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by miguelrochefort 4615 days ago
Don't get me wrong, I frequently use Pinterest.

But to say that Pinterest is a novel and future-resistant shopping interface is foolish. We can do much better than this. It reeks the web 2.0, where content has no meaning.

Links, captions and pictures? Come on, any 12 year old has the ability to produce a better system than that.

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And I'm sure any 12 year old can write twitter in a weekend.
No. But any decent programmer could (scaling aside of course).
You suffer from hubris.