What was John Nash like as a professor?
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Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#2So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#3So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
No. I'm not a 'doubter' I just don't care. I don't have a horse in the "whose Q&A site is teh bestzors" race.
Show me a reason to care. All I know is that expertsexchange needs to die in a fire. I don't care who pushes them into the bonfire. :D
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#4So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
What I've learned about Quora from this link is that the highest voted answer (currently) is historical hearsay, when an answer with half the points is based on actual, first-hand experience.
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#5So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
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Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#6So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
I use Quora for fun.
This post, about John Nash, validates my case.
I use StackOverflow for work. Real work. The thing where you get paid.
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#7So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
Put me in the "no" camp. All due respect to the HN front page, but how does that speak to their ability to becoming either a high traffic site or their ability to monetize the traffic they have?
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#8So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
How valuable is Ask Metafilter by this rubric?
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#9So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
Stack Overflow actually solves my real world problems.
Quora only entertains me.
In my view, it's some sort of wikipedia Q&A. I don't value it really highly.
Re: What was John Nash like as a professor?
#10So, given the number of times a post from Quora has made the front page now--have any doubters changed their mind about Quora's value?
What I've learned about Quora from this link is that the highest voted answer (currently) is historical hearsay, when an answer with half the points is based on actual, first-hand experience.
This happens on every moderated forum all the time, including HN. I've learned to get over the idea that the most correct answer will be moderated highest. One reason is that the righter answer might have been posted later. Another is that a less right answer might have been written in a more entertaining or attention-grabbing way.
If you want a HN example, take my post on "Google's Android faces a serious Linux copyright issue."
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337340
It was moderated 8, and contains the precise answer to the issue/controversy (it quotes the exception from Linux's COPYING file that both LWN and Linus himself cited later to refute the alleged "copyright issue")
The highest-voted comment on the article (38) does not mention this exception, and is full of inaccuracies like "Unless these programs are actually copying parts of the kernel into their source, they are not derived works."