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Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by jhuckestein »

This site is beautiful, obviously.

I also love the idea of challenging people to think big, like what they'd do if they ran the world. For me, this question involves ethical considerations, prevention of global conflict, the battle of hunger and poverty and the maximization of happiness.

I don't understand how their microactions relate to that question at all. They seem to be asking two questions at the same time. One is a hypothetical mindgame that makes people think about the challenges of the world and one is the very specific question of what each individual can do. As a result the answers they get are apparently either overly general or not relevant at all.

If anyone wants to discuss the big question, you can check out a thread I recently opened at HN :)

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by dflock »

It seems that most people using it have missed the point about micro-platforms and micro-actions, to actually enable the ideas to be broken into tiny achievable steps and be implemented. All the suggestions that I saw on there were basically in the form 'If I Ran The World I Would... boil the oceans.'

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by smanek »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #9
smanek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? Granted, I have no idea what they're doing that requires 7 people (and only 2 coders ...).

His point is that's insane :). The general consensus on Hacker News is a good brand new start-up is 2-3 people, who are all coders. I tend to agree with this, except for exceptional projects like search engines. Most websites can be handled by a hacker or two at the beginning. This site could be done by just one mostly incompetent programmer in short order. What the other six guys could possibly be doing is a mystery…

I probably should have been more clear - I was more curious about why he felt the need to bring up genders.

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by silversmith »

pedalpete wrote: post #2

Strikingly beautiful design. Incredibly simple and interesting premise. This site has done a GREAT job of letting the user do one simple thing before enticing them to get more involved. Very well done. One of the best new sites i've seen in a while. Oh, if you are the site creator, there is a bit of a bug in chrome&FF. the 'ok i'm game' button is placed over the 'x hours ago' line which I suspect is supposed to be ab…

Ummmmm, on the point of beautiful design, are we seeing the same thing? This is what I see: http://imgur.com/0Jk8I.png

-Not high enough contrast for my liking,

-Bulks of text in low contrast = 'tl;dr',

-I keep clicking what looks like input field but it won't work. Oh, I have to click...

-...the 'I'm game' button below. That's practically invisible, due to being just outline, with the text hovering over another block of text.

Sure, it all goes away after you click the top layer off. But my initial reaction was 'What is this mess? What do they want from me? Why would I want to stay here?'.

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by tripngroove »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #9
smanek wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your point? Granted, I have no idea what they're doing that requires 7 people (and only 2 coders ...).

His point is that's insane :). The general consensus on Hacker News is a good brand new start-up is 2-3 people, who are all coders. I tend to agree with this, except for exceptional projects like search engines. Most websites can be handled by a hacker or two at the beginning. This site could be done by just one mostly incompetent programmer in short order. What the other six guys could possibly be doing is a mystery…

You folks may have missed the boat in assuming this is a startup. I think it's more about the idea/message/whatever.

These people have other (good) jobs. Cindy Gallop (Founder/CEO) is a (quasi)retired ad exec. Her last web experiment: makelovenotporn.com. She talked about it at TED last year. No revenue model there. Oonie Chase is creative director at Blast Radius. The list goes on.

Plus, not less than 3 people on the about page have the word "Code" in their job title, so uhh... fuzzy math.

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by andrewcooke »

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #6

funny how when people talk about changing the world they never want to get into the specifics of what THEY should be doing. it's always about what others should be doing. so, are we going to force others to go along with us? if we get 51% of the votes we should be able to enforce ourselves on the other 49% with guns right?

maybe - just maybe - that's exactly what this site is addressing? maybe you should have a look?

Re: IfIRanTheWorld I would..

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Post by [deleted] »

andrewcooke wrote: post #19
nazgulnarsil wrote: post #6

funny how when people talk about changing the world they never want to get into the specifics of what THEY should be doing. it's always about what others should be doing. so, are we going to force others to go along with us? if we get 51% of the votes we should be able to enforce ourselves on the other 49% with guns right?

maybe - just maybe - that's exactly what this site is addressing? maybe you should have a look?

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