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Gordon Mohr
Personal blog · gojomo.blogspot.com · on HN as gojomoprogrammingculture
Gordon Mohr writes Gojomo, a personal blog at gojomo.blogspot.com about programming and culture. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on the Internet Archive's lawsuit with the Big 4 publishers and on copyright debates, and in a thread on Microsoft's earnings. The comments do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Gordon Mohr's Weblog: Gojomo
What Hacker News says?
> Wait, why are books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, & flyers a bad faith analogy? Because they're comparing an individuals blog or Twitter profile to those things, of which they are not analogous. Not to mention you use rhetoric like this: > If copyright maximalists & DRM fans It just goes to show the juvenile nature that some people will stoop to in order to prove their point. In this case, "some…
Comment linking /2002/07/
on “Tell HN: Internet Archive is facing a Big 4 Publishers lawsuit”Submitted Wii-Trained, Sword Wielding Industrial Robot... as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree, and two further failure modes introduced by URL-shortening-middlemen that are hinted at but not explicitly mentioned by Joshu are: * political censorship pressure on the URL-shortening service * terms-of-service frame-ups, where a legitimate URL is reused in a spam sense to trigger its disablement (I mentioned these in my case against URL shorteners, ["TinyURLs are evil URLs"| http://gojomo.blogspot.com/200…
Comment linking /2006/02/tinyurls-are-evil-urls.html
on “The problems with url shorteners”Wow, Hank finds something that doesn't suck! Circle this day in your calendars. I agree this is big -- at least for P2P. And if it doesn't immediately put CDNs at risk, while the kinks are being worked out... give it time. Think about how long awkward web video muddled along before finally Adobe FLV, plus a critical mass of broadband adoption, caused video usage to explode. When Adobe first dropped hints about bundl…
Comment linking /2007/01/adob2p-can-adobe-do-for-web-p2p-what.html
on “Adobe Introduces P2P Flash Player, Kills CDNs”I don't see how they could have done otherwise. They are delivering very little in the way of innovation and have no real focus as a business. From my angle their products are less impressive than their peers in each market segment, with the possible exception of the Office franchise. I have an Xbox 360, which I like, and I manage a SharePoint platform as my job. SharePoint has its moments, but overall it's solid an…
Comment linking /2002/06/machiavellis-innovators-dilemma.html
on “Microsoft revenue down 6%, earnings down 30% for third quarter”I ♥ ASUS and thought back in 2004 they were on a hot streak of promising products: http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2004/12/i-asus.html At the time, it seemed they only needed more native-english-marketing-savvy to achieve mass appeal in North America. I hope the Eee PC will be their brand breakthrough.
Comment linking /2004/12/i-asus.html
on “The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry”Reminds me of the time the NYTimes swiped a collage illustration I made on my blog and ran it without attribution: http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2005/04/nytimes-republishes-my-ar... It took two emails of gradually-increasing emotional load -- I added the 'plagiarism' label to the second -- to get them to run a correction. It wasn't a giant deal -- a recreation of another blogger's (Niall Kennedy's) concept -- but to se…
Comment linking /2005/04/nytimes-republishes-my-artwork-without.html
on “How a Minnesota programmer figured out that a NYT photo was altered”Wild guesses: * Bigger-but-still-pretty-cheap iPod Touch -- falling somewhere between today's 'TechCrunch Tablet' and the foldable OLPC dual screen [1]. Perhaps cheap because of some sort of non-AT&T carrier subsidy (Sprint/Verizon?) or built-in adware (Google). * A true Apple TV -- big screen flat TVs with Mac innards. (I thought this was due earlier this year. [2]) * Some massive Mac/iPod/iPhone 'switcher' cross-p…
Comment linking /2008/01/appletv-thats-really-tv-and-really.html
on “Apple plans mystery "product transition" before September's end”You can use a 'zero width space' (​)in some browsers to hint a breakable point, but it might affect C&P-ability. Some other discussion of options here: http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2005/03/cross-browser-invisible-word-break-in.html
Comment linking /2005/03/cross-browser-invisible-word-break-in.html
on “Life of a Chinese Gold Farmer”I think it's a great idea; was hoping this sort of TV would be Apple's surprise announcement for last MacWorld: http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2008/01/appletv-thats-really-tv-a...
Comment linking /2008/01/appletv-thats-really-tv-and-really.html
on “Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs ”I speculated about 'trojan laptops' a while back: http://gojomo.blogspot.com/2002/12/trojan-laptop.html With netbooks so cheap, the expected return of such a strategy might have recently turned positive. (It would be nice to think that only those who steal the laptops would be bitten, but as thieves probably pass them on to innocent third-parties, there's not really a 'white hat' way to use this trick.)
Comment linking /2002/12/trojan-laptop.html
on “FBI investigating laptops sent to US governors”