"But there are open source projects that are tackling important Web 2.0 problems "up the stack." Brad Fitzpatrick's LiveJournal scaling tools memcached, perlbal, and mogileFS come to mind, as well as OpenID."
memcached et al date from well before the annoying, useless, vague term "Web 2.0". as does Lucene, Nutch, and other interesting work Cutting has done.
collaborating on software that's only useful if you have servers that are getting tens of thousands of hits a day is hard. it automatically reduces the pool of potential participants to be very small.
fuck Bill O'Reilly for wanting to turn everything into something that relates to his dumb conferences/speeches/whatever. and fuck "software as a service". jesus.
"fuck Bill O'Reilly for wanting to turn everything into something that relates to his dumb conferences/speeches/whatever. and fuck "software as a service". jesus."
I think you actually are referring to Tim O'Reilly. (but fuck Bill O'Reilly too)
What's wrong with software as a service, aside from the fact that it's a buzzword?
I think we can extract some generality from your comment. Another post mentioned the fall of Reddit. I don't know if Digg was ever as interesting, but the two aren't too dissimilar now. You could have also urged this not become like any of thousands of flaming forums.
I is clear the news.yc community is becoming stronger and more solidified. Hopefully, the small subset of news it is attacking will limit the size and audience to only the most thoughtful. My guess is that you'll have to do more than pleas like this to ensure that.
"... The evening arrived; the boys took their places. The master, in
his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper
assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served
out; and a long grace was said over the short commons. The gruel
disappeared; the boys whispered each other, and winked at Oliver;
while his next neighbors nudged him. Child as he was, he was
desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from
the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand,
said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity:
In other words attack Tims poor stand on "software as a service" doing everyone a disservice as software might again slip into hands of Dickensian like masters where users are reduced to begging for permission to access to fix a piece of buggy software critical to their business and communication. See 'Eben Moglen' challenge for Tim ~ http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
"... Let's not turn this into digg, shall we? ..."
memcached et al date from well before the annoying, useless, vague term "Web 2.0". as does Lucene, Nutch, and other interesting work Cutting has done.
collaborating on software that's only useful if you have servers that are getting tens of thousands of hits a day is hard. it automatically reduces the pool of potential participants to be very small.
fuck Bill O'Reilly for wanting to turn everything into something that relates to his dumb conferences/speeches/whatever. and fuck "software as a service". jesus.