The post on why medium.com could have been profitable as a lifestyle business but since it took VC money, it should resort to spamming users with recommendations etc
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#212Dunno if this is management 101 but someone mentioned casually the relationship between responsibility and authority. A mismatch between those two creates tension (employee dissatisfaction). I have not found the comment or literature on the subject. Experiences at my day job tell me this is key to org/role design and management in general.
There are several good articles discussing ARA: http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-... https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-import... https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2016/d... For HN comments specifically, you might have read one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184472 https://news.ycombinator.c…
Thanks! Seems I still need a couple of ‘Let me google that for you’ sent my way hehe
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#213An explanation about grounding in our electricity system came to be. It went through the evolution of just having positive and negative to various ways of adding grounding until we get to the grounding we have today. I seem to remember it being a Reddit comment or something similar.
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#214When a metric is targeted, it fails to be a good metric.
I saw this recently here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16892211
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#215Someone once posted a short science fiction story about the animals that became the dominant intelligent species on earth after humans. First it was raccoons, then it was crows, traveling by air balloon. I loved it, and I’ve searched many subsequent times to no avail.
The piece was posted on The Archdruid Report (https://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com) and was called "The Next Ten Billion Years".
In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that you remember though. (http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/).
There might also be an free archive somewhere..
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#216An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!
Not about IQ but I read somewhere about how the properties of octopus bodies (squishiness, bonelessness) form a very different understanding of the world compared to those of primates. Can't find where it was.
What was the gist of it?
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried to offer a one-click solution (no additional drag and drop). It also tries to capture the page as you saw it in the browser, HTML and all (more faithfully than Evernote, at least). See related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653206
Does it have apps for mobile to share-save? Pretty important. The following would make me move from Pocket; Support for PDF, ppt, etc. Offline reading on Desktop (Pocket works fine on mobile but on Desktop it seems not very good). And yes, total export so when you close the doors, I do not have to start over.
Thanks for the comment!
I can't promise an app right now. For now I am strongly mulling a Telegram bot that takes in links from you and saves it to PageDash backend for you. This is quite high up in my roadmap.
> Support for PDF, ppt, etc.
PDF is supported. PPT is a Todo.
> Offline reading on Desktop
Need to explore service workers for this. Admittedly not a priority yet.
> total export
Auto Google Drive export is available for paid users. Manual export (page by page) is available to all users. In any case, if I do shut, I will open mass export to all.
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#218Someone recommending a podcast on the occult and other related topics by a guy associated with the Village Voice. Within the last month!
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391753 How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops (medium.com) 326 points by edward on Oct 15, 2015 | 306 comments https://medium.com/@Sam_Floy/how-to-know-if-where-you-live-i...
Completely disagree about the fried chicken part of the equation. The more fried chicken the better.
Its not making a judgment call, just a correlation.