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Micah Joel Dubinko
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Micah Joel Dubinko writes MicahLogic Queryopticon, a personal blog at dubinko.info about programming and systems. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How Xanadu Works: technical overview”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on how Project Xanadu works, covering transclusion and micropayments, when discussing Ted Nelson's hypertext vision and how it compares with the Web. Comments cite it without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How Xanadu Works: technical overview3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-26
What Hacker News says?
He's actually describing the essence of something much more ambitious than the World Wide Web, if you can believe that. Ted Nelson's idea was/is called "Xanadu": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu The Xanadu vision is centered on a hypertext system, like the Web. But unlike the Web, it also includes such things as: - A mechanism for embedding live documents within other documents ("transclusion": https://e…
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/22/how-xanadu-works/
on “I’m a freelance copywriter”Submitted How Xanadu Works: technical overview as a story · 13 points
HN discussionYes. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. I knew that crowd when Autodesk was funding them. They were fanatical libertarians. The solution to everything is a market. Ted Nelson was focused on text to the exclusion of images. That didn't help. He also had strong ideas about how the internal database should be organized, down to the database implementation level, which didn't help either, because they were 1960s data…
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/22/how-xanadu-works/
on “Xanadu”Compare with Project Xanadu, particularly micropayments: https://dubinko.info/blog/2009/11/how-xanadu-works/ > All documents have a specific owner, are royalty-bearing, and work through a micropayment system. Anyone can quote, transclude, or modify any amount of anything, with the payments sorting themselves out accordingly. If you're of the right philosophical bent, that sounds familiar: https://rationalwiki.org/wi…
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/how-xanadu-works/
on “The web’s most important decision”
