markkat

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by markkat 15y ago
np. It was actually your post a few days ago that led me to it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2737779 I started using HS, and I have been enjoying it. -so thank you.
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by markkat 15y ago
NP. I spent a lot of time dancing in the Detroit techno scene 1993-95. I love this site.
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by markkat 15y ago
Out of all the HN interface apps I've tried, this is one has stuck. Enjoy.
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Get the HN you want: follow HN folk with email notifications.(hackerstream.com)
78 points by markkat 15y ago|23 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
I submitted this yesterday to no fanfare, but it might be useful/relevant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746421
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by markkat 15y ago
Not a fan of the intro, but bear with it and poke around. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, especially if you like techno and the like. The author has a pretty good sense of humor too.
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A well-executed interactive guide to the history of electronic music.(techno.org)
12 points by markkat 15y ago|3 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
Not just you. I think you are right, it probably has something to do with information density. Which does raise an interesting question: Could font size play a role in the audience that you attract and maintain? No doubt 14pt Comic Sans wou
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by markkat 15y ago
:) You are probably right. I have a small font bias. Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if anything else strikes you one way or the other.
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by markkat 15y ago
http://hubski.com My site. Still in development, but active. We are pretty eclectic. Join us dammit. :) EDIT: A bit more info: I built Hubski for the very same reasons: I wanted it to exist. The model is a bit different than HN, as you ca
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by markkat 15y ago
Agreed. As long as the ability to discover new voices is effectively addressed, the ability to follow someone of interest is pretty valuable. Which seems like where you might be going with http://hackerstream.com ? :) Looks nice.
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by markkat 15y ago
It seems they took a swipe at a lot of services. probably not intentionally, but by rolling up a lot of functionality that has been proven by others into one app.
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by markkat 15y ago
If Facebook was trying to launch an integrated search engine or a GMail competitor, then I would absolutely agree with you - those products would be inherently limited by the requirement that they tie into and feed back towards Facebook's
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Google+ cannot be undone.(hubski.com)
11 points by markkat 15y ago|5 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
I love arc. My own aggregation news.arc derivative, (which is still evolving): http://hubski.com
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by markkat 15y ago
I think this is a real issue, and I am glad that DDG is addressing it. This is a more-compelling take on the tracking issue IMO. What I'd really like to see, is a search engine to allow me to do both. I'd like to have a profile (that didn't
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by markkat 15y ago
Thanks for those very thoughtful suggestions. I am now going to write our assumptions down, and then set out to test them. I also think you are dead-on about the experience being the primary differentiator. The blog aspect is a completely u
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by markkat 15y ago
http://hubski.com We are in the early stages of a social aggregator. It is built off the HN code in Arc, and the style still looks currently grokked. We are looking at innovative ways to move away from this. Functionally, the site primari
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by markkat 15y ago
We just need a knob. :) -I'm going to dial the internet back to 4 for awhile. Our online personas treat us like those stupid parties where you have to wear a "Hello, my name is:" sticker. IMHO, every good service is a fragment of your life,
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by markkat 15y ago
History isn't easily convinced.
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by markkat 15y ago
Argh. I think NASA needs a better image viewer. IMO, there should be an option to just scroll down through them all like Boston.com's 'The Big Picture'. Amazing photos otherwise.
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by markkat 15y ago
The future isn't in news filtering, it's in better news analysis. I think many would say HN is great because it has lots of quality articles. HN is great because unlike any traditional news source, you can have an analysis that no one news
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by markkat 15y ago
This. Or the Reddit source: https://github.com/reddit/
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by markkat 15y ago
I strongly believe it's a matter of what you offer. You can tell everyone about your site, but if something of quality isn't there, people have no reason to stay. There are plenty of options. My community site (hubski.com) is starting to ge
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by markkat 15y ago
Ha! I like the 'content-wise' disclaimer. It's a bit of an ugly duckling, and I'm working on that. As for the content, thanks. Slowly but surely... It's funny. Sometimes I think our small group is in a competition, trying to one-up each oth
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by markkat 15y ago
Thanks. It's unproven at scale, but so far, so good! IMHO it's more effective to make water flow where you want, rather than to keep it from flowing where you don't. :) A little of both is necessary, but I think the first approach has more
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by markkat 15y ago
There are many non-religious people who quietly carry a burden. For me, it happened when I was young, and in light of 'adult guidance', the guilt I felt for my alternate vision of the world was intense.
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by markkat 15y ago
You can follow economics on hubski. http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics Same code base, in for the long haul. :)
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by markkat 15y ago
But, this is just a letter. And in that sense, Kooltol has trolled TC. who in turn has trolled us.
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by markkat 15y ago
It seems to me that those at the helm do not understand their product.

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