Posts Tagged ‘hacker news

Marketplace for spaces Airbnb is on the defensive after one user’s gut-wrenching story about coming home to find her place robbed, ransacked and destroyed caught the media’s attention. The story, posted late last month by “EJ,” explains in vivid detail how criminals used Airbnb to rent out her place for a week, only to return [...]

Marketplace for spaces Airbnb is on the defensive after one user’s gut-wrenching story about coming home to find her place robbed, ransacked and destroyed caught the media’s attention. The story, posted late last month by “EJ,” explains in vivid detail how criminals used Airbnb to rent out her place for a week, only to return [...]

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has spoken out against the perception that JavaScript was an arbitrary or random success. In a comment at Hacker News Eich explains the historical context from which JavaScript emerged and how it was unlikely to have happened any other way. In comment at Lambda the Ultimate, Eich wrote: “History has reason [...]

On Competing with Circles: Dhanji R. Prasanna, former Google+ engineer: Now, I’m not saying that Circles is the one killer feature to bring down facebook — not at all. What I am saying, however, is that [Google+ and facebook] are not playing on an even field. Like Microsoft and online Office, it is incredibly difficult [...]

How soon we forget. MySpace, the mostly-abandoned, Justin Timberlake-owned social network of yore, was the first to ink a VoIP deal for member-to-member calling — more than three-and-a-half years before Facebook. This little tidbit of truth was dug up by none other than MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, who was also quick to point out that [...]


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