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Seems like a pretty haphazard list. Does not convince me to sign up to Quora. The fact that those people are founders or senior people at tech companies does no

by swombat 16y ago

Seems like a pretty haphazard list. Does not convince me to sign up to Quora. The fact that those people are founders or senior people at tech companies does not make their answers any better thought through. I guess when you ask someone to answer a complex question quickly without giving the subject too much thought, you get a superficial, skin-deep answer - no matter whether they're supposed to be experts in the field.

arethuza 16y ago
Indeed, I can remember being told by experts that nobody would ever: - Use the Web as it wasn't a very "rich" experience - Do banking transactions on the Internet - No airline would sell tickets online These were all predictions by real experts in their respective fields. Arthur C. Clarke's First Law of Prediction applies: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong."
- panic 16y ago
  All startup ideas persistently fail — until they don't. Maybe it's not the idea that failed, but the implementation?
- tome 16y ago
  So the only things that are likely to be impossible are the things that distinguished but elderly scientists don't talk about.
robryan 16y ago
Every topic from Quora posted on HN seems to generate some meta discussion on the websites merits.
_grrr 16y ago
It seems that unless you're a twitterbook user then signing up to Quroa is impossible.
- spydertennis 16y ago
  Haha, I just woke up and was like... How come I've never heard of twitterbook!!