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Mike Cane
Personal blog · mikecanex.wordpress.com · on HN as mikecaneculturehardware
Mike Cane's personal blog at mikecanex.wordpress.com covers culture and hardware. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 477 times, most often “Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for older tech and publishing debates, such as Steve Jobs's 1997 comments on starting from the customer experience and a 1922 essay on being accommodating. Its posts are cited as references, not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)6 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-04-16
- Nook Touch Hacked To Be A Classic Macintosh2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-15
- Joe Konrath Needs To Shut The Fuck Up2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-29
What Hacker News says?
For those who are confused about what plagiarism looks like, here's an example from 1918: Plagiarism In 1918 http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/plagiarism-in-1918... Looks awfully similar to Plagiarism in 2012.
Comment linking /2012/05/06/plagiarism-in-1918/
on “Plagiarism”Submitted Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) as a story · 866 points
HN discussionThe blog header is Diogenes, the Cynic (by an unkonwn artist) [1]. This suggests a possible misunderstanding of historical personalities. I believe Τimon, the Misanthrope, is the role model the author was really looking for: According to Lucian, Timon was the wealthy son of Echecratides who lavished his money on flattering friends. When his funds ran out, the friends deserted him and Timon was reduced to working in…
Comment linking /2013/01/01/new-year-new-header/
on “Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)”Submitted Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) as a story · 650 points
HN discussionI have made these into basic ePub eBooks people can download for free from Google Docs: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/an-experiment-in-e...
Comment linking /2012/12/27/an-experiment-in-epub-ebooks/
on “Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)”Submitted This Page Is Why The Internet Sucks as a story · 133 points
HN discussionYes. Steve Jobs responding to a question about OpenDoc in 1997: > You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/wwdc-1997-video-s...
Comment linking /2011/06/08/wwdc-1997-video-steve-jobs-handles-a-public-insult/
on “Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving Engine”Submitted New Twitter Has Become Browser Poison as a story · 121 points
HN discussion"Vig" was famously used by Nathan Myhrvold in an internal memo to Bill Gates in which he proposed a structure whereby Microsoft could obtain a portion of content transactions that occur on the Internet. He used the term "vig" and it's appropriate here. http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-day-apple-beca...
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on “Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app”Submitted Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (1922) as a story · 113 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the 1922 article Why I Quit Being So Accommodating [1] with previous HN discussion [2]. [1] https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/1922-why-i-quit-b... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969041
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on “Why It Doesn't Pay to Be a People Pleaser”Submitted The Death Of The Hacker: InfoWorld 1986 as a story · 102 points
HN discussionAlso of interest is this: The Ghosts of Sony http://www.japansubculture.com/the-ghosts-of-sony/ And if you want to see some past glory: This Was Sony http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/this-was-sony/
Comment linking /2012/03/27/this-was-sony/
on “The Ten Year Decline of Sony”Submitted Twitter's Abuse Of Its Outside Developers Is Its Downfall as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI've read his blog posts on the subject. I've also read plenty of other posts that explain why his advice is terrible: self-publishing works for him because he already has a huge fan base, which he established while working through the traditional publishers. The following post, written by an outspoken proponent of e-books, deconstructs Konrath pretty thoroughly: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/joe-konrath…
Comment linking /2010/12/29/joe-konrath-needs-to-shut-the-fuck-up/
on “Gore, Ex-Apple Engineers Team Up to Blow Up the Book”Submitted I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) as a story · 52 points
HN discussioneBooks are my area. 1) Piracy is going to happen no matter what, so stop losing sleep over it. Count on the fact people will pay for books and concentrate on selling them. 2) Every eBook DRM has been cracked. But most who do that do so in order to be able to format shift. Get an eBook at $9.99 from Kindle Store vs $$ more from Sony or Kobo, then strip DRM and use Calibre to reformat to ePub for a Sony Reader or Nook…
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on “Ask HN: What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?”Submitted EInk Screen Acts Nearly Like An LCD Screen as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI have updated my post with that press release: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/anonymous-antisec-...
Comment linking /2011/12/24/anonymous-antisec-takes-down-stratfor/
on “Anonymous did not attack Stratfor”Submitted Apple’s Next Greedy Move: Exclusivity as a story · 45 points
HN discussionNow we can make our own Photonovels/Fotonovels http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/turn-tv-shows-into...
Comment linking /2012/08/28/turn-tv-shows-into-ebooks/
on “BBC iPlayer for Kindle (Cool Hack)”Submitted EBook Pricing Goes Outright Insane as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThis is exactly why Apple needs to release "Siri in a Box" -- "He plans to sell a "plug and play" box that will ship early next year and allow anyone to hack their iPhone 4S Siri app." http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/siri-dramatized-in... Apple needs to do it first.
Comment linking /2011/11/27/siri-dramatized-in-1987-and-boxed-in-2012/
on “Aussie hacks Siri to automate home”Submitted Amazon Deletes Dissing Of LCD Screens as a story · 32 points
HN discussion>>>The real argument for the agency model is that the publishers own the rights to publishing and can set terms as they wish. You lack knowledge of publishing. This model was struck down by the courts in the 1970s. Had it still been in effect, there would have never been a videocassette rental market -- which some studios, notably Warners, tried to subvert by tiered pricing for cassettes that were deemed "Rental Onl…
Comment linking /2012/02/06/book-publishing-this-isnt-1922-any-longer/
on “Apple in antitrust crosshairs over e-book pricing ”Submitted Anonymous AntiSec Takes Down Stratfor as a story · 28 points
HN discussionWho Do You Write For? http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/who-do-you-write-f...
Comment linking /2010/08/17/who-do-you-write-for/
on “Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN”Submitted A Geek Of 1909 as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt's an expected side-effect when a nation decides to no longer do business as usual. Something to keep in mind when our "friends" get their ass in another jam. https://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/1922-why-i-quit-b...
Comment linking /2012/12/26/1922-why-i-quit-being-so-accommodating/
on “International Travel to the U.S. Sees Double-Digit Decline Under Trump”Submitted Dear DoJ: You Need To Sue Apple Again as a story · 24 points
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