walterk

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by walterk 18y ago
Unfortunately, you're the victim of some bad timing. Your submission's title makes it seem like yet another complaint about being downvoted, at a time when many of us are tired of seeing these things and will knee-jerkedly downvote the a
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by walterk 18y ago
"Winston does not believe in one-size-fits-all solutions -- whether interventionist approaches that liberals favor, or the hands-off strategies that conservatives prefer. Rather, he argues that solutions need to be tailored to produce measu
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by walterk 18y ago
In this situation, there are things worth reinforcing (playing with language, initiative to name things, thinking about numbers), and some things that are not (false hopes of 'quadrupillion' becoming the next 'googol', or that significant c
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by walterk 18y ago
Agreed, as a number it's not terribly useful, and in fact counterproductive for the reasons xlnt describes. Obviously you probably don't want to tell your son that, but as gojomo cautions, you might not want to praise him for it, either.
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by walterk 18y ago
All these attempts at 1. distinguishing multiple metrics for comment evaluation, and 2. declaring that up/down voting should not be used for some of these metrics are doomed to failure, so long as 1. there is only one dimension on which to
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by walterk 18y ago
Wasn't the demo canned? I imagine they just edited the Flash message out.
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by walterk 18y ago
This all assumes that non-hackers are to blame. I haven't seen any evidence that this is the case.
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by walterk 18y ago
> Democracy says that this place is peopled with hackers and if the hacker citizens upvote a story then it is, ipso facto, of interest to hackers. 1. Not all hackers share the same interests. Just 'cause some hackers upvoted a story
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by walterk 18y ago
Copy and pasted from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213943 I'd suggest requiring everyone who submits a story to justify its relevance via the text box, ignoring all story submissions that don't have accompanying text (the ex
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by walterk 18y ago
I'd suggest requiring everyone who submits a story to justify its relevance via the text box, ignoring all story submissions that don't have accompanying text (the exact opposite of how it currently works). That should deter a lot of imp
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by walterk 18y ago
It's a bit of a stretch as far as relevance to the hacker/entrepreneur community goes, although this suddenly makes me realize that the same is true for almost all of those astronomy and theoretical physics stories that get submitted here.
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by walterk 18y ago
Meet Michael Arrington, armchair CEO/CTO of Twitter. These are such ridiculous non-stories. I'm almost tempted to start a blog about startup blogs and play armchair editor-in-chief of TechCrunch.
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by walterk 18y ago
No, it's not the same. Taleb points to the "envelope of serendipity" to emphasize just how important the element of chance really is. I.e., you can't discount even the "chanciest" of chance events. That emphasis is lost in your translati
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by walterk 18y ago
'Envelope' in this context just means 'edge'. Taleb is just saying that some of the best things may come from those most accidental, least expected of serendipitous events that parties are, in a sense, designed to generate in the first pla
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by walterk 18y ago
Everyone forgets about iTunes lock-in. If someone (in North America, Europe) is in the market to buy a smartphone, there's a good chance they're looking for a non-shuffle iPod replacement as well, and if enough of their library is in m4p f
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Ask HN: How do Mint and Buxfer sync with online banking?
1 points by walterk 18y ago|1 comments
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by walterk 18y ago
Price is definitely a factor, but one important difference between iPhone vs. Android and the OS wars is that Macs are set to gain a larger share of the PC market than they've ever had, with price being less of a determining factor for PC b
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by walterk 18y ago
Enough on Twitter already. I'd wager that 90% of the stories on Twitter have had no cumulative value whatsoever. It's all a bunch of temperature taking with no real insight. Same goes for Microsoft-Yahoo.
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by walterk 18y ago
The Berkeley I know valued differences in personality and personal style a great deal. Maybe a better word would be 'niche', but there is definitely a bias towards playing up one's oddities and particularities.
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by walterk 18y ago
Dunno if the latest versions of the black MacBook still have this problem, but I had one of the first (Core Duo), and that thing picked up grease like nobody's business. If they still have that problem (which I think they do), you're better
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by walterk 18y ago
Berkeley: You should be more eccentric. Atlanta, so far as I can tell, doesn't have much of a message at all. Having visited Cambridge over spring break, I'm definitely enamored with the intellectual climate there, and will be moving to a n
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by walterk 18y ago
I can see video commenting working in limited domains, but as a general format for comments, they're way too inefficient. The reasons this guy gives are valid points about advantages specific to using video, but they do not make the case f
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by walterk 18y ago
Bjorn Tipling's comment (6th one down) is spot on. You can't assume that someone who doesn't pay to remove ads is too poor to afford anything advertised. They may simply not care enough to pay the asking price to remove them. It's called
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by walterk 18y ago
Ideas can indeed be worth a lot, and I'm tired of this macho entrepreneurial culture which tries to disregard their value as a way of motivating better execution. If you have to trick yourself into believing that ideas aren't worth much to
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Ask YC: All known sources of seed-stage funding, incubation, etc. for web startups?
12 points by walterk 18y ago|6 comments
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by walterk 18y ago
User-wise, I'm more interested in a user's average karma per post than their total karma. Post-wise, I have some gripes with the way karma works, in that your high-value comment can easily go ignored because it starts off at the bottom of a
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by walterk 18y ago
This is the guy I was referring to in that "other" thread. His name is Stephen Key. I would've linked to this before, but couldn't remember where I'd read about him or what his name was. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/26/a-
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by walterk 19y ago
Correct. Although often execution in his case meant setting up proper terms for a deal and/or having a very minimal prototyping phase, as I recall. For folks like us, "execution" means considerably more than that. We actually have to deve
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by walterk 19y ago
I remember reading about some guy a while back who's made a fortune by actually selling businesses his ideas...the ones that come to mind are gift ideas sold to Hallmark, and something about increasing label space on bottles of things like
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by walterk 19y ago
Thanks. Everything said there makes sense. My only problem is that I haven't been talking to a typical "VC": the guy himself is a tech entrepreneur, who's launched several startups of his own and has a great deal of technical capability.

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