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by breck 2y ago
Interesting problem space, but I wish you threw people right into a usable tool. It reminds me of this site, which someone posted to ShowHN a few weeks ago: https://www.converay.com/ I've been using that site regularly
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by breck 2y ago
> What do you think? I like your ideas! I think you should go deeper. Have you learned Racket and/or ANTLR before? This screams to me that you are the type of person that should be inventing languages! Come hang out here: https:&#x
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by breck 2y ago
I'm building my own implementation to understand how this works. No idea what I'm doing yet. Let's build together! I'm livestreaming here: https://youtube.com/live/02-wJ7Od9Bo?feature=share (Warning
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by breck 2y ago
> with a unique set of fiducials along the edges I suspect each piece of paper, if examined with a good enough camera, has a unique fingerprint, like a snowflake, and perhaps this could be used in the future for an "Isomer Addressed
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by breck 2y ago
Now that we know the term to search for "RealTalkOS" we can see at least one person tried to build an implementation last year https://github.com/deosjr/elephanttalk "Our goal is to invent a form of comp
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by breck 2y ago
> These intimate broadcasts are a new medium. You hit the nail on the head here. I mean live streaming is already quite big but it seems like it's going to be going up 10x - 100x next few years. It's really an amazing thing tha
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by breck 2y ago
> Any quirks you notice between it and the daylight would be fascinating to note! Okay, my Remarkable 2 is currently broken (screen breaks more than I wish. They don't have Apple's level of reliability yet .3rd replacement), so
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by breck 2y ago
> Once I found out about the stack that the RM is built on I was blown away, I definitely had a moment of "why are they hiding this?" Right?? I mean, their tech is amazing. They are clearly cream of the crop, passionate, engine
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by breck 2y ago
The Daylight screen is _amazing_ for reading technical books. The pen isn't anything special, and I don't like it's thickness, but good enough to get the job done. Here is a photo I took from earlier this week: http:/&#
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by breck 2y ago
No I get it and loved the RM open source community. I was involved with that a few years ago. At the time the SaaS stuff was new and I personally thought they should have gone the other way and doubled down on a fully open stack, but then I
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by breck 2y ago
I haven't looked at the software stack in a while. Has RM gone more open source yet? I didn't like how they were pivoting to toward the SaaS subscription thing. I'd much rather pay a little more up front for a fully open devi
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by breck 2y ago
I have both. Daylight is _amazing_ for reading and marking up technical PDFs and books. Also good for marking up web pages. Remarkable screen and pen latency is much better. I hope they both succeed. Both awesome. I'll probably get thi
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by breck 2y ago
I thought both commenters had interesting perspectives, and I tried to contribute and write something true. What do you mean by dismissive?
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by breck 2y ago
Hey congrats on shipping your first line of code! Good stuff. Here's my user test: https://www.loom.com/share/973e87be0cc448949b9c7588603ba24a?...
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by breck 2y ago
Two thumbs up. Love it! Suggestion: have another "World Map View", where you absolutely position thumbs of the papers on a div. I explain more and build a mockup below. User test: https://www.loom.com/share/42
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by breck 2y ago
Gonna be honest, not impressed by this first iteration of your solution. However, I like the problem space, and think you should keep attacking the problem. My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/22a6fd03d1054d38b7241
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by breck 2y ago
Very well executed! I _love_ how you've kept it so simple. Great name. Everything worked great. Here's my user test: https://www.loom.com/share/430f1edc28c444a6b5a29a320026dd70?...
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by breck 2y ago
> you don’t get to define for other people Agreed! I define my terms on my blog and github. You can define your terms on your blog and github. Those definitions will sometimes be similar, sometimes be different. We all benefit from the v
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by breck 2y ago
Fair enough. Here it is visualized using Google Earth: https://x.com/breckyunits/status/1831080588406849585
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by breck 2y ago
> All the garbage produced in the U.S. for the next 1000 years could fit into a landfill 100 yards deep and 35 miles across on each side. > That is, landfills take a trivial amount of space. Damn, I had to think about this for a secon
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by breck 2y ago
I saw the baby's application and it was terrible. Hadn't even launched anything (other than vomit) yet. The good news is he can keep applying. In fact, the average person in YC applied 2.4 times before being accepted.
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by breck 2y ago
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by breck 2y ago
When I did YC I often had office hours with PG and JL while their son crawled around on the floor. It was very family friendly. I loved that, and it taught me good lessons that have been helpful now that I have kids of my own. I'm worr
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by breck 2y ago
There's a new kind of language where the practice is to use whitespace, and only whitespace, as your syntax. Newlines separate blocks and spaces separate words. One of the unexpected extremely powerful things this allows is finding fun
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by breck 2y ago
I should make this easier to use any day now. High on my priority list. Here's the issue: https://github.com/breck7/scroll/issues/133
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by breck 2y ago
I assume this is what wayback machine uses?
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by breck 2y ago
Awesome! Any chance you could add some info about who you are to your HN profile? Would love to read your stuff. Clearly a mind full of good ideas!
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by breck 2y ago
> You clone what? A WordPress database? You clone static site generated websites. Scroll is designed for this, but there's no reason other SSCs can't copy our patterns. Here's a free command line working client you can try
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by breck 2y ago
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-git" title="my blog as a git repo" href="..." /> This is a _great_ idea. Let's make this happen. Edit: okay this is live now in Sc
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by breck 2y ago
> What problems does that solve? A million? Having your own local copy of your favorite authors' collections is the absolute way to go. So much faster, searchable, transformable, resistant to censorship, et cetera.

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