kashif

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   by kashif 19y ago

   Collapse comment trees.
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   by kashif 19y ago

   No sound and not really video anyway.
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   by kashif 19y ago

   That is not a response to the original chain of thought. Nonetheless, karma might be an unnecessary tool for the necessary effect. Do you know a better system? Yes, I am suggesting an alternate mechanism which uses only voting on submissi
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   by kashif 19y ago

   And a possibility of acquisitions by gaming companies... Interesting.
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   by kashif 19y ago

   Okay, thanks. Much clearer :)
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   by kashif 19y ago

   Submission scores might be a statistically different distribution then comment scores. Also while median is better than mean, it may or may not be better than mode - difficult to tell without looking at the shape of the distribution.
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   by kashif 19y ago

   So you suggest that all people who do not post often enough do not fit into the community. And that posting often is the metric to drive? And because, in our current example, you have a higher karma per day, you belong to this community as
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   by kashif 19y ago

   Hmmm..A better ordering system might improve things but I am not aware of any simple alternatives.
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   by kashif 19y ago

   Yes, that is indeed the current hypothesis. I am suggesting an alternate one might improve the quality of the submissions even more. And, to test this new hypothesis we must necessarily discard individual karma.
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Okay, but I am not sure how credible such a quantification is. Perhaps an extremely 'credible' contributor posts quality stuff but very rarely. How likely is it that I miss his submission if I was to look at karma as a measure of credibilit
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    by kashif 19y ago

    I am sorry, I don't understand your point on how Karma relates to spammers going away and 'joke' accounts not being created, especially if they spammers kept coming back anyway.
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    by kashif 19y ago

    How is it possible to know whether you fit into a community by looking at your Karma, especially if you are a newbie. If you aren't a newbie then you are already participating or observing the community anyway. To illustrate another subtle
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    by kashif 19y ago

    I would personally play an RPG instead - if I was looking for such excitement. From nYC I want the best submissions. :)
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Perhaps, these customization freebies only become available at various karma levels because the intent is to get a user to increase karma.If we aren't chasing karma then this stuff can just become available as features.
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Alas, I do not have the necessary resources.
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    Ask YC: Do you care about Karma?

    11 points by kashif 19y ago|62 comments
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    by kashif 19y ago

    I want a demo.
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    Poll: Preferred medium for reading?

    5 points by kashif 19y ago|19 comments
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    by kashif 19y ago

    paper
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    by kashif 19y ago

    e-book
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Client in a hurry. This account is important to us. :)
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Hey Samrat, Here is what I recommend.(order by preference) 1. http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html 2. http://www.diveintopython.org/
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Ok. This sounds like a plan. Thx
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Hmmmm... Don't know enough about the Symbian environment yet. Maybe..
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Language you should have learnt: Python :) (In good spirit)
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Hey thanks...
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    by kashif 19y ago

    lol, thanks
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Hmm... I dont know for sure. Will check up. I think I heard somewhere that it is limited.
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Thanks
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    by kashif 19y ago

    Thanks.