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by pfraze 5y ago
IIRC this is partly why node_modules moved to a flat structure
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by pfraze 5y ago
Hypercore distributes signed log-based structures addressed by pubkey. It embeds indexes in each log entry to make this perform well; for instance Hyperbee is a b-tree over a log. (See https://github.com/hypercore-protocol&#
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by pfraze 5y ago
I’ve been writing a bit about that idea https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a
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by pfraze 5y ago
Inflation also decreases the value of debts, doesn’t it?
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by pfraze 5y ago
It’s not all one or another. PLs are a software product and they need proper marketing and PMF. You can describe the network effect as political but its the same kind of politics as getting your friends to change chat apps.
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by pfraze 5y ago
That’s the trouble with the lead-poisoning theory, it’s one of those things where you can describe all the issues as the net result of poison. The rise of the church always interests me in this story. As I understand it, Christianity was a
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by pfraze 5y ago
Somehow I'm replying to you twice, but this time I agree and wanted to note that libraries are curated spaces as well.
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by pfraze 5y ago
I'm not 100% convinced by your assertion that censorship only favors the rich and powerful. It can and often does, but it can also help people without power or society and large. For instance, taking down a dox for a niche YouTuber is
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by pfraze 5y ago
They finally did it. They finally found a way to make me write comments.
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by pfraze 5y ago
I’m still consistently impressed with the work Maf and Andrew are doing on Hypercore. The next major release will include multiwriter and has some nice networking-layer improvements, and I really like how they’ve implemented the updates. Do
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by pfraze 5y ago
It doesn’t take a lot of distance from the moment to recognize this is the era of grappling with the meaning of the Internet. Eugene Wei had an interesting framing of this: he asked whether China’s great firewall was an indicator that they
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by pfraze 5y ago
If you link to jwz from HN, his server notices the referer header and serves an image that mocks the HN community
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by pfraze 5y ago
Dependencies make this such an interesting challenge. What do you do when a library that’s upstream of 1000 packages with 1000 different authors… goes “rogue?” The friction of forking increases with each downstream you have to coordinate
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by pfraze 5y ago
That cracks me up every time
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by pfraze 5y ago
I shouldn’t have used the term “contract” there because I was thinking more about interpersonal obligation than legal obligation.
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by pfraze 5y ago
I can’t comment on the legal issues but AFAIK you can change licenses with future releases, not retroactively, so while you might be right, software requires support and losing future releases is often close to losing the software entirely.
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by pfraze 5y ago
Really seems like you need to respect the author’s wishes here, but the tension between author and community can get complicated with FOSS. Open source is a contract with your audience that the code can be used freely. Authors gain their au
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by pfraze 5y ago
A less hypothetical example might be Stories or Clubhouse, both of which got cloned as quickly as they hit the market.
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by pfraze 5y ago
FWIW Casey Newton posted a writeup- they ran trials for a couple years and the response was polarized (some loved it, some hated it) and they couldn’t find any clear indicator that it was healthier for people.
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by pfraze 5y ago
It could also be that new logins overwrite the cache/global
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by pfraze 5y ago
I think you’re completely right and one way to counteract it is to bake in “non work” or “idle work” time regularly. This doesn’t have to be a vacation, but it does mean staying out of flow and reflecting on the project as a whole. This can
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by pfraze 5y ago
To be clear, this paper is referring to non-decentralized (highly-consistent I assume) consensus algorithms where the goal is to operate a cluster of machines as one logical system. You use this, for instance, to maintain high uptime in the
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by pfraze 5y ago
There are in fact reasons to distrust the Chinese state which have nothing to do with race.
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by pfraze 6y ago
I specifically came into the comments to see about this, and am disappointed. It’s the biggest feature PWAs can provide and would really reduce the pressure to create native apps.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Erlang was originally built from Prolog, I believe.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Isn’t w3c where Apple primarily involves itself? Safari is important
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by pfraze 6y ago
I completely agree with your points on mental energy expenditure and speed of development. I thought it was a bad idea, but I’m now 3 months deep into a big project using it and I will never go back.
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by pfraze 6y ago
This is sadly true, but service workers are themselves hard to get right, and they tend to create subtle cache issues that are hard to notice until the deployment after their deployment to production.
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by pfraze 6y ago
It’s only stuck for me due to a specific real world friend who uses it. I’m pretty sure Twitter Spaces will clobber it for both of us.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Fwiw the US really botched the lockdown strategy through lack of coordination. Lockdowns don’t appear to be feasible for longer than a month; people begin to break the rules and reduce its efficacy, plus the economic damage starts to oversh

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