...which can be stymied by using first-party cookies for lead attribution, which is exactly what webkit is recommending that sites switch to. Voila!
Have you done many interviews? The solution to "people lie sometimes" is not to rely on correlation-to-a-correlation Ouija board bullshit, it's to delve and ask for more detail until you're satisfied the person isn't…
I'm presuming you want a candid, honest response as opposed to a look-how-inclusive-I-am one, hence the throwaway, so here's what I think you should be asking: 1. How frequently and for what reasons do people there work…
Only tangentially related, but some of you may be amused to learn that one legal standard for whether something infringes a trademark is the "Moron in a hurry" test: meaning, would a moron in a hurry confuse the thing…
Dopamine seems to be an API that automates and optimizes the display of "rewards" (positive messages or images) in an app to increase usage, right? And there's ML to optimize timing of the rewards, but it's basically…
It won't take off until there are useful apps to run on it, and once there are, people will get it for those apps, not for it itself. Only to CS majors is it interesting in itself - to everyone else, it will (or won't)…
> people definitely do choose their linux distributions based on ideology Sure, sorry, I meant that it's not the norm, not that it never happens ever. My post was unnecessarily argumentative in tone, due to frustration…
It was sale.urbit.org but you needed a ticket. Submit your email address to get on the list for future notifications, including tickets to future sales, although they say the next one will be a public auction. What you…
Urbit is the most brazenly audacious computer science project on Earth, it's entirely open source, and yet, every time it gets mentioned on the world's most popular forum for programmers, virtually all of the discussion…
Could you please make a throwaway account for this shit? How can you be smart enough to write your own OS and yet dumb enough to not realize that the #1 impediment to Urbit's adoption is your political blogging? I say…
Dude, it's an os, a container, a thing you write and run apps in. You want it to select a hosting plan for you and help you if you forget the password to the box it runs on? Look, if you're a hacker, and you've got some…
> Wordpress has pretty high adoption, but there are very few companies which support wordpress integration, and if they do, it is at a much higher price (bluehost: $3/mo regular hosting, $20/mo wordpress hosting) What's…
Interesting thoughts. I'll just weigh in on the ones I feel confident answering: > I have absolutely no idea why they've invented a custom p2p network/addressing system. Part of what Urbit does is make it easy to…
> Why would they each cost a dollar when they're running out? How could you possibly defeat economics like that? Scarce things are expensive. The "urbit is land" analogy is, like any analogy, only so useful; don't carry…
shrug As you like. If whoever wrote Jira revealed that the reason "stories" and "bugs" and "epics" all have the same default fields was because he thinks capitalism is better than socialism or what have you, I would…
> why would a developer prefer to write Self-Hosted!Instagram instead of just Instagram? Because urbit is designed to make that an easy thing to do. Say you've got a webserver, and you want to put a picture of your kid…
That's a fair point, I was complaining about past Urbit threads, which sometimes spend a lot more time on the founder's weird-but-irrelevant politics than on the technical merits of the project. I expect and welcome…
I shouldn't have said "planets". I think only the top 256 "galaxies" (owned by the founders and investors) really get a vote. Maybe? That might not be right, I don't remember the details. But there are two other…
I think the answer, the unmet need Urbit is trying to meet, is "I wish I could install apps on a server as easy as I do on my phone." On your phone, the security comes from a crack team of engineers paid by Google or…
I agree on the dissonance, that rankled me too. What does "as usable as any widely used app" mean, in the context of a hobbyist OS for hackers who have already committed to learning a weird new functional programming…
Thanks for responding! Sadly the signal:noise ratio on HN really plummets when urbit gets mentioned. Zaphar's response is good but I'll go in to more detail (as I see it): - bandwidth : there's nothing in Urbit itself…
This is just grousing; If urbit got so popular that addresses were sparse, a big if, planet owners would just vote to add more.
It has a webserver and networking and it can access the filesystem and it can send messages to other users securely. There's also an ntalk kind of app and a simple threaded discussion things but they're more like demo…
A couple thoughts from an early backer who really, really wants Urbit to succeed (and fears it won't): 1. What is Urbit? I'm not involved with it and don't speak for the devs, but this always comes up, so I'll just…
...which can be stymied by using first-party cookies for lead attribution, which is exactly what webkit is recommending that sites switch to. Voila!
Have you done many interviews? The solution to "people lie sometimes" is not to rely on correlation-to-a-correlation Ouija board bullshit, it's to delve and ask for more detail until you're satisfied the person isn't…
I'm presuming you want a candid, honest response as opposed to a look-how-inclusive-I-am one, hence the throwaway, so here's what I think you should be asking: 1. How frequently and for what reasons do people there work…
Only tangentially related, but some of you may be amused to learn that one legal standard for whether something infringes a trademark is the "Moron in a hurry" test: meaning, would a moron in a hurry confuse the thing…
Dopamine seems to be an API that automates and optimizes the display of "rewards" (positive messages or images) in an app to increase usage, right? And there's ML to optimize timing of the rewards, but it's basically…
It won't take off until there are useful apps to run on it, and once there are, people will get it for those apps, not for it itself. Only to CS majors is it interesting in itself - to everyone else, it will (or won't)…
> people definitely do choose their linux distributions based on ideology Sure, sorry, I meant that it's not the norm, not that it never happens ever. My post was unnecessarily argumentative in tone, due to frustration…
It was sale.urbit.org but you needed a ticket. Submit your email address to get on the list for future notifications, including tickets to future sales, although they say the next one will be a public auction. What you…
Urbit is the most brazenly audacious computer science project on Earth, it's entirely open source, and yet, every time it gets mentioned on the world's most popular forum for programmers, virtually all of the discussion…
Could you please make a throwaway account for this shit? How can you be smart enough to write your own OS and yet dumb enough to not realize that the #1 impediment to Urbit's adoption is your political blogging? I say…
Dude, it's an os, a container, a thing you write and run apps in. You want it to select a hosting plan for you and help you if you forget the password to the box it runs on? Look, if you're a hacker, and you've got some…
> Wordpress has pretty high adoption, but there are very few companies which support wordpress integration, and if they do, it is at a much higher price (bluehost: $3/mo regular hosting, $20/mo wordpress hosting) What's…
Interesting thoughts. I'll just weigh in on the ones I feel confident answering: > I have absolutely no idea why they've invented a custom p2p network/addressing system. Part of what Urbit does is make it easy to…
> Why would they each cost a dollar when they're running out? How could you possibly defeat economics like that? Scarce things are expensive. The "urbit is land" analogy is, like any analogy, only so useful; don't carry…
shrug As you like. If whoever wrote Jira revealed that the reason "stories" and "bugs" and "epics" all have the same default fields was because he thinks capitalism is better than socialism or what have you, I would…
> why would a developer prefer to write Self-Hosted!Instagram instead of just Instagram? Because urbit is designed to make that an easy thing to do. Say you've got a webserver, and you want to put a picture of your kid…
That's a fair point, I was complaining about past Urbit threads, which sometimes spend a lot more time on the founder's weird-but-irrelevant politics than on the technical merits of the project. I expect and welcome…
I shouldn't have said "planets". I think only the top 256 "galaxies" (owned by the founders and investors) really get a vote. Maybe? That might not be right, I don't remember the details. But there are two other…
I think the answer, the unmet need Urbit is trying to meet, is "I wish I could install apps on a server as easy as I do on my phone." On your phone, the security comes from a crack team of engineers paid by Google or…
I agree on the dissonance, that rankled me too. What does "as usable as any widely used app" mean, in the context of a hobbyist OS for hackers who have already committed to learning a weird new functional programming…
Thanks for responding! Sadly the signal:noise ratio on HN really plummets when urbit gets mentioned. Zaphar's response is good but I'll go in to more detail (as I see it): - bandwidth : there's nothing in Urbit itself…
This is just grousing; If urbit got so popular that addresses were sparse, a big if, planet owners would just vote to add more.
It has a webserver and networking and it can access the filesystem and it can send messages to other users securely. There's also an ntalk kind of app and a simple threaded discussion things but they're more like demo…
A couple thoughts from an early backer who really, really wants Urbit to succeed (and fears it won't): 1. What is Urbit? I'm not involved with it and don't speak for the devs, but this always comes up, so I'll just…