Wintamute

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by Wintamute 6y ago
Lots of random downvoting happening on this page. It's curious. Yours is perhaps one of the most innocuous posts I've ever seen on HN. Don't take the downvote to heart :)
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by Wintamute 7y ago
Disparate outcomes on a spreadsheet organised by categories like sex and race are assumed to indicate only the presence of oppression and therefore something to be fixed by controversial affirmative action policies and other discriminatory
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by Wintamute 7y ago
I don't think it's a leap. It's the fundamental idea behind the corporate jargon. They didn't just say they want a diverse team because their users are diverse, they explicitly said that to empathize well with their dive
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by Wintamute 7y ago
No signs at all? All green technology, efficiency improvement and conservation initiatives globally add up to zero in your book? Most reasonable people agree there's much more to be done, perhaps that we're only beginning to scrat
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by Wintamute 7y ago
Saying anything remotely positive about Flash is an auto-downvote on HN, even if factually accurate.
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by Wintamute 8y ago
If taken at face value (i.e. putting aside other theories) Assange, Manning, WikiLeaks et al aren't attempting to decide or write new laws, but rather commit acts in the public good, as they see it. Such acts are capable of transcendin
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by Wintamute 8y ago
What specific "principle" are you referring to where you conflate private property with public property? That they are both just types of "property" and therefore the invasion of either is an identical ethical misdemeano
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by Wintamute 8y ago
My point was its pointless and borderline disrespectful to project modern standards of ethics and concepts of "greed" onto people of the past that had different norms and extreme hardships to contend with. By all means we should d
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by Wintamute 8y ago
The people that felled that tree for its essential raw materials did so under hardships and conditions thankfully many of us will never know, and not in small part due to the toil and labour of previous generations.
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by Wintamute 8y ago
The above command just installs a folder with plain JS files in it, I'm not sure what system pollution you're talking about. It's very convenient for web developers to use cli tools written using the same languages and stack
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Auto-killing apps to save battery is obviously good - nobody is contesting that. The bad thing that is being highlighted here is that there's no user friendly way for app developers to request additional privileges from the user.
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Donating to GulpJS? 2014 is calling, they want their streaming build tool back.
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by Wintamute 8y ago
It's gratifying to see a deep understanding of the origin and current reality of this situation emerge after so many years of chaos and culture warring. Hopefully with understanding, and greater exposure to society at large, will come
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by Wintamute 8y ago
On the free tier you're just hosting static files on Netlify, so they can cache very effectively. Also since you're just hosting a set of static files you're hardly "locked in", so if for whatever reason the free ti
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by Wintamute 8y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/water-access-resources-sanitation
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by Wintamute 8y ago
For money is good enough for me. You probably doubt me, but I'm not callous, mercenary or indifferent to the experiences of others - I'm just buying into a system that is objectively working. Spend some time clicking through http
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by Wintamute 8y ago
When we share personal observations, especially on a site like this, it's reasonable to expect that most people will interpret them as an invitation to treat them as insight into wider patterns. If your anecdata was of no wider applica
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by Wintamute 8y ago
I agree with you. My admittedly snarky/oblique point was that these days it's personally, professionally and politically advantageous to make negative generalisations about males, but not about females. Just pointing out a fashion
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by Wintamute 8y ago
https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom-server.html#rendertostati...
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Who gets to define the bigotry? Because they have ultimate social power in your brave new world. Granted, the first wave of people to wield this power would generally do so out of compassion. The next waves that come to power would wield it
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by Wintamute 8y ago
I hear you, your criticisms are valid but you've identified the wrong cause. It's not the tooling, or languages themselves, rather the web platform. With the web platform everything is sat on top of shifting sand ... i.e. changing
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by Wintamute 8y ago
> I do. C++ is an excellent example of accidental complexity got out of control. Actually, C++ complexity has been a main reason of why Google created Go. And Go embraced pursuit of minimizing accidental complexity at its best. Fair enou
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Web developers get pissed because its a strawman. Nobody uses the layers of complexity needed to preprocess, compile, load, link and finally run C++ as a fundamental criticism. Everything anybody does when they work on modern programming pl
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by Wintamute 8y ago
"Science (what we can explain), and Art (what we can't)" Er, no. This is a horribly limiting definition of both terms.
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by Wintamute 8y ago
You're completely correct to highlight this, it's a coming challenge to be sure. Developed nations need to fine a way to increase indigenous fertility rates without simply replacing their own populations and culture with immigrati
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by Wintamute 8y ago
> If one wants to survive, one has to prepare for these shifts, and not emotionally invest in a particular tech stack. Couldn't agree more. I'm already a refugee twice over from previous tech stacks, and keep on enjoying where
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by Wintamute 8y ago
I'm a senior JavaScript dev and consultant - we ship create-react-app and angular-cli apps to production frequently, having to eject and dig into the build process is the exception rather than the norm. The win for keeping things zero-
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Not sure I follow the reasoning here. I mean, it's not like JavaScript and its associated tooling is the barrier to entry to frontend anymore for anyone that has the energy and interest to spend even a trivial amount of time looking in
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by Wintamute 8y ago
Best practice is to use a zero-config build tool like create-react-app or angular-cli. Or a next-gen static site generator like GatsbyJS. From the developers point of view this is one moving part and one devDependency. I think your assessme
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by Wintamute 9y ago
Did you read the article to the end? The author isn't sticking his head in the sand, he puts his money where his mouth is and it currently developing a Slack-like client built on XMPP. The protocol can support many of the Slack-style f

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