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This isn't a guy who built the railroads here, this is a guy....

This entire sub-comment thread is just quoting a scene from the Big Lebowski, in case you haven't caught on :)

Asian American, please!

We have a 2-bedroom (no kids) and do a combo guest bedroom / office which works well for us. Large futon instead of a full bed to save space. We don't work exclusively from home though nor have guests more than once every couple months so that helps.

Happy People (2010). Focuses on isolated communities living in remote areas of Siberia and their way of life.

Also:

Chef's Table

Wild Wild Country

Tickled

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Same. Watched it 3 times over the years

It seems less and less prevalent. Most of the modest 1-story homes in my hometown have been steadily replaced over the past 10-15 years with obnoxious McMansions with very little space in between them. Square footage is the cheapest thing you can add to a house's up-front cost (key emphasis on "up-front") and fetches large premiums on home value. Just the reality of the market I guess.

Everything old is new again (sort of). There was a similar paradigm being promoted several years back that was dubbed "Object-Oriented CSS (OOCSS)": https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/an-introduction-to-...

It's a little unfortunate that the use of the terms "functional" and "object-oriented" were chosen in these cases as they can easily be confused with functional vs. OO programming, when in reality CSS or any paradigm of writing CSS has nothing to do with this distinction.

> Imagine a Facebook that keeps your list of friends, hosted on your own website, up-to-date, rather than vice-versa. Basically, the Semantic Web was going to be a web where everyone gets to have their own personal REST API, whether they know the first thing about computers or not.

Sounds more or less like what the Urbit project (https://urbit.org/) is trying to accomplish. Not an endorsement; it has serious flaws just like everything else. This is a very hard problem to solve. But I sure do hope someone manages to figure it out.

+1. This is the approach I'm currently taking. I tried starting with books and tutorials but felt I wasn't learning much just being spoon-fed code and copy+pasting. I think it's much more illuminating to attack the problem with a beginner's mindset and work it out for yourself, at least up to a point (to start I'm working on implementing a small subset of Scheme). If I occasionally get stuck I'll peek at a book just enough to get un-stuck. I'm having a blast with it and learning a ton. Once I get tired of implementing language features I'll probably start from scratch and follow a book the second time through. For me it's often easier to absorb problem-solving concepts if I've attempted the problem myself before.

So much nostalgia... Was just thinking it would be neat to try to make a "Web Classic" version of the web without javascript and which only supports HTML 2.0 or 3.0. Maybe even bring back the 'blink' and 'marquee' tags :) . Kind of goes completely against the "one web" principle though, so definitely not practical. Fun to imagine having that kind of blank slate though.

I don't think it's a hard rule; it seems to apply to certain companies who pursue a strategy of deliberately not making any money at first and just acquiring as many users as possible to reach critical mass and ward off competition, and then after-the-fact slap on monetization practices (specifically Ads) that degrade the product and piss off users.

People don't like it when you mess with their products, especially once they already have something they really like. It's all about expectations.

It might not be, I'm just going off of intuition. I think it might "lag" in the sense that the annoyances / inconveniences that get gradually introduced don't result in a linear reduction of users. I think you can get a sort of "frog in boiling water" type situation, where you're gradually getting less utility out of the product or subconsciously more annoyed with it but you don't really realize it and take action until some threshold is hit, at which point a large portion of users suddenly jump ship within a very short time window. Pure speculation though.

In some sense it feels like Amazon is progressing along a similar trajectory as Facebook:

1. Start company with a minimally viable product

2. Hire smart people to iteratively optimize the usefulness of the product to attract as many users as possible. Incentive structure rewards maximizing new users

3. Product reaches "peak usefulness"; seemingly everyone uses it / loves it

4. Re-focus business efforts to maximize revenue (e.g. stuff ads everywhere). Incentive structure now puts greater emphasis on rewarding short-term revenue increases

5. Revenue climbs as usefulness declines; users begin to abandon the product

6. Company continues revenue-maximization strategy because data on user dissatisfaction / abandonment significantly lags behind data showing correlation of "ad-stuffing" with more revenue

7. User abandonment is finally apparent enough that management realizes it should do something; commence back-pedaling efforts to try to "win users back"

Seems like Amazon is approaching step #5 right now. Will be interesting to see how this plays out over another year or so.

CCN is a really cool concept. I read this paper in my computer networks class in grad school. It was definitely the most interesting/memorable thing we covered.

While CCN itself hasn’t gained much traction in the real world, the IPFS project is having some success with advancing a similar idea in building a content-addressable web.

That sounds much more plausible. Had a feeling this source was probably an exaggeration of the truth

> "the link tax" (users are banned from linking to news stories unless the site they're linking to has sold a "linking license" to the platform the users are on

What the actual f...? Is this real life or an Onion article? Does anyone have any sense of how likely it is that this would actually pass? Do EU lawmakers know what a hyperlink actually is?

To think, in my day the measure of success on the web was getting more people to link to your content...

Investment companies make money off of your investments, so naturally they have every incentive to convince you to invest as much as possible.

That doesn’t discount the reality that most people don’t invest nearly enough, but still the “recommended” contributions they give are definitely over-estimated in many cases.

> but end-users don't seem to think the same

True, but I think a lot of people feel the problem is that Apple has neglected the "Pro" aspect of the "MacBook Pro". The new pro's don't feel like a machine made for professionals; it's tailored for the average casual user. E.g. professional software developers don't need a damn touchbar. I want my effing escape key

Hah, yeah seriously I was at the airport last week and literally could not find one single item in the convenience store that I could have other than plain water. Even their seltzer water had added sugar...

> the food that's most pushed in modern western countries is full of sugars and carbohydrates.

Starting a ketogenic diet really made this frighteningly apparent to me. I had never really looked at carb or sugar counts in foods before. I now have to make sure to have my own snacks with me or nearby if I'm going somewhere other than home for more than a few hours. It's surprisingly hard to find a quick bite that isn't primarily composed of carbs or doesn't have added sugar.

Went there last year during a trip to Olympic National Park. Definitely a uniquely beautiful area. Strange to see such massive mountains so close to the ocean

I like this approach a lot and used it myself for years. But I found it kind of falls apart as soon as you want to start using credit though. It's great if you only use cash and debit cards.

CapitalOne 360 allows you to instantly open savings accounts and you can have many of them (not sure what the maximum is--it's high, I've had about 8 at once). That said I liked the bank a lot better when it was ING Direct before they got acquired.

> More of that American ideal (aka delusion) that a 1950s style lifestyle is The Natural Order Of Things. It's not. It's very much an anomaly.

Yeah in the US it seems just about everything gets compared to the post-war years like it's some kind of baseline. Seems like a recipe for perpetual disappointment.

Yes yes yes. For years I've been hoping for someone to launch a business to solve this. It exists for dress clothes but I'm not sure if anyone is doing for jeans. I want to be able to just send in a pair of my favorite jeans and have someone churn out any number of new pairs of the exact same dimensions in any fabric/color I want. No more wasting time in miserable shopping malls trying on tons of pairs while being subjected to terrible background music.

Just did some quick googling for "custom tailored jeans" and there seems to be a few things out there, but not sure how good the service is. Might be worth a try

I'd love a service like this for denim jeans

Amen

I have an early 2013 MBP that I'm going to hang on to as long as I possibly can. It is truly a wonderful machine. I'm long out of warranty and just opted to pay $600 for repairs rather than upgrade. Really hope apple can turn things around before it finally kicks the bucket for good. Pretty amazing and sad how a company can take something so good and completely ruin it. To be fair it probably doesn't help that our culture is so obsessed with constant new-ness in tech, expecting huge advances every single year which puts pressure on companies to come up with shiny new features all the time. If it ain't broke...

Yeah, this. I've noticed some people in my family / social circle have starting using Evite for event invitations in the past year or so, presumably because they know a lot of people don't check facebook regularly anymore. Functionally though it's neither the same nor as good of a product as FB events. A protocol-based and/or federated solution would be great... but then again people are trying to do this for all the other functions of social media with little success so far. The incentives of capitalism are hard to overcome.

I fully expect that but it's not an argument to not pursue it in the first place. A lot of people (myself included) seem to get stuck early on in life trying to immediately jump to some grand vision or purpose without figuring out the more basic stuff first. It's a stepping stone, not solely an end in itself.