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by zacharypinter 2y ago
Related: https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0?si=gBeFVZypCDLUoMNf
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by zacharypinter 5y ago
Very cool!
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by zacharypinter 8y ago
Neat! Minor typo at the bottom: s/wite/write
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by zacharypinter 10y ago
Of all the people in the world I can think of with the inability to think outside the box, Rich Hickey has to be at the bottom of the list :)
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by zacharypinter 10y ago
He's reading and commenting on a Hacker News post about jobs on the weekend. Seems like that answers at least part of your question.
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by zacharypinter 10y ago
It seems to me that a version of the Innovator's Dilemma might apply to software frameworks as well. By the time a project gets large enough it starts optimizing for its major stakeholders. New use cases or new ways of rethinking commo
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
You're probably thinking of Magic Leap, which is a completely different company from Leap Motion.
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
Just wanted to say this was an awesome article. I have no immediate need to write a package manager, but it was a great overview of an interesting and tricky domain. Thanks!
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
That's where I thought they were heading when ChromeOS got support for running Android apks.
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
I tried this image: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2MjQ2MzAwOF5BMl5Ban... And it suggested Nick Offerman :) Cool exploration though!
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
I believe there's an Anime series around this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
"Riding this wave of virtual reality expansion, Rosedale’s new company, High Fidelity, is developing the successor to the Second Life experience."
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
See also: "minimalist web browser" and the history of Firefox :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
Very cool announcement. It strikes me that this is a pretty good insurance policy against a poor implementation of Hyperloop being used as an argument against its feasibility. SpaceX/Musk gets to put out a proof of concept track and po
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by zacharypinter 11y ago
They mentioned finger gesture detection (thumbs up, pointing, etc). Maybe that's part of it?
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous. The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Nice! I've thought about using a pattern generator to set the background image of my IDE/editor based on the current file name. It'd be fun to see if any side benefits come up, such as: * Knowing immediately/intuitively
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote) We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike. Our founders,
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote) We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike. Our founders,
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote) We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike. Our founders,
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote) We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike. Our founders,
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Vessel - Video Focused Venture Backed By Benchmark, Greylock and Bezos Expeditions (San Francisco, CA - Full-time No Remote) We’ve been busy building a service whose mission is to delight consumers and content creators alike. Our founders,
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Not sure exactly which way the author meant it, but the phrase "get people acclimatized to salaried work" could be interpreted as including society at large (both the owners/employers and the employees).
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
My guess is that the people describing it as 2D are focusing on different properties of 2-dimensional space than you are and would agree with you that stacking it would increase the height.
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Kudos all around! To those within the government with the foresight to bet on Musk (or those like him) and to Musk for actually pulling off something great with the opportunity.
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
I think it was the era when we were young and learning about the U.S. in school :)
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Presumably that having the resources (servers and infrastructure, devs, designers, researchers, business connections, data, etc) available at the parent company is a bigger incentive than running things yourself (even if you have the financ
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
I think there's two aspects to this discussion that keep getting muddled together. 1. Were the individuals at the companies in question knowingly acting outside their own ethics or the ethics they portray themselves as having? Was ther
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
> While the later is certainly much more questionable on the legality standpoint The author of this post seems to have acknowledged that part was suspect.
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by zacharypinter 12y ago
Another interesting aspect to rapid growth is to note where the influx of new developers is coming from. The need for developers is so strong that all the major tech companies are devoting resources to recruiting as soon as developers gradu

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