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danielhitome

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www.linkedin.com 7y ago

The Future of Cooking Is No Cooking

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danielhitome.com 9y ago

A Utopian Possibility: After AI and robots steal all our jobs

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www.businessinsider.com 10y ago

Physicist Has Groundbreaking Idea About Why Life Exists

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www.kickstarter.com 10y ago

Sticky Notes Still the Most Powerful Tool for Teams, Now Better and Smarter

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itunes.apple.com 11y ago

Show HN: A Voice-Controlled Party Game for Kids Using Speech Recognition

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nonprofitquarterly.org 11y ago

Does Debate about Social Impact Bonds Need a Shot of Realism?

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newspapermap.com 12y ago

Mapping All Newspapers in the World

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 12y ago

Any Smarter Wearable to Measure Food Intake?

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www.techinasia.com 13y ago

North Korea Sees Huge Growth in 3G Users with 2M Subscribers

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www.techinasia.com 13y ago

North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer

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www.haaretz.com 13y ago

WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse

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www.purpella.com 13y ago

Show HN: Lone Tech Lover in NYC, Free Pass to Maker Faire If You Go with Him

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

How To Disrupt Petty Inconveniences

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www.brainpickings.org 13y ago

Significant Objects: How Stories Confer Value Upon the Vacant

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www.forbes.com 14y ago

The Media Map: Who's Reading What And Where

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: How to set the objective for a machine with consciousness

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www.openexchange.org 14y ago

Quantum Physics, Consciousness & The Afterlife

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itunes.apple.com 14y ago

Show HN: The Most Insignificant Revolution in Photography (for group photo)

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www.brainpickings.org 14y ago

How 17 Equations Changed the World

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gajitz.com 14y ago

1982 Atari Drawings Predict Wikipedia + Portable Computers

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www.fastcodesign.com 14y ago

Uh-Oh: Science Says Creativity And Dishonesty Go Hand-In-Hand

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www.sassymadam.com 14y ago

Can Porn Really be Ethical? Oversimplified Interpretation?

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itunes.apple.com 14y ago

Put your work down, play this game, say "I Love You" the geeky way

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en.wikipedia.org 14y ago

Tonybee's Idea, Resurrecting Dead

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app.ilovetictactoe.com 14y ago

Cute iPhone App to Confess Love, for Geeks, by Geek

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Trader's confession: I've been dreaming for this market crash for 3 yrs [video]

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www.yankodesign.com 14y ago

Why Do So Many Designs or Products Look The Same?

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amazesteve.com 14y ago

Gobug - Autism Therapy with RC Toy

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www.redpresent.com 14y ago

Show HN: Redpresent.com to showcase China startups

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www.showmenow.com 15y ago

The book on everything from useful to useless

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I don't see why the fuss about Craigslist not providing an API:

1. Anyone is free to come up with a better provide that serves Craigslist users' needs, you can argue that craigslist is the dominant player and it's hard to steal users from them, but many niche-focus startups have proved otherwise (or they simply don't have a compelling enough products);

2. When it comes to the time Craigslist fails its users functionally and aesthetically, it's hard to imagine no other players will surge up in the game;

3. Even if Craigslist provides an API now but doesn't improve its user experience, do we just want it to serve as a database for all other services that piggyback on Craigslist?

So my message to Craigslist: "Just think hard about how to serve your users better. You're not an asshole for restricting data access to your site, but it is irresponsible to waste other engineers lives on trying to defeat you while you can easily make yourselves better for your users!"