Thanks for the additional info. What about StackOverflow then? That's also about content. (Questions and answers) Badges there seem to encourage contribution. What's special about HN, in your opinion?
How many hackers out there use Foursquare? Can you comment on what you think of the badges there? It's possible that you go to HN for news, where you care about content, and the latter for fun, where you do like badges.
Makes good sense. What if instead there're badges for hackers based on their coding ability? What would you think of that? (Not that it's easy to compute of course.)
Why not? Would be very helpful if you could elaborate, so we can all learn something.
Good post! I always tell people if they really want to make money, go work on Wall Street. Doing a startup is quite a bit riskier. For me, it's really about doing something meaningful that I enjoy. Here's a tip I read…
Thanks for the additional info. What about StackOverflow then? That's also about content. (Questions and answers) Badges there seem to encourage contribution. What's special about HN, in your opinion?
How many hackers out there use Foursquare? Can you comment on what you think of the badges there? It's possible that you go to HN for news, where you care about content, and the latter for fun, where you do like badges.
Makes good sense. What if instead there're badges for hackers based on their coding ability? What would you think of that? (Not that it's easy to compute of course.)
Why not? Would be very helpful if you could elaborate, so we can all learn something.
Good post! I always tell people if they really want to make money, go work on Wall Street. Doing a startup is quite a bit riskier. For me, it's really about doing something meaningful that I enjoy. Here's a tip I read…