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Ask HN: Help my Startup Weekend PHL project by telling me what bothers you
1 points by didgeoridoo 15y ago|0 comments
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How three ideas per day cured my fear of startup failure(plasticresume.wordpress.com)
1 points by didgeoridoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Incredible post & research -- thanks for sharing. The relationship of monetary reward to engagement has always seemed a bit weird to me. I've heard it said that compensation over $75K does nothing to increase happiness. However, I've al
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
>...modern videogames are focusing too much on the "achievement unlocked!" aspect of gaming, at the expense of deeper and more actually engaging game mechanics I absolutely agree. "Badges" and the like are a half-assed (quarter-assed?)
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
This is a great point, but I don't think we're talking about the same thing when we use the word "game". There is a counter-intuitive difference between a sales contest and a weekend spent playing Modern Warfare. One has a real monetary val
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Skillshare, Codecademy and the gamification of education(plasticresume.wordpress.com)
50 points by didgeoridoo 15y ago|28 comments
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
You might as well ask, "why can't we just make ourselves smarter?" Our brains don't always work in the way we want them to work; what's wrong with proposing a brain hack that results in a desired emotional output? Wallace's hack is particul
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Whoa. I never knew this "couponing" was how the post-Soviet economies went about privatization. It seems like perhaps the exact worst way to go about de-centralizing an economy, especially when little-to-no financial and corporate managemen
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
The scenario that comes to mind is a massive asteroid impact, but your final sentence sums up the objection nicely: identifying and redirecting a space rock seems at least an order of magnitude less difficult & technologically distant t
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
www.hireriot.com -- I'm working on a new way for companies to hire for entry-level jobs by crowdsourcing resume screening and first interviews to a network of independent industry experts, who essentially act as freelance headhunters.
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
What about bringing customers to the boat? Weekly "demo days" could bring a ferry-full of future customers to the ship, either dedicated to a single startup (for B2B/specialist businesses) or shared between many (for general/consumer ones).
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
How do you qualify the graders? Is it on a case-by-case basis, reviewing their resumes & speaking with them? I could imagine that aspect of the process requiring some creativity to scale without losing quality.
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
This study was conducted just in B.C., which opens the door for the possibility of regional/seasonal effects. What if being born earlier in the year means that you spend more of a critical early-development window in a structured environmen
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Facebook would be putting short-term revenue over not just user happiness, but user career prospects. Selling user data in a way that can cause direct harm to users seems several unforgivable steps beyond any privacy violations we've seen
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Considering that if this practice were revealed, it would cause a total collapse in Facebook's user base and thus its revenue engine... unlikely, to say the least.
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Is there something in the water? I'm dropping off the corporate map that week as well. Best of luck!
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Cut your finger? Save a life.(helpineedhelp.com)
2 points by didgeoridoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
I think mental laziness on the part of the prospective "business" partner has a lot to do with it (speaking from that side of the equation). I've held off actively searching for a tech co-founder until I've run with the idea as far as human
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Downloaded for free. Read introduction. Beautiful. Paying now.
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
This comment got me wondering how important it is for navigation to take into account relativistic time dilation in GPS. Apparently: very. Turns out that ignoring it would cause a drift in position of about 10km/day. http://www.astronomy.o
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
P2PU has an implementation (clumsy, at this point) of the "study group" concept -- but there's nothing about learning online that makes it impossible to collaborate with fellow students, right? I agree it's a problem, but I think it'll be s
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
Enrolled! Anyone have any opinions on what subjects you CAN'T teach effectively through MITx's proposed methods? I'm having trouble coming up with any "intro"-level work that cannot be effectively handled in this way. Solve the likely engag
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
This article gives corporate "brainstorming" sessions the what-for, with some justification. However, there are some great ways to run brainstorming sessions to help mitigate the shortcomings cited in this article. One of my favorites is th
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
"In addition to the psychic merits of working on the personally meaningful, in an economy where low-wage, high-skill overseas workers and no-wage machines encroach ever more rapidly, it is essential to compete both in input and output." I t
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by didgeoridoo 15y ago
I'd agree that programming in isolation is not a tremendously well-remunerated skill. However, it does act as a force multiplier for your other abilities. A non-technical parallel is public speaking. With extraordinary skill (in isolation),