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Blaine Cook Writes First Blog Post Since Twitter... About Scaling
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on May 12, 2008
Today, Blaine Cook, formerly Twitter’s chief architect, writes his first blog post since leaving Twitter. It certainly seems like he has some stuff to get off his chest.The gist of the piece is that languages don’t scale, architectures do. It seems clear why Blaine might want to say something about scaling since it is clearly the number one issue at Twitter and he did take some heat for the...
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I Am So Sick Of "Social"
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on May 08, 2008
I have come to *loathe* the word social.It has lost all meaning. Everything is friggin' social. Social meeedia they say.Why not just be done with it and call email "social messaging" and instant messaging "instant socializing". How about "social walking" for when you walk down the street and say hello to people. "Social eating", for when you take a friend out to eat and are nice to the...
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Gmail sucks. The web UI Stockholm Syndrome (or fear of cornfields)
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on January 05, 2008
Gmail Sucks.Kim, in my last post, comments that:Don't forget the importance of UI culture. Mac interfaces have been good in no small part due to the guidelines Apple provided, and the self-reinforcing Mac developer culture of investing time & energy into making consistent, attractive
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In 10 Years, Marketing Will Be Taught In Engineering School
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on January 29, 2008
Marketing is still primarily perceived as a fuzzy touchy feely discipline. But the Internet is bringing this to an end rapidly. In ten years our current perspectives on this will seem quaint.Marketing will be much more like what Wall Street quant guys do. Everything will be math. There will be few "soft" taste judgments. It will all be about precisely definable ROI. The good marketers will be the...
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Response to "iPhone SDK inhibits Mobile Innovation"
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on March 17, 2008
The “Apple’s iPhone SDK inhibits Mobile Innovation” article has generated an enormous response. Specifically 4000+ people have read the article since it was posted on Thursday. To put that in context that was just a bit under my unique visitor count for all of Feburary. The piece was linked to by the dean of the Macintosh commentariat John Gruber at daringfireball.net as well as Hacker News...
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Killing Twitter Before It Can hurt Us
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on May 05, 2008
This weekend there has been a fair amount of talk about the idea that Twitter is too important to be relied on as a centralized, non fault-tolerant platform. Both Dave Winer and Michael Arrington at TechCrunch are talking about the problem and how to fix it. The argument is that Twitter is not distributed. This means that if Twitter goes down no one can Twitter. It also means if Twitter goes out...
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Come on Already, Isn't *Someone* Going To Buy Adobe!
via Why does everything suck? by Hank Williams on May 06, 2008
Robert Cringley has been recently speculating that Apple will buy Adobe. Jon Gruber doesn't think its going to happen. On the other hand, Blogger Matt Maroon has written that Microsoft should buy Adobe.My view is that *someone* should buy Adobe.From a Microsoft perspective, even with a premium, this is a deal that is smaller or perhaps at worst case similar in size to the Yahoo deal. But it...
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