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matude··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
Funny how copyright used to be held to such extreme value before that many governments agreed to implement the "empty cassette laws" which then got conveniently also applied to empty cd-s, even though there's no guarantee that every single empty cd would be used to burn copyrighted material. And now that the copyright has become an annoyance to AI training, suddenly there's voices and support to abolish the whole thing.

I agree that it is broken and probably needs to be reformed, but abolished outright would lead to a ton of issues right?

matude··on Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database
Thank you for the kind words! Ah yeah, strong.app is very popular. We have many cool features planned that should allow us to give value to even the most serious weight lifters who are not supported by the strong app, like autoregulating based on RPE/RIR, routine snippets, supersets, dropsets, private trainer profiles, etc, but we have a lot of work ahead yet.

I added your wish to our subreddit as a feature request: https://www.reddit.com/r/hardyapp/comments/nzsmu2/feature_re...? If your username is there as it is here I can notify you once we have added such a feature. :)

matude··on Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database
If anybody is looking for a routine database that supports more complex routines like the Wendler's 5/3/1 variations with Training Max percentage based weights then check out the [Hardy.app](https://www.hardy.app/howitworks). The routines can have progression overload based on AMRAP, deloads, etc. And the workout tracking app calculates changes in your TM based on AMRAP and other rules in the routine. Just enter you 1 rep maxes and hit "start".

Full disclosure though, it's kinda self-promotion because I've been developing [Hardy.app](https://www.hardy.app) with a friend for over a year now. It's free and we're adding more features all the time, check it out if interested. :)

matude··on Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
> Pardon my ignorance, but how come mobile apps and websites get valued for 10+ or 20+ Bn dollars , while someone who creates real technology is valued at only $6.9Bn

Imagine a building, say a shopping center, airport, or a city main square, that gets the same amount of visitors per day as some of those apps, and it might start to make more sense. Take Clash of Clans for example, valued at $10 billion. It has around 100 million daily active players. One of the busiest airports, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, has 104 million passengers annually. NY Times square receives about fifty million visitors per year.

If something, anything, gets 100 million visitors PER DAY, the value of such a real estate, even if digital, is immense.

matude··on NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction
> I can see plenty of people in the valley being rich enough and crazy enough to stasis themselves so they can see the future and reap its benefits.

Invest money in stocks, bonds and the like and automatically reinvest dividends. Sleep for 10-20 years, wake up in a potentially better financial position.

matude··on JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
> (e.g. Preview

View > Show Markup Toolbar

matude··on The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
Aka "9 women won't give birth to a child in 1 month". An example often used to describe how adding more developers doesn't necessarily solve an issue quicker.
matude··on Bootstrap 4 Beta
Personally prefer Foundation but glad to see Bootstrap maturing from the eternal alpha version. :)
matude··on Bitcoin breaks $3K to reach new all-time high
Bull market, you mean?
matude··on Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub
Foundation 6 > Bootstrap 3. Especially if you need easier customizability.
matude··on Edward R. Murrow Interviews Robert Oppenheimer (1955) [video]
> • Oppenheimer mentions a young physicist named Dyson. This is Freeman Dyson[1], who is still active today[2]. Human lives are long.

Aka the Dyson Sphere and the 'Orion' spacecraft project among many other things.

matude··on Show HN: Slack Meets GitHub Issues
Much has been covered by others, so as a designer with 10 years of experience my recommendation would be to change the logo into something cleaner.
matude··on Kicktrolling
Maybe they Kicktrolled themselves in order to raise publicity on their misfortune? It's not easy to get on the front page of HN...
matude··on Where do Kickstarter projects find their engineers?
http://www.coroflot.com is what you're thinking of. And also http://www.grabcad.com might be helpful.
matude··on What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview
> Everyone thinks that backups aren't necessary until something happens to them.

On the contrary, everybody knows backups are necessary, the problem is bothering to actually do it regularly, especially on a high-intensity time of pre-launch. Personally I forgot to eat at times when working on our Kickstarter campaign video...

matude··on A mystery company plans a €600 million, 200k m² (2,1m ft²) datacenter in Estonia
Unless they made a meters/square-feet conversion error in the article, at 200k square meters it should become the third largest data center in the world, according to this Forbes' list: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhgl45ijg/range-international...
matude··on Frequency-shaped background noise generators
Heh, thought it was CSS-based website background noise texture generator…
matude··on Show HN: iPhone dock that sits on iMac stand + new responsive & interactive site
It's responsive to screen size. Best viewed at higher resolutions where the site has space to expand to its full content width, the slide to unlock gets a bit squeezed together on smaller screens and I haven't been able to fix it properly.
matude··on Just launched world's first iPhone dock that mounts to iMac + thinnest USB cable
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions regarding the dock, the manufacturing process, the cable or the general process of launching a project on Kickstarter.

Also, if you guys are interested I can upload some behind the scene photos of the prototypes, how we made the video, etc. :)