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Or is your target audience only your own ears, and you never plan to publish or even compare your work to others?
Arguably by now the percentage of genuinely new information or arguments on HN is pretty low and falling. Which in a place where discussion > new knowledge is only natural.
Pretty much like any place I can think of, HN is increasingly a virtual water-cooler social hangout where the participants cycle through.
Just reading the thread about encryption at the top of HN as I’m writing this comment was a bit depressing, because I didn’t find any remotely novel questions, answers or lines of reasoning before giving up on that thread. The intellectual and emotional downer for me wasn’t any better than reading the shallow/empty comment that you responded to.
So while I wholeheartedly concur with the sentiment you expressed, I’m also pretty much resigned to the fact, that I should expect less from HN and just move on to other parts of the net. Thank goodness, that RSS seems to be making a quiet comeback.
Maybe naively, I wish this assumption became universal.
I didn’t say that, nor mean it.
And just wow - never in my most pessimistic estimation did I imagine that my post would be interpreted as defending “dehumanizing, devaluing and hate”.
Having lived in different cultures, I have experienced that perfectly acceptable wording of criticism of an idea in one culture was interpreted as a personal attack in another culture.
So the same wording of a critique didn’t “scale” across those cultures.
In a smaller scale setting, there’s a much better chance to hit the right tone for the smaller audience, so the criticism doesn’t come across as hurtful.
> Please give us a historical example where "letting your hate flow" led to scalable mass changing people
I have to admit, I have absolutely no idea how you got from my comment to that sentence?
I believe it was punched cards (80 columns total, but 8 of those generally used as sequence number).
Indeed - you're absolutely right.
Not sure if the comment I responded to was edited to add the parent node after my post or if I just overlooked it, but I should have quoted that I was just referring to the left and right siblings (i.e. two linked lists):
> an old cms that stores the id of the ... left sibling, and right sibling.
And business continuity investment is like insurance: A waste until you need it.
Too much monoculture is short sighted and long term expensive.
> "This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing."
In the early years, technically inclined individuals / power users were the early adopters of the Internet and Google and thus arguably a high percentage of users. So it adapted to that user demographic.
The early demographic (as is so often the case) enabled the revolution, and it became mainstream. And the early demographic is left behind.
Google (with all of it's measuring, automation and various generations of algorithmic and machine accelerated learning evolved from being optimized for early adopters to being optimized for the mainstream.
Maybe some of these links will help? ;-)
https://www.google.com/search?q=learn+to+talk+like+a+teenage...
... unless you eat seafood[0]?
... unless you're Sally[0]
So I imagine, for it to become widely successful, that this new standard would need the wholehearted support of at least 2 of Steinberg, Apple, Ableton, and Avid.
Wouldn’t that be simply favouritism/cronyism rather than a free market?
... except when they sell their domain registration business.
And yes, I realize that there's a (technical) difference between selling data and selling a business including its data assets.
But then again, maybe a really big chunk of the value of that business is its customer data.
For some business acquisitions special terminology like "aqui-hiring"[0] has evolved so it's understood that not every sale of a business is of the same nature.
And since the value of data has arguably become much higher than ever before, the distinction of selling data by itself and selling the entire business is becoming smaller as time goes on.
> On one hand, I love that there’s some good alternatives in the geolocation space, but misleading geolocation precision can lead to very undesirable side effects[0].
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...
I sincerely hope so - but after 2 significant rug-pulls, I'm not so sure of any forward looking statements by RH or about the RH ecosystem anymore ...
A crazy blend of physics, math, emotion and culture, craft and engineering that can bring joy (or tears) for beginners and virtuosos. Players and listeners.
Something that can be experienced with a large crowd, a small group or in total solitude.
A musical instrument can have mythical qualities bestowed by incredible craftsmanship or be a mass produced piece of crap. Yet even the latter can speak to you on some level in the right context.
The incredible upside of software instruments and audio effects is, that I can experience virtual sonic spaces that are close approximations of real instruments and acoustic spaces that are totally out of reach for me - or something that’s never been heard in the natural world.
Musical instruments are amazing!
you must be new here ;-)
My initial reaction is that the ideas you listed around data ownership and and extensibility hold considerable promise and allow a company to grow not only with you and your other customers, but also to create and grow competitive distinction.
And if you refrain from being sneaky about locking your customers in, it would probably limit the enthusiasm of most potential investors, but it would also be a chance to have much less antagonistic customer relationships and a much more likable public sentiment over the long haul.
And that gives me pause to wonder, if it might make sense to strengthen the messaging around the fact that you're not taking your customers hostage like most(all?) of the big incumbents. Is you current messaging possibly burying the lede?
You're most certainly picking an interesting time to start such an ambitious project. But then again, maybe -- exactly while so much is in upheaval -- now is a great time to do so! My warmest wishes not just for success, but even more for a fun and rewarding journey!
p.s. I noticed, what I assume to be a small typo section on your github page:
> For the developer community:
> A CRM that ban self-hosted for free, on your own network and close to your data sources
Was the intent to have something like this?
A CRM that can be self-hosted for free, on your own network and close to your data sources
From food to manufacturing to music and other cultural endeavours: making communities small(er) might be an interesting counter (r)evolution.