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by unalone 17y ago
It's because people are so goddamn awful at design. There's so much bullshit in the average design calculated to leech a few more clicks out of people. Archive trees on the side, tag clouds, lots and lots of numbers calculating I-don't-gi
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by unalone 17y ago
The Branden quotes weren't taken out of context. It was the Branden affair that first led me to doubt her words, and that's pretty much as it happened. Back-up of the mass murdering psychopath bits: http://michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm
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by unalone 17y ago
Metafilter's always the example I bring up; I avoided saying it here because I think I've mentioned it a dozen times in the last week and I don't want to seem to be recruiting. (Not that I'm a MeFi poster, just a reader.) Metafilter did a s
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by unalone 17y ago
I absolutely agree. But my point was that saying being an asshole is okay because Steve Jobs was an asshole is a bit lopsided. Jobs was an asshole when he was ignorant, too, but he was still ignorant. Similarly, Dustin might be an ass, but
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Preview of McSweeney's Panorama—a 21st-century newspaper(mcsweeneys.net)
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by unalone 17y ago
Every open, unfettered online community, anyway. Hacker News could save itself with harsher mods and possibly restraints on registration. I think it'll happen if we slide too far, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm at a year and a half. Hacker News is turning into Reddit. It's following the exact same path, albeit thankfully slower, and the causes behind that path—influx of users, need for attention, karma lust—aren't causes that Paul is looking
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by unalone 17y ago
Are you actually that negative? I hold my grudges against haters, but you always seem more snarky than actually hostile.
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by unalone 17y ago
Fair enough. I thought you referred to marketing in general and not in the context of Hacker News. I was fine with the submission, because it let me get six applications for free. That's a good alert to send out. As for anonymity: I conside
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by unalone 17y ago
http://cnettv.cnet.com/60-minutes-steve-jobs/9742-1_53-50004...
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by unalone 17y ago
That's one way it can go. But can also work where the final vision is a collaborative effort on the part of all the people working on it. Apple's strategy is actually originally inspired by the Beatles, where five people all contributed and
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by unalone 17y ago
I was going to submit this a few days ago, but I don't like Rand-only discussions. However, I'd like to contribute to the thread with this recent Slate article, which abruptly reversed almost all my remaining positive feelings about Rand:
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by unalone 17y ago
I'm sorry if what I said didn't come out right. I was responding to Garry's suggestion that a masterpiece had to be the product of a single auteur's mind, which is an unfortunately common assumption. I thought the same about Citizen Kane, f
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by unalone 17y ago
I think, actually, that part of the reaction has to do not with Dustin's age but with Dustin himself. The guy's got an irritating ego that's built up a mild dislike in me. He does good work but not great work, and gets disproportionate prai
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by unalone 17y ago
Keroac wrote On The Road in a single take, but that doesn't mean most books aren't the result of people collaborating, and it doesn't make On The Road any better an artistic accomplishment. If you want to liken Curtis to Keroac, that's a go
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by unalone 17y ago
Are you arguing that because one person made it, Primer is the greatest film of all time? If not, my point still stands, that people can work together and still create great art.
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by unalone 17y ago
That's your best response? To conflate all marketing with spam? Grow up. Know how you found the computer you're using? It was marketed to you. The books you read, the movies you watch, all marketed. Do you read content online? It's paid for
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by unalone 17y ago
Anybody who hasn't read this paper half a dozen times should give it another read. It's a fascinating article that will change your outlook on education a little bit.
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by unalone 17y ago
Try sitting in front of a computer for eight hours a day and telling yourself you're supposed to be writing a story. I've been in a program like that. I'd bet that six and a half of those eight hours were collectively spent on Youtube.
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by unalone 17y ago
Yeah? And Paul Graham made Hacker News as a clever way of sucking people into YCombinator, and lots of people here comment as a clever way of getting their product name out. There is nothing inherently wrong with marketing whatsoever. In th
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by unalone 17y ago
It's all cool. :-)
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by unalone 17y ago
That's why I'm sort of conflicted about this argument. On the one hand, I think AA's web site is a shitty mess. On the other, I don't know enough about AA to know that their web site's what's bringing them down, and I wouldn't be surprised
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by unalone 17y ago
Because it suggests to me a lack of strategy. You're not pitching your product to us. From what I've seen of your site it's not something that would appeal to most of us. So it's a tad misguided to be making your sales pitch here rather tha
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by unalone 17y ago
But you're conflating two different roles. Actually, the point you're making works perfectly to disprove what Dustin wrote. The producer is not an artistic role, he's a business one. Most producers are a lot smarter than you'd give them cre
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by unalone 17y ago
Oy, Kyro. Usually I side with what you've got to say but this time I think you're in the wrong. > Let's say for a second that Dustin really is a ridiculously ignorant designer (he's not) He is in that he's never worked for a major compa
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by unalone 17y ago
It is if part of his point's that the Internet's letting itself get worked up over what a not-completely-mature kid said. The fact that Hacker News and other sites have had this raging debate over Dustin's writing belies the fact that basic
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by unalone 17y ago
Please don't talk about what you know nothing about. I'm in college in part for film. It takes hundreds of people to make a good movie. I'm not just talking about technique: Citizen Kane wouldn't have been Citizen Kane if Welles hadn't ha
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by unalone 17y ago
If you have to self -describe yourself as an authority, that's a bad sign. So is self-advertisement on a forum of people who all have a product to shill but have learned when's good and bad to speak up.
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by unalone 17y ago
And when Steve Jobs was 30, he was kicked out of his company because it turned out he was an asshole before he actually knew what he was doing. He almost ruined Apple, remember? And people hated him because he talked about things he didn't
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by unalone 17y ago
Softer? Ha, you're mischaracterizing this reaction. We got to be assholes towards American Airlines three times in a row, and now we get to insult the other side. Expect more insulting of AA in the future, too. Though that's tongue-in-cheek

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