The thing about competing with FB is that it’s actually not hard.
(a) performance. Every other attempt has been slow. FB is just email v2. It’s not complicated.
(b) minimum features. Every other attempt has been either too little (I won’t name names), or too pretty (I won’t name names).
(c) confusing twitter (news) with facebook (email). The fact that we don’t have a twitter clone in fb is rather odd to me. The fact that a lot of startups try to make a twitter clones just … amazes me. Retweets are only one measure. Why doesn’t twitter rate users, and conversations on a subject, as well as the popularity of a stream?
(d) confusing medium( articles -I have no idea if that’s gonna survive) with facebook ( conversations on articles).
(e) confusing quora and Wiki: wikipedia is great beecause most of it was fukcing STOLEN from the encyclopedia. The problem is that there is no competition, and no method of showing right, libertarian, and left positions on subjects that need it. For the simple reason that editing is a monopoly (cult) where there IS NO NPOV on most questions OTHER than reciprocity (Which is beyond them)..
(c) Lacking taboos – its one thing to select your interests and friends, its another to select taboos that you don’t want to see that limit what you can see (and say for that matter).
Anyway. The market is there to provide a competitor but the minimum feature set isn’t something you’re going to produce in a few months by hobbyists. That era like the era of single programmer video games, has all but passed except for outliers.
Minimum features. Court the adult market and therefore the money. Rember hat FB makes a disproportionate amount of its money from the third world. That means there is an amazing opportunity for advertising in the first world, at far lower prices, with zero trickery involved.
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The thing about competing with FB is that it’s actually not hard. (a) performanc
The thing about competing with FB is that it’s actually not hard.
(a) performance. Every other attempt has been slow. FB is just email v2. It’s not complicated.
(b) minimum features. Every other attempt has been either too little (I won’t name names), or too pretty (I won’t name names).
(c) confusing twitter (news) with facebook (email). The fact that we don’t have a twitter clone in fb is rather odd to me. The fact that a lot of startups try to make a twitter clones just … amazes me. Retweets are only one measure. Why doesn’t twitter rate users, and conversations on a subject, as well as the popularity of a stream?
(d) confusing medium( articles -I have no idea if that’s gonna survive) with facebook ( conversations on articles).
(e) confusing quora and Wiki: wikipedia is great beecause most of it was fukcing STOLEN from the encyclopedia. The problem is that there is no competition, and no method of showing right, libertarian, and left positions on subjects that need it. For the simple reason that editing is a monopoly (cult) where there IS NO NPOV on most questions OTHER than reciprocity (Which is beyond them)..
(c) Lacking taboos – its one thing to select your interests and friends, its another to select taboos that you don’t want to see that limit what you can see (and say for that matter).
Anyway. The market is there to provide a competitor but the minimum feature set isn’t something you’re going to produce in a few months by hobbyists. That era like the era of single programmer video games, has all but passed except for outliers.
Minimum features. Court the adult market and therefore the money. Rember hat FB makes a disproportionate amount of its money from the third world. That means there is an amazing opportunity for advertising in the first world, at far lower prices, with zero trickery involved.
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-30 19:17:00 UTC
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Runcible
For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution. RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper. The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. “Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”. -
Runcible
For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel. In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer. In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution. RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper. The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region. “Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”. -
RUNCIBLE For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a comp
RUNCIBLE
For a long time. Runcible. In honor of Stephenson. A Runcible is a computer that tutors you through storytelling. It’s essentially an adventure game to teach you how to excel.
In Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel The Diamond Age, Runcible is a code name for the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, an educational computer.
In The Diamond Age, the Runcible is effectively priceless, and while designed for a princess, ends up in the hands of a poor young girl who eventually, due to its tutelage, conducts a Revolution.
RUNCIBLE is also the name of a computer program compiler for an early (late 1950s) programming language. Donald Knuth published the flowchart of the compiler in 1959;[12] this was his first academic paper.
The Straight Dope, while treating “runcible” as a nonsense word with no particular meaning, claims that an unspecified 1920s source connected the word “runcible” etymologically to Roncevaux — the connection being that a runcible spoon’s cutting edge resembles a sword such as was used in the Battle of Roncevaux Pass. The Straight Dope adds that “modern students of runciosity” link the word in a different way to Roncevaux: The obsolete adjective “rouncival”, meaning “gigantic”, also derives from Roncevaux, either by way of a certain large variety of pea grown there, or from a once-current find of gigantic fossilized bones in the region.
“Runcible” is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear. The word appears several times in his works, most famously as the “runcible spoon”.
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-30 15:47:00 UTC
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Watching Other Cultures Learn Software
It was interesting to watch the Russian programmers ‘come online’. The russian mind is particularly suited to programming because it is an individual pursuit, just like the german mind is particularly suited to engineering because it is a collective pursuit. Watching the chinese come online as their native mind is transformed by the process has been interesting. Perhaps most interesting. Their language is a bit of a prison but once given a formal language like math or programming they slowly overcome the hurdle. Japanese programmers are still… well, it’s a good thing they copy americans. The east asian ‘aesthetic’ is extremely childish by anglo-german-french-spanish-italian… I guess all european standards. But the quality of the code is incrementally improving. Not like the russian, which out of the gate, was awesome. But a bit at a time they are getting there. Aristotelianism contains the least delta between mental model and reality. Operationalism, meaning, a formal grammar of aristotelianism simply narrows our chances of error. -
Watching Other Cultures Learn Software
It was interesting to watch the Russian programmers ‘come online’. The russian mind is particularly suited to programming because it is an individual pursuit, just like the german mind is particularly suited to engineering because it is a collective pursuit. Watching the chinese come online as their native mind is transformed by the process has been interesting. Perhaps most interesting. Their language is a bit of a prison but once given a formal language like math or programming they slowly overcome the hurdle. Japanese programmers are still… well, it’s a good thing they copy americans. The east asian ‘aesthetic’ is extremely childish by anglo-german-french-spanish-italian… I guess all european standards. But the quality of the code is incrementally improving. Not like the russian, which out of the gate, was awesome. But a bit at a time they are getting there. Aristotelianism contains the least delta between mental model and reality. Operationalism, meaning, a formal grammar of aristotelianism simply narrows our chances of error. -
WATCHING OTHER CULTURES LEARN SOFTWARE It was interesting to watch the Russian p
WATCHING OTHER CULTURES LEARN SOFTWARE
It was interesting to watch the Russian programmers ‘come online’. The russian mind is particularly suited to programming because it is an individual pursuit, just like the german mind is particularly suited to engineering because it is a collective pursuit.
Watching the chinese come online as their native mind is transformed by the process has been interesting. Perhaps most interesting. Their language is a bit of a prison but once given a formal language like math or programming they slowly overcome the hurdle.
Japanese programmers are still… well, it’s a good thing they copy americans.
The east asian ‘aesthetic’ is extremely childish by anglo-german-french-spanish-italian… I guess all european standards.
But the quality of the code is incrementally improving. Not like the russian, which out of the gate, was awesome. But a bit at a time they are getting there.
Aristotelianism contains the least delta between mental model and reality. Operationalism, meaning, a formal grammar of aristotelianism simply narrows our chances of error.
Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 10:08:00 UTC
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If Quora No Longer Exists, What Website That Is Very Similar To Quora You Would Use Instead?
Quora consists very heavily of ‘fake’ questions produced by bots, low wage workers, ‘students’ (too lazy to use google), and volunteers. Originally it was closer to Medium today. There were good people here, and it was worth answering questions – a bit like Medium is today.
Quora does not create a ‘wikipedia’ competitor which retains good answers as a form of capital. (See Stack Overflow and it’s related sites instead).
Wikipedia is about as biased and cultish as an organization can get. I don’t bother editing pages any longer.
There are many startups trying to solve this problem (over-democratization produces decreasing returns on intellectual investment.) or stated otherwise, the bigger you get the dumber you need to be.
I think most of us are choosing Medium right now – but as I understand it they’re a hobby business that is under threat. Their pricing is out of line.
I do most of my work on facebook, and have thousands of followers there.
Unfortunately there is no good solution YET. Although people are working on them.
https://www.quora.com/If-Quora-no-longer-exists-what-website-that-is-very-similar-to-Quora-you-would-use-instead
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If Quora No Longer Exists, What Website That Is Very Similar To Quora You Would Use Instead?
Quora consists very heavily of ‘fake’ questions produced by bots, low wage workers, ‘students’ (too lazy to use google), and volunteers. Originally it was closer to Medium today. There were good people here, and it was worth answering questions – a bit like Medium is today.
Quora does not create a ‘wikipedia’ competitor which retains good answers as a form of capital. (See Stack Overflow and it’s related sites instead).
Wikipedia is about as biased and cultish as an organization can get. I don’t bother editing pages any longer.
There are many startups trying to solve this problem (over-democratization produces decreasing returns on intellectual investment.) or stated otherwise, the bigger you get the dumber you need to be.
I think most of us are choosing Medium right now – but as I understand it they’re a hobby business that is under threat. Their pricing is out of line.
I do most of my work on facebook, and have thousands of followers there.
Unfortunately there is no good solution YET. Although people are working on them.
https://www.quora.com/If-Quora-no-longer-exists-what-website-that-is-very-similar-to-Quora-you-would-use-instead