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by icc97 9y ago
Brett Victor has done some lovely stuff allowing people to interact whilst telling a story [0]. Doesn't work so well in mobile, but the Google page suffers in this aspect too. [0]: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstract
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by icc97 9y ago
Yeah, I bought the kindle version then stripped it of the DRM [0] [0]: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/how-to-strip-drm-from-kindle-e...
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by icc97 9y ago
Do they set some kind of limit of how much of the donations can go to management and administration?
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by icc97 9y ago
Have you made any plans to avoid this?
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by icc97 9y ago
Youth Hostels are a pretty good solution I think. They're designed to be simple and cheap from the start, but further I think they're designed to be durable and low maintenance too. This means you can fairly sure of a basic level
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by icc97 9y ago
That looks like the Haskell equivalent of https://rescuetime.com
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by icc97 9y ago
It has to exist before it can become the next big thing. It's more the transition from early adopters to mainstream.
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by icc97 9y ago
Or you can read Dream Machine [0] as recommended by Alan Kay. It deals with everything mostly leading up to and during PARC. [0]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/014200135X/
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by icc97 9y ago
Sorry, totally off topic but I can't help but be reminded of this [0]: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the m
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by icc97 9y ago
Then surely agree with the people at your work to never use @channel. It's basically the same as 'Reply All', it's a waste of everyone's time.
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by icc97 9y ago
> I think the problem is that when tools like Slack are engineered in such a way as to make people dependent on their product It's a chat client. It's an addictive medium. It sounds to me like you're shooting the messenger
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by icc97 9y ago
I think it depends on the company. I don't find it attention grabbing at all and I have it running on the default settings. I certainly find it much easier to follow than massive chain emails.
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by icc97 9y ago
Slack managed to get a whole new demographic of people that have never heard of IRC to use IRC. That seems fairly hype-worthy. The only problem is that it's not IRC, it's another closed source data gathering operation.
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by icc97 9y ago
The butterfly generation term that I knew was from when I started work in London around 2000. [0] > 'Engaging the Butterfly Generation', the generation of kids that just won't settle, anywhere! I took it to indicate a gene
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by icc97 9y ago
I think the people telling you that you're being selfish are wrong. However I don't think we can call having children a selfish act, it's pretty hard wired in us to do it. It's at least no more selfish than your average
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by icc97 9y ago
I think it might come back to haunt the butterfly generation, where it's fun to fly off round the world. But then you rarely create connections that are deep enough to stay with you til your death bed.
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by icc97 9y ago
So who has made plans for once you're over say 80? There's the GYST website [0], but that doesn't handle what to do when you're still alive. I don't think you can rely on kids, they'll only be there maximum for
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by icc97 9y ago
There's a big difference between someone inviting you amongst hundreds of others to their wedding and being at their deathbed
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by icc97 9y ago
There's also no mention of numbers. The sample size for this is going to be very small. Plus I agree that the definition of 'speaking' a language is wildly open. It took me 3 years of living in Belgium and 18 months of 3 hour
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by icc97 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I over use 'aan het' just to get the 'ing' back. "Wij zijn aan het eten" As far as making the mistake, I should just know better. I got to a level that was good enough and have stagnated th
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by icc97 9y ago
I did try to imagine myself speaking Shakespearian English at times in the beginning. That's actually the problem of translating Shakespeare into Dutch, it just sounds normal and less romantic. "Romeo, where are you?" If they
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by icc97 9y ago
Didn't mean to exaggerate, I'm just wrong :) Thanks for spotting it. Although thinking about it, my 5yo daughter does make the same mistake when she speaks English (she translates literally from Dutch), for example she'll sa
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by icc97 9y ago
Yeah, that's why I used that example :) But it's really hard when you have to translate fluently A better example is four and seventy, I always hear forty seven then have to realise I'm wrong and switch. People say their phon
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by icc97 9y ago
I moved to Belgium 7 years ago from the UK. I live in the Dutch speaking half. I had a very rudimentary grasp of Dutch after 18 months mostly through just speaking to my mother-in-law and watching Dutch TV. Then I spent another 18 months do
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by icc97 9y ago
I think the gripping part is the important bit. You can't get a steel wire to open and then close on an object and lift it.
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by icc97 9y ago
Given that the actuators are so light, it means that you don't need the extra power required to lift the actuator itself. They indicate that they've had a 1000x increase, which means that to lift 1kg you only need force to lift 1.
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by icc97 9y ago
For the W3C to have importance then the web needs to be the main delivery mechanism. If Netflix can just say "either do what we want or we'll just use another solution", then they can force through their demands. I think usin
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by icc97 9y ago
The W3C is supposed to care about keeping Netflix and EFF happy. They're supposed to reach a compromise. There seems to have been very little compromise here. They've certainly managed to make EFF very unhappy.
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by icc97 9y ago
> The W3C version of the story goes something like this. The rise of apps has weakened the web. In the pre-app days, the web was the only game in town, so companies had to play by web rules: open standards, open web. But now that apps e
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by icc97 9y ago
That's an excellent talk from Michael Chrichton [0]. Plus this was another rather relevant piece to some of the comments too: > Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I cal

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