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Judging from the headline I thought this was a design doc for a OSS clone of WinXP, which would be a cool thing IMHO.

This is what the Amiga is missing!

One good example would be PGs essays. They are honest, I suppose, and they are very successful marketing.

Make it 100%. I consider myself relatively "geeky", but I couldn't explain neither what a VPS or an nginx image is. "Normies" are people who are not sure whether the photos they to…

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Well, you say this is not a topic for this site, but HN is explicitly about intellectual curiosity and as long as you present your case with enough complexity and new information, …

The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead…

I am definitely "no" on anything if I didn't ask for it. Almost as good as a link to the relevant CXDC comic: https://characterdatabase.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Offic...

You know, one thing we could do is to get the costs for energy usage sorted out. Like, people who use a lot data-center electricity, pay accordingly. If AI would cost you what it a…

Good work! I do like that the tools are task centric and that means I don"t have to handle all sorts of things, I just quickly learn the three to four tools that I really need (as …

So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war, that is going on between North America and China? That is at least the logical conclusion b…

I agree. That thing made all the designs worse. I think the difficulty for AI to learn this, in general, is the missing out of the day-to-day experience living as a human, because …

The Green party and the Social Democrats were the governing coalition that enacted the nuclear exit. Sure, it was completed by the other two big parties after Fukushima, but by tha…

You mean the Green party was undermined by Russians? The Green party had the goal of de-nuclearization from the beginning, at that time the Soviet Union was still in existence. Whe…

I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-... In another piece somewhere he also states, that the e…

This is well done! The UI, the concept… Another thing. Regarding the field "effort" it is measured in days, it should IMO be measured in hours, or even better yet be user configura…

Depends on context. Learn to read the other person or group, there are cues. Also there is mutuality, back and forth. I also question the validity of the cultural concept of "overs…

Elisp, but not really elisp, more the environment of elisp. It's a LISP machine. Hard to explain, it's a different way of computing. Another living instance of this model of comput…

> I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it. Last time I checked, the tab closed button was still on the right side of the tab. On the mac…

That would make it even more valuable.