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by mimixco 5y ago
Thank you. Since it's not a primary function of the app, we don't dwell on it online. The biggest stuff is in the language doc. In a simple scenario, every edit you make to a document is recorded individually and hashed with the h
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by mimixco 5y ago
I see your edit so let me address that also. Yes, our use for the blockchain is to provide verifiable information to untrusted parties. Instead of information about transactions and balances, it's information about text edits. In a sim
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by mimixco 5y ago
Thank you for those excellent questions! The entire tech is open source and can be used on-premise, in the cloud, or in any kind of hybrid. Today, we are offering Nebula which is an integrated engine and viewer with no outside dependencies,
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by mimixco 5y ago
Sure! Thanks for saying that. It's very hard to know how to approach such a large topic with different audiences. We have a lot of materials out there with different aims. The TL;DR is documents are wrong and often out of date. People
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by mimixco 5y ago
This, exactly! Our product offers and outside blockchain for verification but that's not necessary for the product's function. It's just a "block chain of records" that is useful to keep separately from the document
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by mimixco 5y ago
Those are properties of Git, indeed. The difference is in the "in this way" part of the sentence. I've written a lot about what we are doing and why and the proof is in the puddin', MSL is available to download and run
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by mimixco 5y ago
Indeed! Our use of blockchain doesn't involve tokens or mining. Just a literal chain of hashes. Each hash is the hash of one edit or change made with the MSL language. If the chain is incorrect, your version of the document has element
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by mimixco 5y ago
That's an awesome question. At the root, we are trying to provide fact-checking and fact-correction, and this goes down to remembering the "values" of individual words and phrases that make up the document, then tracking thos
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by mimixco 5y ago
That's a good one! We're proposing it as an outside, second verification source that people can run independently, not as a big blockchain that we control. I know the whole area is tenuous!
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Yes, diffs of entire documents. Our system works differently.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Just replying to the OP that nobody has a found a use case. In our case, we are fundamentally changing the way text is marked up within a document to correlate it to individual changes in that text over time. This is different from Git or W
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by mimixco 5y ago
There's another use case. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "Announcements of blockchain's death have been premature."
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Well then that's certainly a use case! :-)
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This is disappointing. An NFT is the most pointless use of technology imaginable and here is the architect of a fundamental tech we use every day dipping to this level. To make money to give away? Is that why he needs to do this? Just give
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by mimixco 5y ago
We are using blockchain in our product for verification of text edits. No one has tracked text editing in this way, making it fully traceable, unwind-able, and outside-verifiable. [0] https://nebula.mimix.io/msl/specs&#
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by mimixco 5y ago
I had one in my bedroom as a kid, complete with the enormous (100 lb?) dual 8" disk drive. My stepdad inherited it after his father passed. It was brand new and they hadn't turned it on. I had a great time with it and later become
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by mimixco 5y ago
Not a case study as there is no information about the software bugs. This is an advertisement for some "clean code" nonsense.
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Because it doesn't really add to the fun and it makes people dizzy and sick.
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Is the TL;DR of this really that it's hard to get people to invest in restaurants (cause they fail) so the fix is sell them as NFTs? Really? The blockchain does not change fundamental supply and demand, not even for restaurant investme
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Recipes for Research(nebula.mimix.io)
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This is 100% my point. The idea that open source exists to make software free for "the people" is the biggest and most convenient lie in our industry. Open source exists because its easier to make money with software if you don&#x
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Microsoft to sell streaming devices in Xbox Game Pass expansion(protocol.com)
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The Tic Tac drone/vehicle thing is the subject of a Navy patent.
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The simple answer is that enterprise companies often want open source for security and flexibility reasons, but they also want hosting, support, and custom services. The world's largest open source software company, Red Hat (which IBM
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by mimixco 5y ago
That sentence is about storing Facebook logins, for example, not storing other data about the user. Apple is saying you may allow people to login to their social networks (to post through your app) but you cannot save their login from Faceb
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by mimixco 5y ago
TL; DR = Merchants raise prices for all customers to cover credit card fees, some of which go to perks (like rewards) that cash buyers don't get.
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That looked interesting until I got to this quote: "SVG Native is a standalone file type, expected to be rendered with a dedicated-purpose renderer. Therefore, SVG Native content must not be present as part of a larger XML (or HTML) do
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes, that. = is for assignment and == is a test. The test inside your if needs == to work.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Ah. Thank you. That problem is caused by developers who choose to introduce breaking changes in new releases, or who don't fix known bugs. Those are common problems in a lot of software.
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by mimixco 5y ago
Really, its just Lisp. So the answer is yes and there are many apps using Lisp. This (HN) is one. All travel website flight lookups are a Lisp system. And so is Grammarly.

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