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Too bad there isn't a great RSS software company. It seems like someone should have created a ubiquitous RSS app. Maybe I should go do that... brb

"one could optimize karma by posting a long, pessimistic reply to a brand-new article."

I knew it! Everybody on the internet is an asshole!

"Stack Overflow driven development" is the only way to go.

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Paul Graham's Net Worth Will Leave You Speechless

I always wondered what the fuck was up with those "So and so's net worth will shock you!" ads that I see on Yahoo. Thanks for posting this!

Did you get your rejection email for Summer 2017 already?

I was expecting something like Medium for WordPress: a feed of the top blog posts from all the blogs on WordPress, a curated aggregator.

Facebook is definitely the most vulnerable. I don't know why everyone puts them in the same class as Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Facebook could easily go the way of AOL Instant Messenger and Myspace. A single person probably couldn't create an operating system to rival MacOS or Windows, or create a search engine that could rival Google. But a single person could EASILY create a social network that rivals the Facebook.

I was a college freshman in 2005, and an early adopter of facebook. After 10 years, I'm definitely burned out. I wouldn't be surprised if others burn out after 10 years as well.

Mark Zuckerbergs says that the idea behind facebook was that you could just type someone's name into facebook.com, and then find out information about them. But as the network got larger and larger, facebook has had to increase user privacy. Now if you're not "friends" with someone, you can't really find out much about them, or even send them a message. And what if you delete a "friend" after you contact them thinking that you won't need to contact them again? Then you have to send them another friend request!

It gets very awkward after 10 years. You end up with too many friends. Then you delete a bunch of people. But maybe you delete too many.

The only way it works is if you never delete anybody. But if you never delete anybody, you'll end up with thousands of friends. The problem with this, is that if you want to post anything you have to comfortable sharing with everyone you've ever met.

And the same goes for the feed. If you end up with 1,000 friends, you get all this crap in your feed that you don't care about.

Facebook is fucked and it's going to $0. Same goes for Snap Inc. Those goofy fucking filters will only stay novel for so long.

You could roll your own blog; that's what I'm doing. I wasn't really satisfied with Medium or WordPress, so I just decided to write my own simple blogging software. Writing the blogging software is probably going to be easier than writing the actual blog posts for the blog.

"Investor Storytime"... I love it!

I think Electron is really great for developing an MVP. But yeah, Slack should probably build their next version with Visual Studio and Xcode the way Microsoft and Apple intend for people to build apps for those platforms.

This is a stupid article. You already have to pay to park when you go downtown.

All CEOs are democratically elected. Shareholders vote on Board Members, and then Board Members vote on CEOs.

Yeah I noticed the same thing.

Don't do it. That's spam. If people want to send emails, they ought to send their emails themselves.

What's the new feature?

$20k seems really low for most full time jobs in the United States. The average (median) job in the US pays around $30k. And software development jobs are above average jobs, so those numbers that you posted seem off.

MBA Dropout here. Sorry to break the news, but you don't actually learn anything in business school. Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel, Paul Graham - you won't hear any of those names in business school. Maybe some of the elite schools might talk about those guys, or even invite them to come speak at the business school. But they usually record those talks, so you can just watch them on YouTube.

I have a one year old, and he doesn't let me program.

AOL Instant Messenger still exists???

I would like... try and turn a profit.

They ought to buy Canonical and build a laptop with a full fledged operating system. Then I won't have to keep choosing between installing linux on crappy Windows machines or buying expensive macs.

I invested in Raven Industries a few years ago. They supply Google[x] with the balloons used for Project Loon. Essentially, I bought RAVN as a bet on Project Loon. So far it's been a pretty wild ride. I rode RAVN down 50%, but the stock has recently rebounded. We'll see how it all plays out.

Seems like a pretty steep price to watch network television. As a cord-cutter, I think its a great idea because you can't get the networks with SlingTV, and TV antennas suck. But yeah, I'm not going to pay $35 for network television. I'll just keep using my shitty antenna.

They would do what reddit does, and let people pay to put their links on the frontpage. Reddit calls them "promoted posts".

Just contribute however much the company is willing to match.

Books. However, I have taken one free Udacity class and it was pretty badass.

Maybe you should bring web directories back.

Start a startup.

Learn Python The Hard Way was the first programming book I ever read. Beats the hell out of codeacademy and all that other shit.