danielamitay
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Comment · 4 years ago
The main issue is the conflating of usage and value. The persona/user group that consumes the Trending pages are likely users who themselves contribute to open source, and thus are part of a flywheel that drives more code contribution overall. (e.g. how 1% of users post on reddit vs 99% consume) Not all usage is made equally.
This scenario reminds me of a funny story posted on HN a while ago: https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/48-i-have-no-capslock.gmi (TL;DR; if you take this "usage based" feature removal logic to it's conclusion, a lot of important keys would be removed from computers/keyboards).
Comment · 4 years ago
One of my favorites! Source: "How to Be Polite", https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c
Comment · 6 years ago
Dilbert comic strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
"Over here we have our random number generator."
"Nine nine nine nine nine nine"
"Are you sure that's random?"
"Thats the problem with randomness: you can never be sure."Comment · 8 years ago
A letter from an associate director of science at NASA in 1970 answering this question:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
Comment · 9 years ago
I haven't started a company that needs to provide employee healthcare--does this have a short-term improvement to insurance rates? What incentivizes a company to employ HealthWiz--are there insurance providers that reduce rates as a result?
How do you convince employers that this service is in their best interest?
Comment · 9 years ago
The site and data normalization are great. The problem is that applying the phrase "best case scenario" is simply false, and it is just a distraction that was not necessary on the site.
Amortizing my entire data usage over my entire cell plan (which includes talk & text), costs me literally $0.001/MB.
You should not present $0.24/MB (US|Prepaid) as the "Best case scenario" when someone on a standard AT&T plan pays 240x less.
Comment · 9 years ago
In a simplistic sense, the "esteem" and "self-actualization" levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Comment · 10 years ago
Hey nxzero,
I saw PG say this once in a short interview I saw on Youtube. I'm looking for it now. Will update when I can
[Edit] Found it: https://youtu.be/JK3sVFs6_rs?t=175
Comment · 10 years ago
> "Make sure everyone speaks"
From personal experience in a YC interview: My cofounders and I decided we would speak and answer in turns. The problem we ultimately ran into after a few minutes was that one of our interviewers asked, "so who is the CEO?" Inside, we knew that was a bad sign (I believe I've heard PG say that it's a very bad sign).
It probably wasn't the only reason we were ultimately rejected, but it certainly didn't help. Looking back on that experience, one of the things I would have changed would be the author's next bit of advice:
> "Generally speaking, there will be one person that answers most of the time"
[Edit] People have asked why I felt that being asked "so who is the CEO?" was a bad sign: https://youtu.be/JK3sVFs6_rs?t=175
> "It's really bad if we're talking to a bunch of founders and we can't figure out who the leader is..."
Again... This was one YC interview a number of years ago, and I of course have no real insight into the final impression we left on our interviewers. Just something that I remember not feeling great about in hindsight.
Comment · 11 years ago
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We are looking for another iOS developer to help us build the next big thing and change the way people interact with each other. You would sit next to and work with me personally, and I can promise that you will be proud of what you are building.
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Comment · 12 years ago
Let us suppose that there is an organized group of Bitcoin enthusiasts with a combined amount of Bitcoin holdings of around 100,000BTC. Would an article "App.net begins accepting Bitcoin" increase the BTC/USD exchange rate by more than 0.01%?
To me it seems that a continued stream of press is good for Bitcoin, and I am genuinely curious is there is such a group of enthusiasts that strategically spend Bitcoins for PR.