Cited on HN 5 times, 2015–2025, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Used purely as a joke reference when gull-wing doors or tech-money excess come up.
A two-minute clip from HBO's Silicon Valley season 2 in which Russ Hanneman shows off his gull-wing car doors. It is a comedic scene about startup excess.
The car guy (Daniel Mac) is awesome but the answers make me feel like I don't understand how money works. So many people doing things I would not have thought pay as well as software work, and they're all driving McLarens with doors that open like this! [this video]
I know it's unhealthy, but I harbor a fantasy in which the modest and user-loving folks from SmugMug[0] pivot Flickr into an all-encompassing portal system a la iMode[1] and drive the productivity vampire Slack[2] out of business, ideally leaving Mr Butterfield a few dollars shy of gull-wing doors[3]. [0]: [link] [1]: [link] [2]: [link] [3]: [this video]
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