Would be nice to see more of this for different persons and to compare different people writings on the same subjects.
Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
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Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#22pg would probably use logic, experience and a little bit of gut feel to figure out the best way to solve an issue, not refer to a single source of someone else's writings. Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture, and in many areas they would actually be the completely wrong course of action to take. pg's thoughts are only one segment of knowledge that a person should be receiving…
Why are you assuming they are worshiping him? They simply made a fun little app to search through his essays. Your comment seems rather ill-tempered and misplaced. Did you even try the app out or are you just on a rant about how you don't think people should make decisions based on the information of a single source? Either way, I'm not sure how your comment is a helpful contribution to this particular link.
I really think HN has a habit of taking everything uber-seriously and has a hard time accepting things as light-hearted jokes or fun projects.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#23What's it built with?
http://builtwith.com/wwpgd.com
That doesn't answer his question. BuiltWith relies heavily on response headers, which are easily faked, and often not descriptive on the actual tools used. Many use nginx, varnished, even apache to run their applications, regardless of how they were built.
It is a nice tool though, I'll admit.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#24I searched for some common swear words and found out an old thread on HN where someone picked a fight with PG. So I guess it is a nice search tool.
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#25nice litte app :) I don't why some people are bashing this, I think its actually useful. I especially like the idea of what would X do, and then having a searchable repository of links to X's writings/ideas/thoughts. Also as a side note, since your using bootstrap why not just fluid it so it looks nice on iPad and mobile, that would be the icing on this nifty little cake :)
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#26Would be nice to see more of this for different persons and to compare different people writings on the same subjects.
Exactly what I was thinking.
A search engine with "author:" and "topic:" refinements to contrast the writing of various folks on some topic or in reaction to some event.
I'd love to scan through a combined timeline of posts, essays and quotes comparing several folks - something like Google trends that is "source aware".
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#27pg would probably use logic, experience and a little bit of gut feel to figure out the best way to solve an issue, not refer to a single source of someone else's writings. Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture, and in many areas they would actually be the completely wrong course of action to take. pg's thoughts are only one segment of knowledge that a person should be receiving…
Something tells might you might be projecting just a little bit.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#28PG would probably go to wwpgd.com to find out what to do.
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#29It appears to work. I asked it where to go for lunch, and
the first reference to lunch it found was Oren's Hummus.
Re: Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
#30pg would probably use logic, experience and a little bit of gut feel to figure out the best way to solve an issue, not refer to a single source of someone else's writings. Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture, and in many areas they would actually be the completely wrong course of action to take. pg's thoughts are only one segment of knowledge that a person should be receiving…
It's really just a tool we built for ourselves to get information from a specific trusted source. It helps that he has a huge catalog of work to draw from. We thought the ability to tap into that through a search dynamic would be interesting, it's been very useful for us. We hope it can be useful for you.
Something that would add some fun to it: use some markov chains to make a PG chatterbot, using the same corpus that you already have. You could mark those answers clearly as bot answers.