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Two things are very interesting to me here: - This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated. - Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this. Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
Here let me aid your statistics: http://superjoesoftware.com/temp/hn-steve.png
What is with the SJ worship on reddit/HN? Apple continues to make overpriced hardware (compare to T and W series thinkpads xD) which almost always sacrifices form for function. Want to put an esata/fibre/ port on your laptop? - only one MBP allows it. OS X is a toy os for people who don't want to run windows (excell/MSVS) or linux. Sure, put the iWhatever in the museum of modern art, but just about any business-clas…
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And annoying. Did you consider adding a filter to increase diversity?
Wow, lost a lot of karma with this. Anyone cares to explain downvotes? Most links about SJ yesterday did not follow HN guidelines about intellectual curiosity, in my understanding, please clarify if I'm wrong.
I'm not a Mac fanatic, I'm not a worshipper of all things Steve, I don't use any of Apple's products on a daily basis (though I work with a bunch of people who do).
And despite this, his contributions shape and influence my life every day. The WIMP interface, proportional fonts, WindowMaker (derived from NeXT), much of the Web (as others noted, Macs dominate both graphic design and much Web development), music, electronic books and media, movies, and probably a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting.
Look around you right now. Wherever it is you happen to be right now. Every human artifact in your presence was designed, marketed, and manufactured by someone. Every idea in your books, video, or music collections. The scientific concepts behind your electricity, plumbing, and communications. The artistic concepts behind literature and (again) music.
Some people's influence truly outshines the ordinary, and some of these people are even recognized for it. Occasionally you'll be fortunate enough to share time on the planet with such a mind.
Sure, they might be assholes in person or have other flaws, but their contributions are still real and recognizable.
We've lost a genius, a visionary, a creative force, and someone who's touched billions of lives.
As I said: I'm hardly among Steve's biggest fans. But I recognize his greatness and mourn his passing.
Maybe someday you'll understand. I hope so for your sake.
Two things are very interesting to me here: - This 100% Steve Jobs page was actually organically generated. - Several members of the community took screen/snapshots yesterday when they discovered the frontpage like this. Those things make me realize how like-minded can some of the members in this community be.
Here let me aid your statistics: http://superjoesoftware.com/temp/hn-steve.png
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Pretty cool, 724 days, no comments, one submission, 3346 karma. Probably not something work trying to avoid in a web based reputation system.
Doesn't it show how useless global karma is? Besides, I never voted someone down, I just ignore or vote up ..
My thoughts:
- A log scale is far better than a linear one. While it's not top-end limited, it does tend to flatten the scale markedly.
- A decay function on older contributions is helpful. Especially if users start abusing the system. Bank karma, abuse system, run karma down slowly, with an eternal linear system. With a logrithmic decaying system, abuse degrades reputation far more rapidly.
- Other options are to rank users by percentile or other bases. Given the various problems of innate / explicit moderation / ranking (see A Better Wayto Rate Films: http://blog.goodfil.ms/blog/2011/10/07/a-better-way-to-rate-... ) an explicit percentile norming preserves meaningful distinctions (though individuals ratings may not be directly comparable).
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Doesn't it show how useless global karma is? Besides, I never voted someone down, I just ignore or vote up ..
Karma should probably best work on a 1-year rolling window. Your karma score only shows the last year's worth of karma, so it encourages activity.
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Doesn't it show how useless global karma is? Besides, I never voted someone down, I just ignore or vote up ..
Karma should probably best work on a 1-year rolling window. Your karma score only shows the last year's worth of karma, so it encourages activity.