albion

Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition) on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @08:21AM (#1957779)

This is a pretty good description of what an agile tester is http://simpleprogrammer.com/2010/06/16/agile-testing-is-diff...

Re:Ask HN: Why do people not like news personalization? on Saturday May 15, 2010 @08:11PM (#1350944)

True, the best articles are always the ones which take you in a completely new direction. However I have also found that those same interesting articles are often not very popular which leads me to think social news sites have their flaws. Perhaps the solution needs to not look at what is popular/similar to what you already like but rather new concepts (not that I have any idea how to achieve that)

Ask HN: Why do people not like news personalization?

Posted by albion on Saturday May 15, 2010 @07:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Like many I am a bit of an information addict with my main sources being rss, twitter & hackernews/reddit. It takes a lot of work to extract the decent information from all of these sources (probably about 10-15% of the information I receive is any good). The obvious solution to this problem seems to be applying a learning algorithm to create a personalized feed of news items. However I...

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Re:News is so broken on Thursday March 11, 2010 @07:56AM (#1183618)

Out of interest how does your idea differ from reddit, digg, hacker news or many of the other social news sites currently around? they all offer methods of easily scanning & consuming content as well as allowing discussions. I do agree that there are issues with our current methods of consuming news but I think there needs to be a much more significant paradigm shift than what you are proposing.

I am however very happy to be corrected, could you provide a little more information?

Re:London YC/Hacker news Meetup on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:24AM (#1095227)

Cool, well would defiantly be up for meeting people. March 3rd sounds like a good day for me. How does that fit in with everybody? Anyone know of a good way of organising this?

London YC/Hacker news Meetup

Posted by albion on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @08:19AM
from the self-post dept.

Anyone know if there is a London YC/Hackernews meetup? If not, anyone interested in meeting up somewhere in London?

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Re:Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art? on Monday May 25, 2009 @05:37PM (#625919)

http://ffffound.com/ is pretty good