Hacker News: conceptpad

New comment by conceptpad in "Ram Dass has died"

conceptpad — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:30:24 +0000

Charlatan

New comment by conceptpad in "Chinese Money in the U.S. Dries Up as Trade War Drags On"

conceptpad — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:10:50 +0000

Building isn't the bottleneck in the system - it's land that is zoned for residential development.

New comment by conceptpad in "Show HN: CoolQLCool – Turn Websites into GraphQL Accessible APIs"

conceptpad — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:37:07 +0000

Great project! I can imagine this may greatly improve web certain classes of scraping. @gavino I'm curious what tooling and architecture you used to put this together?

New comment by conceptpad in "Open Source is Not About You"

conceptpad — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:24:07 +0000

Rich Hickey has given so much to the world of software and systems design. The value exchange has most likely not been reciprocal. Nor has it been sufficiently respectful, based on this message. People like Rich that give so much are rare. And people that understand how to respectfully recognize that seem to be becoming more rare.

Of course, one can remember that life is not fair, and people are often shitty even without being conscious of it, and that Rich has freely chosen to pursue this path.

But this leads me to a few questions: If you agree with what I have written above, and what Rich has written in this message, then how can we tip the scales just a little bit further towards respect and reciprocation? What kind of gestures, gifts, and generosities do you think are appropriate? What improved efforts to educate consumers of open source software would be effective? Further still, what kind of culture do we want?

New comment by conceptpad in "Now 2.0"

conceptpad — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:56:09 +0000

Not to speak for @rauchg and the team, but I think the answers are 1: no (or not soon) and 2: yes

New comment by conceptpad in "Silicon Valley's Keystone Problem: A Monoculture of Thought"

conceptpad — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 16:52:36 +0000

It is orthogonal to the Times article, but George Gilder's recent book "Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy" [1] offers a valuable perspective. His recent interview at the Stanford Hoover Institute [2] is compelling.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072NYKG2G/ [2] https://www.hoover.org/research/george-gilder-forget-cloud-c...

New comment by conceptpad in "Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element"

conceptpad — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:43:44 +0000

Great tool! I'd like to see you keep going with this. Quick feedback: it would be useful to copy the entire ruleset, including the selector and brackets (as an option). Further if you can reach into source via document.stylesheets, grab the selectors from source (as another option).

New comment by conceptpad in "Stripe Press"

conceptpad — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:40:15 +0000

I think it is the same book. Personal review: This book makes the history of computing tangible, visceral, and fun to read about - covering all the important characters, and showing the network of connections among them, from Vannevar Bush, Norbert Weiner, Claude Shannon, all the way to Bob Taylor and Alan Kay. Licklider forms an important node in the network with his imagination, and actions taken such as this 1963 memo for the "Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network" [1]

[1] http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider-IntergalacticNetwork.pd...

New comment by conceptpad in "Javascript utility libraries to know in 2018"

conceptpad — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:21:32 +0000

Agreed, this seems to be written as marketing first, education second. Good content marketing puts the priority on learning first. If the Bit folks are reading this and interested in improving, I suggest reading Kathy Sierra's book and watching her talks.

https://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4dNaflEgP4

New comment by conceptpad in "Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)"

conceptpad — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 06:21:59 +0000

That's the simple logic of rent vs. buy, but as the article details, there are other considerations. Opportunity cost being one primary cost that you're not taking into account. To me the most important question is the most fundamental: "Am I a real estate investor?" - I am not, and the overwhelming majority of persons are not. And yet the moment we purchase a home, we become real estate investors. In my case the simple fact that I've only purchased one property in my entire life means that I'll do it with less education and awareness than my landlord did when he purchased the home I currently, comfortably, live in. I think my landlords own and rent more than a few properties, and they do a great job of managing them. I am not confident that I would manage this asset as well as the professionals do, and so I cannot claim that were I to buy this home from them with a mortgage, that I would gain anything. In my opinion this is the key fallacy within the argument favoring the Buy option.

New comment by conceptpad in "Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?"

conceptpad — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:31:59 +0000

I find WorryDream Refs by Bret Victor to be a very inspiring collection: http://worrydream.com/refs/

New comment by conceptpad in "U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities"

conceptpad — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:54:21 +0000

Important info from Steve Blank on Hacking for Defense here: https://steveblank.com/category/hacking-for-defense/

Steve's dedication to direct public service is impressive, and sets a high bar for other Silicon Valley leaders to reach.

New comment by conceptpad in "Universal Now: Now, on Every Cloud"

conceptpad — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:34:06 +0000

Zeit is simplifying product development and delivery in a very tasteful way. Thank you and keep going!

New comment by conceptpad in "Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers"

conceptpad — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 06:27:43 +0000

Sorry to hear about your situation. Here I offer you an mp3 recording of a radio show recording you may find valuable: http://digital-magic.tv/digitalplanet/thepositivemind/mp3/tp...

Show: The Positive Mind Host: Armand DiMele Title: Shame and Suicide Description: Armand discusses the correlation between suicide and shame. Also, how people deal with feeling inadequate and lonely. Topics: shame vs. embarrassment, accountability and judgement, social phobia, cultural differences and expectations

New comment by conceptpad in "Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?"

conceptpad — Sat, 06 May 2017 17:26:40 +0000

A better idea is to target the design of your SaaS at an underserved segment of the market with deep pockets and charge a premium. Here's your how-to: https://www.amazon.com/What-Customers-Want-Outcome-Driven-Br...

New comment by conceptpad in "Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms"

conceptpad — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:34:50 +0000

"Learning from Seymour Papert" - MIT Media Lab Published on Aug 1, 2016 A panel from the Spring 2014 Member Event. Panelists: Mitch Resnick, Marvin Minsky, Alan Kay, and Nicholas Negroponte. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvgef9ABDUc