[jlehman]

Reminds me of this essay: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html

[wejn]

Interesting. I thought that I was tearing down the fact they took the brilliant new idea, and bastardized it beyond recognition, and in multiple ways.

I loved the promise of Urbit, and was disappointed by the execution.

[jlehman]

You mean "after spending just a few hours poking around it"? It's a big, ambitious project that's been worked on now for nearly two decades.

It seems more likely that you're disappointed by your understanding of the execution, which can be nothing but extremely limited.

[majewsky]

If you cannot adequately explain the appeal of a new technology to your peers after having worked on it for a week, that's nothing to worry about. After 20 years though? That's very worrying.

[api]

There's a lot of survivorship bias in that kind of thinking. They called Galileo mad, but they also called simultaneous five dimensional time cube guy mad.

[iudqnolq]

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

- Carl Sagan

[golemotron]

His name is Gene Ray.. His name is Gene Ray.. His name is Gene Ray..

[smuemd]

Awesome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube