Disqus - Friends of dalziel

Re: Stuff

paulgraham — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:50:00 -0000

I don't understand what you mean. It is on a single page.

Re: Stuff

paulgraham — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:52:56 -0000

I *like* physical books.

Re: Stuff

paulgraham — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:48:39 -0000

Yes, it does. Some stuff is great. I may write about that next.

Re: Stuff

paulgraham — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:07:51 -0000

I count enjoying something as using it.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:16:18 -0000

PhD program admissions are a better indicator, because they're decided by smarter people (professors, not admissions officers), who are highly motivated to choose well (because they'll be stuck with them as grad students) and have more data to choose based on. But even grad school admissions are far from perfect.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:19:10 -0000

I'd advise anyone who can to at least try college, because you get exposed to such a variety of ideas there.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:45:54 -0000

Sounds like you mean the 1999 NBER study. They found no advantage of going to a more selective school as measured by SAT scores, but there was an advantage of going to a school rated more selective by Barron's.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:46:18 -0000

See [4].

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:49:54 -0000

I believe this is true for Microsoft, but I'm pretty sure it's not true on either end for YC. I know we're getting applications from the best hackers at elite schools. And on the other end, I can tell from some of the applications we get that we're not only getting the top fraction from the ones lower down the list.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:55:59 -0000

It varies enormously, not just by university and department, but by advisor. Grad school is heaven for some people and hell for others. It was a mix for me. Hard to say what I would do if I could redo those years.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:54:45 -0000

Keep reading. About halfway through I explicitly talk about the difference between those two ideas.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:55:32 -0000

That's actually very encouraging to hear. Google is one of YC's biggest competitors for people.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:57:27 -0000

Rare now, but the vector is clearly pointing to a world where people are rewarded based mostly on measured performance.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:50:25 -0000

That is a great quote; thanks.

Re: News from the Front

paulgraham — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:53:54 -0000

That's not the real test. If the kid was already admitted to both, sure, go to Harvard. The real test is if the kid had a choice in HS of doing a) something that would get them into a better college, or b) learn more, which would you advise? E.g. SAT tutoring, or learn how to draw? I'd always advise b.

Re: An Alternative Theory of Unions

paulgraham — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:15:13 -0000

I never say that labor unions were a creation of the early 20th century, just that that was their peak.

Re: Become A Blogging Pundit In 5 Easy Steps

StevenHodson — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:25:45 -0000

And I would add a number 6 - be a cranky old fart all the time about everything :)

Re: It's Blogroll Cleaning Time

StevenHodson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:47:47 -0000

I agree that most blogrolls are a waste of time and for the longest time I never had one. Then recently I decided to add one but only those bloggers I consider a part of My A-List were added; or get added.

I figure this way folks who click on the links will be gettiing something of value rather than just a long list of questionable content.

Re: some questions

StevenHodson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:02:52 -0000

in that case I'll give a try and see how it goes.

Thanks for the reply

Edit: I will say this - extremely simple to get up and running. However until there is a way for me to import my existing comment base it kind of defeats the purpose as from what I could see it is like starting of fresh with all posts having 0 comments. This unfortunately isn't going to work for me but I would suggest the system to anyone just starting out with a fresh blog.

Re: Disqus snubs Blog World Expo, rattles Blogosphere

StevenHodson — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:33:09 -0000

Even without your tongue firmly planted in cheek :) I for am glad you decided to to stick around home and get work done.

Now about that swag that you have left over from not going :) LOL

Re: Does Google hate PayPerPost?

StevenHodson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:54:06 -0000

I gotta admit that even though I don't like the PPP method of income generation I'm not so sure that Google's moves in this area shouldn't be examined very very closely. After all using any advertising method that is a competitor to Google AdSense that can result in your losing status by a drop in another Google service definitely should sound some warning bells.

Re: Apple's brand promise, and how blogging can fix it (Scripting News)

StevenHodson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:39:19 -0000

As I said in a post today --- Apple - welcome to the great unwashed masses they aren't going to be as kind as the die hard Mac users.

Re: Apple's brand promise, and how blogging can fix it (Scripting News)

StevenHodson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:05:10 -0000

funny I haven't had to replace a single motherbiard or had a harddrive fail because of Vista. Both might had to chug a little under the weight of it but that is all.

Re: Apple's brand promise, and how blogging can fix it (Scripting News)

StevenHodson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:18:03 -0000

I am not so sure if it is so much a mark of the advertising as it is in a couple of other factors. the primary one is that Microsoft messed up with Vista even though they are talking up the recent sales figures for it. The other factor was the switch by Apple to using the Intel processor.

It doesn't hurt either that Apple does make some sweet looking hardware and people are increasingly looking at computers as more than just a utilitarian box sitting on their desk in the corner.

Re: A question/clarification on the moderation settings

StevenHodson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:55:45 -0000

It seems I made a bit of a goof up about my statement concerning the Import feature so I was wondering what the current timetable is for the import feature?

Also IIRC mention was made about being able to implement Disqus but still keep what existing comments there in place rather than them disappearing when you enable the plugin ... where would I find this setting?

Is there a roadmap anywhere of what the current timetable is for feature additions and some of what we can expect down the road?