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twitter is inherently a spammer's heaven. It's really easy to make 140 characters seem legitimate. An hour of writing spun content and a really easy to build signup bot and you can have full conversations, retweets, everything.

There's a reason twitter gets spammed so much, and it's because most of the time, normal people's 140 character messages look just as spammy as the actual spam.

I'm a coder, entrepreneur, and huge philosophy fan. I think many people similar to me (IE people here) also love philosophy as well all enjoy thinking, logic, and problem solving, the epitome of philosophy.

There's a difference between being honest and being a self-absorbed jackass though. The original email sent by the student was harmless and sincere and the response from the blogger was pretentious and whiney.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't have posted this email exchange on my own blog if it was me because I feel it would portray me in a negative light. To each his own I suppose.

sure, I admit the emailer went on to judge, but his initial email was:

> Hello, I'm citing your work for a debate article I'm using > about space colonization and how it is improbable. I do > need credentials however, and I've yet to find them online. > If you could reply with your credentials that'd be great.

No harm in that email, very simple.

But then the blogger went on to whip out his e-peen and tell the kid to go to his wikipedia rather than just write "I'm a self taught novelist who thoroughly researches his topics he writes about but doesn't have credentials in the traditional sense".

EDIT: I apparently have no idea how to do quotes on HN despite my valiant attempt to do so. I apologize.

It baffles me how, with the number of investors involved and the huge amount of money on the line, Twitter is making any strategic move other than "how do we get profitable"

Google Search NoAPI 15 years ago

you can easily scrape google without having to use something as bulky as htmlunit.

When I teach people how to scrape, exercise #1 is scraping Google with Ruby Mechanize and Nokogiri. xPath is your friend

I explained this exact point to a friend today at lunch. He vehemently disagreed with me.

No matter what the niche, or the market, there is always room for the simplest solution. Always.

my main machine is a 4gb 13" MBA, I do heavy web development with music playing and photoshop open all day long, along with skype, and the thing never skips a beat. 6 hours of battery even after 9 months, weighs less than 3 pounds.

It's the best computer I've ever owned. And it's my first Mac, I'm not much of a fanboy.

How is that a flaw? They have SIX HUNDRED MILLION USERS.

People want junk food. That's why everyone is fat and dumb. They watch junk on TV, read junk online, say junk to people on facebook, and eat junk at home.

0.000001% of people care about privacy and control and less apps & games.

Allow me to categorize my friends into work, friends, family, public categories and you're on the right track. Come up with a novel way to communicate with each other.