Re:The Real Silicon Valley
by tarr11 on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @06:41PM
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It'd be great if the author wrote about something specific. This article contains little detail about anything that actually happened.
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Agreed. I read this:
> What Hacker News doesn't prepare you for, however, is when a competitor gets acquired for a billion dollars, work-life imbalance, and getting dumped by your World of Warcraft girlfriend.
and was pretty interested. It sounds like the start of two pretty interesting stories. Instead of actually telling these stories, however, the post descended into platitudes. I'm beginning to feel that I should be flagging posts that are as meatless as this one.
From his site it sounds like he was a designer working on picplz and app.net. My guess is the competitor he was talking about was instagram.
To me, Instagram (a competitor) being bought by Facebook is a huge opportunity. Just look at all the people "leaving Instagram" right now due to predictable changes in their TOS.