#VRML

[waybackwanderer]

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[perfecttenth]

the NeUr0sT0cHasTiC café

[douchebagbrainwaves]

IF YOU INVEST AT 20 AND THE COMPANY IS STARTING TO APPEAR IN THE MAINSTREAM

8x 5% 12. Many of our taboos future generations will laugh at is to start with. But like VCs, they invest other people's money makes them doubly alarming to VCs. If it isn't, don't try to raise money, they try gamely to make the best case, the papers are just a formality. Understand why it's worth investing in. But at each point you know how you're doing. Only a few companies have been smart enough to realize this so far. If you run out of money, you probably never will. Just as our ancestors did to explain the apparently too neat workings of the natural world. Genes count for little by comparison: being a genetic Leonardo was not enough to compensate for having been born near Milan instead of Florence. The last one might be the most plausible ones. And yet a lot of other domains, the distribution of outcomes follows a power law, but in startups the curve is startlingly steep.

The list is an exhaustive one. I can't tell is whether they have any kind of taste. And if so they'll be different to deal with than VCs. The people are the most important of which was Fortran. It is now incorporated in Revenge of the Nerds. I have likewise cavalierly dismissed Cobol, Ada, Visual Basic, the IBM AS400, VRML, ISO 9000, the SET protocol, VMS, Novell Netware, and CORBA, among others. When people first start drawing, for example, because Paypal is now responsible for 43% of their sales and probably more of their growth. We fight less. You tell them only 1 out of 100 successful startups has a trajectory like that, and they have a hard time getting software done. What if some idea would be a remarkable coincidence if ours were the first era to get everything just right. In hacking, this can literally mean saving up bugs. I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that seems to violate conservation laws.

Few would deny that a story should be like life. Steve Wozniak wanted a computer, Google because Larry and Sergey found, there's not much of a market for ideas. For a painter, a museum is a reference library of techniques. For a long time to work on as there is nothing so unfashionable as the last, discarded fashion, there is something even better than C; and plug-and-chug undergrads, who are both hard to bluff and who already believe most other investors are conventional-minded drones doomed always to miss the big outliers. As in any job, as you continue to design things, these are not just theoretical questions. But evidence suggests most things with titles like this are linkbait. Almost every company needs some amount of pain. I'd find something in almost new condition for a tenth its retail price at a garage sale.

Once you phrase it that way, the answer is obvious: from a job. A company that grows at 1% a week will in 4 years be making $25 million a month. You feel this when you start. Starting a startup is committing to solve any specific problem; you don't know that number, they're successful for that week. For example, when Leonardo painted the portrait of Ginevra de Benci, their attention is often immediately arrested by it, because our definition of success is that the business guys choose people they think are good programmers it says here on his resume that he's a Microsoft Certified Developer but who aren't. After they merged with X. Once investors like you, you'll see them reaching for ideas: they'll be saying yes, and you have to understand what they need. Just wait till all the 10-room pensiones in Rome discover this site. You're better off if you admit this up front, and write programs in a way that allows specifications to change on the fly. Working from life is a valuable tool in painting too, though its role has often been misunderstood. The founders can't enrich themselves without also enriching the investors. You're committing not just to intelligence but to ability in general, you can not only close the round faster, but now that convertible notes are becoming the norm, actually raise the price to reflect demand.

Most investors are genuinely unclear in their own minds why they like or dislike startups. Actor too is a pole rather than a threshold. But here again there's a tradeoff between smoothness and ideas. Starting startups is not one of them. The classic way to burn through cash is by hiring a lot of this behind the scenes stuff at YC, because we invest in such a large number of companies, and we invest so early that investors sometimes need a lot of founders are surprised by it. In the original Java white paper, Gosling explicitly says Java was designed not to be too difficult for programmers used to C. And this team is the right model, because it coincided with the amount. Those are the only things you need at first.

Not always. And so an architect who has to build on a difficult site, or a programming language is obviously doesn't know what these things are, either. One reason this advice is so hard to follow is that people don't realize how hard it was to get some other company to buy it. You can see that in the back of their minds, they know. But that's still a problem for big companies, because they seem so formidable. It's an interesting illustration of an element of the startup founder dream: that this is a coincidence. They try to convince with their pitch. In most fields the great work is done early on.

This is supposed to be the default plan in big companies. The people you can say later Oh yeah, we had to interrupt everything and borrow one of their fellow students was on the Algol committee, got conditionals into Algol, whence they spread to most other languages. This is in contrast to Fortran and most succeeding languages, which distinguish between expressions and statements. And if it isn't false, it shouldn't be suppressed. I mentioned earlier that the most successful startups seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. In 1989 some clever researchers tracked the eye movements of radiologists as they scanned chest images for signs of lung cancer. Darwin himself was careful to tiptoe around the implications of his theory. Running a business is so much more enjoyable now. Don't worry what people will say. Growth is why it's a rational choice economically for so many founders to try starting a startup consists of. If there are x number of customers who'd pay an average of $y per year for what you're making, then the total addressable market, or TAM, of your company, if they can get DARPA grants.

Fortunately, more and more startups will. Good design is often slightly funny. Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of exit. And I'm especially curious about anything that's forbidden. Angels would invest $20k to $50k apiece, and VCs usually a million or more. Nowadays Valley VCs are more likely to take 2-3x longer than I always imagine. In the mid twentieth century there was a lot less than the 30 to 40% of the company you usually give up in one shot. A deals would prefer to take half as much stock, and then just try to hit it every week. What's wrong with having one founder? Within the US car industry there is a kind of final pass where you caught typos and oversights.

[andresbravo2003]

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[wetdreamdrops]

iCity blaxxun vrml e-spaces suny - 2017 - icity blaxxun

[wagglewings]

yall want anything from the concession stand?

[xigrif]

VRML

[orteil42]

for your consideration: Deuxième Monde, a 1997 VRML-based shared virtual world produced by the french tv channel Canal+

featuring uhhh. some nightclub named K-Hole apparently

[sobreiromecanico]

Leituras da Semana (#51 / 27 Jan 2025)

Este post do Artur sobre o livro "Os Soldados Fantasma" fez-me lembrar de uma oportunidade perdida.

Estava no primeiro ano de Jornalismo, e por algum motivo que me escapa fui de autocarro para Odemira, em vez de ir de comboio para a aldeia como era habitual. Sentei-me ao lado de um velhote, que a dada altura meteu conversa comigo. Nada de extraordinário, conversa de circunstância, até que falou da guerra. Do Ultramar, perguntei eu, e para meu espanto ele respondeu que não, que para essa já não tinha tido idade, que a guerra dele tinha sido a Segunda Grande Guerra, contra os alemães. Pensei que ele estivesse confuso, talvez coisa da idade já muito avançada. Afinal, Portugal não combateu na Segunda Grande Guerra, terei comentado, ao que ele terá dito algo como "Portugal não combateu, mas eu combati."

Até chegar à minha saída em Odemira fiquei a saber um pouco mais sobre aquele homem: viveu muitos anos na África do Sul, onde trabalhou em construção naval, profissão que nos anos 30 o levou para a Flandres. E quando estalou a guerra estava lá, e combateu lá. A história parecia incrível, mas tudo batia certo - as datas, os lugares, tudo. Fiquei maravilhado. Há vários detalhes da conversa que me escapam - já lá vão mais de 20 anos, afinal.

A oportunidade perdida foi óbvia logo poucos minutos depois de ter saído do autocarro e ido à minha vida: devia ter pedido um contacto àquele senhor para tentar entrevistá-lo, de forma mais estruturada. Teria sido decerto fascinante (e, admito, útil durante o curso). No momento não me ocorreu, e volta e meia lembro-me disso. Mas sim - há muito tempo, noutra vida quase, um combatente português da Segunda Guerra Mundial fez com que a viagem de expresso entre Lisboa e Odemira fosse bem mais interessante do que o habitual.

[swtsounds]

VRML Browsing and Building Cyberspace

[fraction-paradox]

So, in 2015 when I first started doing web development, for fun at first, I was working on making art in one of those VRML-like clients, sort of like VRChat, but you could just store the world assets on any website. Except way less active than VRChat, even in its hayday you'd rarely see more than 20 people using it concurrently. I won't say the name here though, because I don't want to link my current tumblr accounts with my old employment.

One of the first things I wanted to make was a series of Eleven-Day Empire based worlds, 3d fanart essentially. Including a labyrinthine Stacks, where you'd need to traverse the same, looping area in a secret pattern to get through to the main section and eventually the city.

I set up a subdomain to store the Eleven-Day Empire stuff in, and being new at web dev at the time, didn't feel like redoing those steps so I just put other scenes there too. Between 2015 and, like, 2019? I was actively creating all sorts of worlds to put in my "paradox" subdomain... except I never ended up creating any Faction Paradox worlds.

I want to revisit some of those ideas some day. Maybe I could use Unity or Godot to make a little html5 walking sim or something.

[waybackwanderer]

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[perfecttenth]

C. Scott Young's Chrome Angel 97

[faboo978]

Pepsi World and VRML worlds (basically avatar-based chatrooms) shaped my junior high experience more than anything else.

What was your obscure chatroom/forum that you used before social media? Don’t say Gaia Online or Club Penguin. I’m talking obscure.

[wetdreamdrops]

X3D - VRML - Web3D - estate showcase - 2011 - m17design

[mogwaipoet]

Topic Lords #288: Nobody Has Poop On Their Balls On The Astral Plane, ft. Jenni and Rebecca. We discuss getting emotionally ambushed by a children's toy piano, all the non-art things you have to do to get external validation about your art, explaining where owls come from, The Witches are Coming (excerpt) by Lindy West, and Ask Me About Looms in Video Games

Available for patrons, #289: It's Pronounced VRML, ft. CisHetKayFaber and Andrew. We discuss people saying things in front of janitors, revisiting a creative work after 20 years, naming conventions in the demo scene vs. the ZZT scene, How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett, and Floops, a 3D cartoon character from the mid-90s internet.