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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Information in "entropy" sense is objective and meaningless. Meaning only exists within a context. If we think "data" represent information, "interpreters" bring us context and therefore meaning.
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Thanks for the insight. In your point of view, on top of the current hardware infrastructure, how do we build a decentralized network operating system (contrary to the old centralized timesharing system)?
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Hi Alan, We know you are not a big fan of web. Regardless how we got here, what is your view on how we should address the real world decentralization problems in the context of http://www.decentralizedweb.net/ ?
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Some sort of social cost?
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Yesterday I was on a voice chat with a friend in Shenzhen for FIVE hours without a hiccup. Imagine how much it would cost on AT&T. Although it is already hard to picture a WeChat group of 500 members, I just learned that in China, the s
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Thank you Alan, your answer is the exact reason that I asked that question.
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   BTW, I did read the book about 10 years ago. Like what Alan commented below, I recognized some of the paragraphs and stories in the book with a kind of dream-like déjà vu. Very interesting feeling.
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   by ontouchstart 10y ago

   Alan, I am rereading http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Com... It was published in 2001. What do you think of its relevancy 15 years later in the context of our age of "big data" and "Ma
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   by ontouchstart 11y ago

   I have a docker image to run it on OSX, haven't tested on Windows yet. https://hub.docker.com/r/ontouchstart/docker-youtube-dl/
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    by ontouchstart 11y ago

    > The technological trend is inevitable: in the coming decades, asynchronous design will become prevalent. I wonder if this statement is right on time or still decades away.
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    by ontouchstart 11y ago

    I am curious about how it turned out after 13+ years. Any serious road blocks in theory or practice?
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    by ontouchstart 11y ago

    You might want to learn something from J. C. R. Licklider: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SN--t9jXQc0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ncCPTgWX6a8
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    by ontouchstart 12y ago

    When I got my RPi 2, the first thing I did was to make it to boot headlessly in debian and skip all the X window crap. It is a joy to play with it via ssh on a sleek Macbook Air from anywhere in my house. Now I can study how redis works by
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    The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer(youtube.com)

    1 points by ontouchstart 13y ago|0 comments
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    by ontouchstart 13y ago

    I am not a big fan of the visual UI/UX either. My point is that there is more to the UI/UX than widgets and popups. With JS on hardware, we might have a new way to design HCI other than those pretty wireframes in Photoshop. IMHO,
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    by ontouchstart 13y ago

    JavaScript is the most deployed dynamic embedded programming language in the world (consider all the web browsers on desktop computers and mobile devices). If we expland this environment to customer hardware, we also expand our view of UI&#
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    by ontouchstart 13y ago

    I started an experiment of writing my blog purely on an iPhone via github web UI. ( https://github.com/ontouchstart/blog ). Since the mobile view doesn't have the EDIT option, I have to switch to desktop version to
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    Licklider's big mistake about Engelbart (50:30)(archive.org)

    2 points by ontouchstart 13y ago|0 comments
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    by ontouchstart 13y ago

    I have been doing this for a while on my iPhone via twitter: http://twitter.com/ontouchstart
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    by ontouchstart 14y ago

    JavasScript is an API language that allows you to write embedded programs to interact with the environment. The environment can be low level APIs such as browser DOM, WebKit library or Node.js process, or high level abstractions such as jQu
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    by ontouchstart 14y ago

    Push to github :-)
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    by ontouchstart 14y ago

    I am running git on a jailbroken 3G iPad 1 during commute. :)
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    by ontouchstart 15y ago

    I did a few exercises with SVG in pure CoffeeScript (no external library) Draggable Cubic Bézier curve: http://ontouchstart.posterous.com/explore-svg-with-coffeescr... Cubic Bézier timing function CSS: http://ontouchstart.posterous.com/e
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    by ontouchstart 15y ago

    Jailbreak it and then you can have iFile, git, php, ruby, vim, lighttpd ... You do need an SSH client to get into the shell. I use iSSH. I use this setup to code in CoffeeScript offline on the train.
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    by ontouchstart 15y ago

    github
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    by ontouchstart 15y ago

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