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Jamie Zawinski
Personal blog · jwz.livejournal.comprogrammingculture
Jamie Zawinski's personal blog at jwz.livejournal.com covers programming and culture. Since 2007, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 63 times, most often “How to repair a 230KV, 10 mile long coaxial power cable”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- /1002269.html3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-02-19
- How to repair a 230KV, 10 mile long coaxial power cable3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-05-18
- Dear Palm, it's just not working out3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-10-20
- JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-28
- JWZ ports xdaliclock to Palm WebOS by rewriting it in Javascript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-06-26
- Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-03
- How to use Facebook with a feed reader2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-23
- JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-04-18
- jwz - PSA: Backups2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-29
What Hacker News says?
Yelp is even worse on the extortion front, they have sales guys that make shakedown calls: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html
Comment linking /1002269.html
on “Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"”Submitted "I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style" as a story · 516 points
HN discussionI do think he had a point on the sudden about-face as to whether HTML should specify page appearance down to the pixel: http://jwz.livejournal.com/147024.html
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on “JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer"”Submitted JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness as a story · 186 points
HN discussionJWZ makes no sense what so ever. I'm sure he's really good at some kind of programming, or at least that he once was, but he often talks from what he thinks is a position of insight, while actually he's quite ignorant. The first commenter's explanation of why OpenGL and OpenGLES differ is a fantastic example. JWZ simply never bothered to learn enough about the subject in the first place, but comfortably speaks about…
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on “JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer"”Submitted This is why I sell beer. as a story · 179 points
HN discussionMax Chafkin is a little bit late to the party on this one. Here's an LA Times story with most of the same details: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/11/business/fi-lazarus1... I read it when JWZ pointed to it from his "I Hate Yelp" post: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html JWZ runs the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, and is "pretty sure" that he was in fact given a pay-to-play pitch for Yelp placement and review…
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on “You've been Yelped”Submitted JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps as a story · 176 points
HN discussionMore evidence from fellow hacker - http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html
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on “Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0”Submitted JWZ on iPhone OS development: "This is why I sell beer" as a story · 168 points
HN discussionJWZ has gotten the shakedown too: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1002269.html
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on “Yelp Extortion Allegations Stack Up (March 2009)”Submitted Every day I learn something new... and stupid. as a story · 127 points
HN discussionPossibly related: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1224702.html
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on “The Mac App Store isn’t for today’s Mac developers”Submitted Dear Palm, it's just not working out as a story · 115 points
HN discussionregarding comment above: You realize that by stating "You haven't seen this before", you are just challenging readers here to find and name products and projects that are similar to yours, don't you? http://jwz.livejournal.com/847649.html?thread=16493345#t1649...
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on “Review my startup: Revizr. You haven't seen this before.”Submitted Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey as a story · 92 points
HN discussionAgreed. I like how JWZ put it: http://jwz.livejournal.com/147024.html?thread=760144#t760144 What's a "de facto standard?" It's what we call a standard. What's a de jure standard?" It's what we call a wish.
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on “To hell with web standards”Submitted JWZ and the Palm App Catalog, Part II as a story · 64 points
HN discussionAnd here's another: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1158388.html?thread=21451764#t214... That personal story was in response to a story about sex workers in New Orleans being added to the sex offenders register for oral sex. http://jwz.livejournal.com/1158388.html
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on “The logic behind treating "sexting" teens as child pornographers”Submitted Facebook considers your current IP address to be "public information" as well as a story · 60 points
HN discussionBest jwz story: http://jwz.livejournal.com/94645.html
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on “Ask HN: Any bar owners?”Submitted There is no sane reason for the dock connector to not be micro-USB. Discuss. as a story · 52 points
HN discussionJWZ: http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejournal.com/profile edit: 1) dupe. 2) @netik is involved with DNA lounge too.
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on “Ask HN: Any bar owners?”Submitted iRobot Develops a Hyperelastic Morphing Robot as a story · 46 points
HN discussionThis is an interesting perspective; I took the opposite one. To me, the "duct-tape programmer" that Joel described was not a "duct-tape" programmer at all. He was just a programmer that knew the field and knew when and when not to apply certain languages and methodologies. Certainly we'd all be happy to have jwz onboard our teams, but Joel holds him out as the one exception of a "good" duct-tape programmer. It's jus…
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on “The Duct Tape Programmer”Submitted Most-Positive-Bignum as a story · 46 points
HN discussionJamie Zawinski just drowned that kitten: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1108212.html
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on “Google Plans Its Own Android Phone”Submitted JWZ ports xdaliclock to Palm WebOS by rewriting it in Javascript as a story · 38 points
HN discussionIs WebOS honestly that good? The last I heard that I was paying attention to was jwz giving up on his for performance reasons ( http://jwz.livejournal.com/1108212.html ) I know there's a lot to like about it; I loved (in my brief exposure) the cards metaphor, and I imagine that development could be quite nice, but have they solved the issues he refers to? [disclaimer: I have had a brief play with a Pre, but you can'…
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on “Palm Said to Put Itself Up for Sale; Bids May Come This Week”Submitted Quantitative easying explained as a story · 28 points
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