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I think an interesting experiment would be to let people pick the top-five most useful posts in this thread. Then consider that to them the rest is noise, do th
by lhnz 16y ago
I think an interesting experiment would be to let people pick the top-five most useful posts in this thread. Then consider that to them the rest is noise, do the top-five posts represent the top-five that you would yourself have picked?
For the record (and in no particular order):
1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440812 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440812
2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441254 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441254
3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440990
4. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441004 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441004
5. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440967 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440967
- vessenes 16y agoI like 1-4. I consider Jed to be trolling in this thread, so I'd skip 5. Or perhaps I just disagree strongly enough with his overall perspective that we should let things degrade that I don't think it's worth engaging.