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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   I really hope this works out for Medium. Although $5/month is not a lot to pay for quality reading content (a book is like $10...) people have grown so used to paying next to nothing for content. Will be interesting to see if recent tr
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   I don't know about this, a lot of bullies bully out of their own inner pain.
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   The issue with depression is I think this emotional signaling can be entirely miscalibrated, and sometimes, you do you have to figure out a way to override those signals.
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   I can only imagine the feeling that those engineers got in the room the moment that rocket relanded on earth. Wish I could experience it
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   Really? I liked that she avoided sentimentality. To me it kind of conveyed a respect for him.
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   I wonder if there's specific hardware needed to make a phone Daydream enabled or if it's just to draw people to the Pixel/future Android phones.
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   Couldn't you make this argument for literally any product at any period of time?
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   Personally, I think in the long run, when you think of it, they are really similar. I get that they are physically entirely different products, but I feel like they are both competing for the same limited resource: attention. I'm speak
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   by altonzheng 10y ago

   I had this realization a while ago, Snapchat is basically what Twitter tried to achieve, a realtime pulse on everything happening anywhere, democratic and spontaneous because of information constraints. The difference being that Twitter is
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Well... I'm sorry that you truly hate LinkedIn, and you're definitely free to use whatever services you like. I think you bring up a valid point about emails being default opt-in. Honestly, I'm just a junior engineer so I don
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    I'm not responsible for the email settings, but could you point out exactly what is terrible about LinkedIn's email settings? I'll link it to you directly: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/email-control
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    How did this get to the #1 spot of Hacker News? I love this forum because I find I can engage in meaningful discussion and actually get thought out replies, but it seems like any mention of LinkedIn, degrades into a cesspool of "Linked
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Definitely, what makes sense economically on a macro scale ignores all the micro, very human, factors involved. I have nothing to say but to be grateful for the position that I, and a lot of fellow HN'ers probably, are in.
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Fair enough. I'm in a very good situation now, so I am speaking from a privileged position. However, I have worked as a cashier at a grocery store in the past (admittedly I didn't depend on it to survive.) I empathize with those h
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    I'm always confused at how people pity those that work in menial, repetitive, uncreative manufacturing jobs (to give an example, see the flack that Amazon receives for the drudgery of its warehouse jobs) and at the same time worry abou
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Wow, you just out-generalized Paul Graham. nice.
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Yeah it's a shame that the company and his team is taking the blame for the an issue that happened years ago when LinkedIn was a very different company.
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    That means either a) You're account was not included in the comprised accounts or b) You checked an email different from your LinkedIn account.
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    I thought I was on a mobile page because of the lack of side bars and other distractions. Nice job wired!
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    by altonzheng 10y ago

    Note: this is fiction.
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    LSD Stream of Consciousness(medium.com)

    2 points by altonzheng 10y ago|1 comments
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    Facebook: The Millenial's Lawn(linkedin.com)

    2 points by altonzheng 10y ago|0 comments
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    Midnight Munchies(medium.com)

    3 points by altonzheng 11y ago|0 comments
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    LinkedIn is actually going into precisely that sector, but it hasn't been publicized very well. See LinkedIn Profinder.
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    I'm looking forward to this algorithmic feed, as much as I like the simplicity of the firehose of tweets. The reason I avoid twitter right now is because I end up following a few people that I only care a little bit about, yet they dom
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    Well, yes, because then your ROI would be huge for the money you're putting in.
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    Exactly my thoughts as I was reading the article. To me, a 10x developer is 10x more effective, not productive. This encompasses everything and is very hard to measure, but I think the point is there is the potential gap in the value of an
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    I wonder if there are any schools of economics that don't view demand and growth as critical. So what if demand is low? This is definitely an oversimplification, but I'm wondering, what if that means people are satisfied with what
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    The author makes a good point about re-examining our approach to treating mental illness. I think the viewpoint that "Big Pharma" has psychiatrists in their hands is a bit too conspiracy-ist for me. What's really happening is
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    by altonzheng 11y ago

    I had a similar revelation a while back with Snapchat. Users complain that you can't create groups to send to, you have to manually select each person. I like this - it means when you receive a snapchat, you know that person intentiona