thebigshane

The author appears to be playing along as if this is not satire, but I am pretty sure it is.

Here is my case for calling it satire:

It starts off with caricatures...

  every single one of these people do indeed have Twitter
  profiles, and they are entrepreneurs also, and they're 
  thinking about their next pivot, and they certainly have 
  an opinion on NodeJS versus Clojure even though they've 
  never gone past the tutorial on either platform [...]

Stating the obvious

  the only thing in between a hacker who misses Reader and a working 
  Reader implementation past-June is... nothing

Hyperbole...

  Reader's cancellation will have absolutely no impact on RSS. 
  Reader isn't RSS. It isn't anything but a consumer, one of many, 
  of the RSS standard.

  whoever is in possession of your RSS feeds probably knows
  you more intimately than Target, which supposedly knows 
  when a woman is pregnant before her father. It's an 
  intimate relationship, based on trust.

But I didn't really become convinced it was satire until this line...

   Entitlement without effort is like representation without taxation.

So, am I the only one who sees this as satire? A subtle poke at Hacker News for taking itself too seriously? Or am I the guy who mistakenly laughs "Ha! Yea that would be crazy, right?" even though the other guy was totally serious?

The post says that that Facebook Sharing is opt-in:

  By default, sharing will only happen on Netflix.

And the rest seems easily disabled as well:

  You are in control of what gets shared. You can choose not 
  to share a specific title by clicking the “Don't Share 
  This” button in the player. You can also visit your 
  “Social Settings” in “Your Account” on Netflix.com to turn 
  on additional sharing to Facebook or stop sharing 
  altogether.

That makes this even sillier... The popup stays open claiming to be authenticating, while the main page has already returned with the error message "Your sign on was unsuccessful. Please try again..."

  I worked with the dev who wrote this at Wells Fargo

You can't say that and not provide more details.... You are obligated now.

I think he was referring to the whole JavaScript community.

For comparison: http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript (27,041)

Donald Duck?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/08/10/inception.donald.duck...

For those that actually want to try this...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6465624/how-to-pipe-dev-u...

Fascinating...

  10/GUI is a proposed new user interface paradigm. Created 
  in 2009 by R. Clayton Miller, it combines multi-touch 
  input with a new windowing manager.
  
  It splits the touch surface away from the screen, so that 
  user fatigue is reduced and the users' hands don't 
  obstruct the display.[1] Instead of placing windows all 
  over the screen, the windowing manager, Con10uum, uses a 
  linear paradigm, with multi-touch used to navigate between 
  and arrange the windows.[2] An area at the right side of 
  the touch screen brings up a global context menu, and a 
  similar strip at the left side brings up application-
  specific menus.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/GUI

Given raganwald's recent "Tell HN", is it possible to keep the discussion on this thread civil? I would assume it is still impossible to needlessly argue politics here, but please prove me wrong.

How does it work for a minor using Facebook? Are their accounts public by default? Can they friend and be friend-requested by anybody? Are they linked to their parent accounts somehow so that parents can monitor or approve requests? When they become an adult, is all of the data/content/history going to stay with the account? So when they are 20, friends can see what they wrote when they were 12 if they dig into their history?

(I am not very familiar with Facebook but I do have two young kids who will probably start wanting it soon)

Has anyone here tried it out yet? (I'll install it and try it when I get home)

(Never heard that term before...)

  Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open source network 
  stress testing and denial-of-service attack application
  [...]
  LOIC performs a denial-of-service (DoS) attack (or when 
  used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target 
  site by flooding the server with TCP packets or UDP 
  packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a 
  particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary 
  botnets.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon

I'm not sure if I agree with your finger pointing. Because it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Lack of graphics card drivers, printer drivers, etc were always the fault of the vendors, but users don't care about that. They just don't use Linux because "my printer won't work" or "it's a hassle to setup my printer".

But, again, all of this isn't much of an issue anymore.

(Also Google loves Linux and particularly Ubuntu. I'm not sure why they are dragging their feet on Google Drive but it's not because they don't care)

My list so far:

  No official Google Drive[0] support (but we do have Dropbox)
  No official Garmin Connect[1] support 

All in all, that's not bad. All monitors, ebook readers, mp3 players, cameras, printers, wifi, mice/keyboards have all been perfect out of the box for years (for me).

[0]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/161273/is-there-a-google-driv...

[1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/505/how-can-i-use-my-garmin-d...

The "spaced repetition" theory is similar to something I read in Wired[0] long ago, of a guy and his note-taking "SuperMemo"[1] app. The article drifts aimlessly about the guy, but the theory behind the app is very interesting. And the chart is excellent[2].

  For example, say you're studying Spanish. Your chance of
  recalling a given word when you need it declines over 
  time according to a predictable pattern. SuperMemo tracks 
  this so-called forgetting curve and reminds you to 
  rehearse your knowledge when your chance of recalling it 
  has dropped to, say, 90 percent. When you first learn a 
  new vocabulary word, your chance of recalling it will 
  drop quickly. But after SuperMemo reminds you of the 
  word, the rate of forgetting levels out. The program 
  tracks this new decline and waits longer to quiz you the 
  next time. 

[0]: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo

[2]: http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1605/ff_wozniak...

I would like to see a solution that addresses this issue too. Perhaps something like http://news.ycombinator.com/classic but instead of users who have been on HN for a year, you pick the users. Some AI programmers might suggest that HN itself could figure out what users typically upvote the same content as you -- no thanks, I can pick them out myself.

A tag/keyword system would be ideal but that's a lot of work and tags never seem to turn out as good as they sound.

(also, `larrys`, you died yesterday -- hellbanned, and looking at your comment history yesterday, seems like an entirely inappropriate response from the mods)

That is not a fact.

Who here cringes every time they hear "personal brands"?

What exactly is the argument here? Were people (non-techies) using the web/internet before Facebook/MySpace? Of course. Are considerably more people (non-techies) using it now after Facebook/MySpace? Of course.

Related: ITA Software's Carl de Marcken discussing their use of Common Lisp for Orbitz from 2001 with a 2002 update.

http://paulgraham.com/carl.html

Snippet:

  ITA Software is slowly replacing the industry's hardware 
  and software with Common Lisp code running on Linux PCs, 
  that uses relatively involved algorithms that show off 
  our academic CS background.

Sigh. Thanks. This is the second time I've been caught with an eggcorn[0]. First "windshield factor"[1], now "for prosperity sake". Looks like I might have the privilege of adding to their database myself this time...

We'll just keep this between you and me right?

[0] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/

[1] http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/index.php?s=windshield

Your question could be better phrased:

  Why do you think most people prefer to read it "inline"?

Far less snark, don't you think?

My answer would be: because some of my highest voted comments have been snippets copied from a larger work instead of just linking to the larger work. Perhaps people don't want to open up a new tab, perhaps they don't want to load a new page, perhaps they appreciate keeping the content in context with the rest of the comment thread, perhaps they appreciate keeping the content on HN for "prosperity sake" due to the ever-breaking links of the rest of the web.

I think most people prefer reading it "inline" and not linked.

Tokenadult, please continue reposting.

context: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Spice_blow

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Sta...

Link to the full comic image: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/images/Amusin...

Do we need a "consensus opinion"? Does it need to happen here?

My point is that discussing controversial social issues is generally unproductive. Worth thinking about, but unless PG devotes his next essay to this topic, I don't think anyone is going to be changing their minds here.

For what it's worth I agree with most of your comments on this thread, and the backlash you are getting has really lowered my average opinion of this community. It's disgusting.

Is your motivation to discredit him? If so, why? If not, why is your criticism relevant?

Ok, now I wait until someone writes another extension/bookmarklet that automatically inserts the tl;drs (if any) into the HN front page.

Well, then props to him for knowing how to keep his private feelings and thoughts out of the workplace.