walterk

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by walterk 18y ago
It's true that Jobs isn't necessarily the best presenter in the world. But I haven't seen anyone who can continually present their products with the purpose, passion, and pride that Jobs does, all of which are on display here. (No doubt bec
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by walterk 18y ago
Nod. If I had a nickel for every web app I've thought of and could have executed on but didn't, only to see others take the same idea and launch...I might have a buck fifty. I should qualify that when I say the Amazon feature is "obvious",
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by walterk 18y ago
I tend to find myself influenced by the karma count more than anything else. I have to log myself out after commenting to increase the cost of checking the change to my net karma. I'm a strong advocate of hiding the karma counts entirely (f
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by walterk 18y ago
Have you never seen a feature implemented that was (a) kind of obvious, and (b) a long time coming? I can appreciate that not everyone thinks this was an obvious idea. I'd appreciate it even more if you can respect that I think it was fairl
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by walterk 18y ago
Which, of course, helps Amazon figure out what it doesn't sell, but should. I'd say it's a brilliant idea, but I can't help thinking, what took them so long?
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by walterk 18y ago
An actual inbox requires many clicks to clear all unreads, assuming you actually read them. What I'm proposing clears all unreads with one click. Alternatively, just have an asterisk to indicate that there are new submissions you haven't ch
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by walterk 18y ago
Over a week ago, I put in a feature request to give users a karma point daily just for visiting the New page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433004 Another idea is simply to display the number of new stories submitted since you last
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by walterk 18y ago
> Bad developers whine and complain that their product has been stolen. "Bad" as in "being a bad sport", not incompetent.
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by walterk 18y ago
I have downvote arrows on comments, but at some point they ceased to affect the score. Which is to say, I click on the downvote, and the points go down by one, but upon reloading the page, the score is the same as before. (And yes, it's hap
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by walterk 18y ago
What's the half sentence?
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by walterk 18y ago
You mean The Dungeon? ;)
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by walterk 18y ago
DM MS '08.
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Ask HN: Change.gov has launched Citizen's Briefing Book. What do you think?(citizensbriefingbook.change.gov)
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by walterk 18y ago
The one I have personal experience with is this: http://www.amazon.com/Human-Computer-Interaction-3rd-Alan-Di... Which is not particularly well reviewed, but it is adequate, and you can apparently get the 2nd edition for $1.27 + shipping.
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by walterk 18y ago
The word he's looking for is "gestalt". Objects that are grouped together are perceived to be related. Personally, I would not have put those global navigation links anywhere near the user-specific links. Put global navs next to the GitHu
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by walterk 18y ago
To encourage more people to visit the 'New' page and upvote stories, give users one point per day for visiting it.
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by walterk 18y ago
Yes. Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
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by walterk 18y ago
http://processing.org/
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by walterk 18y ago
There is preening, and there is criticism. Some combine both, and I agree, it's pretty silly.
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by walterk 18y ago
> They've both got flaws, but Gladwell in particular likes to coin phrases and say things that are easy for others to parrot, and this cap rates thing is among them. He does make it easy for people to parrot things. But the human capita
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by walterk 18y ago
Right, but there are also many who are simply discouraged from striving at all, possibly jaded. Rand never considers the forces behind this fact: she simply casts them as villains.
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by walterk 18y ago
I agree that you can come away from the book with that message (much more so with The Fountainhead). But the much more explicit one, I think, is Objectivism. :) Though I now disagree with her philosophy, I do think she wrote inspiringly abo
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by walterk 18y ago
> Throughout my schooling, 98% of my learning came from books, self study, and friends. This is probably reflective of your learning style more than anything else. While I've certainly learned more from the books (there's only so much y
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by walterk 18y ago
> As I said, what differentiation there is is due to the initiative of instructors. This is clearly true. I just don't see why it merits devaluing an assessment of the courses. Quality of instruction clearly matters, and that's why I pu
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by walterk 18y ago
I may not have read it as carefully as I should have. But I insist that there is more to life than both consumption and production. There is civic engagement. There is activism, no matter what your political philosophy.
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by walterk 18y ago
> I'd put courses on the bottom of that list. In fields like Comp Sci, many of these are standardized, so there is less differentiation. I disagree. Having been to Berkeley and Georgia Tech, I found that the latter's undergrad CS/CM pro
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by walterk 18y ago
Here's a list, but don't take the order too seriously: - Courses: Do they have courses that you're interested in taking, and is the department strong in those areas? What's the balance between theoretical and more immediately practical clas
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by walterk 18y ago
But there is so much more to do than consume media. The world needs more people who can, or rather, will (there are plenty who can, few who do) solve problems from the local to the global. They don't disappear when we disappear into our g
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by walterk 18y ago
He's always defended his involvement as being a necessary compromise. An unusual stance for an Objectivist, but an Objectivist nonetheless.
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by walterk 18y ago
That is a fantastic post and thread. Thanks for linking.

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