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Downvote for being a dickhead. Not that this stops pg, of course. He loves incompetent morons like yourself. Apply to YC today!
Pardon me for taking the bait, but what are you so mad at pg for? Clearly you've taken some kind of interaction with YC and/or pg personally.
I doubt it'll work. HN doesn't work just because it's there, it works because it has a certain traction among a certain community. Building up such traction is very difficult, and I doubt doing so by adding a link to it from a non-Europe-focused site is going to help much. Lamernews looked real cool the first 2 weeks as well, and then it mostly died out. How will Hackful be different? I mean, I'd love it to be differ…
HackerStreet India has been doing ok for the last one year since launch - http://hackerstreet.in/ The objective was never to become the next Hacker News or replace it but just to have India centric discussions there. I would say Hackful has an equally good (or better) chance
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Moreover, sorry dude, the tech war is over and we won In monetary terms that is probably true, if by "tech" you mean IT. But the losers of your "war" have invented things like the Web, Linux, Python, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, English and the ARM CPU, not to speak of most math and logic foundations of today's tech industry. The only item on your list that I wholeheartedly agree with is "better funding". Everything else is, um…
And the US has several of its own. Hardware: MIPS, x86, SPARC, Motorola 68* (and the attendant Apple product lines [1,2,Mac, etc.]), DTMF phones (and thus modems), the transistor (though some very preliminary work was done in Canada and Germany, Bell Labs and TI brought them to manufacture), Ethernet, packet-switched networks, touch and light-pen interfaces, etc. Software: 3D graphics, functional programming (LISP et…
ok, so i've had this on my mind for some time now, and i'm going to highjack this thread in hopes of getting this out there. Hackful has sort of shot itself in the foot by trying to use HN as a medium to expose itself. for a long time now HN has started to cross the line from a place for people to share ideas and experiences with running a startup to a place for people to link to tutorials and hot topics in the tech…
So you generally found it relevant? And bear in mind it's been up for just over 24 hours... :)
My only concern is that I don't think people in Europe feel very "European". There is no identity in being European like there is in being German, Swedish, or whatever. Bundling us together because we live on the same continent seems a bit artificial to me.
This, again, differs very much from area to area and from subculture to subculture. I, myself, feel very European. In the hacker culture context, even more so, given that it's my way of saying "Not USA". We have multiple languages (impacts app design and priorities), a very different set of employment laws (impacts hiring approaches), a more laid back working culture (impacts to what extent VCs can get you to work 70…
Good point. I havent thought of it that way.
Not identifying myself as european might be because I'm Swedish, and thus a bit off-center geographically.
I feel a stronger international identity in the Nordic countries, sharing a great deal of culture and political history. We don't even have any border controll to speak of between Norway and Sweden.
I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication. I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European sce…
It won't happen because HN has made a conscious choice of not going after all the "web 2.0" gimmicks, but sometimes you wish it wasn't completely the case.
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You are right... but that is why Hackful should be fine: it was born out of an email list called Open Coffee London where there is an amazing community of entrepreneurs helping each other everyday. We saw how open HackerNews is and thought that we should give our European community more chance to flourish. Our NEXT steps are to make this more shareable: RSS, possibly daily email digests (opt-in only) THEN we are plug…
Are you guys planning to open source the code so other communities can use it? Or a hosted (even if paid) service?
I didn't see a link to the about page on their front page, but it exists none-the-less.
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HackerStreet India has been doing ok for the last one year since launch - http://hackerstreet.in/ The objective was never to become the next Hacker News or replace it but just to have India centric discussions there. I would say Hackful has an equally good (or better) chance
I don't know. The thing is, a German person does not have a lot in common with an Irish person. They have a different culture, different media, a different language, different pop idols. If you are at some place in the Netherlands, it's more expensive to go to some other place in Belgium than to go to another place in the Netherlands, even if those are equally far away. I guess what I am trying to say is, Europe is s…
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> the tech war is over and we won Excuse me? I've just evaluated all possible virtual hosting services, and by far the best is in Germany. I know dozens of people who hate the US passionately because of high-horse comments like yours.
I would be curious to know which service that is, and what boxen they run, and what company made those boxen. In hindsight I realize that probably just opened the door to a pissing match over whose contributions to software/computing/startup culture is greater, but I think that would be an interesting conversation to have here. EDIT: To get the ball rolling, we've got Matsumoto : Ruby : Japan Ericsson: Erlang : Swede…
Electricity | Gilbert/Galvani/Volta | Europe
Telephone | whoever you believe this week | Europe + USA
Computers | VonNeumann / Turing working in USA | Europe + USA
Internet | DARPA | USA
Web | CERN | Europe
Game, set... and match.
(it's all a joke, of course. Just be a sport, will you?)
I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication. I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European sce…
It's called tags. Imagine if any post on HN could be tagged by anyone. Then, you are free to only read HN/Europe (all posts tagged Europe). Or browse the regular home page. It won't happen because HN has made a conscious choice of not going after all the "web 2.0" gimmicks, but sometimes you wish it wasn't completely the case.