poronski

To each their own.

For a lot of people it’s way more fun to make a new thing than to fork and patch someone else’s.

Gotta say kopia does have a very strong restic vibe to it.

Not a bad thing, just means that restic managed to get lots of things right.

Clickable - https://www.bvckup2.com

$99 a pop is still pretty expensive.

Had an Orkut account once. It proved to be more than enough :)

MS DOS was Microsoft's lucky break. It's not like they were established as an OS developer that needed 6 years to get noticed.

Also, do you think you or anyone else is going to have much trouble telling who baby_rutabega_spoon is when he talks about his bingo business or ruthless_carrot_fork when he gets exasperated about password hashing?

These are exceptions. I can bet that a vast majority of people here would not be able to tell even pg apart from other posters if it were not for his username.

Besides these exceptions are fine, the anonymization is not meant to target them, but rather generic blabber-mouths whose comments are floating up only because of the group upvoting.

> ...which would address the same problem.

I don't think it would. Points determine the rank, so people would still be inclined to upvote their favourite users' comments if they see them engaged in a debate with someone else.

Anonymizing can be implemented by simply randomizing usernames, but in a way that keeps users uniquely identified in a scope of a single discussion.

For example (a) randomly generate discussion key (b) hash(key + username) (c) use the hash to pick a word from the dictionary and (d) use this word as a username substitute. For extra fun use the list of registered HN usernames as a dictionary :)

Never used "leaders", but "ask" sounds like something that I would actually click on when the front page is lacking readable content.

(edit) Oh, and while you are reading this, pg - what happened to the idea of anonymizing all posts? I visit HN fairly infrequently and the voting favouritism seems to be on a steady climb. Many comments are clearly voted up because they are written by someone and not because they are actually interesting.

In the next episode - "How to use sparks to dial a phone number" :)

I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance.

> who needs a service ?

Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.

Technical side - neat, very neat. I like it a lot.

Business side - the recurrent pricing model does not make any sense whatsoever. Unless someone is actively developing the site or manually changes the content on a daily basis, per-use charges is what is expected.

There is certainly a market for enterprise-ish application of your idea, when the site is routinely modified several times a week by marketing and product people and such. But then your Basic plan basically will easily cover the needs of a small/middle size corporation with extensive online presence. Additionally, beware of the existing services like Keynote that already target that segment and that will be copying your idea in a matter of weeks.

The idea is OK, but one needs to have connections in typographic community to execute it. Going foundry by foundry and convincing them to take their heads out of DRM hole and consider simpler, unsexy options such as this one. This can translate into a lot of effort.

Anyone has any experience using professional screencast production services ? More specifically, with professional narrators or voice artists.

It might be a valid business idea, but essentially that's how you milk the fad.

There's a lot of things that are interesting. All needs to be taken in moderation or this place will end up chokeful of Digg-style news.

TOP 10 BESTEST HISTORICAL MATIREAL

OMG .. THE MOST AMAZING URBAN LEGEND YOU READ TODAY !!

etc etc

There's nothing wrong with the orginal story, but if you are after quality anecdotes, then scooping them from an urban legends site should be your last option.

Yes, but not on this site.

psst .. you can edit the post after it's first submitted :)

In 60s there was a campaign in Soviet Union with a slongan "If it's being done, let's do it big". It sounded really odd even untranslated.