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by iamwil 4y ago
Also, I think older people have seen more exceptions through experience, and know that sometimes, "dumb" questions don't have obvious answers.
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SandPond(sandpond.cool)
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Like I said earlier, you probably haven't looked at Alan Kay's work in depth. What did he do after Smalltalk? If it seems like nothing, it may be because you weren't the target demographics. He cared about teaching children c
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by iamwil 4y ago
> Indeed it's rather remarkable how many of these figures like Vannevar Bush, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, etc., never actually shipped much. Now, you could argue that they were ahead of their time and couldn't ship, and for so
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Gigachess(history.chess.free.fr)
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What do you like about it?
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by iamwil 4y ago
He's understating, perhaps on purpose. Datasette, Django, and Lanyrd.
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My experience: - don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question Those that are savvier have a point they're trying to get across,
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by iamwil 4y ago
I spent a bit of time doing this effect in CSS, though not to this degree. Quickly abandoned it when I couldn't find a way around the glitchy safari and sometimes chrome implementations of this effect.
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Tools for Thought as Cultural Practices, Not Computational Objects(maggieappleton.com)
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I started by using vimium so that I'd navigate the browser with vim key-bindings, since I spend so much time in there. https://vimium.github.io/ Then after that, I just started using vim and keeping with it. To me, the
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Breathing System for Last of Us II(threadreaderapp.com)
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by iamwil 4y ago
Firefox. Mostly for privacy. It's fast enough for most things. Never had much issue with it. Only time I look at Chrome is some demo on WebGL, or if I have to verify that "it's not the browser".
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by iamwil 4y ago
I think I'd rather have stack overflow offline, before I'd want wikipedia offline, though.
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Stable Diffusion now makes art history a desired line of study.
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Is the laptop of your own design, or is it a kit that you can buy? If it's the latter, I'd be interested in assembling my own.
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How do open source companies make money? The only thing I figure here, is that VCs are betting another company like Microsoft will want to acquire the number 2 player, and exit that way.
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I had to run before I finished, but to wrap it up: Going back to the initial set up of the piece, he was trying to help startups get into YC. Basically he was helping them sell themselves to YC, by having them answer “explain what you learn
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by iamwil 4y ago
Yeah, I think it's a combination of some of this stuff is common knowledge now, rather than surprising, and people were looking for concrete examples of mistakes startups made (so they can avoid it themselves) Rather, this is an essay
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Did this end up helping you with forward or reverse auto diff?
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Which paper by Conal?
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I'm working on a programming environment for making interactive programs. It's focused on addressing how to handle state and network through three main parts. 1/ an embedded functional database as the scope and environment fo
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by iamwil 4y ago
For another take on Smalltalk, we covered it as a retro-future episode on our podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZNqOFAhM8o Some of what we covered: - OOP is message passing - The interactive environment - Su
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I agree that one major contributor to these problems that he doesn't (fully) address in the talk are the unit economics and market forces that help along these decisions. He does allude to it about faster software (slow being equated w
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I don't think inefficiency is his only point. If it could be written with all the inefficiencies and deliver value faster without bugs, that's one thing. But the problem is, software is consistently buggy, and you run into them ev
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by iamwil 4y ago
Things can happen in degrees. Don't be snarky. Not everyone that works at Tesla returned to work-in-person. Some have.
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Yes. At least partially.
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On our podcast, The Technium, we covered Semantic Web as a retro-future episode [0]. It was a neat trip back to the early 2000s. It wasn't a bad idea, pre se, but it depended on humans doing-the-right-thing for markup and the assumptio
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by iamwil 4y ago
As I was reading the title, I was thinking...Phoenix web framework...Elixir...record store, database? influenced the audio world? Had a read it a couple times til I realized it was talking about AZ, and literally a record store.
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Ask HN: How does Amazon decide on pricing for its AWS services?
7 points by iamwil 4y ago|6 comments

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