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by mighty 18y ago
It's not what he's good at that's bad for Microsoft. Microsoft stores will need to be more than data-driven: they'll need creative inspiration if they're going to help rebuild the brand, and that's a very different task from running Wal-Mar
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by mighty 18y ago
It's not a pipe dream. There are some folks out there working on this kind of stuff, and I prototyped one for my master's project. However, I didn't go the route of having propositional-level granularity, because I'm aiming for Wikipedia le
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by mighty 18y ago
Ideologues seek confirmation. Pragmatists seek falsification.
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by mighty 18y ago
Reposting a comment I made on the new comment features thread: ...I'd prefer having the system make its values explicit via descriptors for comments (think Slashdot or Plastic). My top two would be "insightful" and "uncharitable". The form
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by mighty 18y ago
Right, but it shouldn't matter what the makeup of the top 30 comments are. In this case, it only matters that someone can net a 3.5 average over their last 50. Which maybe isn't statistically probable for users who happen to write the occas
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by mighty 18y ago
Collapsable threads might be a good idea, but I'd prefer having the system make its values explicit via descriptors for comments (think Slashdot or Plastic). My top two would be "insightful" and "uncharitable". The former encourages what's
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by mighty 18y ago
My concern is that this doesn't negate or discourage a lot of the behaviors that get amply rewarded (e.g. one-line zingers), but which a lot of us recognize as harmful to the community in the long run. In fact, I suspect it will actually ex
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by mighty 18y ago
Completely agree, and said as much not long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447563 I tend to find myself influenced by the karma count more than anything else. I have to log myself out after commenting to increase the cost of ch