On: How to Build a TimesMachine

[acdha]

> Their business is failing; they risk the financial collapse of the world's leading institution of journalism (IMHO), and they are investing resources in republshing old stories that hardly anyone reads

They're actually profitable – not enormously so but the situation doesn't warrant the hyperbole:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/business/media/new-york-ti...

They're already doing quite lot of good work on the IT side, which has included projects you probably interact with regularly (e.g. https://github.com/documentcloud/document-viewer, https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone), so it also seems somewhat overblown to make it sound like they're putting the entire team on a small side-project.

[hackuser → acdha]

> They're actually profitable – not enormously so but the situation doesn't warrant the hyperbole

That's true today. From what I understand, their long-term survival is at stake.

> it also seems somewhat overblown to make it sound like they're putting the entire team on a small side-project.

If someone said that, I would agree with you.

[runako → hackuser]

>> their long-term survival is at stake.

Worth noting that if you listen to the business press, Apple's long-term survival is at stake. (Current liquid assets >$200B.)

So I wouldn't close the book on the Times just yet, on the basis of rumors and analysis by the business press.

[hackuser → runako]

I'm basing it on published information, going back years, about layoffs, other cuts, and significant decreases in revenue.