Hacker News: Hisoka

New comment by Hisoka in "USV invests in Duck Duck Go"

Hisoka — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:37:13 +0000

Did Google pay you to say this?

New comment by Hisoka in "All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed"

Hisoka — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:19:08 +0000

The environment we're in affects us a lot. As young kids, very few consciously choose to pursue social situations, as our minds are not that developed. A lot of it happens due to our life situation.. ie we live near a park, we live near lots of kids our age, or our parents hang out with other parents who have kids our age, etc.

New comment by Hisoka in "All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed"

Hisoka — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:17:30 +0000

I agree. I remember the day when you could drop by a friend's house to chill w/o calling beforehand, or sending a text message or IM. or the days when you could just drop by the park and have a good chance of meeting a couple of buddies there. Everything now seems so structured. Have to arrange meetups with friends. Have to arrange this or that. And lots of socializing happens after work, where the intention is to just get drunk, and forget about the day.

New comment by Hisoka in "All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed"

Hisoka — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:14:48 +0000

What is the root cause of this problem though? Is it just a natural result of overpopulation + our natural tendency to be selfish? is it overpopulation + the need to give up individual needs to support the whole? is it the natural result of our biological instincts and we're just really fucked up species?

New comment by Hisoka in "Coding Horror: The Gamification"

Hisoka — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:04:36 +0000

Saving energy doesn't instill a sense of achievement. Nobody has a bucket list with an item that says "Save as much energy as I can". It just doesn't inspire anyone. Sorry if that's your startup idea.

New comment by Hisoka in "Coding Horror: The Gamification"

Hisoka — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:48:18 +0000

Yep, that's the point. People who use gamification for things like green living and saving energy, or advertising, or redeeming rewards, etc are missing the point. There's nothing to freaking gamify. Nobody feels any sense of achievement from saving energy, or redeeming airmile rewards, or checking in to places and doing random stuff.

New comment by Hisoka in "The 10 Mistakes I've made...so you don't have to"

Hisoka — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:02:44 +0000

How do you do marketing for Rails Tutorial? is it mostly search organic traffic? paid traffic? word of mouth?

New comment by Hisoka in "How they stack up: Disrupt, Launch, and Demo"

Hisoka — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:45:03 +0000

How about going where your customers actually are?

New comment by Hisoka in "(reddit) YC applications are due, did you apply? If so, what are you building"

Hisoka — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Nothing wrong, just that you're going to have difficulty finding advertisers that will agree to this type of advertising. You're not in any way solving the problem of finding relevant audiences for their ads. You're just throwing an incentive for random people to do things for prizes, and hope they will buy whatever the ad is about. But users just want the free goods.

The problem is not how to make users interested in an ad. The core problem is connecting an ad to a relevant audience. You can't fake interest in an ad that's not relevant to what you want at the point. People have tried that with FB ads, but the CTR are horrible, and people get pissed when they see the ad had nothing to do with the actual product.

New comment by Hisoka in "(reddit) YC applications are due, did you apply? If so, what are you building"

Hisoka — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:35:57 +0000

Isn't this just a fancy derivative of "fill this form out and we'll send you a free iPod?". Because that's all it is..

If you tell me people want achievements, well.. Achievements in games feel good because there's actual skill involved, and it feels like you mastered something. You can't say the same for doing random tasks online. You can't just throw a word like 'achievement' or 'score' on top of what you're doing, and think the effect will be the same.

New comment by Hisoka in "The 10 Mistakes I've made...so you don't have to"

Hisoka — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:18:00 +0000

I like the point about how being in covers of tech blogs doesn't mean much. It's all mostly noise, and if one did a study, I bet they'd find the failure rate of startups covered by tech blogs to be around the same as the overall failure rate of the average business. E

New comment by Hisoka in "Why I Quit Intuit and Started Hall.com - An Update"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:26:42 +0000

Yes, I would like to read a post about it.. also would like to know how you manage to get 28K in private beta if you are willing to share that secret haha

New comment by Hisoka in "The True Cost of Commuting"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:21:02 +0000

The true cost of commuting is actually the stress that piles on you, bit by bit.. it can contribute to divorce, physical disease, high blood pressure, loneliness, etc. Just ask anyone that has to ride their car into NYC traffic, or even take the crowded subways on a daily basis.

Ask HN: Recommended community/forum software?

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:12:03 +0000

I'm looking for any open source forum software, but something that looks modern, and clean. Not like Invision, or PhpBB. Any recommendations?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094720

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by Hisoka in "Why I Quit Intuit and Started Hall.com - An Update"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:57:14 +0000

What is Hall.com going to be about, and how much did the domain name cost you:

New comment by Hisoka in "Being #2 on the Hacker News front page - HackerThings Launch Week"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:11:37 +0000

What CDN did you use? CloudFlare?

New comment by Hisoka in "Being #2 on the Hacker News front page - HackerThings Launch Week"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:57:21 +0000

What is your stack like? How many servers, what back-end technology, amount of memory, processor, etc?

New comment by Hisoka in "Your number one priority"

Hisoka — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:14:24 +0000

Exercise is important, but I find the effects are way more beneficial when you do it early in morning as opposed to evening. It disrupts my sleep if I exercise too late

New comment by Hisoka in "Photojojo, Jelly founder needs bone marrow match to save his life"

Hisoka — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:08:02 +0000

Yes, this freaks me out too, and makes the vast majority of humans insane for not taking care of their health... all the more reason to be vigilant, not complacent.

New comment by Hisoka in "Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot"

Hisoka — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:10:38 +0000

I don't know about his diet, but I do know it's virtually impossible to have healthy lifestyle with the responsibilities he has. He might have needed Apple, but there is a chance he put his body over the limit and ignored symptoms