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It's firewire all over again. They'll never learn.
This is why I'm hyped about the fedi. This is what it'll finally take to break our dependence on a centralized web. Essentially, the email model. I wish we followed this model earlier in the web 2.0 days.
All these decentralized alternatives don't have iPhone apps. It's app store policy that is blocking devs, ain't it?
I know right? Sites like these used to be linked so often. Now that this is no longer the case, I've easily forgotten about these old sites.
Now I'm wishing GitUp had this selection tool. Sadly you can only do operations one commit/branch at a time.
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ilovecomputers on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:51PM
from the self-post dept.
Since the 90s, I've viewed Apple as the computer company that was breaking down the boundaries between humans and computers with capable technology. From the GUI to a Unix OS to the touchscreen; Apple was taking major steps to breaking down this boundary while the competition, Microsoft, was coming up with minor gimmicks with less reliable tech. Now it's the other way around!The signs were...
Articles like these remind me that Lisp uses the perfect number of tokens.
Signal Processing was that subject I found difficult and I found no reason to be interested in audio filtering, so I didn't find an incentive to work through that difficulty. Then I see applications of signal processing, like this, that goes beyond simple audio filtering, that makes me want to learn it again. Honestly, this looks like wizardry! It is no surprise, MIT is on the bleeding edge of signal processing and it mainly is due to Dr. Oppenheim . He wrote the textbook on DSP and runs the DSP Group at MIT.
If that first feature is true, it will bring me back to TypeScript. Honestly, my major deterrence of TypeScript was managing both 3rd party libraries and typing files.
I too was thinking of this article as well. A team might not always know what the boundaries of their data & code classification will be ahead of time.
Since we are on the topic of effectively distributing JS code to clients...why is there no push for delta updates on the web? There was a proposal for delta caching back in 2002:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229
Which hasn't caught up to new Facebook features and hasn't updated since March. Makes me wonder if Facebook has killed it.
To a lot of you arguing that Progressive Enhancement doesn't apply to "web apps," as Jake Archibald argues[1], that really isn't an excuse if you can't distinguish it from what you consider a "web site." Is your content static? Is interaction core to your content (like a video game or a data viz explorer)? Even if interactivity is core to your content, why not first offer something like a product page. Describe about your interactive content in text or in images or in a demo video. Just the minimum static content a user can quickly download before the rest of the richer content is loaded. It's not much of an extra effort; you aren't back porting your interactivity to less capable devices. Instead you're using static content to show what your game could be.
[1] https://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-still...
My series of responses within the span of 30 minutes:
* "It looks like fridge magnets for kids! I don't like it; the iconic lower case g is gone cause of designers obsession of san-serif == modern."
* "Glad that they continue to embrace their playful culture tho."
* "You know what, it's growing on me."
* "Haha, they tilted the e, how cute. Oh god what is happening to me!?"
* "Geeze, how old is Google books? They haven't even updated the logo!"
You're correct, getting paid for posts is a strong incentive. In the end, we won't know unless we try.
Personally, when I think of a decentralized reddit, there's nothing monetary about it. Simple points equate with popularity and that's incentive enough, but it's hard to build up a large audience like reddit did. Honestly, when I started reading your article, I was expecting to read a proposal for something like Namecoin, but for a decentralized reddit. Then the monetization part took me by surprise because that would totally change the social dynamic of the site. I would feel it would be less about the content and the popularity and more about trying to make money.
As I commented on the article, I think this whole monetary system might deter adoption of the application. Either way, check out Freenet if you want to see prior art in creating a decentralized web:
https://freenetproject.org/In that p2p project, all you contributed was storage and bandwidth.
Yeah, but that popularity gave us the president and celebrities. Even better, I've seen more instances where someone would post a missing person or object or ask what a mysterious bug was and you'd have high chance of someone successfully completing that request. Tapping into more people for help can be as much of blessing as it is a curse.
I always feel strange being nostalgic about a website. Like I don't feel weird being nostalgic about a classic episode of The Simpsons or a rock concert, but for YouTube or Newgrounds or now Reddit, I do.
I've used reddit for like 7 years. Gleamed helpful info from it. Even won a contest off that site (still got that postcard of all the admin's autographs). Yet my continuing theme with that site was their social experiments. Some of them were one time events, like the Reddit Jet Blue Travels or naming a whale Mr. Splashy Pants or the Rally For Sanity (okay, we technically tagged along for that event, but I was the ones drawn to that pilgrimage). Most of them were short lived, like Soapier or The redditor zine. However, there were successful experiments like IAMA (we finally got the President in the end after making joke IAMA requests), Secret Santa, and shit, we even got Snoop Dogg as an honorary mod of /r/trees.
That was the thing with reddit, it was this general forum that various people showed up on who wanted to try new things or learn something new. Sometimes they took it too far and sometimes they had real life effects. Whatever redditors tried, it was something that broke the regular order of things. Hidden away in the subreddits, I can still see these attempts at trying something new. Try Paleo, donate a pizza, ask a scientist or historian for detailed answers, try not to jack off, meetup with like-minded people, try to be more productive with GTD, try to have this obscure politician win an election, or watch these obscure movies on netflix.
Now the site has gotten so big, so many stuff has been done on there, I'm likely just skimming the surface here.
Anyways, Jedberg, Raldi, if you're still on this thread, thanks for your early contributions to that site. It has brought me fond memories and even a few friends...who I can assure you are not the steretypical reddit weirdos. For reals!
A testament to how the early days of Apple was more playful like Google's current culture.
I adopted GTD back in college (around '08-'09) after learning about it from Merlin Mann and reading about it in the book "Dreaming in Code." If it taught me one thing, it taught me to learn how to say no to commitments. Sure, I'd like to work on this fun software project or go to this hackathon, but then I think of all the work it will take and the existing work I'm committed to. At that point, as much as I'd like to do otherwise, I say no to the proposed commitment. GTD is core to my life. All my commitments are consolidated and up to date in my Things app. I honestly couldn't imagine how I could have been productive without it.
edit: I also recommend those familiar to GTD to listen to Merlin Mann talk about it on his Back to Work podcast: http://5by5.tv/b2w/95
Helps you rediscover some principles about GTD.
I wish my errands were that eventful, but they just feel like chores. Give me a button to press away my chores and I'll spend my outgoing time at the pub with friends.
No, but we do think about efficient computational solutions to our problems. These sorting algorithms are simply starting points for you to start thinking how algorithms solve problems, how to optimize them, how to construct data structures, and how to apply asymptotic analysis on your computational solutions. If all goes well with these algo courses, you should end up thinking like a computer scientist ;)
Oh man, kleinbl00, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. His comments on reddit were solid. Like, metafilter level status comments. A lot of thought went into them and were the gold standard of why you read comments on reddit. Now the site is so huge, you'd either get lucky to find such comments or browse r/bestof.
No one remembers Dopplr? It was a pretty popular social travel planning site before Nokia bought them and froze it to death. It was like, one of the original web 2.0 sites alongside Flickr.