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Post by zarzavat »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #77
andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…

This was the first comment I favorited on HN, many years ago.

It really is the unofficial poem of HN.

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Post by [deleted] »

vincnetas wrote: post #159
andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…

Thats why some languages started to join multiple words to one word. Like German (Schifffahrt), Russian (Белэнергоремналадка) or Lithuanian (Daugiaaukštis). I'm sure more languages has this.

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Re: Minus

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Post by grokx »

weinzierl wrote: post #167
andreygrehov wrote: post #62

In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-…

This reminds me of the "The big word factory" interactive story, where words must be bought (or found) in order to say them. It is a very well made and extraordinarily beautiful app for small children.

Originally, it is a nice book for children.

Re: Minus

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Post by tjpnz »

martinrue wrote: post #153
01100011 wrote: post #34

I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. The need to drive engagement and sell things to people tends to limit the types of social media. It's nice to see an experiment like this but I don't know if it will go anywhere. I was thinking the other day of an idea where you take turns with people in your circle to become a 'star' for a period of time(day, days, week, hour, whatev…

> I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. This is why I got interested in Gemini. It's a modern take on Gopher and the network already has a lot of folks posting content and sharing ideas completely free of the normal commercial goals you see on most http sites. I even made a small Twitter clone, Station, which has about 260 users right now. If you're a Gemini user, come ha…

I've found some fantastic content through Gemini but it's difficult finding content when several of the half dozen search engines are down at once or the links themselves are dead. Is this a common issue?

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Post by zorr »

An interesting concept. Are there limits to just creating a new account when the 100 posts are used?

It could be interesting to have an account with a maximum number of posts, use the last post to announce your next account and thus periodically it forces each of your followers to make a conscious decision on whether or not to remain following you.

Re: Minus

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Post by bodge5000 »

franga2000 wrote: post #156
bodge5000 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the question of "how will you pay for this if it gets popular" is so important for how often it gets ignored. I know I've had many hobby projects I've just fallen short on because of fears of how I'd pay for it. Of course these might just be for the fun of making it, but the problem then is that, at least for me, I'd dread what should be a moment of celebration, it getting popular. It could easily put you in…

The way I've always prepared for that was to run things on fixed-cost hosting and if it crashes, it crashes. No way I could get a 10k€ AWS bill overnight if my project blew up on HN because they all run on one dedicated machine that costs me almost exactly 1 espresso per day. If people end up liking something enough to need more capacity, I can scale the server manually to however much I'm willing to spend and immedi…

I had a similar idea a few months ago, basically have a patreon/whatever monthly goal, if it doesn't get hit (enough to pay for the server costs), it doesnt get paid for and goes down. You could even have a "stretch goal" for dev time (basically what would be your profits), if it earns enough you spend time fixing bugs and adding features, if it just gets enough to keep it running, it just keeps running.

It seems like a nice and safe idea, but it does somewhat limit profitability I suppose, but thats an entirely different matter

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Post by crazygringo »

leobg wrote: post #140
crazygringo wrote: post #39

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> if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. The need to drive engagement Driving engagement isn't a consequence of ads. Netflix tries to aggressively drive engagement too and it doesn't have ads. The reason is simple: the less people use a service, the more likely they are to unsubscribe. The more likely they are to spend their time on a competing service that's doing a better job at driving engagement. Driving engageme…

Well, there always has been a substantial difference in the quality of journalism between newspapers (subscription based) and tabloids (sold individually), wasn’t there? What the internet adds, of course, is the constant competitive pressure of other content which will always be flashier, clickbaity, and emotion-triggering than yours. So people will switch faster if you don’t compete on these terms. By contrast, a NY…

I honestly don't know what you're talking about.

You've always been able to buy newspapers individually and subscribe to tabloids.

And a NYT reader 30 years ago was exposed to the competitions content literally every time they walked into a drugstore or supermarket, with a stack of competing newspapers with competing headlines yelling for attention.

And if you think people stuck with the partner they chose 30 years ago... I've got news for you. ;)

Re: Minus

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Post by zuppy »

jsuqo wrote: post #42
zuppy wrote: post #30

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you couldn’t be more wrong. wordpress is one of the easiest apps to scale, put a varnish in front of it as you mostly have static content. you can go even further, move the comments to an external tool and you can have a very long cache.

"Jira scales. You just need to put a varnish in front and move the comments to disqus"

no, it doesn’t. the content from jira is very dynamic and adding a reverse proxy will not help as much as it will help with a cms.

Re: Minus

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Post by SkyMarshal »

gvv wrote: post #148
SkyMarshal wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a privacy issue for me, more a labor issue. I don't want to make the effort to create an account (and verify my email address) without at least checking out the activity on the site.

writing this post probably took more time than doing that to be fair :)

Haha, probably. I guess I’m selectively lazy then. :)
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