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This reads like a rhetorical question – 'what could possibly be the application for something this deliberately bad?' I won't speak for what "blockchain" can or will become, but yo…

Skim, read comments, and for things I want to remember, add them to an appropriate Are.na channel. For longer articles I want to read eventually but know I won't get to for a long …

Speaking strictly about the "look and feel," I must say I love it. It's one of the most well-designed apps I've ever seen. Per-UX, I've found Skype very difficult to use since the …

Miles better than everything else: https://www.inoreader.com/

And given a suitable vector representation of the street layout, the stretch-and-compress could be given constraints so as not to warp (i.e. curve streets on) the map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz#Places

I spent a lot of time trying different systems and finding I couldn't stick with one. Now I embrace the chaos of multiple systems. I keep a bullet journal, which is mainly for jour…

I'm having trouble finding information about what GNUnet is on the website. Is there an overview somewhere?

re: most other software: "Wow. It's just a relational database."

And now you find the same thing at http://apollo.rip or http://redacted.ch , almost exactly as it was.

Ah, I remember this Fedex comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104 ++

On chef and cucumber: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209760 On Knuth, C, and Haskell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12741430 On npm and In Praise of Idleness: https:…

Just Messenger, Events when I'm invited to them, occasionally being tagged in a post, and a couple of groups.

I did this a few years ago and haven't looked back. I had the issue where I was suddenly following everyone again on one occasion (years ago), but since I've unfollowed everyone ag…

Some free associations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgGU8Vy3xoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIi_ZMBfQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38xbAFnCSQ https://www.youtube.com/…

Ah, thanks for the clarification! Turns out I could have discovered that if I had Googled: https://www.juce.com/history-and-development – so much for speculation.

This is speculative, but Max/MSP 5 – which was a very dated piece of software at the time – was re-written using JUCE for the UI, and IIRC JUCE wasn't music-focused at the time. Qu…

https://numi.io/ , http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/

Any clarity re: this comment[1], which seems to suggest that things are not as they seem? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942989 > In June 2015, the FCC reclassified the…

If you believe this guy, most linguists who speak of the "S-W Hypothesis" have no idea what Sapir or Whorf said: http://hilgart.org/enformy/dma-Chap7.htm . — 'I push his head back'…

Since Numi " rel="nofollow">https://numi.io/> has become slow to launch – and I find Soulver " rel="nofollow">http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/> overkill for quick calculations – I'…

Makes more sense when it's for and by an actual community of people, in which case it's a bit more like a party with your friends where you all give talks and take part in semi-str…

So glad "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" is here – one of my favorite books and the reason I became an artist ... and then stopped being an artist. One of my m…