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0 pointsarbuge7y ago0 comments

> I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me).

I sense a contradiction in this statement...

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You only sense the contradiction because you share a common HN delusion: that you are above average unique non-normal tech bro über man.

This delusion is what stops such people from understanding why Slack/Viber/WhatsApp/iMessage/WeChat etc. won and XMPP and IRC lost.

What perplexes me is that there are now even more competing messaging services than ever before. This suggests to me that none have won.

Indeed. And in the world of competing messaging services the world prefers anything but XMPP or IRC. This suggests to me that they lost.

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0 pointsarbuge7y ago0 comments

> I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me).

I sense a contradiction in this statement...

You only sense the contradiction because you share a common HN delusion: that you are above average unique non-normal tech bro über man.

This delusion is what stops such people from understanding why Slack/Viber/WhatsApp/iMessage/WeChat etc. won and XMPP and IRC lost.

What perplexes me is that there are now even more competing messaging services than ever before. This suggests to me that none have won.

Indeed. And in the world of competing messaging services the world prefers anything but XMPP or IRC. This suggests to me that they lost.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse