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It needs other improvements too.

The cut, app, play, calc, www buttons are largely getting in the way (particularly www.)

PageUp and PageDown are nearly useless, since you have to strain your wrist to get to them being down there.

And the Fn key is frighteningly useless, hidden as far left down as possible. How could anyone use the blue arrow keys with it?

Also, has anyone noticed the TypeMatrix 2020 was softer than the TypeMatrix 2030?

What's so hard about writing it in Javascript?

What makes you believe there is a negative correlation between keyboard age and keyboard goodness?

Or it could be a schlep. Everyone could be doing it the wrong way, just like Google showing the best search result in 1999 was initially considered the wrong way.

Take the easy case of a consumer ready to buy something this minute. Say, they want a colorful winter jacket for men, and they are willing to pay anything for it.

Can they find it with advertising? Can they find it with search?

One goal of advertising for the consumer is that it helps them make a decision. Which of these X jackets should I consider?

Now, is being interrupted the best way to make a decision?

Yes, it is very much related to the front post.

Right now advertising is interrupt-driven. Could one do the opposite? What you are suggesting seems like a frontal attack and that may not be the best tactic.

What is the goal of advertising anyway?

For the ad-buyer, the goal seems to be increasing sales.

For the consumer, the goal is ... what?

Odds are it is market forces that will set such a standard. So if AdBlock is stronger in moving the market, then AdBlock is a better avenue towards a privacy standard.

There may be a peculiar outcome though. If AdBlock manages to decrease demand, will that increase the cost of advertising or increase its effectiveness? Those not adblocking would be the ones easily sold.

Advertising profits not dropping could be enough of an illusion so that, with enough adblocking, one could try a Groupon in reverse.

@wmf: one business model would be users paying for privacy themselves.

Loading a program on cassette was loud enough to get one banned from using the Spectrum. Plus, there was only one TV in the living room, which you needed for the Spectrum.

Add the two, and scaling meant buying another TV and migrating often between rooms.

Traumatic was when I (think I was the one who) finally burned it by plugging in the wrong power supply, decades later.

Have you considered running it against Viaweb's first business plan?

http://www.paulgraham.com/vwplan.html

Moving the mouse to the left (I am right-handed) alleviated about half the pain I had in my right shoulder and hand.

I found rock climbing to be strengthening my joints, and a net positive.

When I started showing RSI symptoms, I switched to Dvorak, and also got an ergonomic keyboard. The difference in comfort was dramatic for me.

I would say that a softer keyboard was what made the biggest difference in comfort. Particularly, reducing the effort it takes to press a key down.

The keyboard I liked the best was a http://typematrix.com/ The key feature that made it more comfortable for me was the vertical alignment of keys, as opposed to a diagonal alignment. (Edit: the key feature compared to other keyboards that do leave space in between the hands.)

As I recently found out, there's more to curing RSI pain: http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

How secure is the VM given a binary that can dynamically modify itself to bypass the inspection of the VM?

Maybe it's not as bothersome as it sounds. Donald Knuth said the two biggest problems in Computer Science are searching and sorting.

Has Greplin basically solved inbox being a todo list?

Is there a buildpack for Arc?

Name one.

Not that hard? Show me how.

"Draw the text"? How?

Why can't I type the text and have it drawn for me?

Film schools would make a good first port of call indeed. They may not give the largest number of users to spread the idea though.

A lot of people want to be part of a movie. They also want to have their own reality show. Since in a sense everyone's personal reality is already shooting, why not allow for that?

http://thereality.is

Films want users, not legitimacy.

I'll watch anything a recommendation engine tells me looks like another film I know.

How do you know users will want to buy products they see in movies?

How can you make content producers make content interactive?

How can I one get in touch with you?

How will you get users?

Which are the biggest production costs that could be lowered?