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by volaski 11y ago
There is actually a job title called "Fact checker" at newspapers. That's why people tend to trust high end newspapers like NYT over some random blog that just posts whatever they hear asap to get traffic. I doubt NYT plans o
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First of all, NYT has over million paid online subscribers. It's not like NOBODY wants to pay for NYT. Second, I think it's short sighted to say "They should build something people would want to pay for". It's like
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I think the difference is that the times potentially has the ability to execute. Semantic web was a cool idea but failed to catch on even with all the grassroots efforts. NYT already has tons of content with tons of metadata and they have t
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Just use the laundry on-demand apps, they've been working fine for me, they do much better job at washing AND folding clothes than me doing it for hours.
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by volaski 11y ago
Medium is a wrapper layer around Twitter social graph, for people who want to rant or self-promote more (because 140 characters isn't enough for a rant or self-promotion disguised as content). When you sign up for Medium, you login wit
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could you put it in a sentence a clueless earthling like myself can understand?
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Wait, "Wall" apps were supposed to "enhance" Facebook experience? You mean all those throwing sheep and farmville invites?
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One of the cleverest ideas I've seen on HN lately. Great job!
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The type of "Developers" they're trying to reach is NOT people who want to build Twitter apps. That era is over and it ain't coming back. Rather, they're trying to reach the people who make mobile apps who need good
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Can someone help me understand the benefit? Maybe I'm missing something. When the video says currently "Authenticating with OTP is not really easy", is it saying that typing 4~6 numbers is not easy?
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it's because you're not their target. Their goal with these features is not to retain existing users but to acquire ones who wouldn't have otherwise used Twitter.
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i guess the number of orders was less than half of what it expected haha
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Well if you look at a lot of top fashion brands that still stick around after decades, they all started out by being "edgy". You can't stand out if you make what everyone else makes.
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>> More and more infrastructure follows a pay-per-use model. >People don't like making a stack of small losses. We prefer to pay big then use the products at our leisure. I can't see this changing. You're assuming th
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Thanks for the profound insight, captain obvious.
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Reading another thread for the same website from a half decade ago, I can't help but doubt that they will actually ship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2180623
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Was watching the video, and near the end it said "Buy now at noteslate.com", and I was like "wow I give these guys 1000 points for actually SHIPPING IT instead of being just another lame kickstarter scam". And then I rea
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Browsing their website felt like reading one of those medium.com articles that ramble on and on and on and on and ...
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Those three circles swirling and flickering everywhere in the screen in the video were so distracting that I couldn't even follow what they were trying to say. I wish the video was much more straight-forward instead of being "mesm
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I doubt it will happen, if human beings were such rational creatures, we would have all quit watching TV and playing video games (I have, but I'm sure I'm the minority, and I think the ratio of people who end up using those vintag
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by volaski 11y ago
Can't take you seriously when you say Github is highly replaceable. Try and go hosting your open source project on some obscure hosted code repository, let me know when you get lots of contributors.
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Your thesis is correct (single purpose app can survive in a world full of multi-featured competitors by being insanely good at one thing). But I disagree with your interpretation. Evernote is THE multi-featured competitor in notetaking aren
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I am not talking about quality of writing. I'm talking about people who think they're experts at something but actually have no idea what they are talking about. No matter how good you get at writing, an idiot is an idiot. Plus, h
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by volaski 11y ago
yeah i guess, to you, nonfiction (text writing on paper), fiction (text writing on paper), poetry (text writing on paper), short story (text writing on paper), biography (text writing on paper), diary (text writing on paper), they're a
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Medium is mostly "Rambling", that's my impression. That's what happens when you give distribution channel to bad writers who think they're a kickass writer--they go on and on and on without any essence. Just because
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A more adequate analogy would be: You're a miner who carries your mined gold using your truck. It's efficient and cheap. Just what you need to carry stuff. But some new kids on the block think they should carry them using Ferrari,
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Adults don't get bullied, kids do. Adults don't complain about how they were bullied, it's pathetic to hear an adult say he was "bullied" by another same human being.
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I said "I am not saying I am rooting for this Billy. He's an asshole and everyone knows that". Please read the entire comment before going on a rant and a downvote for something we agree on.
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OK then let me add "Rails" to that sentence if this makes you feel better. I learned to program Rails because I wanted to build stuff. I couldn't care less about "quality" of other people who's using it Rails
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I have a feeling this will be downvoted like hell but objectively speaking, if this Billy guy really wanted to, couldn't he just drop the software and let these "teammates" do whatever they want with it, and hire another deve

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