jwecker

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   by jwecker 20y ago

   Man Daniel. I'm going to be up all night.
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   not me. IMO the connections and perspective of startup school would be more valuable than the presentation ('course I don't know exactly who you're presenting to so I could be wrong). Not to minimize the difficulty of pulling together mon
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   Web 2.1 upgrade(ars.userfriendly.org)

   3 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   Perfect timing- I really needed this article. nah. just kidding.
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   I noticed that the other day- no down arrows on replies to your comments. Very nice.
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   :)
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   Another idea I mentioned elsewhere- if a story gets to the bottom of the new page without any up-marks at all it adversely affects the submitter's karma.
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   That's a tough q. for me- I generally have to just open 3 or 4 of them and make a decision of whether or not to up-mod it then do it again sometime later. Two kind of related thoughts, though, for those who don't spend a lot of time workin
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   by jwecker 20y ago

   Good point. On an unrelated note, however, your comment reminded me of another note I want to make: If your post is in response to a comment- please make sure and thread it. Because the site shows comments in the same nested level in dif
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I can tell you that at least for me that's when I try to read a chunk of new submissions regardless of existing score. Once something has a couple of points it is much more likely to continue to grow if it is worthwhile, but it takes slogg
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Well, there's also signal-to-noise ratios. There are some people who have high karma by submitting dozens and dozens of sites knowing that one or two has got to stick. To me that degrades the quality of the site as much as spam does. I g
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    The word karma in the context of this site has two meanings to me- one is that if you give a little of yourself and write a thoughtful comment or needed submission then you'll be rewarded. The other meaning to me is this- give a lot of it
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I automatically click on a submitter's name if I don't recognize it. If that submitter has only 1 karma point and is obviously new to the site, that submission gets extra special scrutiny- meaning if it is even remotely promotional I assum
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Moderate submission volume + high volume of intelligent comments = very nice site to come and visit for a while. High submission volume + no comments or hundreds of one-liners = might as well set up a news aggregator.
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    Thoughts on using news.YC (please contribute, please read)

    10 points by jwecker 20y ago|44 comments
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    There are danielha's and python_kiss's popping up all over- the "new" section is drowning! ;) [totally kidding btw- these two have killer submissions] Seriously, though, there should be some kind of reward for wading through all the noise
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Absolutely agree. Not to say that something bigger can't grow out of the niche. You see that all the time.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Is the only difference between this and, say, digg, the ability to block public access to a group posting area? It might just not be a compelling enough feature by itself.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    These ideas need some refinement, but: If an article you submit reaches the end of the "new" page with no up votes it decreases your karma by a point. Yah, it would affect me too, but that's irrelevant. Related, submitting a new article by
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I know some of you have put your blogs under your user profile, but in any case, who here has a blog? mind us having a look?
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    How to have a 36 hour day(jon.zaadz.com)

    8 points by jwecker 20y ago|1 comments
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    For those just starting out (10 dumb mistakes)(stevepavlina.com)

    3 points by jwecker 20y ago|0 comments
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I know a man near San Diego who started a business and borrowed from friends and family. The business didn't take off like he wanted and he got very depressed- feeling like he had let down all of those friends and especially family. He to
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    or crested at least. probably. but that's ok since no one defined web 2.0 to begin with.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Best ones you can get for the cost of pizza and coke if what you intend to implement is cool enough :)
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    Alternate premise: businesses that survive and thrive are simply the ones that avoided really dumb mistakes. http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/ I loved this book.
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    I enjoyed the article but I kept waiting for him to get to the part where you really practice. I was disappointed right at the beginning that he combined study and practice into one concept called practice and then pretty much all of his d
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    spam
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    You need someone to bounce ideas off of and help you refine your product well before the company is started. And then when it comes time to get into company mode, you definitely need someone to help bear the load and continue to develop th
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    by jwecker 20y ago

    when you say "... money is going to attract all sort of folks..." are you talking about employees? end-users? useless affiliates? all of the above?