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Techcrunch is a troll site. Do not feed the trolls. Do not post their links.


Would you care to engage with the actual points made in this article?


What points? That Android itself being open doesn't guarantee that every piece of software, every piece of hardware, and every carrier is going to be totally open?

That's an asinine, utterly idiotic argument. It's a juvenile strawman ("Gosh, and I thought Android was open...but look I can't install Skype on my Sprint phone").

MG Siegler has seldom said anything that had any merit or added to the argument in any meaningful way. Which isn't a suprise, as TechCrunch is a trollbait emporium: They know that posting such asinine nonsense gets them hits, so they'll keep doing it. It is, absolutely, feeding the trolls.


My headline would have been different:

Mike Rowe arbitrarily defines success, denounces otherwise high achieving boy for not meeting it.


Blogger writes post requiring complete reading to understand; HN reader TL;DRs and does not.


You can be plenty successful without becoming an Eagle. But you’ll never get anywhere by doing things half-way.

Sounds like a pretty solid definition of success to me.


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