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by rorymarinich 16y ago
> It's unreasonable for everyone who wants to e-mail you to predict that you have an aggressive notification system. No, it's not. Maybe it was when we didn't have RSS and other "push" systems like Twitter and Facebook to handle people
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
When you email me, that means that you update one of the only two applications on my Dock that's programmed to show a number — and the other one is a To Do application. Is your email as important as my to-do list telling me what I've got du
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing that HN's upvotes/downvotes aren't as good as they could be. Honestly I don't think anybody cares about who has the most points in a given thread. What matters is what people say, and how they interact with on
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Good point. God, I'd love that to change. Imagine communities competing to have the most professional moderation. Almost a tournament.
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Oops! No! I'm sorry if it sounded like I was suggesting you were insecure. I think I misinterpreted when you said "making already insecure people feel more insecure about themselves". I worried you were referring to yourself. If I could go
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
> man, when did i get so old that i'm cynical of generational pride? every generation feels this way, at the edge of the new and exciting. Hahaha. Aren't they? I mean, the thirtysomethings and late twentysomethings that I know do CRAZY
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Completely agreed! I would be astonished if anybody my age was sophisticated/mature enough to have novel thoughts about one subject, let alone multiple. Particularly not in an era when public understanding of most of the arts is 30-40 yea
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I wasn't aware that listing a set of things I've done counts as impressing people. It's not like I go around just announcing accomplishments to crowds hoping they'll cheer me or toast me or blow me. We're discussing an article that opens up
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I might agree re: Louis CK. I wouldn't agree re: James Cameron. Set/costume design is an entirely different art form from directing; I was actually very impressed when I read about his early work designing for films before he became a direc
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Very interesting article! Worthy of my upvote. But at the same time I don't at all buy into its premise. Literally every field I have even a passing interest in has got people at the top of it who express interest in multiple fields at once
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
The problem with celebrity in this field is that very frequently celebrities are known more for their personality than they are for the things they say. You have the Asshole, the Motivator, the Snarky Sassplant... etc. They become famous no
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
The MeFi moderation team is simply the best at their job that I've ever seen. Considering the shit they have to deal with (which gets way more heated on a daily basis than anything I've seen on Hacker News), the fact that they're able t
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
In theory, yes, upvotes indicate valuable content and downvotes indicate irrelevancy. This worked brilliantly for Digg and Reddit, after all, right? In practice, the people that designed the upvote-downvote system and presented it to us as
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
MetaFilter just celebrated its 11th anniversary this summer, and it's bigger than it's ever been. When's that supposed to fail again?
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Unless he's hiding his powers so that we don't get jealous and overthrow him.
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
> That being said, I still think Zuck is far too young to make such a strong commitment. Do you really think so? Mark is a few years older than me, and I've already arrived at the decision that I'd do much the same as him if I ever had
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
That's because either Paul or one of the mods hellbanned him. When you're banned on Hacker News, you don't get told, because that would make you get a new account and start posting without having learnt your lesson. So instead they just aut
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Aha! That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clearing up!
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
He talks about Murdoch's actions in "1958" but then says that his actions are happening nearly a century later. Was that date inaccurate? Because 52 years doesn't strike me as a full nearly-a-century.
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Hey, Riyad! Glad you dropped by! It's not that I disagree with the larger point you're making. It's that I'm not certain quite why you outlined it in the way you did. (Actually, probably it's just that you wrote it without thinking too hard
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Well, if you're poor enough that having that money means an important change in your lifestyle, then sure: In the short term, making money is a sound goal. But once you've got money — not even "fuck you" money, necessarily, maybe just enoug
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Yet another example, I think, of why people who have no experience with drugs or drug users should write like they understand what drives people to drug use. Hell, this sounds like it's written by a guy who's never used weed , let alone an
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
I think you're presenting a false dichotomy. Self promotion as a directed activity is not always so cynical or an attempt to get more than you deserve. It does not always involve dashing your "unique hopes and dreams." Branding is not any
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Wordpress and Posterous are designed by geeks. Tumblr is designed by a nongeek. First off, Tumblr is not primarily a blog. It's what we call a "tumblelog", which is a stupid word; I like to call it "vomit" or "spew". The fact that it's the
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
No, not at all! I'm actually studying advertising right now, and am a big proponent of learning to use marketing. The difference between my perspective and yours (in my opinion, of course — feel free to contradict!) is that you see marketin
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
Foul, foul, foul way to approach your own life and existence. Which isn't to say it doesn't work. A "problem", you could say, with a lot of employed people is that they insist on seeing themselves as human beings rather than shallow, flat m
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
People always hate the redesigns. Then, three months later, they revolt against the NEW redesigns because they love the current one so much. Facebook's kind of abusive like that. They also usually cycle between adding new functionality, and
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
When you click Status, it auto-focuses. So isn't it still a one-click process?
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
> I'd really, really like to agree with you. Unfortunately, for myself and a lot of others, college is about getting a job. Why did I go to school and get a computer science degree? All of the employers in my area simply expected a B.Sc
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by rorymarinich 16y ago
No it's not. There's actually a lot of ongoing debate about what exactly we mean when we call somebody "the best" at making music. Every brand of music has its own series of ethos, and many of them actively disagree with many others. I love

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