This is a really flawed way at looking at the market. Including tablets and smartphones in the PC market doesn't work because most people have a PC and a table and a phone.
This could really use a lot of editing. Far too much of it is whining about slow internet that doesn't reach a meaningful conclusion, but instead generalizes from his anecdote.
If anyone is reading comments before reading the article, I recommend scanning it quickly. You won't miss anything.
It seems like it's really getting killed under the load. This also isn't the first node project demo I've seen deployed that gets destroyed by a bunch of people visiting it to check it out. Anyone have some tips for deploying Node in a manner that your server won't just get destroyed? What's the point of supporting 1000's of users in say, socket.io if most people's deployment schemes allow for a max of say, 250 concurrent connections?
>> Execution of course matters but there is also value in being first and taking the right marketing approach.
I absolutely agree with you. I think for a lot of people, including myself, however, the best marketing approach would have been to say "check this out, I did something cool, and I've open sourced it." This is what dcurtis probably should have done. He didn't do any groundbreaking rails code, and there was very little value in having a new workflow of blogging exist only on his servers. I think the value of Nate open sourcing it is much higher than if he had just built a clone and kept it to himself.
Basically, the community response supporting Nate is strong because he did something that benefits the community as a whole, where as dcurtis did something that benefited only himself and then shouted about it.
That's my (pretty myopic and polemic) take on all this.
I totally agree with this. I thought it was a joke. I didn't think frat guys were actually learning to code and calling themselves programmers or something...
The point of this blog post is basically that it doesn't matter if you program or what, if you're a douche, you are a douche.
Are you fucking kidding me? The words "desk" and "photo" are linked to store results from this site? No thanks, this is 2012, that's not how we monetize content anymore.
Pg 43- "[REDACTED] commented that, although he does not consider Mr. Jobs to be a friend at this time, he considers Mr. Jobs to be a successful individual because he can delegate tasks to individuals."
Occupy Wall St. arguably didn't do much to affect Washington, or the regulations that affect the firms that protesters were blaming.
I'm not experienced in these matters, but it seems to me like a wiser alternative would be to found some kind of Tech Lobby that advocates for policies that benefit the internet in Congress and educates members of Congress about the internet.
