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2−date: ~2017.1.30
2+date: ~2017.1.30
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4−title: Urbit in 2017
4+title: Urbit in 2017
5preview: In 2017, we're ready to start making the damn thing useful.
5preview: In 2017, we're ready to start making the damn thing useful.
6−author: Curtis Yarvin + Galen Wolfe-Pauly
6+author: Curtis Yarvin + Galen Wolfe-Pauly
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Galen Wolfe-Pauly is Tlon's CEO and Urbit's interaction designer. Galen went to
46- But there isn't one big corporation that writes *all* the code. Everyone's lives are spread across a bunch of different apps. Every app solves the ownership problem separately.
46- But there isn't one big corporation that writes *all* the code. Everyone's lives are spread across a bunch of different apps. Every app solves the ownership problem separately.
48−- So the whole user experience of using Web apps involves tracking all these silly little accounts, learning each and every user experience, and glaring impotently at each little piece of data trapped in a different silo.
48+- So the whole user experience of using Web apps involves tracking all these silly little accounts, learning each and every user experience, and glaring helplessly at each little piece of data trapped in a different silo.
50- Even your Google account doesn't feel like one thing. Whatever your Google Docs are, it's not a bunch of document files on your Google Drive. All the resources of Google can't make their Borg backend feel like one computer which belongs to you.
50- Even your Google account doesn't feel like one thing. Whatever your Google Docs are, it's not a bunch of document files on your Google Drive. All the resources of Google can't make their Borg backend feel like one computer which belongs to you.
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82- The true command line is generally thought of as something mysterious and scary. Somewhere that you can do things to irreparably damage your computer. It's powerful, but also dangerous.
82- The true command line is generally thought of as something mysterious and scary. Somewhere that you can do things to irreparably damage your computer. It's powerful, but also dangerous.
84−- This tradeoff — between control and safety — is false. The unfriendly command line is actually just another artifact of 70s computing, when nobody worked on UX.
84+- This tradeoff — between control and safety — is false. The unfriendly command line is actually just another artifact of 70s computing. The UI of the command line is designed for a programmer, not an ordinary person.
86−- `bash` is a bad UX because there's no easy way to control its power, or learn all the things it can do, or separate its power to do dangerous things from its power to do safe ones.
86+- `bash` is a bad UI because there's no easy way to control its power, or learn all the things it can do, or separate its power to do dangerous things from its power to do safe ones.
88+- At the other end of the spectrum is the chatbot, which is a bad UI because it's hard to make it much more than a toy. Like so many innovations, chatbots happened by accident. It's just a way to connect an input string to network services. But the natural-language metaphor of "chat" is confining. It doesn't scale well to any problem that isn't trivial.
88−- At the other end of the spectrum is the chatbot, which is a bad UX because it's hard to make it much more than a toy. Like so many innovations, chatbots happened by accident. It's just a way to connect an input string to network services. But the natural-language metaphor of "chat" is confining. It doesn't scale well to any problem that isn't trivial.
90- What does a great command line look like? It should have a strict syntax, not try to guess what you mean. But it can't be a constant test of your ability to memorize the phonebook.
90- What does a great command line look like? It should have a strict syntax, not try to guess what you mean. But it can't be a constant test of your ability to memorize the phonebook.
92<img src="https://media.urbit.org/site/sketch-6.png" class="full-width inline" />
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@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ We'll do another crowdsale in the spring. We understand that the last sale left
164We're still thinking about the right way to award Urbit real estate to outside contributors. Especially after the crowdsale, it really has to feel 100% fair. But it can't be in any way, whether legally or emotionally, a form of compensation. We can't afford to kill the fun.
164We're still thinking about the right way to award Urbit real estate to outside contributors. Especially after the crowdsale, it really has to feel 100% fair. But it can't be in any way, whether legally or emotionally, a form of compensation. We can't afford to kill the fun.
166−It doesn't feel right to do this at all when the documentation is completely inadequate, because it's not fair to people who don't have the time to reverse engineer. But we're thinking hard about this issue. Ideally others will think as well, and we can work it out in a big conversation.
166+It doesn't feel right to do this at all when the documentation is completely inadequate, because it's not fair to people who don't have the time to reverse engineer. But we're thinking hard about this issue.
168## Future updates
168## Future updates