corbins
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Comment · 7 days ago
It's a nice gesture I think. My question is why do we anchor naming to things we don't like: anti-capitalism, anti-ai, etc. That seems to inextricably link the new effort with the thing it was supposed to be an alternative to.
Comment · 1 month ago
When is the last time a flagship phone release promoted its qualities as a telephone, like call fidelity? Others could better comment on this but I think landlines were leagues better in latency and sound quality. Kinda integral pieces to the experience of talking to someone.
Comment · 5 years ago
Lucas seems like the well-spring of ideas here. He goes on long rambles, almost free-associating, and then Kasdan or Spielberg will have a one sentence reply. And then another rant. It's like they're providing minor course corrections while he generates ideas and ideas and ideas...
Anyone familiar with writing rooms or the like, is this asymmetrical pattern common?
Comment · 5 years ago
1ms is significant if you're a heavy user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.
Comment · 5 years ago
Your list takes a while to populate on page load. I would add some placeholder rows and a loading indicator.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's reassuring to find someone who shares this sentiment. I hope people are starting to see the high cost that convenient services inevitably incur. Now we simply need the tools for individuals and small groups to cheaply create this alt-software.
Comment · 6 years ago
Beware of gamification. There is a great talk[1] discussing intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation as it applies to video games, with the key insight being that extrinsic rewards decrease intrinsic motivation.
The speaker references a lot of research that seems worth digging into too.
[1] https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012290/Achievements-Considere...
Comment · 6 years ago
The counterexample here is the declarative style of programming. Most ideally this looks like an executable spec and is documentation itself.
Comment · 6 years ago
I have a growing hunch that state machines, possibly extended for greater composition as in statecharts[2], are the best way to represent many UIs. They're declarative and represent change as a first-class thing: an `arrow`. Functions and methods don't map well to this concept and I think that's why it's a bitch to specify state machines in code. Maybe we gave up too early with `goto`
[0] https://declarative-dragging.github.io/dragology/#/demos
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17845341
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25454175