zacharypinter

Very cool!

Neat!

Minor typo at the bottom:

s/wite/write

Of all the people in the world I can think of with the inability to think outside the box, Rich Hickey has to be at the bottom of the list :)

He's reading and commenting on a Hacker News post about jobs on the weekend. Seems like that answers at least part of your question.

It seems to me that a version of the Innovator's Dilemma might apply to software frameworks as well.

By the time a project gets large enough it starts optimizing for its major stakeholders. New use cases or new ways of rethinking common use cases come along, and the small libraries that approach it from scratch have a narrowly-defined advantage. If the advantage is significant enough (e. g. virtual dom for browser UI), then new frameworks start being written around them, bringing back some but not all of the features of the older frameworks.

At some point (different for each user/use case) the newer frameworks have enough functionality that people start considering them over the older ones for new projects. When enough of that happens, the older frameworks start looking like yesterday's software.

You're probably thinking of Magic Leap, which is a completely different company from Leap Motion.

Just wanted to say this was an awesome article. I have no immediate need to write a package manager, but it was a great overview of an interesting and tricky domain. Thanks!

That's where I thought they were heading when ChromeOS got support for running Android apks.

"Riding this wave of virtual reality expansion, Rosedale’s new company, High Fidelity, is developing the successor to the Second Life experience."

Very cool announcement.

It strikes me that this is a pretty good insurance policy against a poor implementation of Hyperloop being used as an argument against its feasibility. SpaceX/Musk gets to put out a proof of concept track and pod without committing to building the full thing themselves.

They mentioned finger gesture detection (thumbs up, pointing, etc). Maybe that's part of it?