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swyx
24,262karma·6,033submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
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personal blog: https://swyx.io/ideas
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Anti Ageing seems too broad a category to be useful. were there any specific vectors or products you had particular hopes for?
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i mean.. also Javascript. people learned to live with it, and it evolved to be more tolerable through a messy mishmash of tooling and language evolution.
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i'm still shocked that Microsoft decided to discontinue that.. there was so much great research being done on the back of that little device.
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ok i expected HN to have the pmarca thesis in mind - aren't phone browsers still open software? am i being too idealistic?
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i think venmo's done a great job of it in the US and in China the micropayments have done much better. I think its in progress, just definitely not a "revolution" maybe because it doesn…
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why were you convinced it would take over the world? I'm pretty ignorant on OS history, but would love to learn.
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i mean.. you were right... eventually!
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were you actually convinced it would take the world by storm? is there a deeper story here?
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Same, I was very optimistic. but even in good lighting I was disappointed by ARKit's performance. Still it is too early to judge the success.
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have you looked into IPFS/Filecoin and still view distributed storage as overhyped? or just havent looked that hard into the different ideas that are out there?
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that's interesting. Isn't UDP still in use today? (honestly i'm not too clear in what context, i just know that its used in some webapps)
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little plastic shapes? no. but big metal industrial parts that were impossible to machine might be a thing? I confess no knowledge as to their real commercial success so far.
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same here. It took me an embarrassingly long time to come around to Elon's view that we need to go down, not up.
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it died when the word "Glasshole" was coined.
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whoa this is non consensus (to the biology-uneducated me). thank you for pointing this out, the mass media is still on the CRISPR hype train. Oh dear.
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100% agree. imagine my shock when as a young technology analyst I discovered that E-Ink was a smallcap tech company in Taiwan and basically produced kindle displays, store price tags and that cool dou…
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as a web developer i am bemused at every other comment on here that seems to agree with your sentiment that the world is walling up. yes, app stores will be a control mechanism for ever and consumers …
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ok honestly i dont understand this fear. isn't the open web the antithesis of the locked appstore?
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i think it will come. ironically its a hardware problem rather than a software problem
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even within English we have a ton of local and regional variances in everything from accent to connotation to words to the point that some variants aren't even intelligible. Check out the Ocracok…
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thanks for the anecdote! the politics must have been savage. also means the team probably cared more about being on a cool project than the actual problem area itself.
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i mean... there was another product that Google rolled out that was on an invitation basis. Last I checked Gmail is doing pretty well... facetious comparison aside, i think the (Yegge)? rant about how…
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i was a little tongue in cheek, but yes.
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you must be new to internet marketing
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can anyone smell a pivot? they raised a ton of money a year ago based on rolling out WeLive to like 30 something locations. today they only have two.
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what's crazy is if bank managers cared at all about making their organizations a learning organization this is priority #1. instead they prioritize hiring people over figuring out what they do af…
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not sure what you mean. why email you if this is an open source project on github? is there something i'm missing?
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how many levels of abstraction can you name? i think that would be a useful exercise.