AlexanderZ

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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
What you are talking about is still incapable of recommending (with a high chance of the recommendation being spot-on) new things. In music a new thing would be a completely different genre, not a new song in your favorite genre. The system
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Are you talking about any existing recommendation engine that I can try out to prove myself wrong? Just how exactly will they do it? I'm really interested, maybe I'm missing something? Simply speaking, if a system knows all I listen to is c
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
With which you also say -- or so Reddit believes in its current level of imperfection -- "and I have complete affinity with everyone else who happens to vote in /r/fitness". No. With that I tell Reddit to show me different opinions on fit
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
I believe that in the future that's the way to do it, but not right now. Besides, I'm not a fan of automatic recommendations as they have a lot of drawbacks. Their major problem is: they won't help you find something you didn't know you lik
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Being into fitness does not mean you share an identical interest/taste/discernment with everyone else who is into fitness. I think you are missing the point of subreddits. They are not for finding people that agree with you, they are for
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
And how are you going to tell content aggregators what you like? By upvoting/liking? Doesn't it count as spending time? I don't want to spend time upvoting 50 submissions to tell the recommendation engine what my interests are (and with the
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
What exactly is fundamentally broken in subscribing to subreddits? If you are interested in fitness, you subscribe to /r/fitness. Fitness materials won't all of a sudden be posted to /r/gaming where you (if you are not subscribed) will miss
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
How is subscribing to a subreddit fundamentally different from upvoting? To get recommendations, you need to somehow feed the recommendation engine with your interests. Look at it this way: when you upvote a fitness-related submission, you
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
If you think that subreddits don't matter, then you are clearly expecting from Reddit something that it was not designed to have. The most popular subreddits are swarmed with teenagers and the quality has gone downhill, that's true. But the
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Reddit is far from being a link aggregator right now. Reddit is all about the community. I'd call Reddit a community of communities, I feel like this is what describes it the best (in its current state).
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
So, put a fresh coat of paint on a product that failed miserably? Why is that a good idea? They didn't pay for the data and SEO linking, they paid for the name and buzz in the media. In my opinion they are not using the old data on purpose,
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Seriously, it's been what, a month since they started working? They wanted to ship, and ship fast. It's not ideal (no software is ever ideal) but it works. I'm happy they managed to release something after just a month of work. They will no
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
The team had to make drastic changes. They wanted people to forget about the old Digg and its fiasco. The best way to do it? Become completely different. They also needed to become different from their rivals. That's why I don't understand
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Thanks for the link. And just in case you didn't know, you can add #t=6m9s to youtube links to make videos start from that point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bn6Gel7yEs&feature=playe...
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
I don't like listings which say "ninja" or "kick-ass" as well, but using "mediocre" isn't much better. Why not just say "good"? A job listing titled "We are looking for good developers" would make me want to read it further.
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
What audience are you targeting? Not to be a negative Nancy but I think that pro teams won't find it useful in analyzing games simple because a video deprives you of control. You can't switch tabs, can't go to an arbitrary place on the map
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Did I miss that rule? I had no idea I can't expose other startups as participants. Not that I did it, but still I wonder if it's true.
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Same story over here with http://Feetlot.com The last 4 weeks have been great, went from prototype to alpha. When I think about my group and that they are waiting for my video (as I wait for theirs), I just can't slack around and so I get
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
Two months later, I can say that the decision to join nReduce was a right one. The requirement to ship every week keeps you motivated; this is exactly what I needed. As I said in my intro video, "My name is Alexander and I never finish (per
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by AlexanderZ 14y ago
What exactly is Urge.io creating?