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Hal Abelson, Peter Norvig, Tim Berners-Lee, Fred Brooks, Vinton Cerf, John Cormack, Brendsn Eich, Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Daniel P. Friedman, Richard P. Gabriel, jwz, Dan Ingalls, C.A.R. Hoare, Bill Joy,
etc. etc. etc.
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> EDIT: wait what, downvote? For speaking the truth? Calm your self:) It can happen easily by accident from things like small buttons on mobile devices. Your comment has a positive score, isn't that enough of a positive signal?
The down arrow makes voting pretty much impossible on mobile devices. Can I get 18 downvotes here so my karma will be below 500 and I won't have to put up with the down arrow anymore?
A quick google search reveals https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8 for iOS, which includes a "confirm votes" toggle setting. There's https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickylaish... for android as well.
As I write this, the Yes vote is clearly leading (~1350 v ~500) but the first page of comments are almost exclusively No. If that's indicative of who we are - those engaging in discussion say No and those happier to just answer a poll question say Yes - then I definitely hope the end result is No. Edit: FWIW, I've seen links to a few Reddit AMAs on the front page here, and clicked through to some as a result. There's…
There are already a bunch of well known "technologists" who don't just show up to do one Q&A session, but regularly participate in the community, which is, IMO, even better.
I would really appreciate that because I am a senior in college and I'm trying to figure out where I want to go and what type of job would be best.
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Some folks want HN to be sort of a super subreddit.
We already have a site for that, it's called Reddit. I get the impression that most HNers are also Redditors, so doing AMAs on Reddit makes more sense than trying to make HN into Reddit.
Cheap content attracts cheap commenters. The comments and questions in AMAs rarely express novel insight -- usually, someone pipes up with a popular sentiment, like asking President Obama to stop using drone strikes. Commenting in such threads, which are inevitably mobbed, gives you the illusion of significance ("Wow, X answered my question!") or worse yet they give you actual significance ("Wow, it's X, he did an AM…
The point isn't to talk about people, its to talk about ideas with "great minds"
My "no" is somewhere between "no megaphone" and "no naval-gazing". The community has always been more interesting for its own commentary than for the topic at hand, and making this a blog platform for others doesn't really fit with that.