wernst
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Comment · 1 year ago
Triplit has migrated its data format away from triples since this post was authored, so the memory concerns mentioned are no longer relevant since 1.0 https://www.triplit.dev/blog/triplit-1.0 (source: i'm Triplit author). I don't think triples as a format are inherently bad but for us it did entail more data on disk, more difficult and slower querying, and more objects in the JS heap ballooning RAM.
Comment · 2 years ago
We definitely think its the future! I've always found this article captures the ethos well: https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/
Comment · 3 years ago
Commoditize your complement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Comment · 3 years ago
Sites like IMDB feel like they might be in a pickle. What happens to their ad revenue if they expose their API and no one navigates to their site anymore?
Comment · 5 years ago
Trevor Moore?
Comment · 5 years ago
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-he...
From TSMC's Mark Lui:
- Supply chain disruptions from Covid
- US / China trade disputes
- Digital transformation from Covid (increasing demand for chips)
- "Double booking" feedback loop (companies preorder more than needed, fearing fab capacity limits --> makes it seem like there's less fab capacity --> companies book more capacity, fearing capacity limits)...this is not specific to Covid, but heats up in this kind of situation
Comment · 5 years ago
How would you feel if you knew your work started being used by authoritarian regimes to oppress their citizens speech and ability to organize?
I may be speaking out of ignorance, but do you have an example of this occurring or are you speaking purely hypothetically?
Comment · 5 years ago
I dont think this exactly applies to the NYT and the New Yorker which are subscriptions based.
I do think subscription based journalism can be just as pernicious. The most profitable route now is to find a niche group and produce content that they want. In general people "want" the objective truth, but its so much more tantalizing when it's spun to confirm your biases. There's likely a point where people will pay to get 90% of the truth and 10% confirmation bias, and if that's the most profitable route pubishers are going to report in that way (hence the left lean of NYT in particular, and right lean of other publications).
Comment · 5 years ago
I agree, but I'm reminded of this quote from Ernest Hemingway:
“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
Massive change due to tech is always just waiting to happen. Here's to hoping it just changes society without destroying it.
Comment · 5 years ago
This project might be worth a look: https://www.etebase.com/
Comment · 5 years ago
"The first rule of having a liquidity problem is dont talk about your liquidity problem"
Comment · 5 years ago
Curious article - I dont think these are necessarily comparable components to claim full on hypocrisy by app level tech companies.
Also it seems odd to promote the bundling of distribution and content as a win for consumers...ATT blocking youtube to promote HBO Max sounds like a loss for me and a loss for the internet. And what happens when every carrier has their own HBO Max?
Comment · 5 years ago
I’m sure they’re well aware and had to draw the classification line somewhere. Next definitely fits in both but IMO really differentiates itself on the backend with SSR.