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Re:Ask PG/HN: Recommended reading on the history of technology
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @12:40PM (#6980376)
It's not a book but rather a course. There is also a recommended reading list.
Re:Ask HN: What's your blog?
on Friday January 25, 2013 @12:15AM (#5114090)
http://www.sohumraut.com/
Mostly about startups / investors in Australia, what it's like to be a uni student founder, having an app that exploded massively etc. Not really much technical stuff and usually blog only when asked to speak.
atm doing about 1k hits per month.
"I have a dream" speech blocked by EMI Music Publishing
Re:I am done with the freemium business model
on Monday January 02, 2012 @11:05PM (#3418579)
So what you are saying is having free users is better than no users (even though it is an expense) because a greater proportion will convert (hopefully) eventually?
Write it off as a marketing expense and hope it attracts more paid users?
Re:Tech Startups Need Non-Techies to Succeed
on Saturday December 03, 2011 @07:33AM (#3307593)
My favourite line:
"In the tech startup world, technology is important for success"
It reminds me of the superficial essay writing structure I had to use in high school, lacking any technical detail but trying to use broad examples, stating the obvious and then trying to interweave some vague points as "filler." It's just not very useful.
I actually think the greatest marketing tactic ever made was by Microsoft naming their browser Internet Explorer. It blows my mind how many people genuinely believe the only way to "explore" the "internet" is with internet explorer.
As a sidenote, how do you pronounce his name?
Ask HN: Hacker News no longer showing on Google.
I don't know what has happened but googling Hacker News doesn't show hacker news on the front page anymore.I think Google may have made an algorithm change because it seemed interesting to note the highly ranked pages had hacker news directly in the url (instead of news.ycombinator etc). Even the wikipedia entry is ranked higher.I had a thought that was kind of amusing. pg has intentionally...
That was oddly beautiful.
It sounds like you are lacking fulfillment in your life and by extention happiness.
Exitement is happiness. Do something exiting.
Re:Monsanto chooses Cloudant to power its genome analytics
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @10:49AM (#3107338)
I normally don't comment on things.
I think a lot of people are missing the point. The nature of Company x and y is irrelevant, the issue is interchangeable.
Hacker News used to be a community devoid of emotional outbursts and when they occurred they were thought out, thought provoking and well articulated. Smart comments. Only smart comments were up-voted.
This wasn't and it was at the top. It's indicative of the direction HN is going.
(For intensive purposes x in this case is Monsanto and y is Cloudant.)
That was so obvious. I feel rather ridiculous. A bit like the time I realised what insert did in a word document. Thanks.
Dear PG
Frequently while reading one of your essays, I will read the footnote immediately after finishing the paragraph to understand the context of the footnote. But near the footnote there is no link back to the corresponding paragraph. So the footnote is often followed by a horrifying scrolling period leading back to the paragraph which is disorienting and detracts from the essay.I don't know if...
Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation
on Saturday May 14, 2011 @11:19AM (#2547783)
I don't think it's a blanket article, despite the blanket language. It is addressing a very select group of people, the ones trying to make money rather than meaning.
There are a lot of very talented people doing innovative things, but this might be my ignorance, but I'd say they are minority. That's probably because I just haven't heard about them, a lot of real innovation tends to go unnoticed. I find the smartest people I know don't like talking but prefer working anyway.
But something about the article resonates. My heart broke a little bit when I found out that multiple social networks for knitting enthusiasts, have gotten venture funded.