Ready Player One is on this list so it is immediately excused from validity.
Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
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#83When I searched for 'Software', all of Joel Spolsky's recommendations showed up because the word 'Software' is in his source URL.
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#84Great. I've been working on something similar but in Arabic. Thank you for this list.
Care to share your work?
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#85- Someone compiled a list called "Andreessen's Favorite Books": https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mmEKySwi0iYjWx_DoigL...
- I compiled a list (see comment on video) from a trailer video for John Doerr's "Measure What Matters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aW5gdRRn_U
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#86First thought was to search for Billy G, but it seems you haven't included him yet.
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I like this. Thanks for sharing. I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I think we’re all better off not implying such a thing as “bad people”. If the intent is to define a division, it’s important to be specific lest we undermine our egalitarian goals. I know you don’t mean it to be exclusionary, and probably instead…
I agree. I settled on the word good because I wasn't able to find a good word (no pun intended).
Maybe "notable" people?
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#88I always find that recommendation websites suffer in the long-term because the incentive to just keep adding more stuff (to keep the site not seem stagnant, thus make people come back) is greater than the incentive to strictly filter only super high quality things. How is this site going to tackle that problem?
I dont use any single recommendation source anymore for this reason. Its always a combination od youtube, amazon recommendations and reviews, reddit, and stackexchange sites.
Great idea. Crowdsourcing is good but averaging out crowdsources of crowdsources is a better way to understand the general sentiment of the population.
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> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.
Personally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.
I wonder at what ROI do we consider an investment something more like philanthropy and at what ROI it is more like capitalism?