Detrus

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by Detrus 14y ago
This could be two decades away. NVM will first be introduced with limiting amounts of storage so there will still be other hardware. Hopefully current OSs will be re-imagined anyway just due to the vast time difference.
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by Detrus 14y ago
Yes but I was talking about liking endurance vs short intense workouts. The article mentions that heavy squats and cleans will wear you down so you'll stop coming to a gym. Perhaps that's the case for the author. For me the case is the oppo
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by Detrus 14y ago
I've seen a few hundred P90X before/after shots from real people and didn't see much size growth. Skinny people got cut, which makes them look bigger and fitter. Doesn't mean they are heavier when they weigh in. Maybe added 5-10 lbs of musc
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by Detrus 14y ago
Another opposite worked for me. I was doing bodyweight and low resistance (25 lbs) and high rep workouts for a while. Wasn't watching motivating videos like P90X and couldn't generate enough intensity. Also strength was not improving, could
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by Detrus 14y ago
Won't slow you down compared to what? Go? Java? Python's async frameworks? Clojure? It will slow you down at least as much. Then some more if you try to do something non-trivial and discover node's limitations.
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by Detrus 14y ago
This smells like another round of search engine wars, only with niche searches and complex UIs. How many search engines for the same task will a significant userbase ultimately tolerate? Of course most of the current players will have to ex
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by Detrus 14y ago
To use the plumber analogy, we can't agree on how big the common pipes should be. They have physical limitations set by properties of water and waste. Software handles a liquid of constantly changing viscosity.
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by Detrus 15y ago
Sure but it's a distant pivot. It's almost starting over except they have a company with revenue. Adobe also has that and each new product attempt fails or wins independent of Photoshop's success. And Adobe and MS products are more related
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by Detrus 15y ago
That's Google Documents + web photoshop etc. Most of the value will be in the quality of the editing UI, Google Documents vs DropBox documents. Google Docs already turns your local filesystem into a "commodity." And what if Dropbox becomes
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by Detrus 15y ago
OS independent iCloud is a nice feature but hard to see the path to Apple sized scale from it. It's just one of fifty UX headaches of typical computer use. Easier to get at those from OS or browser positions, Dropbox is in a weird spot.
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by Detrus 15y ago
But an X for Y beachhead doesn't make the current idea scalable. Perhaps it's a beachhead for the founder to get a reputation so maybe one day he can try a scalable idea, either in the current company or some future one. But it doesn't mean
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by Detrus 15y ago
If you miss you just need to make an account and install the.. Dropbox should be a feature of the OS. Otherwise it can only get one part of the UX right, drag and drop.
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by Detrus 15y ago
Paul Graham said don't attack the problem head on. Make a beachhead. Supposedly these seemingly dull ideas are beachheads. That was covered in a previous HN discussion about a similar article questioning YC startup ideas in practice. But so
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by Detrus 15y ago
The linked to examples http://cache.ustwo.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/0... comparing skeuomorphic apps to their minimalist counterparts are very misleading. The skeumorphic apps are well designed while the particular minimalis
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by Detrus 15y ago
"Paste" is not an intuitive synonym for "run." If you type or paste some code, you've already pasted. In JSBin it's render. You should just say run. Also it's always forking, maybe I just want to edit the current without changing the URL.
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Interviews with Internet Entrepreneurs by Kevin Rose(youtube.com)
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by Detrus 15y ago
I think a visual/natural language command line could be the future of UIs. To get people to use basic visual programming tools instead of relying on trivial apps made by others, you need to force them into it, like BASIC did on old computer
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by Detrus 15y ago
I think it is a lack of creativity. Also a lack of serious attempts and minimal refinement in successful attempts like labview. Take the simple case of naming. In plain text, the name of a function is its unique ID, more or less. Some langu
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by Detrus 15y ago
We have the systems we have now because we used the same medium for thousands of years. To create new expressive mediums that take advantage of computers will take careful design and iteration, just as alphabetic text went through various h
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by Detrus 15y ago
I think this is one of the inspirations for underscore.js
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by Detrus 15y ago
People who write libraries and frameworks want to advertise them, get good SEO from the larger JS community. So they'll call their projects Blah.js. It's also easier to remember JS libraries as Blah.js instead of having to worry that it's B
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by Detrus 15y ago
Best practices are best automated. Syntax highlighting helps tell apart vars and funcs so you don't need to offload it to naming conventions. Some new approach of tags, where every variable, class name, function name can have multiple tags
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by Detrus 15y ago
Vision and principles is a good method. This is a great talk about that https://vimeo.com/36579366 Covers the inventions at Xerox PARC, how they were motivated by removing modes. Then how Brett Victor of Kill Math http://worrydream.com/K
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by Detrus 15y ago
Yes they're probably libraries, but in the language of the future that covers everything up you wouldn't know such distinctions. Why can't a lib/lang cover it up? You tell it how much data will be stored and transferred. It will benchmark v
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by Detrus 15y ago
It's not that smart for these cases. No AI required. Run the app with various cogs, benchmark each run, pick the cog than ran fastest. Compiling for cog picks will take more time. The programmer would be responsible for sending the right du
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by Detrus 15y ago
What about a programming language that integrates fancy cogs so they're conceptually in process? Do I want to know the difference between sorting in the native data-structure and Redis? Hopefully not, the language/compiler could make that c
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by Detrus 15y ago
The new people are not in it to perfect their engineering craftsmanship. Overall product craftsmanship maybe, but then half their attention is taken up by visual/UX design, they have less time for beautiful plumbing. But at the same time en
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by Detrus 15y ago
I think this problem comes up from the somewhat obsolete linear text nature of code. Instead of particular perfect names, we could be using tags. AbstractSingletonFactory is three tags. In some contexts I'd like to know it's a factory, in o
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by Detrus 15y ago
It has node
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by Detrus 15y ago
Pretty far from crushing https://github.com/carbonfive/hellod/blob/master/results.md https://github.com/carbonfive/hellod/blob/61bcf7495470350ea1... The OP benchmark is missing netty and other frameworks meant to be high performance, fo

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