Were the president of North Korea and Paris Hilton friends? No?
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BTW American newspapers are much more interested at the politics of other countries because of the leadership of US.
I respect HTML coders and am aware of that they do fantastic job on frontend.
But nobody has to be talented HTML developer to build websites. It's stupid easy to do it. I'm a guy who never learnt HTML and am considered as a coder good at developing good websites.
Nevermind. I don't like this kind of pointless discussions. I don't like HN anymore.
html is all about a few xml tags. everybody can do it. I know some music bands, authors and politicians who code website learning basic html.
and I see some developers who ignores coding html because they think they're too smart to code a simple website. no comment.
I mean, a free Pinboard was a solution for me when I was looking for a good alternative of delicious, 2 years ago.
But it's not free. The owner claims that he'll keep maintaining forever but he will not when he lose a considerable percent of his customers.
And he'll. As I said, pinboard solves the wrong problem. An online bookmarking service can be structured in a way that will cost nothing. Couple of scripts that manipulate a text file on DropBox was the solution came to my mind in 3 seconds.
There are way better architectures to have an unsocial bookmarking service. Pinboard has the worst one and because its focus is to copy Delicious and make money. In other words, it creates the problem first, and gives users an expensive solution.
An open source solution that can kill Pinboard may be based on even DropBox. OSS community is good at solving real problems.
A community evolves. And some of paid pinboard users switch to the free one because it's open source, some people implement some cool stuff periodically, it'll be maintained forever.
Another question: What happens when pinboard makes less money?
These questions were answered 30 years ago by OSS community.
In every success story of pinboard, I'm very surprised to see how people are impressed from a carbon copy.
Let me introduce myself: I'm a guy who bookmarks everyday for 5 years, on delicious. After the Yahoo acquire, it was redesigned.
And I was annoyed. I started looking at the alternatives. Most of them were crappy except Pinboard. It was a good copy of old Delicious.
And I decided to use it just because it was a good copy of Delicious!
Then, I noticed that Pinboard is not free. And what it provides is nothing but keeping some text on a database. Same idea, almost same design but it's not free. Let the owner explain why it's not free: it's unsocial. and it'll be online unless a 90% percent of users keep paying it.
It's not ethical, Pinboard. If I think that it's not a waste of time, I'll code some scripts to store bookmarks in Dropbox for your users. It'll be under WTF PL license so that you can sell it.
no need for the user friendly, smart business models. no need to develop a new vision. this is the hack.
By the way, I'm not against copying. I distribute my website, multiplayerchess.com with WTF License to let people clone it easily.
Again, what I see here is bullshit. It's unethical, it's not honest.
This is completely bullshit. If you take a look at the website of Freshdesk, you'll see that they stole the design of Zendesk. They probably did it to draw the attention of Zendesk and gather some angry tweets that can be used in such a way you see.
This is the last article I've seen in HN. I'll never enter this website again. Seriously, enough bullshit for a coder.
Time to leave HN alone with the embarrassing promoters and gossip girls.
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