The first article was detailed and pretty interesting. The rebuttals were both weak and just CRAZY uninformative. Left with no other option, for now I'm choosing to not care.
I know this question doesn't have bias, so I'm implying you're saying the organization doesn't work, but to me the results speak for themselves. Valve/Steam is just killing it right now, beating out huge, more established players in the gaming world. Doing something right.
Posted a blog that (partly) talks about how Instagram poses a massive threat to Facebook TWO MINUTES before this broke. Needless to say, everyone's going to be reading Zuck and ignoring http://blog.thecityswig.com but it's a cool coincidence
It's illustratively boring: the very process of reading it is so boring, illustrating the monotony of his startup, which led to him quitting his start up. That was the point of Moby Dick, to be boring and monotonous so as to demonstrate the nature of whaling. I'm not sure why people hated this comparison so much, it's extremely apt and not meant to be insulting at all.
I love all the "aren't the current players going to win this war" posts. That's a HUGE advantage for you: everybody is going to underestimate you and your possible impact.... until it's too late. This isn't a sure bet, not by a long shot, but it's got a good chance of being something as impactful as Square has the potential to be, and that's a big fucking deal y'all.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable.
Still, I hated reading it, and I didn't mind MD.
This is the Moby Dick of blog posts. Incredibly boring, but that's the point: he's illustrating how boring his startup was, so he quit, just as HM illustrated the monotony of whaling by making Moby Dick beautifully written but unreadable.
Love this article, but I find it a little odd that Paul Graham essentially seems to have said: "I've never worked in restaurants, and I really don't understand their needs or business model, so let me tell you how to make a customer facing piece of software for them!"
This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our industry, now let me go innovate and create something to capitalize on it. Love it.
A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be suspicious to me. Great hackers want to be paid well, but they generally first and foremost desire other things, like benefits, control, respect, and a good working environment. Anything beyond the pay at which they become stable financially generally is of a limited appeal to great hackers.
Couldn't fit this in the title, but I would love comments on the UI/UX and code. We're building something totally different out of this (a local recommendation engine for finding what to buy and where to go when you want to drink and when you're out drinking) but the current principles that apply to our most recent version will permeate the rest of what we build. That's really why I'm so eager for feedback from HN.
My phrasing of "has anyone here solved it" implied I think it's crazy difficult, I know it's not. I'm just not getting it. If anyone has the code that works for it, gosh darnit I'd love it. [email protected] if you wanna email it
It was a series of posts, but you're right this was the wrong way to vent. This also wasn't passive aggressive it was aggressive aggressive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_aggressive
By the way, what is the process for getting on the front page? I'll be honst, with 19 points and a few comments I expected this thread to appear on the first or second page, but I can't even find it. Damn I hope Paul Graham isn't mad at me.
I would like to be clear that I like Hacker News and I like Paul Graham's writing/thinking, but the posts that end up getting featured, especially on the Twitter feed, are starting to make me gag.