beccax

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   by beccax 16y ago

   Thanks for the additional info. What about StackOverflow then? That's also about content. (Questions and answers) Badges there seem to encourage contribution. What's special about HN, in your opinion?
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   by beccax 16y ago

   How many hackers out there use Foursquare? Can you comment on what you think of the badges there? It's possible that you go to HN for news, where you care about content, and the latter for fun, where you do like badges.
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   by beccax 16y ago

   Makes good sense. What if instead there're badges for hackers based on their coding ability? What would you think of that? (Not that it's easy to compute of course.)
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   by beccax 16y ago

   Why not? Would be very helpful if you could elaborate, so we can all learn something.
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   by beccax 17y ago

   Good post! I always tell people if they really want to make money, go work on Wall Street. Doing a startup is quite a bit riskier. For me, it's really about doing something meaningful that I enjoy. Here's a tip I read that I really like, tw