alt.techcrunch.die.die.die
Warning: this is just a rant.
This is the top story on Hacker News? Embarrassing. Should I add downvotes on stories, for users over a certain karma threshold?
—Paul Graham
I've had it with Techcrunch. What was once an interesting lowdown on the tech startup world has descended into a bitch-fest. Take the following post from yesterday where Michael Arrington impatiantly dribbles over Delicious's second born child:
It’s been over nine months since Yahoo first gave us a glimpse of Delicious 2.0 - a complete code rewrite from the now aging platform that was acquired by Yahoo in December 2005 ... and since then, not a peep from Yahoo.
It’s now be nine months ... Meanwhile, scaling issues have confound the Delicious team and they continue to rework the architecture.
Delicious is still my social bookmarking service of choice, but Delicious 2.0 is a serious black eye for Yahoo and the Delicious team. It’s time for them to update us on when we can expect a general release of the next version.
I find this all rather impatient and presumptuous. The strangest thing is that Arrington refers to its 'ageing architecture' and the dev-team being 'confounded' — where does he get this from? What are the sources? We can be pretty sure that Arrington does not have first-hand information; as an economics grad he's not even a programmer or technologist of any sort.
It seems that people more interested in building cool things than fueling hysteria and hyperbole can be found over at Hacker News or on the SDF bboard.
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