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crazygringo wrote: post #380
joshu wrote: post #326

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there's a huge proliferation of memory tools: notion, pinterest, and so on. so, yes, your question is bad: you're assuming what works for you is right for everybody.

You don't need to be a jerk here. First, I said popular general-purpose URL. Notion isn't popular, pinterest isn't general-purpose, and so on. And absolutely nowhere did I assume what is true for me is for everyone. Which I why I asked rather than assumed. And got valuable answers about other perpsectives. So no, my question wasn't "bad". I suggest you take your judgmental attitude elsewhere. HN is not the place for…

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Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by prepend »

bitslayer wrote: post #167
thinkingkong wrote: post #157

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What kind of increase in productivity does just not showing up provide? People should be able to take sick days, personal days, mental health days, but disappearing should have raised concern from team members to see if that person is OK.

Management could have been aware of more personal details that coworkers should not know. I don't think it is necessarily a black mark against the company without knowing the whole story.

Management could also communicate to concerns coworkers that the absences are excused. They could also work with the employee to notify teammates in an appropriate way.

Just allowing employees to disappear with no notice or trace is an environment where I won’t want to work.

There are obviously situations where I have to not be at work suddenly (eg, medical emergency where I don’t want to share details) but I can just send a text to a boss or corworker and have them do the rest.

If HR said they didn’t want to act to not hurt feelings that seems like there was no additional info, unless they thought that was a proper way to protect medical info (it isn’t).

Sounds like a bad place to work and seems like a negative factor for companies wanting to do well or me awesome.

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Post by joshu »

julienchastang wrote: post #393
joshu wrote: post #369

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I'm raising a venture fund and working on some new projects in the meantime. I also do a bunch of plotter art stuff at http://instagram.com/jodhus

That's cool. We had a plotter (HP, I believe) in the early 80s. In some ways, nothing compares to old-style plotters.

Yep. I use a CNC router converted to hold a paintbrush/pen/whatever, but also an HP 7575a, which is glorious.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by EricE »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #88
Scarblac wrote: post #71

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Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.

I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by fdjlasdfjl »

marcinzm wrote: post #222
nikhizzle wrote: post #121

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Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each: 1. Niceness - a coworker decided to just randomly not show up for work (not WFH, just disappear occasionally). I took it to management, and was told we don’t want to hurt his feelings. 2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo…

>2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo to go to Facebook. At Facebook, if you needed a server, you would go to an internal tool, slide a slider and click a button. At Yahoo, you had to take a proposal to a committee led by a cofounder, and then be repeatedly shot down until you finally persevered. I personally I believe Hadoop took off at Yahoo because it was a way of getting computing resources that did not need to go throu…

Lol, I do the same thing with Oracle at my oppressively bureaucratic workplace. Servers? No. New software? Fuck no.

It's amazing what I've managed to make this clunky language do, because its the only tool I can effectively use.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by jccalhoun »

crazygringo wrote: post #258

Not to rain on the parade, but serious question: are bookmarks actually useful anymore? It's funny, I'm trying to remember when I simply stopped using bookmarks. 5 years ago, maybe? 10? I'm not entirely sure. I used to have elaborate folder hierachies of bookmarks in my browser. But at some point, I realized anytime I needed something, it was faster to just type a keyword or two in the address bar. Either it was ther…

i use pinboard as a replacement for bookmarks because I am on multiple devices and because of the tagging. I use it with keywords to save links to projects I"m working on or even want to read later. I also use the address bar's history for things too but those are things I go to on a daily basis. pinboard is for things I will get to in a day or a week.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by ghaff »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #350
ghaff wrote: post #181

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It's too bad. I find it a handy place to keep my "good" photos in a way they can be publicly accessed. And act as a backup of last resort. But my sense from various moves/announcements they've made is that the revenue/cost may not be working out. I hope that's not the case but... The other big loss for me personally is that they're a great source of CC photographs (in addition to the Flickr Commons). But it's probabl…

> But my sense from various moves/announcements they've made is that the revenue/cost may not be working out. I hope that's not the case but... I'm curious what those moves/announcements are; I haven't been keeping up with Flickr, but I was actually rather happy SmugMug bought them as opposed to most other possible outcomes. SmugMug has always been a subscription-supported service with no free plans, so they were alw…

Things like this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/flickr-cash-shorta...

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by rtx »

jonny_eh wrote: post #344
g5becks wrote: post #128

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I was wondering if anyone was going to point this out. I can remember digg being bigger than everything besides maybe stumbleupon for a short while when it came to bookmarking sites.I never would have imagined reddit being what it is now.

I miss the days when big sites/companies would sometimes go under.

Beautiful.

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Post by bE9a3S5So8igd3 »

kerkeslager wrote: post #175
bE9a3S5So8igd3 wrote: post #160

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Now with the idear of delicious coming back, your comment makes me consider all the good low-to-mid scale shit we've lost over time. In ~ 2008 it seems like there were just more fun/interesting sites around. Maybe I was just in an exploratory phase - late teens - and was discovering new things often. Or maybe the barrier to entry today, in terms of design/polish/product is weirdly high, and has pushed out the seeker-…

The barrier to entry for most interesting things is The barrier to entry for making money is a different thing.

The point I made is more nuanced than that. I didn't say there is a large financial barrier to entry for the production of a modern website. The point is, Delicious, Digg, etc. would fizzle out today pretty quickly. Consumers have come to expect a certain refinement of design, usability, mobile-bullshit, etc. etc. that web companies of yore weren't exactly known for. What we're left with today is a bunch of crap that looks good but lacks novelty.

It's mostly due to this principle actually that Facebook usurped Myspace despite having far fewer features.

One exception to the rule lately is Roam Research, which looks like dog shit but is apparently popular.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by edm0nd »

nikhizzle wrote: post #121
glenstein wrote: post #54

Delicious was for a time at the cultural nerve center of the web, and I think had the potential to be something like a twitter or a reddit if stewarded correctly. I like to think there was an alternate reality where Yahoo didn't run itself into the ground, and took its properties: delicious, flickr, tumblr, its massive userbase across fantasy sports, groups, news, messenger, geocities and answers, its email service,…

Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each: 1. Niceness - a coworker decided to just randomly not show up for work (not WFH, just disappear occasionally). I took it to management, and was told we don’t want to hurt his feelings. 2. Bureaucracy - I left yahoo…

Marissa Mayer ruined Yahoo
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