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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by Doctor_Fegg on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:27AM (#38262473)
PSA - the HN article submitter ("Tomte") is not Placemark's author (Tom MacWright) despite the three matching letters.
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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by michaelcampbell on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:54AM (#38262707)
Tom M seems to not like HN, so this makes sense.

https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by 4ggr0 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:57AM (#38264004)
He does have an account here, tho, and is responding to comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tmcw

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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by thewarpaint on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:27AM (#38265462)
Either the snippet has a bug, or he changed his mind and removed it, but it’s not working.
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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by aseipp on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:14PM (#38266211)
Hacker News puts `noreferrer` on the link (because apparently Internet Points and Arguments are more important than the courtesy of respecting the wishes of the author.)
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Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down by Modified3019 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:18PM (#38268105)
>I’ve learned some bad habits from Hacker News. I added Caveats sections to articles to make sure that nobody would take my points too broadly. I edited away asides and comments that were fun but would make articles less focused. I came to expect pedantic, judgmental feedback on everything I wrote, regardless of what it was.

>Writing for the Hacker News audience makes my writing worse.

Yeah, understandable.

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