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startupdiscuss commented on The Trouble with the Segway (2009) paulgraham.com/segway.htm... · Posted by u/gadtfly

Three points:

(1) I don't think this is the reason it did not work. There are lots of things that make you look like a dork -- PCs, airpods etc -- but they took off like rocketships (speaking as someone who adopted these dork items whole heartedly).

(2) I agree it is a mystery why Segways didn't work, but I think it remains an unsolved mystery.

(3) We have more information now that we have lime and other similar items available. (*)

(*) This is actually a point in PG's favor because the lime's are skateboard inspired. But they're not undorky.

startupdiscuss commented on A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout studyfinds.org/exercise-e... · Posted by u/rajnathani

radu_floricica · 3 years ago

Probably relevant for the HN crowd: there's a bunch of very geeky next gen fitness guys that keep up with the cutting edge of fitness research, and occasionally expand it themselves. If you're reading them, this kind of thing is being discussed for years, with new studies just moving the odds a bit in favor of the current hypothesis. Yes, they're very Bayesian, explicitly so.

A few names/links, pick and mix as you will - they're all good:

https://mennohenselmans.com/high-resistance-training-frequen...

http://www.lookgreatnaked.com/fitness_articles_by_brad_schoe...

https://macrofactorapp.com/articles/

https://rpstrength.com/team-member/mike-israetel-phd

Probably not the best links for each, but it's morning and I got work to do. Should be enough to get you started tho.

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

Is there a tl;dr for the sum knowledge?

startupdiscuss commented on Blitz.js – Fullstack Toolkit for Next.js blitzjs.com/... · Posted by u/davidbarker

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

This is not a criticism of Blitz which looks fine. From what I can see, it is better than fine.

However, this reminds me of the early Rails (or even Rails 4.0) demos that I saw where they build a blog in 5 minutes.

Here is the thing: The fastest way to get a skeletal app running -- even if it is written in C -- is to

> git clone already_written_archetype.lang

And then you can modify it.

So you can put that archetype into the framework. So I always wonder if the right example is not build a blog or to-do-list or twitter clone. The right example might be:

take a blog and change it into a twitter clone

Because you can always download the archetype if you need to but the framework should demonstrate how nimble it is. (Again, I don't claim Blitz is not nimble and I would have to play with it to know.)

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startupdiscuss commented on De-anonymizing programmers from binaries (2017) arxiv.org/abs/1512.08546... · Posted by u/pvitz

bobkazamakis · 3 years ago

he's dead.

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

If he or she were dead, but their writing and code is extant, presumably they could still be identified.

Posted by u/startupdiscuss 3 years ago

Ask HN: Has anyone not selling Design Sprints tried a design sprint?

startupdiscuss commented on De-anonymizing programmers from binaries (2017) arxiv.org/abs/1512.08546... · Posted by u/pvitz

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

Not directly relevant but it got me thinking:

Has anyone tried to use the source code and white paper to figure out who Satoshi Nakamoto might be?

If you can figure it out from binaries, surely there is a lot more info. And you have the github and the blogosphere to compare.

startupdiscuss commented on From novice to master, and back again (2013) blog.djmnet.org/2013/01/1... · Posted by u/mre

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

Zen Koan:

Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone.

When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone.

Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone.

-- Source: my buddy in college

I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always in some sense loading up what you need for the next month or three. At least this time you knew to look for the man su command, and remind yourself of the work you did, that you shared with all these other people.

startupdiscuss commented on Blosxom: The Zen of Blogging blosxom.com/... · Posted by u/Tomte

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

The issue isn't the tool to get your blog up, but hosting it.

The real solution will be a super easy app that lets you push the blog out to:

- git* pages

- digital ocean/vultr/aws/wherever

- netlify/forestry as an advanced feature

- move it easily from one to the other

(You have to set up an account on the target and provide the app with credentials/tokens or whatever).

Setting up markdown-> html+css themes is what everyone focuses on

startupdiscuss commented on No More “Insight Porn” jakobgreenfeld.com/insigh... · Posted by u/jakobgreenfeld

lumost · 3 years ago

Consider how ineffective this advice is then. What decisions can you make? You could take this to mean that you should follow your gut, or not. Does it share anything useful for formulating a decision? And why is this approach better than the alternatives?

startupdiscuss · 3 years ago

The point is, this was not meant to be advice! This was anti-advice.

You can't use the criterion: if it is insightful it has to be actionable on an insight that says "I have no actions for you".

The difference is, it is not trying to trick you.

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