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by motters 14y ago
The things they did wrong were: - During the initial 6-12 months after the Kickstarter there was little or no communication about what they were doing. Blog posts were very scarce. If you want to maintain interest in a project it's a good
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by motters 14y ago
The unrealistic binary friend statuses are what Friendica Red is supposed to be aimed at resolving, such that it becomes something more like a set of permissions mapped to degrees of familiarity. http://friendica.com/node/51
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by motters 14y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish
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by motters 14y ago
What happens when there is a "culture of blame" is that innovation falls to zero (or lower). When people are scared of being blamed for things, and potentially also fired with little prospect of re-employment, then they just stick very rig
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by motters 14y ago
I assume that this is an attempt to take advertising revenue away from other webmail providers. So if facebook's users become predominantly known by their facebook email address then their friends will just begin sending directly to that a
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by motters 14y ago
It occurs if there's a sustained mismatch between your vestibular sense and visual odometry. That's ok if the game only involves looking around in a fixed position, but if the avatar is walking/flying then you're likely to get VR sickness,
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by motters 14y ago
It doesn't sound as if anything has been done about the VR sickness problem. Wearing bulky screens in front of your eyes probably doesn't have much of a future, but I think that augmented reality using something like the EyeTap device has
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by motters 14y ago
Another observation is that the grammatical structure of language differs between humans and other primates. At some point in human evolution there must have been a transition to a recursively enumerable grammar, which facilitates complex
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by motters 14y ago
Without contrary viewpoints there is always a danger of falling into overconfidence and group-think.
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by motters 14y ago
The main open source alternative to Facebook is Friendica. It has more features than Diaspora, encrypted communications, emphasis upon decentralization and you can install it easily on a LAMP stack. You don't have to settle for being data
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by motters 14y ago
The pure pragmatism of Torvalds and the "I won't use it unless it's 100% free software" attitude of RMS are both valid viewpoints. In practice most of us mere mortals accept some state of affairs in between those two poles. Ignoring softwa
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by motters 14y ago
I will not read anything which demands that I log in with Facebook. I don't have a Facebook account, and have no intention of obtaining one.
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by motters 14y ago
A pretty worthless article which makes a lot of false assumptions about the nature of free software.
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by motters 14y ago
An experience economy might be a possible post-scarcity form of economy, but in the world as it exists today outside of the realm of software we're nowhere close to post-scarcity. Currently the idea of "experience" being the primary goal is
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by motters 14y ago
This doesn't look like the Semantic Web to me, it looks like a proprietary RDF silo.
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Friendica 3.0(friendica.com)
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by motters 14y ago
If you're running a software business then it's probably not a great idea to actively assist people who are trying to damage the software business with trolling behavior. It would be self-defeating. It's a slightly different situation when
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by motters 14y ago
I don't think it should be a small proportion of the board. For large companies it should be the majority of board members who are voted for by employees and/or customers. A liquid democracy type voting model could be applied to allow a l
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by motters 15y ago
For another Enigma machine see https://launchpad.net/ubenigma
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by motters 15y ago
Having had experience with recruiters who were either clueless or merely rude/unprofessional it is indeed a good idea to try to produce something aimed at hackers (or at least moderately intelligent people) which hopefully isn't completely
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by motters 15y ago
This is a very old argument against democracy. It's also divisive in the sense that you have the "competent" folks on one side and the "incompetent" ones on the other. Who decides who is "competent" to vote? About a century ago it was belie
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by motters 15y ago
The lesson repeatedly not being learned seems to be that it's not a good idea to keep wallet files on other people's servers, where you have no control over their security process.
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by motters 15y ago
COBOL seems to still be in demand, with not many developers using it. It's pretty much career suicide, but if expert scarcity is the goal then it seems to fit the bill.
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by motters 15y ago
I have no experience in this area, other than having seen trolling on mailing lists, but my guess would be that a face-to-face confrontation with the troll would only give them further ammunition for subsequent enraged outbursts, or serve t
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by motters 15y ago
I mean a combination of explicit censorship (for example, access to sourceforge in certain countries) and also content providers attempts to control what is seen where (seems like BS to me).
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by motters 15y ago
Arab Spring/Occupy probably expedited the timeline, but I've been noticing an increasing amount of country specific stuff on the internet over the last few years.
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Fin: A commandline personal finances manager(launchpad.net)
1 points by motters 15y ago|0 comments
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by motters 15y ago
Well, it's a nice idea but I think this is high risk. In the very distant past when I was young and naive there were occasions on which I didn't get paid for commercial work, so I can sympathize with that. However, naming and shaming rogu
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by motters 15y ago
This is what I call "internet nationalism". The nationalists have been on the rise over the last few years, and I expect that the eventual destination is a balkanized internet.
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by motters 15y ago
The end goal of work isn't money, it's to produce something of value. Money is just a technology for trading things of value.

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