I found this video helpful in understanding the project: http://vimeo.com/75312418
128-bit submarine vs 32-bit destroyer reminded me of IPv6 vs IPv4.
Urbit: a personal cloud computer
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#112Curtis Yarvin is a grand fool, and everything with which he is involved in entirely bullshit. If you find bullshit amusing, some of his writing is worth a few hours of your time. Just don't expect any of this to amount to anything.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Anyway, perhaps we are all missing the underlying point - an overly complicated solution (to an otherwise straightforward problem) has been the received wisdom for decades, and a re-think from fundamentals is almost definitely worth the effort." I don't know that the solution is overly complicated or that the problem is straightforward. Think of every human being as their own little Y Combinator startup -- everybody…
Sure, I entirely agree that there's a large spectrum of user types (or people) out there. You used the phrase 'most people' three times there to describe a quite likely common user type for off-the-shelf consumables. I am quietly confident the guys working on this are not targeting 'most people'. Or if they are, they are quite candid about it not being ready for them yet.
The analogy that kicked this all off:
"An ordinary user can no more drive a Linux box in the cloud than fly an A320."
Maybe they aren't targeting most people, but if not, why are they talking about the ordinary user?
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you please explain what being "public domain" adds to it?
It enables use (personal and especially corporate) with as little licensing fretting as possible.
Except that some jurisdictions in the world don't have the concept of public domain, so, in those places, this code is legally in a very weird place. It's much better (IMO) to assert copyright, and then release under the most permissive license possible.
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#115Don't really get what this is technically, but conceptually I do understand it and would love to back a company like this. Technologies like this could kill Microsoft (Windows) and many others.
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#116I really like the foundations of this, but I like design - how could I start building a UX interface for this?
By re-writing CSS to use a different syntax?
You could call it Noom....
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#117Interesting distribution of contributors [1]. Usually what I see on most projects is one or two guys contributing the most of the code since the start of the repository, with minor contributors coming and going. These contributors chart seem to show different guys taking the helm at different points on time though.
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#118i loved everything i read on that page ...especially the part about it being not good formanyting but screwin around!
BTW - re Hoon ...a reference to the sea faring settlers in Brin's uplift series?
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#119Interesting distribution of contributors [1]. Usually what I see on most projects is one or two guys contributing the most of the code since the start of the repository, with minor contributors coming and going. These contributors chart seem to show different guys taking the helm at different points on time though. 1: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/graphs/contributors
Not quite. It looks like urbit has imported the histories of multiple other projects.
LibUV: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/graphs/contributors Re2: https://code.google.com/p/re2/source/list
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#120I can't say we were expecting this, but it's nice to see that people are still interested in what we're working on. Thanks! What we're brewing in the lab has diverged quite a bit from what's publicly available. Even these docs are quite out of date. If you're interested in keeping up with what we're doing: either sign up at http://urbit.org or send me an email, galen at tlon.io.
From the article: "It's definitely air travel. It's not exactly flying." This phrase has an Alan Kay-ish quality, and was enough to pique my interest. Anyone seriously trying to execute on a project that addresses this concern seems worth following. Who knows, you might even succeed :)
i thought that was interesting too.
i find it an interesting exercise to explain to non-technical folks that i have several virtual computers running in the cloud. .. looks on their faces says it all.