That's when it's most satisfying, when you don't know them and they can't see you. Think of all the times you've been flipped off by someone in a car because you moved a fraction of a second too slowly; those people must really like flipping people off.
This to me is incredibly awesome. The question is, could you use radio frequencies meant for speech/music for it? I think so, since morse code is sent on these same frequencies. What about streaming video over short wave radio?
There may be hope for me yet according to this, but at the moment, I really have no fucking clue what to do.
My early thirties were filled with great ideas for startups. My early fourties are filled with depression that I'm past my prime, don't have the energy, risk tolerance, or money to do a startup, and don't have money to go back to school, so it really doesn't matter what my passion is. Somehow I still need to find a passion and change, though, because my death is impending. Maybe my fifties will be the realization that I am who I am and I'm fine just being bad at everything.
Just because you find a passion, doesn't mean you have to spend money on it. There are an insane amount of free learning resources online (in tech/dev, which I'm assuming what your pro background is). Similarly, I'm seeing an increasing number of bootstrapped startups (they just don't make as much noise as the funded ones).
My twenties were about realizing and coming to terms with the fact that there are people who are smarter, more clever, and more knowledgeable than me. My thirties are about figuring out how to work with these people as much as possible. I do feel that I'm late to the game on this. If I got over my ego earlier and/or had a more collaborative mindset I'd be in a better spot.
Keep looking for that passion. But don't do it alone. Once you find it, it'll be with a group of people "better" than you to help you figure out what to do with it. :)
Great post. I noticed I read very little about usability and only about design. I'm assuming that the OP, Braden, assumes that we understand that usability is integral to design. The reason I say this is that I've heard and seen designers spend lots of time on something that most of the techs/devs said WTF to after they were done- one carousel, crappy menu, and pointless site after the next. That was an in-house design team working for a large university, btw, so the main problem was that the administration was the customer, not the primary users, which were students, university employees, prospective students, and parents of prospective students. And their attempt at usability studies involved a small number of students passing in the student union that got snickers bars in exchange for telling them what they thought. And no AB testing ever done.
I'd like to see more breakdown by release year, e.g. # of movies in each category by release year.
I think it would be interesting to look at those stats next to economic stats, etc.
I'd also like to see a more granular breakdown of attributes of each movie (movies relating to technology, movies with a workers' union being a strong component of the film, race relations, international relations, etc.) and the # of each of those per year, but that would be much more work.
Well, because this effect does not use stereopsis, it actually works better for people who don't rely on it. So if you want to make it stronger, close one eye.
Yeah, I am not seeing this effect at all. Perhaps relevant: one of my eyes has poor eyesight, but 3d movies still work for me without wearing corrective lenses...
I suspect this only "works" if you really want it to.
I love the idea of mesh networking to decentralize the net and using OTS solutions to do so. In fact, I've pushed for it on HN. But, here are a few problems:
* Before a "theory" website with cheesy blog/helloworld/contact images http://openlibernet.org/index.html#contribute, come up with a solution. The U.S. has been through several years of executive and legislative branches led on both sides by activists with good intentions and no real, thought-out workable solutions. Beyond bumper stickers of hope, you must have solutions, truly sell them, compromise on some keys points so you have enough people on board, and implement. We don't need a page telling us about a net we can't use yet.
* Bitcoin. Don't tie something completely unrelated to a networking solution.
* To make it work (really), you need points on the network that can do short and long-range. Wifi only is not enough.
* Bitcoin. Don't tie something completely unrelated to a networking solution.
Why not? We've seen plenty of good ideas that were inspired by Bitcoin (P2P DNS system, platform with a built-in Turing complete language, true P2P Twitter alternative for the first time, encrypted e-mail without PGP, P2P back-up solutions where you pay others to keep your data, rather than on a centralized place that can be hacked or abused, etc), and we're going to see a lot more like this.
The only problem is that unfortunately Bitcoin was never meant to be a platform on which to build other "apps". This is why all these "Bitcoin-based" or Bitcoin-inspired projects are actually heavily modified versions of Bitcoin, and not apps that work on top of Bitcoin. But I think Ethereum will solve this by creating another "Bitcoin-like" platform on which you can build anything you want, and everything is P2P by default.
I don't think incentives are completely unrelated to networking. They may not have the right design, but in theory applying Bitcoin-like concepts to networking incentives isn't a crazy idea.
They aren't using Bitcoin. They're using the Bitcoin Protocol but to trade in something else, which they call "Traffic." I suppose you'd be able to trade Traffic for Bitcoin, US dollars, or cabbage, once exchanges get set up.
Get off your computer. Go outside. Read a fucking book.