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by qwtel 10y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Also related: http://hintjens.com/blog:85 "The End of Software Versions"
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by qwtel 10y ago
I think it is getting harder to remain committed to bad ideas, some of which are being referred to as 'good' after the fact.
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by qwtel 10y ago
The about page is more informative ( https://supermariorun.com/en/about.html ): A new kind of Mario game you can play with one hand. Mario constantly runs forward, while you time your taps to pull off stylish jumps and
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by qwtel 10y ago
How poisonous is it really though? Not a rhetorical question. The people who pay attention to this type of thing are VR enthusiasts, who are a minority compared to the larger pool Facebook is aiming for. An interesting example would be Call
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by qwtel 10y ago
I've revisited this post so many times, I know the number by now: http://hintjens.com/blog:85 , "The End of Software Versions". I think it is related to, and similar to what Rich is saying.
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by qwtel 10y ago
This reminded me of that scene from "The Big Short": Mark Baum: I don't get it. Why are they confessing? Danny Moses: They're not confessing. Porter Collins: They're bragging.
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by qwtel 10y ago
> we built an OS and application suite that on low end hardware compared often favorably than the equivalent on Android I haven't heard this before. I assumed firefox os failed because the web stack proved to be too crufty for the l
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by qwtel 10y ago
I'm sure there was plenty wrong with 1960s printing presses and the engineers working on them were looking forward to a radical overhaul of the technology, instead of supporting a cruft of legacy technology that was holding them back f
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by qwtel 10y ago
The author seems to really struggle with reconciling the click-baity title with the rather dull conclusion that native apps aren't that doomed just yet (if at all), within the last couple of paragraphs. A better title would have been:
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by qwtel 10y ago
Don't worry, you will knock this site out in terms of search engine ranking and bounce rate.
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Mozilla Brick (2014)(brick.mozilla.io)
2 points by qwtel 10y ago|0 comments
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by qwtel 10y ago
> even a poet since there is a ~10 minute delay when accessing the internet, I think any form of entertainers would be quite sought after :)
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by qwtel 10y ago
how does that compare to increase in frequency of positive words in all published texts? (maybe excluding youtube comments...)
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by qwtel 10y ago
is there any explanation as to what happens in the code that makes those weird wall exploits possible?
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by qwtel 10y ago
I understand this is a thought experiment, but "if the billions of dollars flowing into Facebook, Twitter, Tindr, YouTube, Netflix, etc. were used to buy or develop medicine" is simply not how money works. The baseline is that --
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by qwtel 10y ago
this video is just amazing, thank's for sharing
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by qwtel 10y ago
I'm always worried when people want to base real-world decisions on prediction markets. It sounds silly, but they only work on things that are in fact predictable: Probability of a bike being stolen: Okay. Major conflict that kills mor
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by qwtel 10y ago
mobile first -- and last
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[video] Vaynermedia website will not work on a laptop(youtube.com)
1 points by qwtel 10y ago|2 comments
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by qwtel 10y ago
I'm starting a new software consultancy that's hiring 40+ coders exclusively, at below market value, then leases them back to the companies that just got rid of them. The only difference is that I hide them away somewhere, call it
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by qwtel 10y ago
> but still I don't understand why we want to build applications in browsers because that's where people's attention is. where people's attention is, is where apps are going to be built, with whatever is there to buil
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What I've Learned Form Trying to Register xn--g28haa.io(qwtel.com)
1 points by qwtel 10y ago|0 comments
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by qwtel 10y ago
that would make sense...
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by qwtel 10y ago
It seems like a cool company and much needed as well, but I'm a bit puzzled by the political rhetoric mixed into the marketing page. It's not even that there's politics involved at all (after all you could make the argument t
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by qwtel 10y ago
The survivorship bias applies to the U.S. data as a whole. I've found this paper [1] that adds data from 15 more countries, some of which experienced interruptions (germany) but still excludes those that suffered "permanent interr
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by qwtel 10y ago
Or consider the much more "cynical" (and in my mind more obvious, if it wasn't for our habit of seeing patterns everywhere) view that there might not be any structure, cyclical or other, to the course of history. In that view
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by qwtel 10y ago
The collection could be written as part of the smart contract that wants to use the service of the DRO (of course that part would have be be bug-free…). Generally, I think ancaps would argue that violence wouldn't occur because it is t
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by qwtel 10y ago
EDIT: Moved to the correct location in the discussion tree. It's very frustrating for me to see "probability of a law passing" and "severity of global warming" being thrown in the same basket. While the first lends
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by qwtel 10y ago
> Just about any economist or rational person will tell you these are a huge boon to the world True, but I think said people still haven't taken the whole Taleb idea to heart. I'm pretty sure there are certain domains where the
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by qwtel 10y ago
This hopefully provides further evidence that smart contracts currently are not and probably never will be a replacement for traditional contracts and court systems. Instead they are a low-cost alternative for specific off-the-shelf problem

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