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17 Sep 2010 21:14

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Tech: Diaspora, post-release: No love at all from programmers

  • Haters gon’ Hate. If you’ve read Hacker News lately, you might have noticed a recent trend of programmers basically tearing apart the code from Diaspora. There are lots of reasons for this, but the biggest one is that the security backbone appears to be lacking. This guy put it this way: “The more I read, the more bad things I found. They’re going to need a complete overhaul to fix this.” These wet-behind-the-ears college students have now been accused of creating some of the worst clearly marked pre-alpha code known to man. Which leads us to ask, have they seen the new Chatroulette? If they really want to feel manly, they should stop ripping on NYU students and start ripping on 17-year-old Russian kids that are friends with Sean Parker. That’ll show ’em.  source

04 Aug 2010 21:26

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Tech: Maybe it was too complex: Google Wave to die on the vine

  • 435 days between Wave’s birth and death source

05 Apr 2010 10:37

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Tech: iPad hype: Analysts don’t learn their lesson about overhyping

  • 700k number of iPads some random analyst said Apple sold this weekend
  • 300k number of iPads Apple said they sold this weekend, which is still pretty good
  • 5M number of iPads new analysts are suggesting Apple will sell this year; gah, hype! source

28 Jan 2010 20:38

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Biz, Tech: Apple’s iPad overhype just hurt its stock price big time

  • 4.1% drop in stock price today; stupid tablet source