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I wrote a post a while back about how the design of your social tools can help solve this problem: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/c4c4074591ba If you look at sites that are based on following users or categories they are able to scale to much larger sizes without breaking down.

I wonder if this'll be available with their ridiculously amazing $30 per month pre-paid plan. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/b8c4a2164434

Great concept, I noticed Medium.com is doing something very similar in their stories now. See: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/265cc8a17432 They don't cover the text up, but push it left which is something you should consider. Best of luck with your application.

> In Java, you can forget about doing it in the cleanest or the best way, because that is impossible. Whatever you do, however hard you try, the code will come out mediocre, verbose, redundant, and bloated (reason for liking Java) Well, here are some other reason for liking Java: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/da3b2c180e9c But I really believe the future of software is affected more by having better programmers rather than having better languages. Yes, it helps to have cool languages like Julia, Nimrod, Rust, even Scala (which I think is the best statically typed JVM language out there). But I tend to think that a good developer will be good in any language, Haskell, C, Java or LOLCODE. I think that a good developer "forced" to use Java will find tools that bring out the good parts of the language: Dropwizard, Play framework / Akka, even latest versions of Spring and Java EE are much more convention over configuration and lightweight than before. They will use Guava and Apache commons to streamline common Java verbosity and bloat. They'll use Java 8 which allows much more robust and concise syntax to common problems. But I don't think that the language is the problem. I think that a great developer will be able to tackle any problem with the language itself easily, because the real problem is not how to implement X, but more what is X. Designing the software correctly is the main problem at hand, not how to move input to output. This is what stackoverflow is for. One…

"Don't Go to Art School": https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9

This factoid should not be uncritically repeated as this blog post does: "At the same time, 46 percent of U.S. employers face talent shortages and have issues filling open positions with the right candidate." "Talk of a skills gap in the labor market is 'an incredible cop out'": http://www.businessinsider.com/no-skills-gap-in-labor-market-as-wages-… Doubly so for technology: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/… https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1

"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, humanities majors account for about 12 percent of recent graduates, and art history majors are so rare they’re lost in the noise. They account for less than 0.2 percent of working adults with college degrees, a number that is probably about right for recent graduates, too. Yet somehow art history has become the go-to example for people bemoaning the state of higher education." From http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-06/postrel-how-art-hist… See also https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1. (Yes, I get that you're not talking about art history majors, per se, but I still think the sentiment is such that these are apt discussions to link to)

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/please-stop-verifying-my-email-address-3d96… I wrote something about this a while ago. I'm no wordsmith but it fits here.

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/h1b-workers-are-not-indentured-servants-9da… this could be a nice start

Also by Noah, how to do the same thing without going to art school: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9

May 2013: Graduated from college with marketing degree and started to learn to code. (Blog post here: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/being-over-your-head-2c187f3e1f31) September 2013: First paid gig after completing 2 personal projects From my first project to my current ones I increased my rate at $5 a month for any new projects that I signed. It has gotten me to a livable wage from coding within a year. As of now I charge $120 an hour and even if I don't have 40 billable hours a week I can still get along. The key is be around people building things. They will inspire you and help get you projects. Luckily a few of my friends started projects in college so my first 6 months of client work was easier to adapt to. After that referrals started coming in and the business started to grow at a much more serious pace.

> . Sure if you're a 20-something with no kids/life and only care about your startup, you can code 24/7. Disproven by https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/e092ee0b79b7 If anything, a 20 something is more likely to drive their body and their product in the drastic wrong direction, than somebody older, wiser.

If you are interested in investigating there has been quite a few articles I've seen over the past few years on Hacker News and Reddit by female devs highlighting their experiences with how they have been treated by the dev community. Here are a few interesting articles to get you started: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/6efcedf483bd http://www.dailydot.com/business/hacker-news-justine-sexual-assault/ http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/24/business/la-fi-tech-sexism-201…

I think that a feature that would allow for more rational discussion would be good. Like, you declare claims, say how they depend on each other, and participants could say which claims they agree with, and which they don't. Within each claim, there'd be a thread where you discuss it. I think that this would seriously improve the quality of discussion. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/bc340a52f6a4

This. I wrote this piece [1] on Medium, previously submitted here [2] about this exact issue. I also made Tab Closed; Didn't Read [3]. [1] https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a30bbe8b54a5 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819358 [3] http://tabcloseddidntread.com

I have lost faith in our system, thanks to patents. Wrote this just a few hours back https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/399c21224f8b

Was Atlantis a decoy aiming Silk Road? https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/4d0dd63edb6

Oh do shut up, you're a big part of what's wrong with hn. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/66e8721ff869

Couple of relative posts: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/4ac593aabcaf http://www.fastcolabs.com/3015446/why-were-so-frustrated-about-the-mas…

My friend writes on Medium, his two most popular articles for 20k and 50k hits. Singapore Isn’t Boring. You Are. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/b9ef744a887e and Why advertising awards are now for losers. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/cebe63df96e7

You left the edit in the url which breaks it. Below is the fixed url. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/2a6d4f7046b1/

I think Josh has it mainly right in his Medium post https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a5890c2c2cc0 - it's not just about traffic but engagement. I was one of those passionate users on Geocities, to the point where I was given shares in the Yahoo acquisition for my work in the community. GeoCities died on the vine because they didn't continue to innovate on the site building and community they had. They certainly could have been so much more - foreshadowing blogs, social networks, everything myspace became, etc and could have found a way to build the kind of sticky (and huge) audience that monetises better - if they'd continued to develop.

You don't need to register to see them, see this post: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628 You'd need to register to comment though.

Not hussling is the new hussling Also see > https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628

This reads like it is inspired by https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ef4772e3c628 (which is currently on the frontpage at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5487883), but there is no attribution if this is the case.

I like this approach of setting a ceiling on the potential value: The world GDP is somewhere around 50 Trillion Dollars ($50 x 10^12). Bitcoin is designed so that there will never be more than 21 Million in existence. Let’s say that there is a possibility that Bitcoin could one day constitute 1% of world transactions. (I could envision the percentage being much higher, or 0%, but 1% is a good place to start). If this were the case, then ($50T x 1%) / 21M BTC = $23,809.52 / BTC (Again, this isn’t a scientific treatment of the valuation of a currency, but a back-of-the-envelope approach.) So we could see how the price of a single Bitcoin could increase from its current value of ~ $550.00 to $23,809.52. What is the likelihood of Bitcoin succeeding in being the currency used in 1% of world transactions? Let’s say it’s 10%. (Again, exact value not important.) You get a risk-adjusted value of $2,3809.52. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/468e11b9f95

The worst part of this thing is that students loans do not need to be that high because college costs should not be that high. Student loans are artificially high because of two reasons: 1. Government subsidies 2. Increasing college costs Government subsidies are there because the government knows that a kid who goes to college will be able to give a better return on it 'public' investment, since lifetime earnings for a college educated individual are about 50-100% higher than a high school one. This will make them pay more taxes etc. The schools on the other hand are taking the subsidized college loans in the form of tuition and fees and using them not to increase educational standards, but rather, invest in extracurriculars, building etc. The government does not tie college loan financing to college performance at all, so effectively it just subsidizes the borrowing costs for school in the form of cheap college loans. (shameless plug) I wrote a blog post about this if anyone is interested to read more: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/35d383a4fbad

The problem I see is that you have a lot of new SaaS startups where their is not a low marginal cost to add people. This is particularly true in the developer space where there are any number of startups that will record events from websites and mobile apps for anything from performance monitoring to analytics. Each free customer they add has a cost in terms of data, infrastructure and building code to scale massively. Thus, they are forced to raise ever bigger amounts of money from VCs to keep going. Contrast this with 37signals - where adding another free client really did have very little cost. And at the same time, all these services are, as the article points out, becoming commodified. Thus, recognizing that they really can't make money in the SMB market with such low switching costs, they decide to move to the enterprise market and thus the whole economics of SaaS are blown up, and they look very much like a traditional enterprise software business - and SaaS becomes a delivery methodology rather than business model. My own article on this issue (shameless plug): https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/a2cc0d5ba431

iOS7 design is weak, with reason. This page is just quoting tweets, but there many in-depth criticism on the many obvious flaws everywhere on the blogosphere. From the objective to the subjective: - Complete redesign makes it too different from iOS 6 and OS X, throws away all learnability - Icons have no consistency whatsoever - Toolbar icons are so abstract as to be useless - Legibility suffers from Helvetica Light on bright white, everywhere - Got rid of affordances, you don't know what is a button anymore (same mistake as WP and some Google apps) - Control panel is a mess - Color palette is poor and tacky. You have a true to life display to work with, but limit yourself to primary and secondary, over-saturated hues... just stupid To be fair, usability increased in many places as in multi-tasking and better use of gesture, although that's hardly innovation - they are just copying tried and true interactions from software both on iOS platform (e.g. Gmail for iOS, Mailbox) and others (webOS, Android). Overall the UI looks like designed by someone who designs print media and has no clue what they are doing. This article wraps it up: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/275a56688510

The list ("standout posts" are according to Forbes): 1. On Startups (onstartups.com) 2. For Entrepreneurs (forentrepreneurs.com) 3. Steve Blank (steveblank.com) 4. Startup Lawyer (startuplawyer.com) 5. Rock the Post (rockthepost.com) 6. Venture Hacks (venturehacks.com) 7. Dutiee (dutiee.com) 8. Chris Dixon --> standout post (http://cdixon.org/2013/06/01/some-thoughts-on-mobile/) 9. Quora (I mean, Quora's awesome, but they just phoned this one in) 10. Ladieswholaunch (Ladieswholaunch.com) 11. Angel List (angel.co) 12. First Round Capital (firstround.com/review) 13. Epic Launch (epiclaunch.com) 14. A VC (avc.com) 15. Business Owner's Toolkit --> standout post http://www.bizfilings.com/toolkit/sbg/run-a-business/exiting/tax-aspec… 16. Tom Tunguz's blog (tomtunguz.com) 17. Chic CEO (chic-ceo.com) 18. This is Going to be Big --> standout post: http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2013/7/18/the-hook-the-most-imp… 19. All Business --> standout post: http://experts.allbusiness.com/5-seo-bare-minimums-busy-business-owner… 20. Above the Crowd --> standout post: http://abovethecrowd.com/2009/08/24/what-is-really-happening-to-the-ve… 21. Forte Foundation (fortefoundation.org) 22. PG's blog --> standout post: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html 23. Medium --> standout post: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/40cf0a8919cb 24. Ben Horowitz's blog --> standout post:…