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by delwin 15y ago
It's easy to understand why — once Quora understood it was attracting the kind of online socialites who like to boost their egos and flaunt their intellect (which is by no means 100% of the community, just a loud majority), they accustomed
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by delwin 15y ago
It was a fad for the Silicon elite but it COULD have been so much more. There were actual scientists, historians, etc. getting involved and those people could have made it awesome. The reason Quora faltered was because of startup/investor
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by delwin 15y ago
Agreed. Survey questions are terrible. So are "joke questions", which are now legitimated by an official designation...
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by delwin 15y ago
If there's a good enough workflow, there's no reason to not use LESS and SASS in each app. You compile the CSS before production anyway, which means you work with beautiful code, and use automatically minified code for production, and all o
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by delwin 15y ago
I joined Quora soon after it launched, thought it was kinda cool, forgot about it, and yes, then rejoined again sometime in the fall of 2010. There was a nice linguistics community built up for a while (I'm a linguistics undergrad) until ev
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Quora’s Demise(delw.in)
129 points by delwin 15y ago|85 comments
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by delwin 15y ago
It took me 5 days to stabilize my workflow in vim, and well worth it. Of course, those were 5 days without too much stress or deadlines, a few weeks ago. I still have a cheat-sheet print out, but am finding myself needing it less and less e
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by delwin 15y ago
This is a great idea. As a step two, I would group them into categories (JavaScript, self-improvement, etc.) and then figure out time needed to become proficient in each one. Vim, for example, takes about 5 days to really get the hang of it
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by delwin 15y ago
Even better if you can curl these sites from the terminal.
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by delwin 15y ago
Ideas don't mean anything, execution is everything. Feel free to give away your idea to everyone. This applies to entrepreneurship, but not, I believe, to other more "creative" fields, like art/music/etc. Fine arts are judged much more on t
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by delwin 15y ago
This reminds me about a bit of news about how Amazon's automatic "look inside!" images on their books led to a few amusing results. And you can always count on the British press to be entertaining.
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by delwin 15y ago
I wonder if he A/B tests with pretzels on the weekends.
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by delwin 15y ago
Reality isn't inspiring, stories are.
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by delwin 15y ago
Aha! Didn't know there was dedicated command for it.
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Ask HN: What do you use for clearing search highlighting in vim?
1 points by delwin 15y ago|5 comments
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by delwin 15y ago
What do you guys think of Zed Shaw's teaching style? As I'm not a beginner programmer, I can't really evaluate correctly — to me it seems like a odd approach to programming pedagogy, but perhaps it works. Any non-programmers want to shed li
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by delwin 15y ago
Although I'm not much of an entrepreneur (yep, here more for the hacking than the startup'ing), I spend a lot of my time working on "ideas" — I am a musician, a programmer, a tinkerer, a writer, a designer, etc., and find myself daily in ne
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by delwin 15y ago
Agreed, wholeheartedly. And the media isn't helping, enforcing the idea that there are two parties in America: Republicans and Democrats. Countries are not divided like that anymore, and perhaps never have been. Government will always be ab
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by delwin 15y ago
When I am 40, if I'm in no good spot to be running a business, my plan is simple: Immigrate to Nicaragua, grow vegetables and herbs, and start a bakery. Live on American tourists' dollars and spend the rest of my life surrounded by happy pe