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by catapart 4y ago
I definitely agree that Twitter, as a proof of its concept, failed pretty spectacularly. But I also feel like that was due to a confusion of focus at the company, realized as a desire to be an ad-supported platform that championed a liberta
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I'm kind of shocked that Bezos hasn't commissioned an ActivityPub/federated network (mastodon instance) that obfuscates the decentralization (for easier onboarding) and gives you some kind of "deal" for having Amazo
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Rust and SQL. Rust teaches you how to architect (memory management, async handling), SQL teaches you how to query (set theory, computational efficiency). Once you know those two things, everything else is just "translation".
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This is VERY anemic, as far as features go, but if you're just looking for something easy to understand that uses native web features (vanilla js and web components), I've built a starting point: https://catapart.gith
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by catapart 4y ago
Shameless plug time! I've been working on something like this as a custom web component with no dependencies: https://github.com/catapart/Magnit.NodeGraph Not the most feature rich - I'm developing it for a s
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Nicely done!
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He was born with a silver spoon, used that to purchase great companies, and fund important research, and then assumed that the success of the projects he invested in meant that he had good business acumen, instead of recognizing that all he
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First of all, it's the appropriate price for the service provided. Full stop. Publishers don't create anything; they facilitate. Facilitation is not WORTH the lion's share, even if publishing isn't possible without the l
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Personally, my "holy grail" is a website that lets AUTHORS monetize their product using the site's ad network. If I upload a video, I shouldn't HAVE to pick the ads that run as pre, mid, or post-roll, but I should be ABL
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The people who operate the site are who I'm talking about. And the challenges for the business they're entering in to are scale and compliance. It's pretty wild, to me, to see how many people have to learn this lesson OVER an
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Of course there are. Like I said, Stripe was competition. It wasn't a side-show because it didn't try to change the game without solid analytical data; instead it just played the same game and tried different methods of achieving
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Competition is great, and you'll never see me use PayPal for personal concerns over their own anti-consumer practices, but I don't see any particular value in introducing side-shows to the event. Stripe was a real contender for Pa
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Maybe, but my editorializing is not relevant to the point? Whatever you call it, they're selling THAT, rather than technical services. But, to be blunt: that site is not "recognizing" anything. As ameister14 pointed out - the
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Same. It's dangerous to tell people that it does stuff that it doesn't do (more dangerous as an audience grows to the point that anecdotal data should be left out entirely, for audiences of an appropriate size), but as long as you
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by catapart 4y ago
When fear-stoking is on the main page instead of technical details or documentation, it's obvious what they're selling isn't a technical service.
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by catapart 4y ago
One thing I really like about CloudFlare is that they seem to have people who can correctly identify friction-points for developers and have a solid plan on how to solve them. Looking forward to messing with this!
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Nice pivot. I look forward to this "economy" stabilizing in the same way that Truth Social or Parler did - at about a tenth of the scale of their competition. Happy to let the pill-sellers and woke-fearers spend their money in the
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by catapart 4y ago
Your apology is accepted. Thank you! I hope you feel better soon!
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by catapart 4y ago
No hate here, brother. Only love. And perception. Your sarcasm is a fine enough shield, and you hold it well! I hope that it protects you until you can be honest with yourself. In the mean time, I'm happy to take your admission as a wi
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Running a successful business that is intrinsically tied to a well-known or well-trusted institution is not only common, it's the case for the majority of businesses. Which is WHY we have consumer protection (it's not to protect y
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No - this would be an example of GETTING fucked by a company, BECAUSE you trusted them. Which is exactly the kind of thing we write laws about; you shouldn't be able to get fucked because you believed what a company told you. You shoul
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That's what is so sad about this. Cloudflare is NOT a utility, and they don't lobby to be one. If they were, then their arguments would have some merit. Instead, they're saying "look, we're a utility! We have to act
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by catapart 4y ago
Oh for sure! I'm actually using the parsing to generate a branching dialog markup syntax, so it's keeping track of things like if you've already chosen an option, or if your character has the stats to even show an option to y
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by catapart 4y ago
Oh! Sorry! "Token" is an intermediary object that acts as a sorting category. So if your markup was: ``` #parentA Start 'Welcome Node' #childA /1 "this node has a line break, so its content is in quotes
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With this intention in mind, I think I may have a recommendation? You might consider shorthand / expanding tokens? In my project, I have a couple of well-known nodes with a parent child relationship, such that it would be impractical t
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Yes, exactly! For example `(myVar=myVal&key=value)` I use a runtime list of regex to parse the text into tokens, so it's completely dynamic but my current project I have a need to "condition" the nodes (only show up if ce
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by catapart 4y ago
I've been approaching a similar problem, recently, in trying to represent my javascript node-graph elements as plain text. Very different output and use case, but I settled on the same kind of "psuedo-selector" idea that you