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by kn0thing 16y ago
Dude, I couldn't agree more.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Fun fact: it was between "reddit" and "reditt" while I was a senior at UVA sitting in Alderman library. I asked my friend (and library buddy) Melissa for which one made more sense for the way "read it" oughta be misspelled. She picked reddi
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by kn0thing 16y ago
That reminds me, on Demo Day (Aug '05) del.icio.us was the site we kept hearing over and over. Explaining how we were different from them was pretty straightforward [Del.icio.us is king of social bookmarking, a way to keep make your bookmar
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by kn0thing 16y ago
One day I want Sir Tim Berners-Lee to hop into one of those threads and tell everyone to GTFO. But really, we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. It's cliche for a good reason (though the English teacher in my brain is yelling at me
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Oh, it's indeed ironic. If it weren't for the misrepresentation, I'd have ignored it, but that kind of thing is particularly irksome - especially as I'm looking at the evidence in my inbox. In that instance, it was worth it to get the facts
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Thanks! The way I see it, it's all sticks & stones. I got to learn that early as an overweight kid with a girly name and fondness for videogames. I just wish I could get the TC Comments to work for me (why aren't they using disqus?) so
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I don't know for sure - I said that in the very first sentence of my post. I'm out of touch by my own admission. To me, the simplest explanation is: a company that's already raised a SeriesC with VCs impatient about getting that grand retur
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by kn0thing 16y ago
My intention was quite the opposite from trash talking. As a commenter articulated, this feels more like something forced on him by acquisition hungry VCs than of his own design. Digg was in a way one of the best external things that could'
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Exactly the reason why I felt OK publishing it. I'm still a redditor of course, but breadpig is my only ... uhh.. horse in this race.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Hmm... User-created diggs (like we have on reddit, but better articulated & designed - I say this as the closest thing reddit had to a designer, I'm no designer). I have no idea about headcount, so I won't speculate there, only to say
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by kn0thing 16y ago
You certainly know him better than me, Owen. I don't profess to know Kevin at all. In fact, I'd be interested to read your "open letter to alexis: stfu, here's the real explanation for digg4"
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by kn0thing 16y ago
He's indeed CEO now, but the message to the VCs is that this appears to be a deliberate desparation move to find a suitor (remember we're post series C now) by bolting on the hot new things of the last year -- as opposed to the innovation t
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by kn0thing 16y ago
In another life, we'd have made usercreated reddits a better solution for the curse of popularity. People weren't making "friends" on digg for much else than spreading their content, so I suspect most of the networks in place aren't adding
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I retired from reddit 7months ago, but let me direct you to code.reddit.com where I encourage you to contribute :)
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Let me only confirm that I'm entirely speculating.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I think it was sub-par wifi in my hotel room. I shoulda wired up before the interview. Sorry everyone.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Maybe? :) Hacker News was originally to be a subreddit, after all.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
FYI, here's that reddit 'time machine' of screencaps since day 0: http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I hope she asks him about his favorite muffin.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Indeed - especially since I've retired from reddit. Though, I do still feel obligated to respond to complaints/criticism; in this case, though, I can't comment on technical decisions - except to say that reddit's recent scaling problems are
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Aye, all reports indiciate the only one in the room with him before the suicide was Braun and she didn't walk out of there either. He certainly felt that way, but I don't think I've ever seen any evidence to show that those were his final w
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by kn0thing 16y ago
You can never be too safe. All xkcd-book-built-buildings will have raptor emergency escape plans installed in conspicuous parts of each room, of course.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Aye, most of the MFIs (microfinance institutes = banks to the poor, essentially) are for-profit. Some are non-profit, though, but they all charge interest rates for these loans - kiva lenders essentially are loaning them interest-free loans
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I keep telling people: we're open-source :) please consider that an open invitation to fix our search.
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by kn0thing 16y ago
And sell more books - that's the real reason breadpig puts profits into nonprofits related to the product. Higher literacy rates means more potential book buyers. It's quite sinister, really. We did the same thing with LOLmagnetz (for the S
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by kn0thing 16y ago
I just finished a 3month kiva fellowship :) so I can assure you that your kiva loans do not generate interest for you. You will (in most cases, if the loan is repaid in full) at best get all of your loan back, which you can then reloan, don
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by kn0thing 16y ago
heya! Yes, I should've made this more clear :) but we've already promised xkcd book profits to Room to Read (it says so on the copyleft page of each book). 2 years ago when I started breadpig, I had ambitions for a vague 'breadpig prize' --
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How Should We Donate $53,000 of xkcd Book Profits?(breadpig.com)
39 points by kn0thing 16y ago|29 comments
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by kn0thing 16y ago
Yep, I had a bunch of different usernames and with the help of a couple friends I browbeat and Steve, made up the majority of the early submissions to reddit. There's nothing sadder than visiting a reddit with no content (or stale content).
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by kn0thing 16y ago
That transcript is misleading. Steve stayed with reddit until Fall of 2009 when our contracts ended. He didn't leave to work as a contractor. One thing I should also mention is that our deal was structured in such a way that either one of u

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