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Well if it works for you, then more power to you. For me, I'm not here or on any other message board to "get shit done"... if I am getting shit done then I'm not surfing the Intern…

I agree with the poster 100%. Originally I was very enthusiastic about the site, and happy I had found it, but ultimately I realized that every time I visited or attempted to add m…

This must be the only place on the web where saying thank you gets you pissed on. I'm going back to lurking, can't figure this place out. Please downvote my "karma" to zero & adios…

You make a compelling point. But not everyone has such a thick skin or is that relaxed about getting vented on... maybe if downvoting cost karma and there was a karma threshold for…

The cool thing about crashing the HN conference is you don't have to go to school for twelve years to pick up some tools and start hacking away (pardon the double entendre).

The other thoughts I had on this subject are a little more radical but I'll say them anyway: why not get rid of downvoting entirely? I'm a new enough user that downvoting isn't eve…

Hacker News seems to be evolving and becoming many things to many users. Why not leverage that instead of trying to restrict it? Regardless of whether things are "on topic" or not,…

This is great stuff, thanks very much for posting this.

I guess the message that this sort of moderation (whether done by human or by algorithm) sends is "don't come here unless you already fully understand and appreciate the ethos and …

As a new user, I can say that what attracted me to the site is its quality and the number of links that lead me to the edges of my understanding of a given topic... I feel pushed t…

The line of reasoning applied here escapes me. In what way are the hardware and consulting business lines distractions to one another? It's like saying a car company's manufacturin…

Unfortunately, the board is close to dysfunctional. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/us-hp-board-insigh... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-...

With all due respect, "worth more separate" is a destructive business philosophy. Unless your line of business is buying up other companies, building up value, and spinning them of…

That graph doesn't really pack any punch. Leaving politics to one side, this graph http://www.lcurve.org/ and this article http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-on…

Not at all. Setting up trusts like this is what family offices do for wealthy people. The goal is to legally structure everything so that the total tax bill is minimized. High net …

What amazes me is that we are seeing this happen around us so rapidly; near-total automation is on the visible horizon. "At some point there is not a lot left to do" reminds me of …

And while Amazon is stuck with maintaining both computer and physical infrastructure, Google will have effectively offloaded the physical infrastructure to the free market. Not onl…

This set me to imagining: every item in the store is dropped into a box before being put on the shelf. The box contains cameras on every interior face to snap a set of 360° views o…

Engadget has the side-by-side specs up now: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/nokia-lumia-800-vs-nokia-...

I recall working at a growing company that suddenly stopped blowing its forecasts out of the water and sales began to tank (part of an overall market downturn). C-level executives …

Dang! Blackberry even has to take shots in a Nokia thread? Well, allow me to retort! At least Blackberry has copy and paste! And network security! And BBM! And, um... that's all I …

Interestingly enough, the only big thing they really missed was the rise of the personal computer and the Internet.

Your sentiment is clearly well-meant, but that course of action just as well could result in a disaster as it could a happy outcome. From a data aggregation perspective, it is (unp…