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by state 12y ago
Nice to see another architect on HN. I only visited Arcosanti once, and in my brief visit (around 2005) I found the intellectual environment to be pretty dogmatic and deeply skeptical of technology. Being an architect with a strong technic
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by state 12y ago
It's tough to read that post and not think 'how do these people make money?' Not as though there's some reason why they shouldn't — it's just not clear how it works.
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by state 12y ago
I wish there was a page on mozilla.org with the title, 'This is how Mozilla makes money'.
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by state 12y ago
I agree, but I also think Starbucks tastes pretty bad. Philz seems to have a well defined market, and their customers seem really devoted. Perhaps they'll be successful.
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by state 12y ago
What do you mean exactly by "Medium built inside HN"? Something for long-form writing that's a part of HN? Or a Medium-like service built by people associated with HN?
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by state 12y ago
"As a writer, the biggest potential waste of your time is not typography chores, but Medium itself. Because in return for that snazzy design, Medium needs you to relinquish control of how your work gets to readers." Am
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by state 12y ago
If there's such a simple formula for success, why isn't everyone successful?
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by state 12y ago
I have been keeping all of my notes on B5, while living in the US, for the past ten years for this exact reason. 8.5 x 11 is simply not an attractive shape.
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by state 12y ago
Are there any active OwnCloud users out there? I'm curious about your experience. How do you feel about it? What do you use it for primarily?
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by state 12y ago
Could you give some examples of those that do well?
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by state 12y ago
Isn't it just the specific platforms you can target? I think the point is that there's nothing that can target the browser and the phone this successfully.
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by state 12y ago
"During each session, which would last the better part of a day, Mettes would lie on the couch wearing an eye mask and listening through headphones to a carefully curated playlist—Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Pat Metheny, Ravi Shankar.&quo
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by state 12y ago
I understand that these things are written as defensively as possible, but could someone explain how likely this is to actually be used? It seems like something that's intended to protect FB, but I can't imagine a situation in w
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An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax(neverworkintheory.org)
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by state 12y ago
It's true that I live under a rock, but how have I never heard of this guy?
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by state 12y ago
It seems really likely that an existing and huge luggage brand could also do this. What's protecting you guys from that?
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by state 12y ago
No, you're not being a dick. You're right — it definitely made me a better developer. To my memory I didn't switch because of a particular lack of a feature or features, but because jquery was being maintained more consistent
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by state 12y ago
This is so true. On the one hand I wish that the docs for these projects could speak to those concerns, but on the other hand I'm not even sure how they would do that successfully. When something is this young it just takes time to fig
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by state 12y ago
Who owns the content?
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by state 12y ago
https://github.com/urbit/urbit
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by state 12y ago
I love this story. This talk (by Everett) is a lot of fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNajfMZGnuo
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by state 12y ago
"Giving your credit card to someone over the phone is far less secure than giving it to someone over the web." [27:53]
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by state 12y ago
Thank you for saying this. Events like this make it clear how much everyone exercises extreme wishful thinking in these situations. Nothing about these systems is secure, and no one should have that expectation. It's unfortunate, but i
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by state 12y ago
I can see how open offices are deeply unproductive for mid to large sized companies. But for a team of < 10, I've generally found it to be pretty nice. Everyone has to learn to respect each other, but when you're constantly wor
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by state 12y ago
The point that this was published in 2004 is certainly well taken.
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by state 12y ago
I would tend to agree, but what would you recommend instead?
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by state 12y ago
The most recent paper mentioned here is from 2000. The most recent 'greatest of the great' is from 1978. Is it simply that it takes a long time for us to decide what constitutes a significant advancement, or is something else goin
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by state 12y ago
What would you suggest?
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by state 12y ago
I wonder if the author knew this existed.
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by state 12y ago
Does anyone have any experience using this?

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