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by notarobot123 13d ago
Imagine if companies exposed access to their services via a discoverable uniform interface. Each company would determine the range of actions a customer could perform in response to their request and current circumstances. A representation
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by notarobot123 15d ago
Similarly, programming is also a precise language of communication. Initially, we focused on direct machine behavior but every abstraction above the hardware (including assembly) has been to make that behavior legible to humans. Developed n
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by notarobot123 18d ago
...so lack of attention to detail as evidence of a focus on meaningful quality?
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by notarobot123 29d ago
More generously: someone who resists new technologies due to their perceived harmful effects (economic but also social and environmental)
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
> vako-poku-piki-sino-dumi-wigo-bumo-subu-kuwu-suju-joku-wuru-libi-bafa-modu-pabu-zuro-kiva-givo-liju-pomu-ra I like it. It feels like learning a magical incantation from some ancient lost language.
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
The browser-standards-or-bust moment has past, hasn't it? If you want your app to work the same way across platforms, using browser defaults is not the way to achieve that. If you want users to have a consistent experience within their
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
I know when they say "such that ..."
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
Sounds good. They're encouraging others to join in but it'd be great to hear if this actually has an impact so far and how its worked out for HTMX. I imagine there are some interesting anecdotes about what actually happens when te
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
I assume by "orchestrated" you mean intended by the people involved in making them happen. Humans act in the world. Some people have power and influence that they bring to bear on their activities and desired outcomes. It's t
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
> sticky defaults... makes client authors the kingmakers. Isn't this true of any protocol (to a greater or lesser degree)?
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by notarobot123 1mo ago
You may have developed the capacity for independent thought in that period.
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by notarobot123 2mo ago
perhaps themselves driven by global consumers culture that doesn't care how or where something was made as long as it's slightly cheaper.
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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)(mnot.net)
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
The suffering of the slave isn't the only evil of slavery. What it does to the master is to alienate them from the creative process and turns them into a dependent consumer of the work of others. The master becomes detached from produc
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
Digital homesteading is the essence of the IndieWeb. Building things with one's own resources and know-how is part of it's DNA, whether or not that is acknowledged. Because it's anti-platform and pro-ownership, content is sec
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
Sure, but code isn't the only barrier that's been lowered. A competent entrepreneurial team can also scale their sales, marketing and customer success workflows with AI. I'm not saying business is easy now. I'm saying th
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
The risk for SaaS isn't that customers will build their own but that the barrier to entry for competitors is lower. The Chorleywood process created mega bakeries that displaced regular bakeries because they changed the economics. A
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
What about design, build, marketing etc.? I don't get why the maker market complains so much about the idea of businesses selling products at a healthy markup. Just because you know how the sausage was made doesn't mean that the l
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
A piano is not inherently a better musical instrument than a harmonica. You could argue that a piano is more complex and more puzzle like requiring more of an investment to learn for similar results. A harmonica has a much lower barrier t
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
There is a fair question here (though presented with questionable integrity) about what notability means in programming languages. Especially for more recent and perhaps not widely used programming languages. I have a particular interest in
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
I've been thinking the same thing recently. I'm in conversation with a friend of mine who's much more aligned to the right and our philosophical conversations route their way around consistent logic in order to arrive at cert
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by notarobot123 3mo ago
I see this kind of thing as the future of SaaS. Passionate developers out competing incumbents on both quality and price. One off purchases from "1000 true fans" is enough to make the effort worthwhile. It's a win-win for in
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
> Like making food supply work Producers make what will sell but without any incentives, subsidies or regulation this would be a mess of profit chasing, unsafe practices and fragile supply chains. In my view, the value of the public sect
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
So why submit a PR at all if you're not even going to try to understand the aims of the project?
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
What happens when VCs, governments and tech companies drive demand for a genuinely game changing technology beyond consumer's appetite for it?
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
> pooling resources Your argument would suggest the EU developing a European model would be a better direction. A heavy-weight competitor would help advance the field after all. > getting bureaucracy out of the way and encouraging rea
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
> What does cursor have? users
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
Power and intelligence are not completely unrelated. Are government officials, politicians, CEOs, judges, etc, usually above average intelligence? Probably. Do the institutions they work within make intelligent decisions? Sometimes. The fal
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
Wow, I didn't know about ping attributes. Advertisers have really shaped the Web right down to it's core specifications.
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by notarobot123 4mo ago
> Being smarter than the best-organized aggregate of all humans Isn't there pretty much a consensus that committees and institutions are not all that smart? I think you're confusing the categories of "intelligence" an

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