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by ambition 17y ago
All this needs is a revenue model that can make these teams self-sufficient.
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by ambition 18y ago
I think it's this: PG is convinced Sam will succeed no matter what.
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by ambition 18y ago
The only HN April Fool's joke I know of: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=152361 PG coordinated with Nickb to insinuate that Nickb was PG. Nickb is the site's top user by points. His real-life identity is somewhat mysterious.
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by ambition 18y ago
No. One of the first rules I ever learned about human factors was to translate "user error" into "design flaw." A mistake that is easy to make is a design problem. In this case, this easy-to-make mistake benefits Google. It's probably not i
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by ambition 18y ago
These guys already make money doing exactly that. This is a new service from a well-established small company.
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by ambition 18y ago
Well, Idée is an established business that already does the IP search service. This is a new service, but not necessarily for the same purpose.
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Jakob Nielsen on the Google lead visual designer departure
7 points by ambition 18y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
I'm impressed that they had 100 people including 30 PhDs at year 2.
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by ambition 18y ago
I think I've found and fixed for hnacademic.com, thanks to the wonderful details here.
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by ambition 18y ago
You know, I might actually like a real article about the innards of erlang.
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by ambition 18y ago
This almost certainly also applies to entrepreneurs.
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How to Succeed at Anything, applied to programmers(littlecomputerscientist.wordpress.com)
6 points by ambition 18y ago|1 comments
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"Hidden" Links on Hacker News(news.ycombinator.com)
6 points by ambition 18y ago|2 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
"Good people find good markets." Such an important point, and one with few resources for learning about.
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by ambition 18y ago
Here's the about page: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/academic-hacker-news.html You can see it by clicking on the (empty for now) favicon. I'll add a more obvious link.
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by ambition 18y ago
It's built in to pg's source code. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss I also added a link.
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by ambition 18y ago
Well, it's up, we'll see where it goes. I don't actually know anything about building communities. Basically the plan is to keep an open mind and keep learning.
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by ambition 18y ago
I think it will be a slower site than HN because it takes longer to read full papers than articles.
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by ambition 18y ago
Color changed to be lighter. Thanks for the link. I plan to specialize the site features for papers as I get ideas.
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by ambition 18y ago
See www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss. I've also added a link at the bottom of the list pages.
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by ambition 18y ago
I lightened up the green, I hope it helps.
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by ambition 18y ago
hnacademic.com should start redirecting as soon as DNS propagates.
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by ambition 18y ago
Thanks so much for the ideas. - RSS is actually built in to the news.arc software. I've added a link at the bottom. - I lightened the green. I think it's more readable now. - I'm hoping for great tech papers. I think the seed community will
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Academic Hacker News(cs.toronto.edu)
136 points by ambition 18y ago|37 comments
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by ambition 18y ago
This article completely ignores the effect of teamwork. Most knowledge work is done in teams. Only the team's results latency and results throughput matters. However, an individual's total throughput ("results per unit time") is only one va
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by ambition 18y ago
I think unlimited undo would solve this situation. If you're autosaving revisions, it's not a huge step to imagine allowing undo across application invocations.
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by ambition 18y ago
Good idea. Grocery chains love loyalty programs. Though, grocery margins are thin. It would be difficult to profitably give substantial-enough discounts to lure people into the program. The numbers you've cited like 10% are too high.
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by ambition 18y ago
For new users, the greasemonkey scripts suffer the same non-discoverability as searchyc.
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by ambition 18y ago
Right, but many beginning programmers don't want to start with something boring and move on to the fun stuff. You can't show a CGI form to your friends and have them drool over how cool it is. Instant gratification is key.
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by ambition 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb submits more than 365 worthwhile stories in a year. The number of new submissions correlates with the number of users. Number of users correlates with number of people looking at and voting on the

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