Re:Defending your app from copies and clones
by Cyberdog on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:52PM
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Don't know how much it will help, but I upvoted you.
I used to like Marco, but after following him a while and noticing inconsistencies of principle like this, it got to me. (That, and when he said in a podcast that he didn't use SQL joins when building Tumblr because he doesn't like them. Trying to think about how he could have possibly accomplished that makes me shudder.) I can give him the benefit of the doubt that perhaps his perspectives have changed with age or experience, though.
All that said, I upvoted the OP too, because as much as I don't like the guy, he's not wrong here.
Interesting take, considering how Marco has called out both Pocket (formerly Read It Later) and Readability as having copied features that he claims to have created first.
"Weiner systematically copied almost every major Instapaper feature over the first few years of Instapaper’s existence", from https://marco.org/2013/02/21/the-first-read-later-service
and
"Over the next few months, they continued adding mostly Instapaper-like features to their service.", from https://marco.org/2011/11/16/readability
Perhaps his recent comments reflect how well his prior callouts were received?
EDIT: curious to know why this was downvoted. It wasn't meant as a dig at all—I was pointing out that Marco has experience with callouts and might have relevant expertise that many people lack. I would personally be very interested to hear his experience went dealing with those issues.