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1. A language that synthesizes the advantages of Bash, Node, and ML... Basically an expressive yet simple type system, nice syntax, interactive environment, fast compilation, the ability to run as a script in Unix, first-class support for pipelines, files and sockets, and built in stuff for dealing with HTTP, JSON, regex, etc. 2. An event sourcing database that's not a gargantuan Java EE thing, something like the Red…
I've had a not-specific-enough idea of what that language would be for a long time. As far as I'm aware, nobody has created it yet.
A peer to peer encrypted datastore that everyone can use to store their own metadata. Facebook knows what movies I like and interests I have, Spotify knows what songs I listen to, Amazon knows what books I like to read. All of these pieces of data are currently silo'd and controlled by private corporations many of which can do whatever they like with that data. I want a private encrypted datastore that does this inst…
Interesting. Major problem: Either existing services need to shift gears to support this third-party that reduces their control over data (when often, your data is how they make their money), or else new equivalent services using said third-party need to be made and meaningfully dislodge them (difficult, inertia is a thing).
Only the consumers of the data need to change their behavior. If there's easy to use libraries to access the data store and enough demand for it then more and more consumers will adopt it over time.
I would also like the protocol/standard to be iterated upon to include new features like bots, stickers, file transfers, etc.
I wish that webcams on laptops had open-source hardware and also a hardware switch, which connects and disconnects the webcam from the laptop (and thanks to open source hardware you can be sure, that the switch has no "back-door"). Turining that switch off and on would be much easier than putting the duct tape off and on all the time. Similar hardware switch would be useful for cameras and microphones in smartphones.…
Currently there is way too much time and money is being spent on re-implementing this functionality on normal DBs.
PS: There is Datomic, but it's not free: http://www.datomic.com/
An open source & free, ACID compliant, horizontally scalable database that supports versioned data out of the box. Currently there is way too much time and money is being spent on re-implementing this functionality on normal DBs. PS: There is Datomic, but it's not free: http://www.datomic.com/
I want to slot my phone into a dock connected to three high resolution monitors and a keyboard/mouse and be able to do development work. Essentially, when it's in my hand it's in Phone Mode, when it's in the dock it's in Desktop PC mode. We are getting there with tablets. You can do this with the Surface for example thanks to Display Link technology. I just want the device to be phone sized , around 5.5" or so with a…