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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Gigachad on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:09PM (#48273375)
Too early to call? It's hit rock bottom. I've never seen a major site die so completely before.
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Grokify on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:12PM (#48273411)
Digg was a major site that had a surprisingly fast turn of events. There are some good lessons from that.
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by antiframe on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:14PM (#48273419)
MySpace comes to mind. Slashdot maybe.
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by Gigachad on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:18PM (#48273461)
Both before my time. These days it seems like every site is able to withstand pretty much every controversy. Facebook should have died about 5 times by now but the company is as strong as ever.
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:03PM (#48274504)
LifeLog doesn’t ever die,

it just takes the form it needs to.

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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:24AM (#48275348)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by dwd on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:55PM (#48273726)
Groupon? Did an IPO with a 12.7b valuation and was mostly dead within a year.
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Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore by DANmode on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:16PM (#48273867)
Google Search was looking bleak at one point, recently, based on deltas alone.
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