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Ideas, Excecution and the Rare Auteur(43folders.com)
1 points by adsyoung 18y ago|1 comments
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by adsyoung 18y ago
We're currently developing in Android as it seemed the easiest path to getting a prototype of our idea up and running. We kinda figure that getting to play with something and refine the idea based on the experience is more important at this
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Ask YC: Does anyone get any value from mind mapping?
5 points by adsyoung 19y ago|6 comments
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Here's a past thread on this topic http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37818
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Anyone want to join me in trying to pick some common themes in there? A couple I've got in the first few pages: - Reductionism seems to be failing a quite a lot and things we thought we could separate we are now starting to intertwine again
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by adsyoung 19y ago
I'm also very interested to see how something like that would play out. I'm kinda skeptical of any solution that adds complexity to what the user sees though. I'm guessing the more you ask on their part, less people will make proper use of
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by adsyoung 19y ago
MIT's Intro to Algorithms class lectures are a available in video: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute...
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb and Seth Godin's book All Marketers Are Liars have just completely changed the way I think about the business world. I'm looking forward to getting to The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb.
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Yeah, I'm mainly ranting at my feeds. To some degree I'm wishing for a new style of journalism. Or at the least journalists actually learning to write headlines that make any sense and are useful. The startup ideas there are: - Subscribin
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Macro news. I get the news in my RSS feeds and its damn near useless. These events tell me almost nothing about the world. The signal to noise ratio is not good. I don't want to know that another 6 people in iraq have been killed in some i
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What podcasts can people recommend?
10 points by adsyoung 19y ago|9 comments
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by adsyoung 19y ago
Thinking about this a little bit more I can think of perhaps 3 ways a social network site can make a start: 1. People use it for its personal value and network value is built as a side effect. (del.icio.us, youtube, google, flickr, amazon).
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by adsyoung 19y ago
I'd love to see a lot more written about this and more sites analysed. I'm guessing Reddit and Digg took off not such much because they are personally useful without other people there but because news is something that is constant, compel