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by aufreak3 13y ago
This seems to be a really important question out there and I'm somewhat scared by the silence on HN about this. The silence makes me think that folks are going "oh shit!" with frozen fingers. It does looks like the incentives
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by aufreak3 13y ago
What the OP is saying is that Twitter, Facebook, etc. have turned into soap operas. Nothing wrong with a "never ending story" and there's a considerable clientele for that in older media too. The LoTR trilogies also have that
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by aufreak3 13y ago
The thing about Workflowy is not the saving/backing-up/etc functionality per-se, which is the easy part. It is the user interface design that makes it so productive. It's like you can zoom in to any aspect of your life and yo
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Workflowy is one of the best I've come across and one I use personally for text. The interface is super productive and the degree of depth possible with that simplicity is just stunning. The real downside for me is that my notes are on
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Another paying anxious victim here. I'm anxious to the point that I've kept a separate copy of notes I add to evernote on my local machine as well. Recently, I've limited myself to using it as a glorified bookmarker and am qu
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Interesting view of prolog. If you look at indexing and search as an alternative organizing structure, perhaps Wolfram Alpha would be the language which takes that paradigm. My understanding is that Alpha takes the "search" term a
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I like how your page reflows for different widths and full screen reading. Nice work! edit: Sorry I think I'd accidentally clicked through to another page which did what I said above - http://roundedbygravity.com/colopho
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Is it possible to install regular Ubuntu or something on a Chromebook? I'd absolutely hate to see kids use computers whose operation they do not control.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
"A course in mathematics for students of physics" (volumes 1 and 2) by Paul Bamberg and Schlomo Sternberg. [1] [2] I loved both the books! I replaced my course textbooks with these and am eternally thankful I did that. Volume 2, i
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> One of them is called Padhuka Sahasram, was written in less than a day in response to a challenge and contains 1008 verses in 32 chapters. If he spent 24 hours non-stop writing those verses, he's have to write 7 verses every 10 mi
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by aufreak3 13y ago
If someone wrote a haiku that's visible in base64 encoding and which stood for a pretty interesting number (like pi, or e or whatever) it would be worthy of a HN post for intellectual curiosity. ... but please do cut out the "Indi
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by aufreak3 13y ago
> "It has a self-contained master-key for extending the evaluation to any number of decimal places." Well, at least if someone would actually say what the freaking "master key" is, it might be intellectually delightfu
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by aufreak3 13y ago
There is another sense in which the idea isn't new - the notion of an image in smalltalk environments provides a similar level of encapsulation as docker containers, except perhaps that running smalltalk images don't get assigned
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by aufreak3 13y ago
One way to think of docker is as an installation automation and management thingie. However, it is better to think of it as an encapsulation mechanism for your setup. Almost like a vm in itself. A running docker container is also assigned i
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Digitalocean has a standard docker+ubuntu setup you can fire up for about that price. However, I haven't had much luck with its stability and switched back to running on bare ubuntu. Docker kept bringing the system down even when I was
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Any pointers on how to make the site visible to search engines when the delivery is as a single page app that does everything in JS? I know google's crawler can run the JS, but any notes on how far that can go?
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by aufreak3 13y ago
And then there is this whole other category of self-modifying programs - programs that know about their own structure and can change themselves at runtime. This is (almost) in the "unthinkable" category for non-homoiconic language
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I wonder how many more decades it will take until a "technology" magazine ceases to put "weird" in front of quantum mechanics.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Ok I'm in! Your reply is sufficiently reassuring :)
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Just saw this reply. Maybe bring me to a screen with two buttons that say "create an account to sync" or "sync using icloud"?
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Same question for me. I'd happily pay for this without an "account". I suppose that doesnt give you recurring revenue, but i can imagine things like tying up with photo album printers and dvd memoir makers may work?
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Kahnemann and Tversky call it the "planning fallacy".[1] the interesting bit is that the predictions are pessimistic when you get "non-involved" parties to estimate time to completion of the same task. Perhaps using a fi
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by aufreak3 13y ago
The post makes a good point about the distinction between two types of text - symbols and human text. Sadly, this is made very complex in our world through the introduction of the markup (and markdown) languages which mix text targeting bot
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by aufreak3 13y ago
.. and our programmers created Occam and made him come up with his razor so that most serious people (sorry .. simulations) who might actually be able to answer this question within the system will more likely discard it because of how much
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by aufreak3 13y ago
I would like to add this - kind of the major point he's getting into -- > The anonymity of reading is the central, fundamental guarantor of freedom of the mind. Without anonymity in reading there is no freedom of the mind. Indeed, t
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by aufreak3 13y ago
"Asshole" is easily defined by someone who puts their interests in front of everything else. Both introverts and extroverts can be assholes .... or not.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
The Alan Kay reference is from his OOPSLA'97 talk [2], where he says that he's "apologized profusely over the last 20 years for introducing the term 'object oriented'" and suggests that the Japanese notion of &
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Was about to post this as well. By far the neatest application of curry-howard i've stumbled on.
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by aufreak3 13y ago
Doing this all in a webworker might be one way to get security - by sandboxing the with/eval?
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by aufreak3 13y ago
If the ring indeed indicates dream/reality, why does Cobb bother to spin the top .. since he already knows whether he's wearing the ring or not? .. or did he take off his ring even in his dream by that point?

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