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by SiVal 5y ago
If there are fundamental philosophies in a programming language (and there usually are), tutorials ought to begin with lots of tiny example programs that exemplify those fundamentals. They should continue with examples of gradually increasi
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by SiVal 5y ago
Thanks, Aaron. I think people who have been using Node for years are skilled at the old Node ways and have huge inertia in their skills, their own code, and others' Node code. For them, the ideal platform would be Node plus some upgrad
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by SiVal 5y ago
Will there be a Deno equivalent of Electron?
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by SiVal 5y ago
After a half second of thought: A backpack is usually with a human with a wallet. So is a phone, but the phone may not be reporting its location, or at least not reporting it to you, so the Tile is an alternative way to get the person'
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by SiVal 5y ago
There might be some collateral damage where sources of lies and propaganda get generally downgraded (even when telling the truth), but is that really a problem? Of course it is if Google is one of the sources of propaganda rather than an
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, what they censor and what they deliberately distort. Do a search for `American inventors`, and see for yourself. Google will show you that the majority of American inventors throughout history have been African-American. You may be ske
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by SiVal 5y ago
That drives me crazy, too: "Choose a password." I choose a very secure password. "Now, in case you (or anyone else) can't recall your password, choose one of the following three personal security questions that any reade
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by SiVal 5y ago
He's trying to gain a minor benefit of cross-timezone synchronization at the expense of a major cost of disconnecting your lifelong sense of time from your daily activities. You would have to relearn what 3am meant in a practical sense
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by SiVal 5y ago
There is a special issue for JavaScript, and that's monopoly. If you want internet service and don't like your ISP, you'll be a lot more critical if you can't realistically switch to a different ISP. If you want the worl
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by SiVal 5y ago
The implementation of the leftist utopian visions that torture and murder and silence and "re-educate" millions and send millions more desperate refugees fleeing out to die at sea in little, overloaded boats trying to escape is no
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by SiVal 5y ago
Before you try to explain a phenomenon, you should define it and prove that it exists. Possibilities for "Why do rich people love endurance sports" include 1) They don't. 94% of rich people surveyed say they hate endurance sp
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by SiVal 5y ago
I think the best target for off-world colonization is variously designed giant space stations in orbit around Earth and, later, sharing Earth's orbit (maybe lagrange points) around the Sun. To create the best possible life for humans o
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by SiVal 5y ago
I wonder if you can still use the old magsafe power cords to charge the new machines, even if at a lower wattage. Those charger cables aren't cheap, and I still have a few from old MBPs.
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by SiVal 5y ago
You're making a good point while still, I think, missing mine. You, the author, I probably all tell ourselves and others things that we "know" that we mostly hope for. "I know I'm going to lose ten pounds before Chr
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, well the same Steve Jobs who denied being the father of his daughter, who dumped the burden of supporting his daughter on ordinary working taxpayers while he counted his first hundred million, this was the guy who called someone who wa
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by SiVal 5y ago
Fine cashmere? Too ordinary. Mink? Maybe, for the merely rich. When I make my first billion, I'll have a scarf made of snow-white moth fur.
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by SiVal 5y ago
This would be fine for an automated system that could schedule requests or could fail, wait 30min, and try again. But it would be unusable by a human working interactively. You would constantly get complaints and monitor warnings that your
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by SiVal 5y ago
Also remember that when you're out camping, you're probably getting more exercise, too, not just sunshine. A walk in the sunshine is both walk and sunshine. The two in combination may explain more than sunshine alone.
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by SiVal 5y ago
I don't want to take even more of your time, sorry, but you asked a question, so I'll answer and then leave you in peace. "...who's flagging those articles. How do you know that it's Big Tech employees?" It doe
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by SiVal 5y ago
I don't for a minute think the people running HN are against me. And there is no "community at large". There are what you describe as people with a variety of opinions, among whom are probably thousands of Big Tech employees.
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by SiVal 5y ago
It wasn't "written off", it was hushed up. It wasn't "as soon as it might be Russian disinformation", it was as soon as it was obvious how damaging it could be to the political objectives of those who pretend &
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by SiVal 5y ago
What Big Tech really does should be a principal focus of a tech discussion forum. What they really do is to use their unprecedented power to hide and censor information and silence people in order to influence opinion on a mass scale. They
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by SiVal 5y ago
"I am sure everyone on HN moved [from computers to smartphones] quickly" I may be wrong, but I suspect you have that backwards. My guess is that at least older HNers were slower to shift from powerful but complex creation tools (c
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by SiVal 5y ago
"Big orders require pre-payment." That's neither criminal (ex: fraud) nor civil (contract) law. That's just one of countless things a party may or may not choose to do as personal/corporate policy. I might ask for a
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by SiVal 5y ago
The problem with all discussions of good commenting style is that it's like debating good footware. Good for what? Office? Hiking in snow? Walking on the beach? Except that we have different footware for different uses but only one set
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, there was a time when everyone knew: If you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
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by SiVal 5y ago
"You can order whatever you want unless a payment is made and product accepted a legal transaction hasn't occured." It may or may not be a crime depending on intent, but a transaction is not the issue. It is breach of contrac
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by SiVal 5y ago
I think the difference is one of expectations. I get the strong impression that the author of the article is accustomed to images "meaning" something and being presented by photographers who are trying to "say" something
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by SiVal 5y ago
What drives me crazy is that it doesn't matter how well I design my passwords if companies immediately sabotage them with their laughable "security" questions. "Pick one of these security questions carefully chosen for y
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by SiVal 5y ago
Yes, though I've seen it many times on maps, from the air, and on the ground, I still imagine going directly east from Silicon Valley, across the US, through Virginia, and across the Atlantic ought to end up close to London or Paris. N

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