d2··on One on One: Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
Nick B? Is that you?
j2d2··on Scaling CouchDB
Is that because you haven't tried redis or because you haven't tried mongo?
j2d2··on Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial
Try SmartGit.
j2d2··on New Finance Website based on Arc / HN
New Mogul was the first I've seen of this and was the best. I think New Mogul's success was also partly due to the intensity of the financial crisis and people's interest in understanding how it all works. Nickb vanished, unfortunately, and New Mogul eventually fell.

No site has been able to replicate the New Mogul community and I don't believe it's the UI's fault entirely, though New Mogul actually did a good job sprucing up the default look. I believe the intense interest along with communal enthusiasm just doesn't exist in that industry under normal circumstances. And certainly not enough for a shared information / aggregation system to prosper.

Consider the nature of the industry. Knowledge is power. If you're not all in a sinking ship together, why would you give up your competitive edge?

j2d2··on I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or left behind?
Why ask this question online if you just quit the Internet?!
j2d2··on Six coders can do anything and there is nothing six coders can't do.
Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
j2d2··on Jeremy Zawodny: NoSQL is Software Darwinism
Your comment just made me realize SQL is the new assembly.
j2d2··on Will Facebook be the One Ring for Location?
It's going to be a yelp vs. facebook showdown.
j2d2··on Gravity Launches
I'm only a single data point, but you've lost me because I have no idea what gravity is upon first glance at the site and I don't want to watch a stupid animation of stick figures talking gibberish.

Make it really obvious what your site does or keep making inconsequential first impressions.

j2d2··on The real problem with git.
Check out Smartgit.
j2d2··on StackOverflow.com vs.Experts-Exchange.com
Yes!
j2d2··on Google admits Buzz social network testing flaws
Something about Facebook offering an email service strikes me as a new take on Aol.
j2d2··on Why Michael Arrington Is The Real Winner In The CrunchPad Ordeal
I agree. $499 is a deal-breaker for me. I will happily wait for Apple's device now.
j2d2··on Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java
I'm curious as to what effect Java's crappy tail recursion has I tried running a ruby sudoku solver in jruby that functions basically like an n-queens solver and it couldn't handle it. Not sure I'd expect erjang to do better since the issue is with the jvm.
j2d2··on Zed Shaw: Librelist to take on Google, Yahoo mailing lists
JSON access and spam filtering!!

I'm sold

j2d2··on Wall Street's Naked Swindle
It's perfectly legal and the link was for information about how naked shorting works. What was incorrect?
j2d2··on Wall Street's Naked Swindle
It's perfectly legal.

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-carney-why-matt-taibbi-i...

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