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811.
by benwerd 16y ago
For some reason the first thing that comes into my head is, "we have always been at war with Eastasia." Bizarre Orwellian statements aside, this is a terrible move unless you're sitting in a development bubble. I can totally get behind HTML
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by benwerd 16y ago
I wasn't previously aware of Forrst. Looks like it could be neat.
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Making money with open source(benwerd.com)
4 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 16y ago
Aw, man. I turned 32 on Friday, which is 224 in developer years, and have spent the last couple of days consoling myself that everything's fine, I'm not past it, etc etc. And now this. Thank you, Hacker News. Thank you so much. I am as old
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by benwerd 16y ago
This looks awesome! However: please get a native English speaker to read through your text and suggest improvements. There are already a number of things you should change listed in the comments here, but I've noticed a bunch of typos and g
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Elgg moving to non-profit foundation(blog.elgg.org)
2 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 16y ago
He's discussing a completely different service, which (as I read it) isn't distributed: it simply reads centralized data. I do agree that Diaspora probably doesn't have it quite right though. A decentralized social web means decoupling ours
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OpenStreetMap founder joins Microsoft's Bing Maps team(h-online.com)
1 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 16y ago
I've actually spoken to Henry about it, and seen him demonstrate it together with WebID. The problem is, it's really technical right now; without input and UI support from the browser vendors, it's going to be out of reach for most casual w
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by benwerd 16y ago
I'm not sure how FOAF and SSL could be used in themselves? FOAF is fine for storing social contact information, for sure, and SSL is a handy security layer. But while they could be used in an access control mechanism, they don't constitute
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by benwerd 16y ago
I can't decide if I should upgrade my iPad to this or not. The lack of multitasking - and therefore the lack of distractions - was the main selling point for me. Also, the last iPhone OS update I ran on my 3G made the device run so slowly I
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by benwerd 16y ago
I think they can be reconciled - but only with an open standard (or set of open standards) for access control on the web. We've moved far beyond the web as a publishing medium; it's an application and data platform. In those contexts, some
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by benwerd 16y ago
I like this, but it's not immediately obvious what it is, and I don't really want to watch a video to get the gist. Could you maybe distill it into two or three bullet points and stick it above the video?
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by benwerd 16y ago
It's exciting stuff! I'm psyched to be one of next year's mentors.
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by benwerd 16y ago
Zzz. Is this announcement any more seismic over in the music industry? (Is there a music industry equivalent to HN? Hack News?)
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Creating a British Silicon Valley(imperica.com)
5 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 16y ago
I totally don't get why talking about topics beyond work isn't valuable. Okay, maybe not in an immediate how-will-I-solve-these-problems sense, but in terms of networking, emotional well-being, knowledge about the world and interpersonal sk
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by benwerd 16y ago
Seconded. Not only that, but the point about topics not being interesting floored me. There's a serendipity in conversation that you rarely get from other places; you're exposed to things you might never find out about otherwise. I'd far ra
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by benwerd 16y ago
Why does it self-host the front page on Hypernumbers? Either: 1. Hypernumbers offers this kind of web page as a feature, in which case you've got a problem because the pages have trouble looking good (and therefore won't virally advertise t
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Two presentations on the web, mobile and the digital divide(benwerd.com)
1 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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From iPhone to Android: hilarious addendum(benwerd.com)
1 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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Industrial Twitter robot(blog.mattythorne.com)
2 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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Simon Scarle: serious simulations(imperica.com)
1 points by benwerd 16y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 16y ago
This is the most useful approach to event discovery since Upcoming. I was thrilled to see it in my Twitter list earlier, and I'm thrilled about the amount of attention it's getting. I have just one request: feeds. Everywhere. I'd love to su
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by benwerd 16y ago
Or Twitter, I think. But yes, it's a very odd choice to not allow (1) OpenID logins, and (2) basic registration - particularly given their early adopter audience.
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by benwerd 16y ago
Quora has also dramatically raised the bar. If you haven't already, go join and ask / answer a couple of questions. It's slick, efficient and impressive to use. My feeling is that, for forum software to really be useful (and lucrative), it
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by benwerd 16y ago
The backup plan is everyone else's primary plan. It can only help you - if you don't do anything stupid. (For example, don't take on any personal debt, and avoid non-competes / restrictive covenants.) Starting your own venture is a showcase
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by benwerd 16y ago
... Also, I'd venture that most successful entrepreneurs have experienced a run of failure. That's how they learned to do it well.
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by benwerd 16y ago
It affects what you do next, and the way you tackle everything from jobs to relationships, probably for the rest of your life. When I left the company I started, I intended to start another one almost immediately. But then I didn't. Partial
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by benwerd 16y ago
Note that the article is from someone at the Cato Institute, which is a libertarian think-tank; that it follows libertarian principles is kind of inevitable. Despite this, I find myself agreeing with much of it: there's no such thing as a f

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