JoshMnem

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by JoshMnem 9y ago
You could join our programming group in Berkeley and ask around: - https://www.meetup.com/codeselfstudy/ - https://codeselfstudy.com/
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Trying to make the world a better place, usually involving various Internet-related projects.
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I don't know. Put more pressure on tech companies to actually do something about the problem? Facebook is not really doing anything about it except making the field even more uneven (at the detriment of anyone who might have a patent t
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> Whenever a party reaches a dominant position, they'd use their power to stifle would be competitors (absent any regulations preventing otherwise). True. "Natural" doesn't mean good. Leprosy is "natural" to
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I don't know how the price is calculated behind the scenes. I paid a total of $1,900 and am happy with what I got for that price. I completely deleted Windows 10 when it arrived and installed GNU/Linux. You do pay for Chromebook s
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Software patents are out of control. Something should be done. And that something is not to unbalance the entire battlefield in favor of Facebook. Facebook is not looking out for the health of the ecosystem any more than they are for the fr
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Linux isn't that difficult to use any more. I didn't need to do any special configuration with my current laptop. Battery life is about 11-13 hours. ThinkPad t460. 24 Gb of RAM. USD $1,900 including tax, shipping, and a 4-year, ne
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Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
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This article is an example of one reason why AMP is bad. I'm on a laptop and still seeing the AMP (restricted) version. I just saw a blank screen and it took about 4 seconds for any content to appear. The publisher was prevented from d
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I'm waiting for "Show HN: How to blog with a static site generator". Medium is getting to be too much. If you're a programmer, at least use a static site generator (Metalsmith, Hugo, Hexo, etc.). You can deploy to Github
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Here is one place to obtain some mental toughness and survival skills at the same time: https://www.boss-inc.com/
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COBOL for the Web has already been done: http://www.coboloncogs.org/
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Part of the problem is that most mobile browsers don't allow browser extensions to block all the JS bloat. There are other ways to fix the problem that won't destroy the open WWW.
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That is mind-boggling. When I grew up in the 80s (before mobile devices), the rule was "don't read at the table." Generally, no TV during meals either. Life is short -- meals with devices seem like a waste of prime time toget
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There are also defensive patents. If you don't defend them, you can lose them. If Facebook (or a company that they acquire) starts by infringing your patents, then the PATENTS file would seem to apply. I haven't heard anyone addre
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Facebook's suing of your company is different from Facebook's infringing of your patents or acquiring a company that is infringing your patents. It isn't just React -- most of their repos contain the PATENTS file.
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It's at the expense of the publishers and the future of the open WWW though.
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Those who would trade small increases in speed for the destruction of the WWW are making a huge mistake.
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AMP is terrible for the open WWW and not necessarily any faster. "Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski already recreated the Google AMP demo page without the Google AMP JavaScript and, unsurprisingly, it's faster than Google's v
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Vim is the best brain-computer interface I've experienced. Once you have enough commands in muscle memory, you can think about what you want the text to do, and it happens. You can look at the screen, decide what you want to do, and th
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And possibly also a restriction. It appears to say that if Facebook infringes your patents, you can't defend your patents.
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Normally, I would vote for opt-in only, but I think that it could be opt-out for Firefox as long as there are no dark patterns that make it difficult to opt-out. The survival of Firefox is extremely important for the future of the Web. If i
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I didn't read the whole article, so my comment is about the PATENTS file and not the article. The situation isn't just about React. The PATENTS file is found in many repos, and it's leaking into the entire open source ecosyst
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Thanks for the correction -- I misread the original comment. It was the end of a long day. :) I agree that kids should not be given refined sugar. I had almost no sugar until I was a teenager. I had my first soda at about age 16 or 17. I co
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> now 10% of US children have the disease. I don't think that number is correct. It appears to be more like 0.46 kids per 1,000, which is still high. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014&#x2
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See: https://github.com/showcases/front-end-javascript-frameworks These things usually don't happen overnight. It will be interesting to take another look about a year from now.
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That seems highly unlikely, considering the way Facebook operates.
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"Facebook, Inc. ("Facebook") hereby grants to each recipient of the Software ("you") a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable (subject to the termination provision below) license under any Ne
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What do you consider big? Elm is still in the early stages. https://www.pivotaltracker.com/blog/Elm-pivotal-tracker/
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Many companies already can't use React. The numbers will increase.

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