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If you try building a realtime single page app using Meteor and measure the amount of time it took you to complete it, you'll find that the hype is justified.

How would it go away? Ellen Pao's going to appeal against the verdict which will lead to Kleiner-Perkins being in the news again.

I read this book a few years back and while I found it quite interesting as a story, I did not glean any major insights from it.

It most likely has to do with my own ignorance about philosophy, but all I got from the book was that the author hates Aristotle and rigorous classification. And that quality is a more important property than morality.

Thanks for the link. I already have a pretty decent setup, but I'm always looking to improve it. Trying it out now.

Emacs with Evil mode is the best editor ever. For pure text editing capability Vim can't be beat, but it lacks some niceties like ability to run shells, an integrated package installer etc.

With Emacs and Evil, you can get the best of both worlds.

I was referencing vayarajesh's comment, not hnnewguy's.

OP is a term that's been used thousands of times in discussions posted on HN, the same can't be said of hashtags.

> Why is it bothering you?

I'm not the OP, but it bothered me too. It goes against HN's general discussion style.

Simply donating money isn't the most effective way to change the world. Who knows how the charities spend the money?

In an ideal situation, the CEOs themselves would run the charity, like Bill Gates. Of course that is not possible in a majority of the cases.

There are plenty of legitimate products out there to promote, but those Acai Berry/Weight loss rebill offers were really shady and one had to have absolutely no moral compass to promote those. Even newbies knew that they were flat-out scams(for the customer).

You would see marketers justifying these products by saying that the customers were suckers for not reading the TOS or that nothing was wrong with rebilling(citing Netflix,which is totally different; people knew it was a subscription unlike with these shady stuff) and stuff like that. It was amazing the lengths people went to fool themselves into thinking they weren't ripping people off.

If you can't beat them, join them! Of course your comment was meant sarcastically, but I wonder if authors(of genuine books not the spammy ones) might turn to posting fake reviews and justify it by saying that they have no other choice.

We can see this happening in the case of SEO with many white hat sites employing black/gray hat techniques simply to maintain their current positions in Google.

It's always a cat and mouse game however. Once they employ machine learning, I'm assuming the spammers will adapt and create reviews that fool the algorithm(though at an increased initial cost).