Interesting! Looks like a GUI list abstraction for a shared filesystem, where everything is a folder and their values are folder names. Makes me wonder what other cool things people could do with Kanban boards that would involve new conceptual models.
For example, a Kanban board where each column is a list of products or a shopping cart, and the final column is a list of purchased items. Moving a product to the final column would purchase the item and not be undoable.
Learning to program is not necessarily the same as learning to code. If we always think of the two as the same, we'll face the same issues indefinitely.
Sorta. Code is the medium of encoding a program, but it's just text. One important part about programming is it gives us a new mode to think in terms of. Another is that it gives us power over an entity (the computer) to execute things. The cool thing about Papert's LOGO was that children already knew how to think in terms of left, right, forward, etc. so they could act out their programs in real life before writing them down. This is one step forward, but not enough.
We have to stop looking at computers as machines with mice and keyboards and small screens that we conquer with code and start thinking of them as abstract entities that execute things, and then think of how best to manipulate those entities to do what we want.
"The computer is an instrument whose music is ideas" (Alan Kay) - Can you imagine what music would look like today if all we could do was write it down and hit play? Where's the emotion and playfulness in that?
McLuhan speaks in exaggerated language - it's important to not take everything he says too literally, and to instead judge the essence of the ideas.
"The Medium is the Message" because without context (the media), messages are just noise. McLuhan was all about seeing the contexts we live in, how they shape our reality, etc.
I know a number of people outside of software engineering/tech that are going through this. Since COVID, many people have learned (the hard way) that community is important.
Try meetups (even meetup.com). It only takes one person you meet to stick and become a friend, and that's 1000x better than where you started. Keep doing it, go to random meetups and things where there will be other people open to making friends. You don't need to actually be interested in whatever the activity is (though many meetups are at bars), it's just an excuse to meet people, just like college was.
Try standup comedy clubs/shows (the small ones). These people are usually friendly, and people usually stick around to chat afterwards. You can meet people easily this way.
Eventually you or someone you meet will ask to do another activity together (maybe food, maybe golfing, who knows). You could even make it a regular thing over time. This kind of thing builds the sense of community you're looking for.
Wanna feel good tomorrow? Go to a few stores (or similar) and make small talk with some cashiers. Try your best to engage and be nice. You may not meet a friend this way, but you'll connect with others in your community around you, which will certainly help.
If this is your last internship before some form of graduation, then maybe consider working somewhere you'd be more willing to work full time (if not Meta). Otherwise, seems fine, for reasons others have mentioned below.
Go through the MyFirstMillion podcasts for indiehacker-like ideas that could make you fairly wealthy. There are a ton, and like others have pointed out, it seems what you are working on is very specific, very technical, and very context dependent (Rust, PostgreSQL, etc.).
It doesn't take brilliance (in the realm of ideas) to be financially successful. If you listen to this podcast enough, you'll realize how rich people have gotten doing some of the most low-hanging ideas.
What about the one-user, commercial shop? Seems like commercial is minimum 10 users, but personal/developer is more expensive per user. Does a one man shop need to pay $250 for commercial use, or $75?
I think people, by nature, tend to bucket others into a set of a few archetypes because it is easier to process the world this way. Most of it is out of ignorance - humans are always trying to conceptualize their lives in ways that can be understood, manipulated, and talked about.
It is a shame that companies are passed up because they don't fit perfectly into one of a few categories. This is partially why research institutions and research-based companies are often overlooked or micromanaged.
Orthostatic hypotension, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and other related issues are not always (and usually not) B12 deficiency. These issues are downstream of a number of causes.
Take up a new medium for expression (e.g. drawing, painting, music, etc.). Don't just learn the ropes and play others' works, either. Try to put yourself and your thoughts, ideas, feelings, into the medium.
This makes some spiritual assumptions about things that are currently unknown and debated by respected people in related fields - one being that"everything" (or not) is sentient/conscious.
Great stuff! I can see a lot of potential with this. I think most of the information you provide for each area are very useful. Love the focus on zipcodes - much better than a city as a whole.
Couple comments: Some of the data/charts are hard to understand right off the bat. I'm not sure it will be clear to everyone what certain scores mean to them. I think it might be useful to take a look at how https://nomadlist.com/ does it.
This is probably obvious to you, but it would be nice to have more tangible and qualitative data for each area. School ranks, violent incidents, etc. are important, but there's so much more that goes into making these decisions! I'm not sure how you'll get this qualitative data unless user-generated, but I think it's critical.
Depth (not just breadth) is very important. E.g. I think people are more likely to use a "here's a complete look at X city" than a "here's a brief look at EVERY city!"
Love what you're doing. Who is your ideal demographic right now? Young families?
"It usually descends into absurdities where you are supposed to find this rare unicorn brand that has the proper quality (for now, who knows next year!) then dose it at some exact time before bed time, but avoiding calcium or citric acid or something because that would nullify it etc etc."
The body is a complex system. Just because our minds prefer simplicity doesn't mean our bodies will respond simply. People that are into the minutiae of nutrition and supplementation are obviously willing to do their homework to get the benefits.
"Supposing the supplement even ever worked, it simply is not practically useful with such constraints. I'm not going to get a PHD in fish oil quality in order to achieve some single digit risk reduction of heart disease."
Nobody is asking you to do anything. We live in a society where most foods are fairly processed, most supplements are bogus, most claims are BS, etc. There's an overwhelming amount of data on the benefits of Omega-3s now, and to get the benefits you need to actually take quality Omega-3s. Rancid fish oil won't give much benefit, and most fish oil is likely shit. The supplements industry isn't regulated like medicine.
Cursor disappeared and I had to find a way to quit Chrome without it. Very frustrating.
Re: rewiring the brain - these exercises feel like functional neurology exercises, were they inspired by those? "Neuroplasticity" is just a fancy term for learning, really, and if you dig deep enough there are some niche communities online that (at least claim to) use it to heal themselves from various chronic illnesses. Very anecdotal, but lots of anecdotes.
I've always thought people in the "tools for thought" domain should explore this.
Check out the stellate ganglion block shot - seems promising for long covid. Hypothesis is that the body is stuck in "fight or flight" mode, and this shot stuns a few of the nerves responsible "long enough" for the autonomic nervous system to "reset."
More of a passive idea, but you could add potential customers on linkedin and wait until they mention anything related to what you do, then reach out via linkedin. Less pushy (you will need to still be doing the pushy kind of sales), more thoughtful, and has worked for a number of sales people I know in different industries.
Why is this pricing surprising (or bad)? Certain groups of people pay more (or less) for certain products, and the market reflects that.
The alternative being proposed sounds much worse: price control (based on ingredients?)? Not all products are mere sums of their parts, and some people prefer the premium experience regardless of the differences.
They aren't literally charging based on gender - but different brands targeted towards different genders offer different prices and experiences. If the products really are that similar, the other gender can buy the other gender's product no problem.
> Why do people keep working and earning more when they are set for life--what actual practical purpose does megawealth serve once you've guaranteed your standard of living for you and your offspring?
I think this is the wrong question to ask -- "what end is this a means to anymore". One of the largest challenges in life is pursuit of meaning, and Zuck has, at least he thinks, found it. He still has consequences, but they are higher up on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
You could argue that those in charge should have enough at stake to feel the burn of a layoff like this, but this issue isn't dissimilar to biology. We often make local (and temporary) sacrifices on behalf our own bodies, knowing "we" will still be around afterwards to enjoy life and the removed parts won't (removing limbs, wiping out blood cells, organ removal, etc.). This isn't 1:1 with Zuck, because Zuck is more than just his role in Meta, but close enough.
> You get what data structures made of links truly are: the triviality of a single node that becomes a lot more powerful and complex once it references another one.
I don't think beginners actually make this connection for a while. Linked Lists are introduced analogously to arrays, sets, etc. Beginners think about Linked Lists in terms of what they already know.
As a beginner, I thought of Linked Lists purely as non-contiguous arrays, even though there are deeper concepts behind them.
Unless the beginners already have the perspective of "same having the power as the whole", I don't think this connection gets made for a while. Linked Lists don't expose so much possibility on their own.
I think the post is a bit misleading (e.g. "for everybody" makes it sound like "everybody" can do something about this right now), but I think this comment misses the point of the protocol.
This is (I think) supposed to be a shared language between note-taking apps (and eventually others that include "thoughts" I presume). The hopes are that it does "affect everybody," but it is not something that can "affect everybody" without "apps" speaking in this shared language.
If you are not somebody who works on these kinds of things, then yea, probably useless to you for now. I think the author wants interoperability at the "thought" level between apps that support users inputting their ideas.
Article's points shouldn't be taken as seriously as the general message: be just as aware of the invisible, negative forces that hinder employees as you are of the positive forces which stellar employees bring. Yin and yang.
Important to note that there are also 10x environments that make everyone in them 10x as effective.
A number of the side effects listed here are also known to happen on the "waking up" journey. Tinnitus, for example, is a thing we all have that our brain filters out for the most part. Depersonalization is an obvious (and sought after) side effect of "waking up" as well.
These side effects can be scary to someone that doesn't anticipate them (or just doesn't want them), but the "benefits" of LSD often point to the loosening of your sense of self, seeing unfiltered reality, etc.
TLDR: these side effects can be seen as good in the right context.
For those criticizing, think of this updated website more from the lens of art, less pragmatics. The Doug Engelbart "Mother of All Demos" functioned in this way as well. Can you imagine scoffing at Engelbart in the same way? There are quite a few deep ideas in this presentation of Dynamicland, many of which are subtle and take some effort to find and appreciate, much like art.
Yes, it is intended to be useful to many one day, and they claim it "actually works" _now_, but if you read carefully (and you should!), they are trying very hard to maintain (and gradually grow) a beautiful little flame of a vision. PARC, on the other hand, had 10 years. Afterwards, industry ran with the ideas they wanted, and Alan Kay has been beating the "you missed the big ideas!" drum since. The Dynamicland group is trying to learn from this lesson of history.
They aren't trying to "gain traction" right now. They are nurturing a beautiful little flame of a vision and documenting it for the world to learn from, and possibly be inspired by, along the way -- someday it will be more publicly available, but for now it functions, to the general public, more as art than utility.
The typical themes of things that get posted on HN are not compatible with this idea, which is why it comes across so jarringly to many. They aren't selling, prescribing, recruiting, etc. They are sharing a vision, and to deeply understand and appreciate the vision you have to get your hands dirty and do some digging into what they've prepared for us to see thus far.
Product seems like it could be neat, and around 0:34 of the demo video I thought I understood what it was, but after that I was confused again. Does it translate a question/wish into a set of questions?
Is it just "I have a question, go find the answer(s), even if it means asking other people"?
For example, a Kanban board where each column is a list of products or a shopping cart, and the final column is a list of purchased items. Moving a product to the final column would purchase the item and not be undoable.