willarson

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by willarson 19y ago
Jean, your site is pleasant, but it doesn't have anything to distinguish itself from established entities in the same field (Digg and Reddit among others). Your application needs to have something distinct and interesting about it. At this
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by willarson 19y ago
Recently I have seen the proportion of weak submissions become very high, high enough that I think a down vote arrow for submissions to help weed out content would be beneficial.
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by willarson 19y ago
Its great to see people who haven't used a service making misguided claims. Pownce's advertisements are akin to those on Facebook's recent update page: they are simple text ads. Nothing about them, and certainly nothing about the quote us
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by willarson 19y ago
The idea behind this post could be done in an interesting way. It could have looked at real languages and examined why they--despite some promise--didn't succeed. Unfortunately thats not what the article did. Instead it asks us to feign co
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by willarson 19y ago
Where in Japan were you? In about three weeks I leave to teach english with JET in Gifuken for a year...
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by willarson 19y ago
By selecting a language (or a couple of languges) they are trying to make it easier to focus on the concepts. Its hard to focus on the fundamentals when you have too keep looking up basic syntax. By limiting the number of languages they spe
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by willarson 19y ago
It is pretty similar, but if you look at the other games he's made this was a pretty logical next step. I don't really think that his idea was influence by likebetter, they just both happened to reach the same point via different routes.
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by willarson 19y ago
If only they'd have a mob of framework elitists to save them from such perils. ;)
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by willarson 19y ago
The way they did it I think 2-3 is too low. They have too many support types: lawyers, designers, business, public relations, etc. I think they'd have needed to have teams be 7-10 to fit that many types into a startup. Which is too many for
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by willarson 19y ago
That would really depend on how you implemented comments. As you move toward requiring users to login/verify themselves this becomes more likely that users will not bother. Larger blogging platforms can often diminish this barrier because y
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by willarson 19y ago
I don't really think that not gaining access to the iPhone would be particularly devastating to Adobe or Microsoft. MS in particular has sufficiently large pockets to weather inconvenient storms. The computer based market will remain vastly
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by willarson 19y ago
In a similar vein, the blockquote really needs to have some surrounding white space, as it is it is really crowded. Oh, and you should just give up and write your own blog software, its better than way. :)
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by willarson 19y ago
His real point is that something can be "simple and powerful." In order to sound edgy he subverts the meaning of complex into something that it doesn't mean (powerful), and bases his entire argument on this sleight of hand. (leading to stat
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by willarson 19y ago
I think the trend you are pointing out is already in full force: often you'll jump over to Wikipedia directly, or IMDB to get data on movies. It is really easy to make search work when individuals format their own data into a specific forma
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by willarson 19y ago
Sounds like an interesting idea, the work flows sound particularly interesting. I don't know if I would spend any time focusing on what is wrong with big management systems (you are telling them something they already know, assuming there i
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by willarson 19y ago
Java is a language built around safety, safety in the jvm, safety in the programs, safety in the APIs. Its a real pain to deal with these issues when you need to do something the library simply doesn't support. This is what we get for worki
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by willarson 19y ago
I think Guy is being somewhat maligned here. I am not particularly fascinated by his work, the same as others who have posted, but I think we are missing something. Read The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks, one of the truly innovative
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by willarson 19y ago
A fairly good talk, although I wish he had spent more time focusing on what the good solutions are that they currently use rather than what they did that did not work. Most of what he threw out there was fairly common knowledge, but some of
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by willarson 19y ago
I read this article in the WSJ this morning. Sprint released users who were essentially abusing the system (making on average 25 calls per month). These thousand users were probably not profitable for Sprint with their increased strain on t
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by willarson 19y ago
Revver uses embedded ads to track hits on their videos, similar (sort of) to using an invisible image and counting the number of times it has been loaded. I don't specifically know about VideoCounter, for everything the uninformative articl
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by willarson 19y ago
Consumers will buy the products that grant them the most utility. Workers have resources to create the environment such that safe workplaces create products with higher utility (by striking in unsafe environments, demanding higher pay in un
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by willarson 19y ago
As per inserting words into your mouth, I addressed your argument, not you. Regarding my post as if it were a personal attack is a disservice. I don't follow your point about it being obvious that businesses will, left to themselves, put t
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by willarson 19y ago
The best software is reliable, intuitive, and has genuinely useful functionality. Like most ideas that violate the concept of the golden mean, this idea is appealing but fundamentally broken. He refutes his own point about the free market w
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by willarson 19y ago
Way, way too similar to Digg. "Prop It" is painfully similar to "Digg It". You need to create a unique feel in order to attract users to an already saturated idea, you can't do that by mimicking something that already exists. The site does
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by willarson 19y ago
I would use redirects, the reason is that search engines will catalog the different URLs as separate destinations and thus lower your pagerank for that page, along with their positions in search results. Its best to have only one accessible
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by willarson 19y ago
I don't completely disagree, but I think references to widely known sources--especially those that are not current (and yes, something can be ageless and not current :/)--belong in comments rather than submissions. It just feels a bit recyc
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by willarson 19y ago
Hey guys, there is this really amazing article written by this Paul Graham guy. You probably haven't read it, right? Anyway, I really like what he has to say! Hope you like the article. ...okay, so tell me what is wrong with this picture? I
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by willarson 19y ago
I tried to avoid slandering top boarding schools with the "especially after first grade and before high school". I am a byproduct of such a boarding schooling. The quality of the teachers was high, and academically you don't comprehend the
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by willarson 19y ago
Is taxation an appropriate venue for implementing and enforcing cultural norms? Flaunting wealth is a cultural phenomenon, and demarcating it as wrong is an entirely subjective decision. I think following the "we should appease others to k
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by willarson 19y ago
I don't even think the inequality ends with college, even theoretically. Colleges use the lack of income as leverage to raise the quality of their students, which means you can only apply to a school substantially worse than you would be ca

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