Why Does Everything Suck
whydoeseverythingsuck.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Hank Williams wrote this opinionated blog on technology, web standards, startups and the Silicon Valley industry, until he stopped posting.
What HN saysCommenters remember it as compelling and well argued, wished for new posts, and mention his work on ClickRadio and Kloudshare.
44HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage4 people · first shared 2008
- 2Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley2 people · 212 points · first shared 2011 · 121 comments on HN
- 3John Gruber jumps the shark2 people · 128 points · first shared 2010 · 116 comments on HN
- 4Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement2 people · 24 points · first shared 2008 · 11 comments on HN
- 5Flash 10 p2p and CDNs – Deeper Analysis2 people · 9 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6Anticipating the Next Generation of Search2 people · 5 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 7Blaine Cook Writes First Blog Post Since Twitter... About Scaling2 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad1 people · 410 points · first shared 2010 · 228 comments on HN
- 9Apple fears the killer app1 people · 131 points · first shared 2010 · 86 comments on HN
- 10How Apple is Breaking The Law With The App Store1 people · 91 points · first shared 2010 · 76 comments on HN
- 11Apple is actually asking for 100% of SaaS mobile revenue1 people · 83 points · first shared 2011 · 106 comments on HN
- 12Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs1 people · 65 points · first shared 2008 · 67 comments on HN
- 13Adobe Introduces P2P Flash Player, Kills CDNs1 people · 53 points · first shared 2008 · 34 comments on HN
- 14Killing Twitter Before It Can hurt Us1 people · 44 points · first shared 2008 · 35 comments on HN
- 15UI Guru Jakob Nielson's Site Is Unreadable1 people · 41 points · first shared 2008 · 36 comments on HN
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mark-r · 2015-11-17
I found his blog http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/ not long before he stopped adding to it, and I found it compelling enough to check back regularly to see if the blogging itch came back to him. Everything sucks just a little bit more today - RIP.
sedachv · 2010-10-15
Hank Williams (http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/) founded ClickRadio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickradio) in 1999, and is now doing http://kloudshare.com/
I did some contracting for Kloudshare. Hank is a pretty impressive guy.
pchristensen · 2008-08-18
Hank Williams (http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com ) mentions KloudShare every now and then.
urnulman · 2010-04-12
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com - not loaded
bdfh42 · 2010-07-01
Example:
This post http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2010/06/law-enforcement-has-apparentl… was deleted when first posted. I reposted it the next day because the opinion was well argued (agree or not).
hank Williams' subsequent post responding to the deletion on HN was not well informed and (correctly) did not show up here as far as I know.
macmac · 2010-06-11
At least below isn't debatable anymore.
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2010/06/john-gruber-jumps-shark.html
ddrouin · 2010-02-12
It's a funny situation, in the sense that Microsoft did exactly the same thing on the ECMAScript 4 standard on which Actionscript 3 is based and managed instead to stall the evolution of the ES standard...
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/08/ru-roh-adobe-screwed-by-ecmas…
dkokelley · 2009-09-22
I'm not sure about the proper etiquette here, but the original article is posted at http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2009/09/problem-with-economy-you-aren…
swombat · 2009-05-29
Out of curiosity, why did you use Java rather than Flash/Flex? Do you know that Flash 10 has some p2p distribution technology built in?
More info at: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/05/flash-10-p2p-and-cdns-deeper-…
mroman · 2008-10-11
I wholeheartedly agree! I have been thinking about this issue for several months, and even posted a short rant here:
http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/04/too-much-suckage.html?showCom…
xirium · 2008-02-26
If the tech industry had a race bias ( http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/02/race-and-technology.html ), would this create a bias in facial recognition startups and would this create a bias in facial recognition software?
natrius · 2011-11-03
Some objections:
"Or the coverage wasn’t good enough.
[ http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/10/arrington-race-and-silicon-va… ]"
Hank said nothing of the sort. He said there is no proof that Arrington goes out of his way to cover black founders as he had claimed. Hank didn't say Arrington should go out of his way, nor did he call Arrington a racist. Hank just said that Arrington's claim was incorrect, and from where I'm sitting, he's right.
"There are very few minorities here. When they are here, they get hired much more easily than their white or asian counterparts."
First of all, making claims of employment bias without evidence is generally a bad idea. Secondly, Arrington is implying that underrepresented minorities in the Valley are less qualified than their white and Asian colleagues, which, if untrue, is a dangerous implication to make.
"And the list of mentors at his TechStars accelerator program – well let’s just say they did manage to get a token black man and a token black women on to that list of hundreds of mentors, but it sure doesn’t look like “take action” to me."
Referring to people as "tokens" implies that their presence is just for show. I'm sure those mentors don't appreciate that sort of attack on their professional accomplishments, and to assume that they're there just for show is—dare I say it—racist. Consider replacing "token" with "single" in that sentence if that's not what you mean.
Few reasonable people think Arrington has a…