Postdesk is a UK tech and startup news site covering Tumblr, Google, Facebook, London startups and design topics.
HN links it for startup news and commentary such as the Tumblr piece, though one commenter criticizes its lengthy psychoanalysis of David Karp.
Mr. England, your post went on for thousands of words psychoanalyzing the guy and his motives ("abruptly...knee-jerk response...defensive...something to hide....care-free and cavalier...", and so on ad nauseum).
Something about the tone set off my metal detectors, as did the comments by robyn_b here, which reminded me of the way people on 4chan work someone's name into a sentence to make sure that it's the number one hit on Google.
Sure enough, looking into this a little more, it actually isn't as surprising. From your site:
http://postdesk.com/hiring/
PostDesk is looking for fresh new talent in the UK,
Europe, the USA and Canada. We require web developers who
are proficient in PHP and MySQL - and ideally those who
have worked with CMS systems, bulletin board style
software or social networking software....In short, the
start-up will be based around news, discussion and
debate.
Ok, so you run a competing startup in the same space and saw an opportunity to poke a finger in the eye of a rival. Don't you think that merits an up front disclosure in bold font?
London, UK and Manchester, UK (remote is acceptable for the first few weeks until we have office space established and set up)
Symfony developers, SQL experience, front end experience (HTML5, jQuery, etc preferable but not necessary), experience as a software architect also preferable
http://postdesk.com/ (use developer contact form)
We're a start up based around editorial, discussion and debate on line.
...remember this? http://postdesk.com/debates/should-tumblr-care/