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Re: Reclaiming Control of My Schedule

joshua schachter — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:17:43 -0000

Please share the calendar thing. I have severe meeting anxiety.

Re: Turn your personal mob into an army

joshua schachter — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:07:26 -0000

Good call. Maneki Neko is totally a big inspiration for us.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:37:26 -0000

I agree. It's something we want to do.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:36:21 -0000

Sorry - the other relevant thing here is that Jig seems to do well when the need has no good answer. Instead, you want a variety of opinions. I think this is one of the places that search tends to fall down.

Additionally, people tend to trust answers from people they know. Stories over statistics; if you asked a friend from Minneapolis for a good restaurant, you'd probably just go without much further research (or even likely to discount a bad yelp rating...)

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:16 -0000

The vast majority of stuff on jig isn't on twitter (although of course that vast majority isn't very major.)

There's a few issues with twitter just adding categorization being competition:

a) We want to build a two-sided market (that means offers to be the other side of needs) and a routing layer on top of it
b) people tend to trust social, geographical, and organizational structures for advice.

The routing problem is a hard one. Not sure Twitter will "just" do that.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:48:34 -0000

but jig isn't twitter filtered by topic? where do you get that idea?

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:52:59 -0000

I agree totally.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:26:03 -0000

http://thepauperedchef.com/... is where to start.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:23:51 -0000

Good insight. In some sense jig postings are restricted turk tasks that get routed to your neighborhood or friends or organization.

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:21:16 -0000

That seems a bit facile. What's that one tweak?

Re: Jig

joshua schachter — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:18:34 -0000

We are trying to make a sort of marketplace. Right now we have needs but some day there will be offers and other things.

Re: stackparts | Writing a web application is not just LAMP any more. Choose parts of your stack.

joshua schachter — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:47:03 -0000

yeah, just add it via the bottom form and we'll process it.

Re: stackparts | Writing a web application is not just LAMP any more. Choose parts of your stack.

joshua schachter — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:05:55 -0000

one issue here is that unlike python (or whatever) there are many implementations of both. my understanding is that libraries tend to target specific implementations. i'd rather link those instead. what's the set of generally used lisps and schemes?

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:45:27 -0000

We're not trying to do Q&A. But yes, it's very easy to build lots of neighborhoods into a product and immediately create a million tumbleweed towns.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:43:55 -0000

Definitely.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:43:27 -0000

We're not building search. Or a search competitor.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:43:06 -0000

It's not a Q&A site. It won't work for that, and we're not building that.

If you needed to borrow a Canon lens from a friend, though, it should help with that.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:42:00 -0000

I agree. We need to have categories to narrow the spread.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:41:25 -0000

I agree. Remember that I invented tagging originally.

I believe we will be able to do automatic classification.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:40:48 -0000

What, specifically, don't you like?

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:40:34 -0000

We don't want to have just have comments - we want to make it better for actually answering needs. That means stuff like forwarding, etc.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:37:26 -0000

We're actually quite aware of the problem. We're working very hard to avoid the "rich get richer" dynamics. One of the things we are trying is having routing and ranking replace the standard activity feed. That means we're going to try to get unmet needs in front of people who are most likely to answer them. This means using contexts like neighborhood, relationships, topics, etc.

We have a LOT of work to do. The first product you launch is never right. But I think we're only a few left turns away from something good.

Any interest in a job? I thought your comments were pretty insightful.

Re: Jig: What Do You Need?

joshua schachter — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:14:00 -0000

$85k.

Re: All Things Distributed

joshua schachter — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:05:59 -0000

I actually wrote some ideas about this a few years ago: http://joshua.schachter.org...

I am glad to see it finally happen!

Now I just need to migrate myself...

Re: The War For Talent

joshua schachter — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:01:10 -0000

hiring elsewhere is very difficult for us, because we are trying invent a new product. we need to talk a LOT (we spend much of the work day discussing/whiteboarding/etc) - bandwidth is key.

also, hiring and managing without someone feet-on-the-ground seems very hard.

i hope we are successful enough to have offices in other places someday, though!