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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: I miss the internet of the 90s/00s. What should I do?
That's funny I'm also setting up a home lab and buying a vintage microscope (state of the art 1999 from auction) to look at the creatures living in my pond. There are always new avenues.
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: I miss the internet of the 90s/00s. What should I do?
I've accepted that we kind of lost the net to the money people and bureaucrats. Mid-late 90's it really was a frontier full of adventurous nerds. I would spend entire weekends on Efnet learning and experimenting with a tight group of people. Since a parallel non-commercial web has never taken off (and VR fizzled) I've ended up adventuring outdoors, the old school way. It's less intellectual but triggers similar feelings of discovery. There's a lot of experimentation and improvisation once you get into things like ski mountaineering because something always goes wrong. The camaraderie is also strong.
Another alternative is simply Science, if you can handle the barrier to entry.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
I agree, talent needs to catch up, and new UI concepts are needed (the current VR web browsers feel very awkward). One app that was built very thoughtfully for VR and nailed it imho is Hyper Dash. Making teleporting the preferred form of movement vs. walking was brilliant.
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5 years ago
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on: 20 Years Later
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
Better UI's for navigating browsing history. The current approach is 10-20 open tabs, self-categorized bookmarks, and a history feature that lacks full-text search of content.
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5 years ago
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on: WHO Extranet Possibly Hacked
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
True the film is captivating on the aesthetic layer, with manufactured landscapes appearing as beautiful as the natural ones. Sounds like some viewers pull a positive (or neutral) message out of that equivalence.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
It's been a while. I'll rewatch it and see if I can take your view of it. Yes, humans have been driven to refine systems and tools since day one.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - made me realize the degree to which society has been mechanized, how our alienation to nature and each other is almost guaranteed if we give ourselves over to technology.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
Re: Ghost Dog, I was also obsessed with that beautifully shot driving scene (with Killah Priest in the background). I was listening to a lot of hiphop at that time. Usually a burned CD playing on a glowing car stereo.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
Can I take a look at your product? I would be curious what a minimal ArcGIS would look like and how long it would take to build. GIS is super edge-casey, I think.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
ArcGIS has a formidable feature-set to clone and users will want them all. I believe that's their moat?
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
I've met startup founders who pay for this data to help in writing their go-to-market strategy for series A.
I really wonder how much friction there is in using a market research firm and if that's a big deterrent to a lot of potential customers.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
I agree, we may have reached peak level of Seth Godin-approved consumer startups.
Re: 1, it does bother me producing all that plastic when a cardboard structure with sterile, swappable lining might do just as well in non-windy areas.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
I think someone should start a thread asking about all the one-offs people have written and see how much duplication there is.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
Curious which applications require logging at high sample rates vs. doing event-based?
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
That's awesome, congrats. I can't tell what your secret sauce is from your website. I'd love to ask you how you marketed this service if you want to shoot me an email (see profile).
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
I would love to have such a tool. I was quietly waiting for others to validate the idea.
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
I like your minimalist solution. Fleet tracking / management seems like a commodity business with a lot of players in it. How do you differentiate and win here?
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?
Right, I was making the point that there should be more info online about the entire mobile video editing app market (one example). I know there are many such apps in the stores.
