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by iamwil 4y ago
@sthatipamala and I run a channel called The Technium. We cover fringe, retro, or overlooked technologies that have a core idea that has potential to change how we do things. We talk about what the technology is, what it can do today, and w
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by iamwil 4y ago
To me, this is a leading indicator that Amazon's ecommerce side will falter. When I look at the reviews for an item, some reviews are high and people are happy, and other people have terrible experiences that doesn't even seem to
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by iamwil 4y ago
Ah, a trail of even just the web articles you read that was helpful would be helpful, as part of people looking to Tao for inspiration. Consider writing them down in the wiki part of the repo as you go along going forward!
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by iamwil 4y ago
In this case, there's no need to make it on a blockchain if a company controls the majority of validators.
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by iamwil 4y ago
What were the series of resources or readings that you did to help you create Tao?
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by iamwil 4y ago
Not by motion in-game when you're body's not moving? I've tried the spider-man like swinging games, and I never got my "VR-legs" that other people got with it. I got seriously motion sick and had to sleep it off. I
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by iamwil 4y ago
They do, but most people also live with other people. If you're immersed in VR, you're isolated from those you're with in real life. It's harder to keep immersed, if your g/f, wife, or kids hit you up every couple o
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by iamwil 4y ago
I was whiteboarding with a fellow (girl) student in college. We were sketching out a client/server architecture, and I abbreviated server as "srvr". When it came to the client, I thought I should also make it four letters, so
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by iamwil 4y ago
A lawn mower game. It's like those games where you use the money you earn to keep buying better gear to cut lawns. The lawns and landscapes get more challenging, from steep inclines, to squirrels that get in the way, and people leaving
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by iamwil 4y ago
To the OP of the article, this is great. I had just never known about it, to use it for searching. Usually quality blog posts on specific technical topics are just things I run across through HN, lobsters, or twitter. Now it's one more
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Building a Cayley Diagram at Dynamicland(youtube.com)
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What Is a Database?(scattered-thoughts.net)
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by iamwil 5y ago
When you're starting out, you won't really get a lot of feedback. You first need to develop your own taste, so at least you know if you like what you wrote. Anyway, this might help you out: https://www.benkuhn.net/
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The Broken Half of Interactive Programs(interjectedfuture.com)
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by iamwil 5y ago
I've been taking some time recently to do an exploration of programming, by reading programming history and ideas about different paradigms and domains. I started focusing on how our abstractions get destroyed at the boundaries of prog
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by iamwil 5y ago
How come using transcendental math changes hardware state?
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by iamwil 5y ago
Do you and jerf have any opinions or experience with tuplespace as an abstraction over the network?
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Destroyed at the Boundaries(interjectedfuture.com)
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by iamwil 5y ago
Wouldn't column stores be better for the cache?
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Re-Reading Tanenbaum’s Critique of RPC 30 Years Later(bu.edu)
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by iamwil 5y ago
Dunno, I've been on HN since 2007 and this is the first time I've seen this story.
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A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm – 30 Years Later(blog.carlosgaldino.com)
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Funny, just watched Casey Muratori cover the same topic on his channel: https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=699 I thought he covered it well. He considered the temporal aspect of orgs, which meant that software, over the years n
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Fast Enough VMs in Fast Enough Time(tratt.net)
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by iamwil 5y ago
I think you're looking for a game like Teardown. Check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1167630/Teardown/
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Savage, a computer algebra system written in Rust: rust(old.reddit.com)
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by iamwil 5y ago
For those that want a high level overview of Transformers, we recently covered it in our podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb0II5DuDE0
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The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
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Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR(thesoloist-vr.com)
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by iamwil 5y ago
Maybe a better way to phrase this to elicit good answers is: "What web service did you wish other people built for you?"

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