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I had a similar feeling so I built filigree.app. Im planning on shutting it down soon, but it might be reborn more focused on small blogs.

You can try it out if youd like with this invite code kris-ffdd9e150679

AWK is such a cool little tool, great way to process log files (as shown in the article). Glad to see it still getting some attention.

It's kinda nuts how far the unixy idea of "just streams of text" has gotten us.

So many good lessons in Musashi.

The youtube link in the article has a nice animation of how mantas filter: https://youtu.be/2nRN1ZJPs98

This approach to problem solving is one of my favorite. Instead of thinking hard about a problem: observe nature and leverage a few billion years of evolutionary problem solving that's already been done.

Google is incentivized to do this, they make good money off of it. It’s boring and true. They’ll keep doing stuff like this until it reaches some publicly unacceptable limit.

Until then use browsers like Firefox or Safari where the incentive to be creepy is far smaller.

Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift has a nice walkthrough for making a small language called Kaleidoscope http://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/spring08/cs259/llvm-2.2/docs/...

Here ya go: kris-ffdd9e150679

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I think it can be fairly anonymous if you're careful. Keybase requires an email to register, which can of course be made anonymous but it's still a small hurdle.

I wanted a more pseudo-anonymous form of this, which is why the message board I built is invite only (still pretty new). I think if you prune bad inviters, you can build a really high quality user base that is still mostly anonymous (depending on their username).

Still very early stages, https://filigree.app if you'd like to check it out. Invite code kris-75c23bae7837 if you want to register.

Edit: quite a few people registered, so I'm deactivating that invite code.

I wonder if we will ever really break out of being generationally bound for situations like this. I see this in social issues especially. Seems like the speed of change is rate limited by older generations dying and newer ones being born.

No plans on releasing the source at the moment, it's about a thousand lines of Go and not particularly interesting.

Roadmap: I'm going to add comment deletion, and maybe the ability to add one or two clickable links to a post. Still thinking about ways to make a notification system that isn't an attack on your attention. More dot styles and colors too.

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I've been thinking about experimental online communities for a while now and Filigree is the result of that. It's invite only, minimal, text only, and pseudo-anonymous (depending on your username). No ads, no creepy tracking.

If you'd like to try it out you can use my invite code to create an account: kris-75c23bae7837 act fast, supplies are artificially limited.

There's a short essay with some thoughts I have regarding online communities on the about page. Let me know what you think!

This channel is awesome, thanks for sharing!

I was required to take 5 years of Spanish it was a huge drag and I learned next to nothing. I lived in South Korea for one year and my Korean is far far better. Foreign language learning requires immersion and motivation - both of which are absent in a normal high school class.

Yeah there is a balance to be struck, you don't want baseball evolving into hockey over the course of a decade. I'm not suggesting we go the Calvinball route.

>The newest science on CTE makes it seem like accumulated small damage might actually be worse than periodic large damage

That's the idea of gloveless, you can't just trade blows all day. It probably would make boxing safer (where safer means choosing hand damage over brain damage).

In MMA I believe it would reduce boxing and increase the prevalence of grappling and muay thai. Ultimately the goal I'd like to aim for is less chronic head injuries, I think gloveless would do that, but who knows.

On the topic of ditching "safety gear" I'm curious what CTE rates are comparing American Football to Rugby or Australian Football.

One idea I'd like to see spread from competitive gaming is the willingness of the powers that be to adjust the sport to improve it. I don't know the exact details of how rules officially get changed in sports, but man does it seem painfully slow for any changes to be made (overpowered pitchers in baseball, no video reviews in soccer, etc).

This is something I think MMA does really well, as the rules are mostly in place to prevent permanent injury and the "meta" seems to evolve nicely on its own. (I'd still like to see a version of MMA with no gloves - it would probably be much safer).

I don't always agree with changes that come to my particular game of choice (Starcraft II) but I think the steady stream of small adjustments is a boon that other competitive venues should learn from.

>They're not stupid

And yet this blog page wastes ~1/3 of the vertical space with a top and bottom bar.

I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot lately and I even briefly made an experimental message board that limited the amount of posts the users could make. The idea was that it would slow down the pace of the board and encourage more people to post.

The idea never really took off, almost entirely due to marketing - I have no idea how to promote such a thing.

The site is currently down but if anyone has ideas how to regularly promote it (and maybe keep out jerks who post bad things) I'd love some ideas.

Curious to see if Razer's continued efforts in Android gaming will tip the scales in Android's favor. For now iOS is still the premiere mobile gaming platform.

Oh yeah MTAs are a nightmare.

I used to work at Addgene, really enjoyed it. The nonprofit "open science" business model is awesome!

Thanks! Yeah probably not mainstream smash hit.

I've been working on Igriva little by little for the past few weeks. The core idea is imposing limits on the user: you can only post or comment five times until Igriva resets. When Igriva resets all the posts are cleared (I don't save them) and all users get five more actions. Not sure if it's a good idea or not but it was fun to make!

I wonder if we can sort of trick ourselves into more reasoned discussions. For example: before a debate have the participants (maybe the audience too) say something to the effect of "I am willing to change my position on this topic."

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. I love this book.

Related PyCon talk about this: https://youtu.be/bx3NOoroV-M

I have the same feeling every time I see these types of "turn your editor into an IDE" posts. There are a lot of features of PyCharm I like, but its debugger is definitely the best and most essential for me.

Loving the move away from 16:9 aspect ratios. Looks like some serious competition for Apple's notebooks.

I'm working on a large collection of short stories called the Daily Story Project (guess how frequently I write the stories).

It's intended to be listened to as a podcast but I also publish the recordings as YouTube videos.

Not really "on topic" for HN but I did write a script to do the video to mp3 conversion!

If you're looking for a representative sample of my writing style I would say Ghost Squad is a good one: https://youtu.be/zzMOK86J7IE (113).

Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-story/id1212062965... Youtube: youtube.com/krisshamloo