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tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 I can relate to most of it even though I don't work i

tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 I can relate to most of it even though I don't work in the Valley. Especially the "make friends and listen to their insights" part. We are friends with a few more experienced team and everytime we talk I learn something.

sneak 14y ago
This (tldr.io) feels like the future.
- rohamg 14y ago
  it's an achilles heel that tldr's two-sided marketplace relies on one side being busy/hurried enough to sacrifice content for convenience while the other is expected to have available time and generosity of heart to write meaningful summaries. for me at least, the problem isn't "too much to read", it's having a sense of the quality of an article before deciding to spend the time reading it. hence why i skim HN comments before deciding to click through.
LiveTheDream 14y ago
I think tldr.io is neat, but repetitive self-promotion is really not appropriate here (not to mention that these self-promoting comments don't even disclose that you are one of the people behind tldr!). Most of your recent comments are the same type, and you even had a self-promoting submission killed already. Please stop. Thanks!
- 4clicknet 14y ago
  I found the tldr link to be useful. I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in 7/10 of his last comments over the last week. That doesn't seem excessively repetitive, although a disclosure might be appropriate.
- louischatriot 14y ago
  You're right we may be posting to many of these these day. That's not pure self-promotion as re really think they help people get the gist of very long articles (remember the immortal jellyfish story?) but of course we shouldn't spam HN.

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tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 I can relate to most of it even though I don't work i

by louischatriot 14y ago

sneak 14y ago
This (tldr.io) feels like the future.
- rohamg 14y ago
  it's an achilles heel that tldr's two-sided marketplace relies on one side being busy/hurried enough to sacrifice content for convenience while the other is expected to have available time and generosity of heart to write meaningful summaries. for me at least, the problem isn't "too much to read", it's having a sense of the quality of an article before deciding to spend the time reading it. hence why i skim HN comments before deciding to click through.
LiveTheDream 14y ago
I think tldr.io is neat, but repetitive self-promotion is really not appropriate here (not to mention that these self-promoting comments don't even disclose that you are one of the people behind tldr!). Most of your recent comments are the same type, and you even had a self-promoting submission killed already. Please stop. Thanks!
- 4clicknet 14y ago
  I found the tldr link to be useful. I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in 7/10 of his last comments over the last week. That doesn't seem excessively repetitive, although a disclosure might be appropriate.
- louischatriot 14y ago
  You're right we may be posting to many of these these day. That's not pure self-promotion as re really think they help people get the gist of very long articles (remember the immortal jellyfish story?) but of course we shouldn't spam HN.