Yup. I've taken the opportunity to review my HN usage, and I get significantly less out of it now than I used to, and it just sucks my time to nearly no benefit.
I may keep posting links - the bookmarklet makes it easy - but the discussions here now seem to add very little, so I'm not bothering any more.
If it makes any difference, I appreciated your efforts. I hope veterans of HN don't become discouraged because they were the most influential in causing me to finally create an HN acct (oddly enough, I don't take that action lightly), and try to contribute to a group I've learned so much from.
Thank you. I appreciate that, but it doesn't make much difference. For me, HN is now more of a sink than a source. On balance as many people hate the dup detection as like it, and the comment threads no longer seem to shed the light they once did. I guess I've changed, and my interests no longer really align with HN.
So I'm moving on. I still have the bookmarklet, so I may still remember to submit things, but I doubt I'll do much more than glance at the Front Page occasionally.
Jaso: the re-assessment has convinced me that I'm not learning any more. I did once upon a time, but I'm not now. That's why I'm largely stopping reading, certainly stopping reading the comments. I'll still read the links submitted by people I've learned to trust - people who have similar interests to mine.
I've never used Reddit, so I can't comment about that.
ADDED IN EDIT: Just to clarify a little - there are still people here from whom I can learn a lot, and I'm sure there are still comments and submissions that I can learn from, but they are drowned by stuff I consider irrelevant, repetitive, uninteresting, or otherwise not something to learn from. The gold is hard to find now, the returns are no longer worth the effort.
Well if it makes you feel any better, a friend and I started another service that hopes to give people more control over the quality of their front page. We literally just released started inviting people to the site today.
If you'd like an invite, let me know. james@forrus.org
The reaction in all the other replies to your comment astounds me. I am reminded of a comment from PG earlier today, which he made in a thread on a totally different topic: "Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or international bankers."
In this case, Antonio made an argument a year ago about why starting a startup was better than continuing to work for a Wall Street bank. He made no claim that continuing to run a year-old startup was better than working for a large tech company. That of course depends on many other factors about the startup, about the large tech company, and about whatever offers were made. Nobody on this thread knows any of those details, but that apparently doesn't stop anyone from rushing to judgement.
Well, he hated working for a company where engineers were second-class citizens, and all the staff were treated as fighting cocks.
I'd imagine that at Facebook, engineers are treated as first class citizens. I dislike Facebook as a product, and I'm not sure I trust Zuckerberg, but I really respect the company. Roughly 200 engineers running a tech product that millions of grandmas use is no mean feat. I bet they don't treat their engineers as mere cogs in a machine.
To extend upon that, bloggers get rich by getting your attention, which does not actually require they practice, subscribe to or even believe what they are telling you.
Hypocrisy is the norm with much of what passes through here.
At least GS employees don't have any pretensions to holiness.
I'd much rather work with people who are honest with themselves about their motivations than who try to push the suffering under the surface with bullshit rationalizations like that in the post.
It isn't hypocritical. Facebook is a giant startup, after all. Perhaps much of the loose, casual culture still remains there, and you don't have to worry about the corporate shell games and hierarchy that financial firms like GS would have in scads.
Downvoters who may not know better: it's generally expected that if you downvote someone, you will accompany that with an explanation of why you downvoted.
We're here to communicate, not bicker over popularity contests.
Yes. Isn't that curious, to say the least? First he complains about becoming a serf at GS - where I am assuming no one hides the fact that everyone is indeed a serf, and the pretense that it is not all about money, is kept at a minimum, if any at all.
If GS was the frying pan, then, in my view, he jumped into the fire at Facebook where he is now working for an adolescent-minded, untransformed individual, who traded his personal integrity for the fruits of lust - "success, sex, money, fame" - under the guise of "helping connect people"...
Goes to show you that the old Buckaroo Banzai saying holds true for Antonio as well... Whereever you go, Antonio, there you are. Still a wannabe human being... with much growing left over to do.
adolescent-minded, untransformed individual, who traded his personal integrity for the fruits of lust - "success, sex, money, fame" - under the guise of "helping connect people"...
I would really appreciate that, because I had no clue what organization to enter in the sign up form (will I be able to change it later? can I sign up again for another organization with the same email?). Moreover, I didn't understand how should one use this application within the 3 minutes I invested :)
If I understand the model: I make a reservation, but nothing happens until the end of a designated time period. Once that time is up, I get it for the lowest price.
Could work. I really like the Groupon.com model though, where the price is specified, but it only activates after a certain number of people agree to buy.
Yes, that is exactly how it should work. Here the price is/should be always guaranteed, as it drops with each reservation. So, there is no price for 1-10, 10-20. It always decreases proportionally.
Groupon and buywithme are cool, but centralization, just because of the purchasing model is not right iMHO. It would be much better that you have the option at the website of purchase, whether to buy now for the full price, or get in the group to buy later for a lower price. It's segmentation of the market.
Now granted that this is brilliant. Looks horrible or different but brilliant. Lighter, easier to carry, more wind dynamic, covers you completely (xept feet if wind is blowing the rain at angle) protects head from wind (thus warmer) its great, but are we ready to be enclosed?
