Facebook still offers a formula that might be unique on the Internet; a hard to replicate (if only because of the Metcalfe's law / fax machine effect) blend of using real-word identities and relationships to get and give attention, with a lot of work put into making a UI that is friendly enough for non-techies but still pretty feature rich (thinking of how easy it to throw up a photo gallery - and also get an audience for it)
I don't see people abandoning it en masse, and as long as they can find some way of monetizing the people who are there, they will remain a predominant player.
I wish it was all the old, independent web and blogsphere where anyone could hang up their shingle, but that paradigm has died out to the "wall"/stream amalgamated views of tumblr, twitter, instagram etc - and Facebook is the only of those really nailing the "real life" aspect.
even though "TodoMVC" shows that a todo app is kind of a cliche, it's interesting how many of the same (incorrect) assumptions so many things make. (Also, many people make idiosyncratic lists of their own requirements, see below;-)
Table stakes is having good "repeat" events, and some choices for stuff like "Final Friday of Month" or whatever- as well as a crisp "this repeats when task is marked complete vs this repeats when task was dude" I've found some apps that do this pretty well (Appigo Todo - but it hasn't been updated in years) but too many either don't support it or bury it in the UI.
Of course even Appigo makes very-engineery (vs. human-factorsy) presumptions like "everything with a date is more urgent than anything without a due date" and "the more overdue something is, the more urgent it must be" while the opposite is most likely true.
One other thing I haven't seen in an app (at least not one less than $20) - I want categories for my todo items, but I don't want to have to navigate back and forth to view the various categories... way too many apps treat these as separate lists for some unfathomable reasons, so trying to skim both urgent and less urgent stuff (less ugent might be stuff that needs to be done in a certain place, like at home or a store) requires clickng back and forth. I just want a big old list with subcategories inline
I'd also like tracking and charting of how many things I have pending vs get done, so I can do a little self-gamification if i want - but that's not as important as a categorized-but-browsable-as-single-list
" The music is slower, melodically simpler, louder, more repetitive, more "I" (first-person) focused, and more angry with anti-social sentiments." None of these mean "worse" per se. While I admire this kind of analysis, I reject the idea that it permits broad scale subjective value judgements with the scent of "objective truth".
I read Carol Dweck's "MindSet"... in all the books I've reading during a self-help kick, I think its identification of Fixed Mindsets vs Growth Mindsets is the most useful concept, both for my own growth as a former-semi-precocious child, and how I deal with kids these days
Precocious kids are prone to developed a Fixed Mindset, feeling that their intelligence and abilities are intrinsic, critical to why they are special, maybe even why they are loved. So the result of praising intelligence as "oh you're so smart" - The tendency could grow to seek only those activities that will validate their self-image, and also to lash out with anger at the external "causes" of their failures...
Describing and cultivating the core of the Growth Mindset is trickier.-- it's a more nuanced belief. It holds that the value of life is in the process, that abilities and intelligence are plastic and that constant growth and striving are the hallmarks doing well. You want kids to get a good Growth Mindset and maybe they will reject things that are too easy as unworthy of their time and attention; it's much better to get a good challenge that can teach, even if the "good" results are less assured.
I know Robert O. Doyle's son, Robert has written some survey stuff looking over the problem of free will, like what does that mean in a universe that's seemingly pretty damn deterministic...
I admit I'm a little pessimistic about finding definite answers. Trust those who seek the truth, doubt those who claim to have found it.
Not sure exactly what question you're asking but....
Like I mentioned, The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul is a great "sampler" if you enjoy asking the questions.
Also, Hofstadter's "I Am A Strange Loop" has one model, and presented in a particularly emotionally moving way
Finally, "On Intelligence" by Jeff "I also made the PalmPilot" Hawkins has some very specific possible answers about some of the neuroscience of (tl;dr: it's mostly all "predict and test")
Yeah, why? I thought it was a pretty fair article, so thanks for that.
And I think Dennett's more right than not. Consciousness isn't what it intuitively seems to be on the surface, it takes more introspection to get a feel for it.
At least try "The Mind's I", a book of essays by lots of folks he co-edited with Hofstadter.
With Trump blurting out "I'm not saying we got our intelligence from Israel, but: Israel" and "Oh and we got some nuke subs over there, look how tough I am", there are leaks at the top as well.
We all carry a thriving microbiome in our gut. Relationships that begin parasitical can become symbiotic.
The thing is, people tend not to pay for digital content. With Microtransactions, people had no idea how their usage might add up (think the first iPhone coming out ONLY with unlimited data plans - that cleared one of the hurdles that left WAP stumbling) or there would be privacy concerns, especially how porn was a big mover of the web.
Subscriptions are tough too, there are too many possibilities to try, leaving out others, and again, unclear how it might build up.
Apple was first out with a slab phone, and I was accidentally on purpose an early adopter, and over the years I've picked up the apps I like and am used to, along with the music handling and what not - the hardware is good enough or better that it will probably never be worth swapping over, and I'm sure long term Android users feel just the same the other way.
Ignoring this is as stupid as people who review various laptops purely on hardware, as if OSX vs Windows (or Linux, I suppose, in these parts at least) didn't matter.
Personally, I find jQuery great as the baseline to support bespoke programming solutions.
There is a LOT of love for framework over libraries like jQuery, but in my experience most hit up against Dietzler's Law* pretty hard. with frameworks one has to be rock solid in the real browsers stuff AND the framework one chose AND the hacks you had to set up to meet the gap between requirements and the framework sweetspot. (vs bespoke, where it's just the real browser stuff and then straight to the gap;-)
*Dietzler's Law: "Every Access project will eventually fail because, while 80% of what the user wants is fast and easy to create, and the next 10% is possible with difficulty, ultimately the last 10% is impossible because you can’t get far enough underneath the built-in abstractions, and users always want 100% of what they want" - but it's generally applicable
I'm probably coming at this too little too late, but:
for C-looking languages (C, Java, Javascript) etc that use curly braces and block, there's usually a strong visual element: no one wants to look at code that's not "properly formatted". So while language is super awesome and powerful (almost any programmer is going to have a hard time expressing himself or herself in, like, that block language that came w/ the original Lego Mindstorms), the graphical element is still present
Man, there's an err of pathos to when similar strategies are applied elsewhere, somehow Youtube noticed I went to a standing desk site, now half my adverts are from there. And also, they don't notice when I've actually bought a damn thing, so more advertising is just down the drain... I guess advertising is such a small % game that they'll take whatever "bump" they can get, no matter how stupid they look.
So, isn't there a concept that the Universe is closed, and we're just seeing older versions of the same stuff, but kinda repeated? (but hard to recognize because of the time lag involved)
Is this still considered a possibility, or have they figured out a way of ruling that out?
I'm more concerned about "rounding error", at least for the USD market. Most people probably use a rough "point = penny" heuristic in their head and call a, say, 1000 point game "about ten bucks". In reality it's about 12.50 though, so they consistently underestimate the cost of everything by about 20%...
it's to videogames what the "and 9/10 of a cent" is to gas... maybe a little more weasle-ish than that.
If I had to pick one, it would probably have to be the laptop, mostly because of the recreational programmer. Luckily I make a decent wage and having both just isn't that much of a financial burden.
The Not Getting It on both sides of the argument is pretty amazing.
I made a similar thing in 2002, but even more limited because it used the one line of a grey pushbutton as both the input and the output of the game! http://kirkjerk.com/features/gb.html
"For personal one to one text communications I don't see how you can improve on texts/SMS, and for anything else what does twitter do that a web site can't?"
It's the one to many thing -- not "many" as in "countless hoards of fans", but many as in "a set of people I know in real life and who I've run into online" -- most people don't generate enough content to make a website worth coming back to on a daily or more basis, but amalgamated with a bunch of other people's thoughts, and now you've got something!
There are other paths to the same thing -- if everyone used RSS heavily, you could be part of your audience's RSS feed, and still get a proportional amount of timely attention. And Facebook has a similar "fax machine effect" as Twitter -- for close friends, I would hope to get personal email or a call or word in person of important events, but for a big mass of people who I'm not that close to but not entirely distant, FB fills a niche. (That said I barely keep up with FB -- in general it's more "day to day" boring stuff and less people trying to be clever than twitter)
So that's what twitter does that a website (in practice) "can't" - aggregation is the key.
"In fact, I would say it is the communication (real or imagined) with "famous" people that makes it so appealing."
I'm sure this is true for many twitter readers, but it's certainly not universally applicable. I might follow some famous people, but only ones who seem to be trying to write funny or smart stuff.
Ironically, your clever (and shibboleth-ish; I had to google UDP to make sure I got it) line about twitter is an excellent example of what twitter is excellent for, as a "tweeter" -- the sharing of an engaging twist of perspective.
There's a lingering perception of twitter as a "what I'm having for dinner right now" kind of thing, but in practice that's a small fraction of the use of it (YMMV)-- conversely I would say Twitter's "right in the moment" aspect makes such talk a little more engaging and less banal, because there's more a chance of it being part of the shared human experience, distributed across space but unified in time -- but I think most people who "tweet" in that mode don't have big followings outside the group of people they know in real life.
So I'd say, as a tweeter, if you can come up with lines like the UDP one frequently, then you should be using twitter to increase the sum total of cleverness online and garner some of that old school egoboo. If all you're going to post about is what you're doing right now, then why bother?
I can't tell you why you should be using Twitter, but some of us have friends or know of folks online who are good at dropping the pithy bon mot, or find it a convenient way to announce things.
Why again should you be using email? Or SMS txt'ing? Or slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Facebook still offers a formula that might be unique on the Internet; a hard to replicate (if only because of the Metcalfe's law / fax machine effect) blend of using real-word identities and relationships to get and give attention, with a lot of work put into making a UI that is friendly enough for non-techies but still pretty feature rich (thinking of how easy it to throw up a photo gallery - and also get an audience for it)
I don't see people abandoning it en masse, and as long as they can find some way of monetizing the people who are there, they will remain a predominant player.
I wish it was all the old, independent web and blogsphere where anyone could hang up their shingle, but that paradigm has died out to the "wall"/stream amalgamated views of tumblr, twitter, instagram etc - and Facebook is the only of those really nailing the "real life" aspect.
even though "TodoMVC" shows that a todo app is kind of a cliche, it's interesting how many of the same (incorrect) assumptions so many things make. (Also, many people make idiosyncratic lists of their own requirements, see below ;-)
Table stakes is having good "repeat" events, and some choices for stuff like "Final Friday of Month" or whatever- as well as a crisp "this repeats when task is marked complete vs this repeats when task was dude" I've found some apps that do this pretty well (Appigo Todo - but it hasn't been updated in years) but too many either don't support it or bury it in the UI.
Of course even Appigo makes very-engineery (vs. human-factorsy) presumptions like "everything with a date is more urgent than anything without a due date" and "the more overdue something is, the more urgent it must be" while the opposite is most likely true.
One other thing I haven't seen in an app (at least not one less than $20) - I want categories for my todo items, but I don't want to have to navigate back and forth to view the various categories... way too many apps treat these as separate lists for some unfathomable reasons, so trying to skim both urgent and less urgent stuff (less ugent might be stuff that needs to be done in a certain place, like at home or a store) requires clickng back and forth. I just want a big old list with subcategories inline
I'd also like tracking and charting of how many things I have pending vs get done, so I can do a little self-gamification if i want - but that's not as important as a categorized-but-browsable-as-single-list
" The music is slower, melodically simpler, louder, more repetitive, more "I" (first-person) focused, and more angry with anti-social sentiments."
None of these mean "worse" per se. While I admire this kind of analysis, I reject the idea that it permits broad scale subjective value judgements with the scent of "objective truth".
I think the phones have gotten slim enough that you can kind of think of the case as an optional part OF the phone.
(Going without a case is kind of like how the Rebels always take off the back panels of their Y-Wing Fighters)
And relative to other parts of the phone, pretty damn customizable! So it seems like a win.
I read Carol Dweck's "MindSet"... in all the books I've reading during a self-help kick, I think its identification of Fixed Mindsets vs Growth Mindsets is the most useful concept, both for my own growth as a former-semi-precocious child, and how I deal with kids these days
Precocious kids are prone to developed a Fixed Mindset, feeling that their intelligence and abilities are intrinsic, critical to why they are special, maybe even why they are loved. So the result of praising intelligence as "oh you're so smart" - The tendency could grow to seek only those activities that will validate their self-image, and also to lash out with anger at the external "causes" of their failures...
Describing and cultivating the core of the Growth Mindset is trickier.-- it's a more nuanced belief. It holds that the value of life is in the process, that abilities and intelligence are plastic and that constant growth and striving are the hallmarks doing well. You want kids to get a good Growth Mindset and maybe they will reject things that are too easy as unworthy of their time and attention; it's much better to get a good challenge that can teach, even if the "good" results are less assured.
THanks :-D
Confusingly I grabbed both the regular and misspelled version. SoYour and SoYoure - I think the person helping with LetsEncrypt got tripped up
Cool, thanks for the pointers.
I know Robert O. Doyle's son, Robert has written some survey stuff looking over the problem of free will, like what does that mean in a universe that's seemingly pretty damn deterministic...
Ah, glad I didn't come out swinging.
I admit I'm a little pessimistic about finding definite answers. Trust those who seek the truth, doubt those who claim to have found it.
Not sure exactly what question you're asking but....
Like I mentioned, The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul is a great "sampler" if you enjoy asking the questions.
Also, Hofstadter's "I Am A Strange Loop" has one model, and presented in a particularly emotionally moving way
Finally, "On Intelligence" by Jeff "I also made the PalmPilot" Hawkins has some very specific possible answers about some of the neuroscience of (tl;dr: it's mostly all "predict and test")
Yeah, why? I thought it was a pretty fair article, so thanks for that.
And I think Dennett's more right than not. Consciousness isn't what it intuitively seems to be on the surface, it takes more introspection to get a feel for it.
At least try "The Mind's I", a book of essays by lots of folks he co-edited with Hofstadter.
Rereading Daniel Dennett's "Conscious Explained" now... really opened my eyes to what consciousness is and isn't.
(I reference it in my own comic on dealing with mortality, as plugged in my sig)
With Trump blurting out "I'm not saying we got our intelligence from Israel, but: Israel" and "Oh and we got some nuke subs over there, look how tough I am", there are leaks at the top as well.
We all carry a thriving microbiome in our gut. Relationships that begin parasitical can become symbiotic.
The thing is, people tend not to pay for digital content. With Microtransactions, people had no idea how their usage might add up (think the first iPhone coming out ONLY with unlimited data plans - that cleared one of the hurdles that left WAP stumbling) or there would be privacy concerns, especially how porn was a big mover of the web.
Subscriptions are tough too, there are too many possibilities to try, leaving out others, and again, unclear how it might build up.
You know the wrong feminists then.
Yeah, it's obviously this.
Apple was first out with a slab phone, and I was accidentally on purpose an early adopter, and over the years I've picked up the apps I like and am used to, along with the music handling and what not - the hardware is good enough or better that it will probably never be worth swapping over, and I'm sure long term Android users feel just the same the other way.
Ignoring this is as stupid as people who review various laptops purely on hardware, as if OSX vs Windows (or Linux, I suppose, in these parts at least) didn't matter.
Personally, I find jQuery great as the baseline to support bespoke programming solutions.
There is a LOT of love for framework over libraries like jQuery, but in my experience most hit up against Dietzler's Law* pretty hard. with frameworks one has to be rock solid in the real browsers stuff AND the framework one chose AND the hacks you had to set up to meet the gap between requirements and the framework sweetspot. (vs bespoke, where it's just the real browser stuff and then straight to the gap ;-)
*Dietzler's Law: "Every Access project will eventually fail because, while 80% of what the user wants is fast and easy to create, and the next 10% is possible with difficulty, ultimately the last 10% is impossible because you can’t get far enough underneath the built-in abstractions, and users always want 100% of what they want" - but it's generally applicable
I'm probably coming at this too little too late, but:
for C-looking languages (C, Java, Javascript) etc that use curly braces and block, there's usually a strong visual element: no one wants to look at code that's not "properly formatted". So while language is super awesome and powerful (almost any programmer is going to have a hard time expressing himself or herself in, like, that block language that came w/ the original Lego Mindstorms), the graphical element is still present
Man, there's an err of pathos to when similar strategies are applied elsewhere, somehow Youtube noticed I went to a standing desk site, now half my adverts are from there. And also, they don't notice when I've actually bought a damn thing, so more advertising is just down the drain... I guess advertising is such a small % game that they'll take whatever "bump" they can get, no matter how stupid they look.
So, isn't there a concept that the Universe is closed, and we're just seeing older versions of the same stuff, but kinda repeated? (but hard to recognize because of the time lag involved)
Is this still considered a possibility, or have they figured out a way of ruling that out?
I'm more concerned about "rounding error", at least for the USD market.
Most people probably use a rough "point = penny" heuristic in their head and call a, say, 1000 point game "about ten bucks". In reality it's about 12.50 though, so they consistently underestimate the cost of everything by about 20%...
it's to videogames what the "and 9/10 of a cent" is to gas... maybe a little more weasle-ish than that.
Well said.
If I had to pick one, it would probably have to be the laptop, mostly because of the recreational programmer. Luckily I make a decent wage and having both just isn't that much of a financial burden.
The Not Getting It on both sides of the argument is pretty amazing.
I made a similar thing in 2002, but even more limited because it used the one line of a grey pushbutton as both the input and the output of the game!
http://kirkjerk.com/features/gb.html
Well, the 3D isn't quite "fancy pants" but yeah, I totally agree.
There's also processingjs, which is a javascript flavor of it (though IE support seems to be missing)
http://openprocessing.org/ is a pretty neat view of what can be done
"For personal one to one text communications I don't see how you can improve on texts/SMS, and for anything else what does twitter do that a web site can't?"
It's the one to many thing -- not "many" as in "countless hoards of fans", but many as in "a set of people I know in real life and who I've run into online" -- most people don't generate enough content to make a website worth coming back to on a daily or more basis, but amalgamated with a bunch of other people's thoughts, and now you've got something!
There are other paths to the same thing -- if everyone used RSS heavily, you could be part of your audience's RSS feed, and still get a proportional amount of timely attention. And Facebook has a similar "fax machine effect" as Twitter -- for close friends, I would hope to get personal email or a call or word in person of important events, but for a big mass of people who I'm not that close to but not entirely distant, FB fills a niche. (That said I barely keep up with FB -- in general it's more "day to day" boring stuff and less people trying to be clever than twitter)
So that's what twitter does that a website (in practice) "can't" - aggregation is the key.
"In fact, I would say it is the communication (real or imagined) with "famous" people that makes it so appealing."
I'm sure this is true for many twitter readers, but it's certainly not universally applicable. I might follow some famous people, but only ones who seem to be trying to write funny or smart stuff.
Ironically, your clever (and shibboleth-ish; I had to google UDP to make sure I got it) line about twitter is an excellent example of what twitter is excellent for, as a "tweeter" -- the sharing of an engaging twist of perspective.
There's a lingering perception of twitter as a "what I'm having for dinner right now" kind of thing, but in practice that's a small fraction of the use of it (YMMV)-- conversely I would say Twitter's "right in the moment" aspect makes such talk a little more engaging and less banal, because there's more a chance of it being part of the shared human experience, distributed across space but unified in time -- but I think most people who "tweet" in that mode don't have big followings outside the group of people they know in real life.
So I'd say, as a tweeter, if you can come up with lines like the UDP one frequently, then you should be using twitter to increase the sum total of cleverness online and garner some of that old school egoboo. If all you're going to post about is what you're doing right now, then why bother?
I can't tell you why you should be using Twitter, but some of us have friends or know of folks online who are good at dropping the pithy bon mot, or find it a convenient way to announce things.
Why again should you be using email? Or SMS txt'ing? Or slashdot?