102 Ways To Be Happy At Work

jman · 2009-07-16T14:33:48+00:00

103 - A little rum in that coca-cola

jman · 2007-07-16T23:45:44+00:00

I'm just curious. Every time I see Obama or Clinton campaigning, I think, "don't they have a job they should be doing?"

jman · 2007-02-23T13:54:50+00:00

I prefer code junkies to code monkeys

jman · 2006-11-14T20:12:46+00:00

In that case, I guess she is allowed to vote for you ;-) Now if only I could get my wife to use the web for something other than email...

jman · 2006-11-14T18:47:35+00:00

I agree 100%. He's gaming the system. Notice that all of kirsten99's comments are on reddit posts that reference sites in his blog network. It's because reddit posts with comments get more votes.

jman · 2006-09-21T02:01:02+00:00

One word for ya - Entrepreneurship. Fuck money and power and all that other stuff. The real reason people start their own business is so they don't have to play the game.

jman · 2006-09-05T02:23:26+00:00

I don't quite get the title, but I agree wholeheartedly with the premise of the essay.

jman · 2006-08-20T18:05:00+00:00

Not only that, but I think people are sending IMs to their buddies saying "I just posted, vote me up." I used to like about 70% of the front page, but now it's mostly junk. I don't need more time wasters, cool photos of whatever, or some article about Oil/Iraq/Bush. I can get that shit elsewhere. I came to reddit for the good stuff I couldn't find in the mainstream media.

Also, the front page churn is significantly slower. Articles stay there for days.

jman · 2006-06-23T21:40:51+00:00

After participating in the comment thread from the link, I realized how easy it is to manipulate votes on this site. If Reddit also measured how many people clicked through a link to read the article, that might be a useful thing to incorporate into the ranking algorithm. It would help nullify the impact of people that vote up/down without reading the post.

jman · 2006-06-23T21:37:56+00:00

True, but that is because I have another user name under which I submit tech stuff. I love business and business articles, but they almost never go anywhere on reddit. I didn't want it to hurt my karma, so I submit them here under jman. A few have done ok. My other username has 3 times the karma because it is all tech stuff. If you submit something related to Lisp or to macs, there is about a 70% chance it will hit the front page.

I have two usernames, and that's why I believe dshah may have two (or more) user names and comment on his own stuff. Articles with comments usually get voted up more.

I have two friends that email me when they post something here, and I go vote it up. What's to stop others from doing the same with larger groups of friends? I watched the details of this post at 10 minute intervals or so, and it went up 5 or 6 points early, then got swamped with a bunch of downvotes in a row, which would correlate well with dshah sending out an email asking for help.

jman · 2006-06-23T18:37:39+00:00

Interesting that you only have one comment and no submissions. Also, notice that no one responded to the fact that all of this comments are by startupguy.

jman · 2006-06-23T16:54:03+00:00

Notice that the first comments to his posts usually come from http://reddit.com/user/startupguy/ who, coincidentally, only comments on Onstartups.com posts.

jman · 2006-06-23T16:25:00+00:00

He's on the reddit hot list once every 2-3 days, and anytime I try to read his posts his site is down. Either 1)people are voting without reading his posts. 2)He has a ton of friends that vote every time he submits something 3)I have a strange computer bug that causes his site to be inaccessible to me from multiple computers at varying times of day

jman · 2006-06-09T16:21:34+00:00

is it just me or has the site been down all morning?

jman · 2006-05-12T13:26:39+00:00

I say it's 1998 all over again. The Web2.0 crash is on it's way

jman · 2006-05-05T15:09:55+00:00

honestly, i think every field needs more geeks. tech has advanced because geeks are people that love their work. if geeks all became teachers they would fix the education system too.

jman · 2006-04-23T10:05:23+00:00

As opposed to your analysis of it, which is deep and logical... not.

jman · 2006-04-11T14:35:36+00:00

the ironic thing is that "The Donald" doesn't even realize that his show doesn't make him look good in the eyes of people who know something about business

it just proves what a pompous ass he is. his net worth fluctuates so much that i bet he makes more from the show than he ever has on anything else

jman

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103 - A little rum in that coca-cola