Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
by Vinnl on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:26PM
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Someone I follow on Mastodon just posted this interesting look back on hist first ten years as a software developers, with a couple of technically-failed (though still educational and fun) endeavours: https://noeldemartin.com/blog/10-years-as-a-software-develop...
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:49PM
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Ted Nelson's Xanadu is what comes to mind immediately for me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
The Bulletball guy is a close second:
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
by sebmellen on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:02PM
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Aha! But had the Xanadu folks showed up every day, they might have created something more than vaporware, and people might've used their software!
From the linked Wikipedia article:
> Wired magazine published an article called "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".[3] The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an incomplete implementation was released. A version described as "a working deliverable", OpenXanadu, was made available in 2014.
Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @04:55PM
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Sarcasm?
Ted Nelson is pretty consistent here and has put thousands of hours into it.
You're probably right, but care to name some examples? I can't think of a single blog or article about failed companies or projects.I think they would be interesting to read and dissect.
It seems that people who have that sort of persistence and choose to do something are quite rare, making the survivorship bias of posting successes even harder to balance out.