Watching this get abandoned will be enormously humorous.
Why? Perfectionists do that all the time.
Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
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Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#62I notice a lot of animosity towards PG in Aaron's writings...
I only notice disagreement, but maybe I missed something.
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#63What's the difference between "adding a feature" and "improving the site"? I always took them to be the same thing. In that sense, you're either adding a feature or you're stagnating. (Or, I suppose, going backwards.)
"Getting Real" has the answer to that: https://gettingreal.37signals.com/ In short, having fewer features is often the best feature.
..unless it isn't.
(points to all the billion dollar networking sites on the news)
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#64people seem to confuse adding features to additions in the interface. Most of the times users are either subconsciously frustrated by a problem or that there isn't a solution for it yet (i.e. why someone else hasn't solved it yet).
perfection??? I think most software sucks so much that it doesn't do anything useful. It would be better to try and get your product to do just one thing that is useful for one person.
Aiming for perfection is just an excuse for not building something useful.
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#65Like Artix, Chain would have failed in its current form no matter how smooth it was polished. It was very important that we failed fast so that we could focus on morphing it into something that works. You lose that with perfectionism. So you'd better be a Steve Jobs.
I think you have set a new record for deciding defeat the fastest:)
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think thats a great reason for the Reddit guys to be pissed off at him - I just didn't realize anyone on this forum has had personal interactions with him.
Agreed, so what if his startup fails and he doesn't release a feature per day as he promised? That's what startups (usually) do. They fail. Shouldn't hold that against him personally. As far as the reddit guys go, there's a reason you're not supposed to do a startup with your closest friends. Aren't you supposed to hate your partner to some degree by the end? I know I did... But I understand that to be normal so I ju…
What I find amusing is that, barring personal interactions, I put Matt and Aaron in the same category - they both have annoying and arrogant internet personas. The only difference is that I believe Aaron is a very talented programmer. The only thing I believe about Matt is that he is an above average poker player. On a personal level, both of them are irrelevant to me.
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks a lot like infogami, just more broken :-)
Yeah, I don't get why he would want to try with this again. Why doesn't he focus on web.py and promoting it? That would be much more fulfilling than creating a wiki/note-jotting site.
Some interesting and useful things have to be done as companies rather than open-source projects.
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't get why he would want to try with this again. Why doesn't he focus on web.py and promoting it? That would be much more fulfilling than creating a wiki/note-jotting site.
Some interesting and useful things have to be done as companies rather than open-source projects.
What are those, in the software world?
I can only think of projects that involve a lot of drudge work that nobody wants to do unless they're paid to. I suppose this includes most services. What else has to be done by a company?
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some interesting and useful things have to be done as companies rather than open-source projects.
What are those, in the software world? I can only think of projects that involve a lot of drudge work that nobody wants to do unless they're paid to. I suppose this includes most services. What else has to be done by a company?
Google probably has to, for example.
Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)
#70http://beta.jottit.com/
Infogami reloaded. It's pretty cool though. It's horribly broken in IE. It would be cool to create more complex page hierarchies.