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Were the president of North Korea and Paris Hilton friends? No?

here it comes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3368478

I'm patiently waiting for the submissions about Angelina Jolie.

Would you like to have a hacker community having smart conversations about Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, too?

☑ Kim Jong Il ☑ Khaddafi ☑ Osama Bin Laden ☑ Saddam Hussein ☐ Internet Explorer ☐ George W. Bush ☐ Condoleezza Rice ☐ Tony Blair

I don't give a piece of shit to international politics. If I did, I would read globalsecurity.org which does it very well.

BTW American newspapers are much more interested at the politics of other countries because of the leadership of US.

Another article that shows HN turned into a regular American newspaper.

I really cant believe that we're discussing this, the most stupid, simple language in the world!

I respect HTML coders and am aware of that they do fantastic job on frontend.

But nobody has to be talented HTML developer to build websites. It's stupid easy to do it. I'm a guy who never learnt HTML and am considered as a coder good at developing good websites.

Nevermind. I don't like this kind of pointless discussions. I don't like HN anymore.

it also means that "I'm too lazy to figure out that there is no such html developer".

html is all about a few xml tags. everybody can do it. I know some music bands, authors and politicians who code website learning basic html.

and I see some developers who ignores coding html because they think they're too smart to code a simple website. no comment.

the world will be a better place when the humanity stop putting lots of effort and interest on snow scripts.

definitely agree with that. k'nex is way more creative.

I use delicious for 5 years and keep a local, sync copy to make it possible to program, so that I can develop my own desktop tools.

I mean, a free Pinboard was a solution for me when I was looking for a good alternative of delicious, 2 years ago.

But it's not free. The owner claims that he'll keep maintaining forever but he will not when he lose a considerable percent of his customers.

And he'll. As I said, pinboard solves the wrong problem. An online bookmarking service can be structured in a way that will cost nothing. Couple of scripts that manipulate a text file on DropBox was the solution came to my mind in 3 seconds.

I search my bookmarks with grep thanks to a local, plain text copy of them. It's so fast and can be programmed in a way that I can search I bookmarks before I open my browser.

There are way better architectures to have an unsocial bookmarking service. Pinboard has the worst one and because its focus is to copy Delicious and make money. In other words, it creates the problem first, and gives users an expensive solution.

An open source solution that can kill Pinboard may be based on even DropBox. OSS community is good at solving real problems.

Question: what happens when a guy copies pinboard (in other words, the old delicious) and open sources it?

A community evolves. And some of paid pinboard users switch to the free one because it's open source, some people implement some cool stuff periodically, it'll be maintained forever.

Another question: What happens when pinboard makes less money?

These questions were answered 30 years ago by OSS community.

See the irony: pinboard is a clone of delicious' initial version. it copied the idea, the visual design and started selling it.

In every success story of pinboard, I'm very surprised to see how people are impressed from a carbon copy.

Let me introduce myself: I'm a guy who bookmarks everyday for 5 years, on delicious. After the Yahoo acquire, it was redesigned.

And I was annoyed. I started looking at the alternatives. Most of them were crappy except Pinboard. It was a good copy of old Delicious.

And I decided to use it just because it was a good copy of Delicious!

Then, I noticed that Pinboard is not free. And what it provides is nothing but keeping some text on a database. Same idea, almost same design but it's not free. Let the owner explain why it's not free: it's unsocial. and it'll be online unless a 90% percent of users keep paying it.

It's not ethical, Pinboard. If I think that it's not a waste of time, I'll code some scripts to store bookmarks in Dropbox for your users. It'll be under WTF PL license so that you can sell it.

I'm a user of Delicious for 5 years, over 4000 bookmarks. It was restructured, not shut down.

let me summarize the main idea for you: A bunch of people pay me because I store their a few hundreds lines of text, save their ass from the sites full of annoying ads like cjb.net or freeservers.com.

no need for the user friendly, smart business models. no need to develop a new vision. this is the hack.

Did you checked out the designs of two website? Freshdesk even copy the buttons of Zendesk's homepage. What the fuck are you talking about?

hmm. I thought it's impossible to block that solution since a coder should be able to get the computed value of a style property. I'll try it soon.

Does your company's competitor copy even your visual design? What I see here is some bullshit makers trying to promote their product by trolling. This is not the common case.

By the way, I'm not against copying. I distribute my website, multiplayerchess.com with WTF License to let people clone it easily.

Again, what I see here is bullshit. It's unethical, it's not honest.

If the Hacker News people need a guide to notice how FreshDesk guys are motivated to draw the attention of people by making bullshit, I'm going to stop reading HN. Shame on you the readers voted this article up.

This is completely bullshit. If you take a look at the website of Freshdesk, you'll see that they stole the design of Zendesk. They probably did it to draw the attention of Zendesk and gather some angry tweets that can be used in such a way you see.

This is the last article I've seen in HN. I'll never enter this website again. Seriously, enough bullshit for a coder.

Time to leave HN alone with the embarrassing promoters and gossip girls.

It's not all about a name. Freshdesk is an embarrassing copy of Zendesk.

What Freshdesk tries to do is redirecting your attention to the similarity of the names. If you really check out Freshdesk, you'll see that they copied Zendesk with no piece of difference!

http://ajaxian.com/archives/spyjax-using-avisited-to-test-yo...

come on...

there is already way better and reliable methods to accomplish same goal. e.g

http://ajaxian.com/archives/spyjax-using-avisited-to-test-yo...

Not even close, too. Instead of measuring load time, you can create "<a>" elements verify their rendered color is the color you defined for visited links. It's a trick of old times...

My opinion about the common thought saying "NodeJS forces you to code many callbacks that seem ugly" is that some people hesitate to abstract that functions.

[off topic] Please make some clones of IDoneThis for other purposes. For example, it would be great to have something like "ISpendThis" to log our daily expenses.

[feedback] I'm a fan of your website. It helps me a lot to keep my discipline and improve my productivity. Thanks for such a great tool!

let's share those urls you're talking about.

zeynalov, please report him to a police department or a related department in Turkey. if you don't know how to do it, I can help you on this as a Turkish citizen.