Looks impressive. Any plans to offer other creators the ability to generate their own animations from text content like blogs or articles?
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cclements commented on Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use? · Posted by u/sdedovic
If you want something similar to Dropbox Paper, but better optimized towards long-term documentation, you should give Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com) a try. In terms of organization capabilities it is similar to Confluence. But I'm the CTO so I'm obviously biased.
Beautiful looking product. Any plans for a self-hosted version? Cloud based storage of a lot of information I deal with is a no go.
I worked at BioImplant in Vienna.
We tried very hard to get even one sentence into the Wikipedia article, to no avail. The editors insist on secondary sources of information (articles in magazines or newspapers), which apparently must be in English. Sadly, all news pieces so far have been in German.
We were equally unsuccessful in raising interest among popular science journalists.
Mind if I ask how much these cost? I've been wanting to get my whole lower replaced due to significant wear and this would be a great excuse for a trip to Vienna.
cclements commented on Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use? · Posted by u/networked
Nextcloud, it's great.
> The Cretaceous was a thing. The atmosphere had about as much CO2 as it could hold. There were lots of animals. We're headed back to it.
Extinction scale events have been "a thing" in Earth's history for as long as Earth's been around [0], as you note we are very likely in the middle of another one right now [1]
The big difference this time being: Previous ones most certainly had not been man-made, this one has a very high chance of being man-made. Who's to say humanity is incapable of damaging Earths biosphere beyond a point where it can recover? If we can manage to fill the oceans with more plastic than fish by 2050, then I'm certain we can manage to do quite a bit of damage to this planet as a whole [2].
A while ago I read a paper reasoning something like that might be the explanation for the Fermi paradox; extraterrestrial civilizations getting so advanced that they destroy the biosphere of their own planet, beyond repair, but not advanced enough to escape said destroyed planet. Sadly I can't find it anymore.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#List_of_extin...
[1] http://www.theworldcounts.com/counters/degradation_and_destr...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/2...
You're probably thinking of the "Great Filter"
cclements commented on Wall Street Is Giving Up On Twitter bloomberg.com/gadfly/arti... · Posted by u/petethomas
> News orgs were never in themselves meant to be profitable
Can you talk more about this? I was always under the impression that newspapers and newsrooms were always for-profit enterprises.
You, know I remembered seeing something about this in the show 'newsroom':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrOqjS9ZyA
But trying to do a little research on it, the best I could come up with for proof is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Time_Access_Rule
Still a good show though.
cclements commented on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent iknowwhatyoudownload.com/... · Posted by u/legatus
I've torrented both the archiso and debian iso's this month, but nothing came up for my IP
"You have an entire generation of what looks like cheap plastic toys with screens on them when we were promised a future with risk, innovation, the fantasies of Trek and Inspector Gadget laid out in front of us"
Er? Current Apple devices have a distinctly TNG Federation feel to them to me. Now borg on the other hand...
I got excited starting this article when he mentioned cyberpunk I thought he was going to make a much more interesting point than "I wish tech looked like what I think is cooler". Instead, I really would have enjoyed a discussion about what kind of things may be possible if we dropped the constraints of minimalism. Ideas about what amazing functionality and experiences technology could deliver for those whom don't mind their technology not being as invisible as possible and instead being more, well, large clunky cyberpunky. I would have enjoyed this specifically because with my limited imagination I can't think of a whole lot of additional /exciting/ functionality such an unbounding would enable.
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cclements commented on Apple Is Said to Be Rethinking Strategy on Self-Driving Cars mobile.nytimes.com/2016/0... · Posted by u/glhaynes
I really think companies like Apple and Google can execute like nobodies business in the car market, but then I see how uniformly terrible software made by car companies is, and wonder if they didn't think the same...
Here's to hoping they knock it out.