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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by alnayyir on Thursday January 06, 2011 @08:57PM (#2078242)
Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like.

If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be afforded any rights or respect by the owner.

Eventually people will figure this out.

Eventually.

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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by chime on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:11PM (#2078274)
> Yeah but dey da boss > go sharecroppin'

If this is a reference to something, I don't get it. If not, why are you writing like this?

Edit: Thanks alnayyir. I knew there was something I was missing.

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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by JonnieCache on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:20PM (#2078297)
It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?
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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by philwelch on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:53PM (#2078359)
The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.
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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by alnayyir on Thursday January 06, 2011 @10:01PM (#2078383)
ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.
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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by graham-miln on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:21AM (#2078689)
chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

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Re:A warning to hackers: be careful building on Twitter's API by alnayyir on Thursday January 06, 2011 @09:20PM (#2078296)
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
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