The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
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#12I can't wait to find out what Nathan has in store. I'm not a fan of Twitter's mission, I hope he continues building useful infrastructure that's not directly influenced by the need to show more ads to more people.
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#13The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.
I wouldn't mind so much if it were accountable. There's no mechanism to challenge a title change. Between that and the arbitrary banning of sites, I usually think twice about submitting good things.
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#14The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.
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#15The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.
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#16The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?
Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.
I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.
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#17Employee leaves company. News not at 11, because who cares?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.
I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.
AFAIK all of the mods are YC insiders, so they'd know Marz by name.
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#19I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?
His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1... ) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions. (I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)
I absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1... ) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions. (I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)
I absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.
Actually, the talk is the 3 videos in that playlist, not just the initial one. For instance, he gets into "knowledge debt", using Clojure and Neo4j as examples.
I suppose potentially interested people will want to skim until they find something they're interested in; it starts out slow. Sorry you didn't find it worth your time, though I found it worthwhile.