When people discuss Greece they act as if every Greek person is the same. It is easy to use stereotypes. Greeks are lazy, they retire early, the pensions are "insanely high compared to even the Greek economy before the collapse". The European Union frames this conflict like this the whole time. Sure there are people that screwed up, that took advantage of the situation. There is corruption and extremely poor government for many years. But when you look past that, to the normal Greek person, trying to to the best and make a living then things aren't so simple anymore. DO you really belive that an entire country is evil and corrupt? My 2 uncles have both worked 6 days a week from 10:00AM until 22:00 PM, and 14 days a year vacation. They started working when they were 14 years old, worked until they were 78 and 79 (While we fight the 67 yr retirement rule in the rest of Europe). When they retired, they had to wait 2 years before their pension would start being paid out (normal practice). Only to find out that it was cut in half when it finally arrived. One of them died, the other one (84) now lives on a pension of less than 650 Euro per month. 300 goes to the rent. That leaves him 300 Euro to buy food, pay the bills, get healthcare, support his children (3), of which 2 have been fired and cannot get a job anywhere. And their grandchildren don't have jobs either (which is far more concerning imo). He has a heart condition, yet cannot pay for any medicines. His son has cancer, there is no money for medicines. So when you say that people aren't starving on the streets, then you may want to think about this situation and let it sink in. There is huge poverty in Greece, you may not se it, but it is there. My uncle isn't in a unique situation, this has happened to many, many Greeks.
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Wow, this is even worse than I ever imagined. It is unbelievable how far trolling can go and what the costs are in life for the victim. I don't know you personally Kathy but I really feel sorry for you. You deserve respect for having the courage writing up these thoughts despite of everything that has happened to you and your family in the past 10 years. What's even worse how easy it has become for us to judge from the sideline with smug remarks on Twitter. Sad, really sad.
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I can fully agree to that. I am not suggesting censorship or refraining from criticisms. I just like to see people doing that respectfully and in a way that actually adds something to the discussion
To me, your point was completely lost by the fact that you choose to attack people yourself, rather than highlight the stories with positive comments. You didn't really do a meaningful comparison, but rather just looked at two stories' comments and decided to write a rant about it. What would be cooler would be to take an Opinion Analyzer and run it over the comments from all stories for a week, and get a true idea of the factual amount of positive/negative.
As I said a bit ago on another story, sometimes shit sucks. We can't always be positive when there's so much stupidity in our field, and trying to paper over it with positive thinking isn't necessarily constructive; sometimes it's actually damaging to progress. When somebody says that something fuckin' sucks, they're probably full of bullshit, but maybe they're onto something.
At Zwapp (I am the founder) we've actually attempted to address this issue, and yes, we use users and their social networks to see if we can make more apps discoverable than just the top popular lists. So far it seems to work out really well, people are interested in sharing their apps and providing each other recommendations. You see this in real life all the time. We meet up, put our phones on the table, and often the conversation is lead to "what apps do you use". We try to stimulate and support these types of conversations.
There are more reasons why this approach is valid. Gaming reviews is less important because you wil trust a review of a person you know. It may be more interesting to see the most popular apps of your friends instead of the most popular in the app store.
And finally, we have spend a lot of effort trying to provide excellent app detection. The reason for this is two-fold. it helps you get started quickly as a user, but more importantly it helps us to understand what apps people have and use, allowing us to provide qualitative recommendations. It is better to get a few users to download your app and then really use it, then get a whole lot of users downloading it and running it once because of a mismatch.
There is Zwapp, the community, and there is Zwapp Connect, our service that helps developers reach the users that are actually interested in their app. We use our recommendation engine to match between user needs and app to drive downloads. We've tried several app download services and found the quality of the downloads very poor. By using a lot of social/app and meta data that we have build up we can target much better and help devs to drive downloads to people that are more likely to use your app. (sorry about the pitch).
It is actually a tough problem to crack that involves reach, matching tons of data, providing the right call to actions and then measure the success and improve the process again.
Cool, there are also some iOS apps explicitly for "app discovery," but I still think it's impossible to break out. I read somewhere that 4% of app downloads account for about 3/4 of all app revenues.
I think the author did a great job and took quite some time to share his knowledge with us. Pity the average response on HN tends to be a compliment followed by a but....
I guess we feel we are always smarter than the next guy, he just happens to put in the effort :-)
