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Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by henning »

mattmaroon wrote: post #79
bluishgreen wrote: post #73

If aaron wants to indulge let him please go ahed. But this post is so insincere when it gives the bit about users loving perfectionism that it makes me dizzy. Its either insincere or is delusional.I don't want to have anything to do with either. PG wants to indulge with arc, he went ahed. But I don't remember him giving some insincere explanation. I am now a strong believer in motherfucker's theory of insincerity htt…

That post about sincerity is interesting but exactly, completely wrong. He's completely reversed the entire cause effect relationship. I'll write a blog post as to why.

quick! to the INTERNET, in order to correct the misconceptions of others!

it never stops being tempting.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by staunch »

steve wrote: post #59
omouse wrote: post #15

"There is something to this, of course. But I have a contrary proposal: users love perfectionism." Wrong. I would love to see more new features on reddit rather than waiting for them to re-write everything. The search function is still somewhat broken! There is even competition of sorts: http://redditmedia.com/ That site displays thumbnails for stories...why doesn't reddit.com have an extra section or option/setting…

Almost, Success is paralyzing.

"Once a product gets past the stage where it has glaring flaws, you start to get used to it, and gradually whatever features it happens to have become its identity." -- Hardest Lessons #2

Reddit certainly fell into that one big time. Digg has done a much better job at maintaining a fast development pace.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by mattmaroon »

henning wrote: post #81
mattmaroon wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That post about sincerity is interesting but exactly, completely wrong. He's completely reversed the entire cause effect relationship. I'll write a blog post as to why.

quick! to the INTERNET, in order to correct the misconceptions of others! it never stops being tempting.

That's kind of a silly way to look at discourse. All discourse is basically someone trying to correct the misconceptions of others.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by zach »

steve wrote: post #60
champion wrote: post #17

Funny, since Aaron had exactly the opposite strategy when he launched Infogami, blogging about launching a new feature everyday and taking a very incremental approach. I don't think that lasted very long though. Everyone is free to change their mind, of course...

It is good that he chose an extreme though. Publicity tends to like extremes, regardless of which extreme it is.

Certain personalities tend to like extremes in that way as well.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by oditogre »

oditogre wrote: post #31
rms wrote: post #28

http://beta.jottit.com/

http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/ http://HowDoesJottitFormattingWork.jottit.com (same site in theory...doesn't seem to be working, though.) Anybody know of where you can get more instructions on how to use it? Handy for throwing together a random anonymous blog, I guess. Ad-supported, I assume?

For whatever reason I can't edit my comment above (is there a time limit?), but if anybody changes the above linked site so a big pic covers the 'edit' and 'history' buttons, or it redirects to another site, or whatever, you can get to the edit and history by going to http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/?m=edit or http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/?m=history.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by rms »

oditogre wrote: post #85
oditogre wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/ http://HowDoesJottitFormattingWork.jottit.com (same site in theory...doesn't seem to be working, though.) Anybody know of where you can get more instructions on how to use it? Handy for throwing together a random anonymous blog, I guess. Ad-supported, I assume?

For whatever reason I can't edit my comment above (is there a time limit?), but if anybody changes the above linked site so a big pic covers the 'edit' and 'history' buttons, or it redirects to another site, or whatever, you can get to the edit and history by going to http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/?m=edit or http://beta.jottit.com/8dw3p/?m=history .

You can only edit or delete comments for one hour after you post.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by rms »

euccastro wrote: post #80
menloparkbum wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sponsored efforts are indeed open source. However, the only reason the drudge work got done was because someone was paid to do it. People don't like doing crappy stuff if they aren't getting paid.

I can think of other reasons why people would do boring stuff. This is by no means an orthogonal breakdown! - Militance: They believe in a cause and do some sacrifices to further it. Like translating software and docs into an obscure language. This can be done by zealots of the software, of the language, or both. - Self-image (somewhat related to the above): After having completed the sexy parts, you care about the a…

With regards to people working as Game Masters in MMOG's, I think it's mostly done for the feeling of godlike power.

Re: Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

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Post by davidw »

pg wrote: post #67
omouse wrote: post #40

Earlier 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.

And some interesting and useful things have to be done as open source projects.

Like programming languages:-)

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