Flow sounds really cool, a multi threaded browser engine. Most modern ones are forked from KHTML, an engine designed in the 90's before multi threading was possible for consumer computers.
They only have 8 developers on the team. I wish them well, but what do they have to offer that vendors and consumers really need? Do people really complain about Chromium being too slow? I wouldn't imagine, if most of the users on the web are using it. Then again I don't know about the niche mysterious world of elite internet browsing.
This reminds me of the piano teacher (danthecomposer) I am following on youtube:
he calls his approach a "philosophical approach" to learning the piano and to me it seems quite influenced by daoism or zen.
he puts heavy emphasis on practicing with your eyes closed from the beginning. this becomes possible through visualizing scales and chords from the beginning.
other aspects are: getting your ego out of the way, trusting in you inherent musicality and allowing you creative source to steer your fingers to express your emotions and avoiding conscious interference. there is also a lot of simple improvisation inside a chord from the beginning.
i cant speak for the long term success of his technique, but i like the approach and it makes sense to me with respect to other skills i have aquired before.
Really sad how almost all the comments in this thread are negative.
As somebody who has lived in Berlin since 11 years, whilst having studied the official transit map and the big BVG physical map of berlin for hours:
This is a really great improvement over the official one
it gives me a relieved kind of pleasure to look at. I can really feel how all those expectations from the physical map finally find a home in the abstraction.
Oddly satisfying!
The KVV map did not change its layout very much. It was mostly a pretty tame transition from sharp angles and straight lines to curves. Most stations didn't change their relative position much. I don't know if the new one is better. I only remember having to unlearn the layout of the old one for a while. Also, this map change was after a time when the routes were changed around several times to accommodate the new tunnels then under construction. So the old maps also had a lot of churn.
I would highly recommend the idea of "personal knowledge management" (PKM). I started being much more organized on this front starting last year and it is a gamechanger.
Personally I store raw thoughts and ideas in Keep, then transfer them daily or weekly to OneNote. Every so often I review the notes.
I have notes from anything important I've ever learned, ranging from technology stacks to economics to capital markets to psychology or personal well-being. I now never worry about losing thoughts or not seeing "the big picture" - it's a picture (note really) that I've saved over years now. And ever so gradually, I just build on that knowledge base, which I see as an extension of my own brain.
Edit: and if you don't use the cloud, _make sure you back up every few weeks_. It takes 5 minutes and you will really regret losing part of your brain if you break your laptop.
Very practical approach.
Reviewing the saved info is what makes this real knowledge.
I find that any kind of knowledge search system eventually gets saturated and requires increasingly more time to scroll through partial hits to find what was asked. Our brains work the fastest in associative mode, it'd be nice to have some kind of associative storage (other than tags) that is personally biased/customized.
Reviewing the kept info is one way to refersh these associations in our organic minds.
But it'd be cool to ask your 'MindAssistant' to retrieve you the whole context of your recent or old idea, complete with your thought pathways: 'Hey, Mind, please remind me what was I thinking about the shapes of the clouds in the sky', '-Here's your Mindmap, thought-journey, and most important insights, Sir. At the conclusion of these thoughts, you read the following articles via HN...'
i've had a similar intuition and remember also reading somewhere that eventually your underlying data structure will shine through into the user interface, and if it doesn't make sense the whole application feels off.
I've first had this intuition when working with d3, where the visualization becomes trivial if your data is in the right shape.
Workflowy is another example of an app where there is a minimal disparity between data structure and interface.
Does anybody have other examples of apps or games that share this deep integration of structure and interaction?
I would say if you look into systemic games, you will find similar characteristics. I don't think it's so much that the data structure is tied with the interface that is the root cause of the emergent beauty, but the fact that the representation of the concept is accurate and true with minimal compromises. This is a very hard thing to do well. So from end to end it's more like the interface represents the data & logic which represents the design which represents the concept.
For examples of games I've played that I consider fairly systemic and enjoyed on this level: the deus ex series, minecraft (a very strongly systemic game), factorio, watchdogs. Apps-wise I can only think of my own app right now but I'm sure they're out there. Actually, come to think of it, the product planning software I use (productboard.com) is pretty great in this regard but not to the extent that games are. Most software just isn't big enough to have enough features to be truly "systemic" in my eyes.
On the game side of things, also check out Spelunky.
A lot of effort has gone into making interactions consistent and universal, so really interesting stuff can happen and it's not difficult to figure out why it happened.[0]
Spelunky was a big motivator for me to think more about building what I think of as these kind of "honest" systems, for lack of a better word.
In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that you remember though. (http://www.foundershousepublishing.com/).
Funny thing - I was thinking about this post a few years ago but also couldn't remember where I'd read it; I ended up writing a program to download the pages I'd visited since 2012 (using a heuristic to discard unlikely entries and to promote likely ones). That's probably the most effort I've gone through to find something on the Internet!
