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by aphextron 5y ago
>I don’t think that everyone’s using the SPA pattern for no reason. For large corporations, it allows teams to work independently: the “frontend engineers” can “consume” “APIs” from teams that probably work in a different language and ca
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by aphextron 5y ago
>The concept was great, but it has basically become a "website builder" and not really a piece of blogging software anymore. You can definitely turn it into practically anything, and it quickly becomes a mess due to the fact th
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by aphextron 5y ago
>We could end up in a cyber war aimed at each other's critical infrastructure (which has a real potential to kill people), without ever really deciding we wanted to go to war. We're already there. Although most of it happens by
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by aphextron 5y ago
It's the same thing as YouTube videos with comments disabled. "What are they hiding from?" becomes the question.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Digital pimpin' ain't easy.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>My understanding of U.S.A. First amendment is that government won't infringe on your right of free speech. It doesn't say you can come into my home, workplace, store, or website and yell what you want on my property. This is e
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by aphextron 5y ago
>I think the idea is that the tech giants are NOT publishers. If they were, they would be responsible for third-party content In an ideal world we repeal Section 230 and the US government provides, free of charge, a small digital space f
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Those EU countries didn’t allow the plane into their airspace, encouraging it to land in a third country to refuel. Seems like a trivial difference. Denying access to your airspace comes with the implicit threat of fighter interception.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>It is absolutely within possibility to ban Belarus for an overt Chicago convention violation. EU did the same thing in 2013 by forcing the Bolivian president's plane to land in an effort to catch Snowden. They have no moral or lega
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by aphextron 5y ago
>but note that then there’s no way of accessing updates values (in callbacks) This is by design. When you start making a component worry about what it needs to do on an update, rather than just rendering its data, you are introducing a w
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by aphextron 5y ago
That's pretty much the case, though isn't it? Why else would companies do criminal background checks?
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by aphextron 5y ago
I can't help but think that there was a certain special something that existed among that generation of late modern intellectuals immediately preceding and proceeding from the first world war. There's an intensity, a level of disc
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by aphextron 5y ago
>The downsides are that I have trouble sleeping unassisted, as I'll just lay in bed thinking til the sun comes up, and also have trouble staying focused on movies or even conversation, as my mind will be elsewhere. I'm the exac
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Take this scenario: You’ve hiked Mt. Adams. Now you want to hike Mt. Fuji next fall, and you want to know what to do differently to prepare. Ah yes, that totally common scenario which I'm faced with all the time. I love this. It pe
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by aphextron 5y ago
Why does Ted Nelson need to deliver a "product"? He's not a computer scientist. He's not a product manager. He's just a goofy guy with wacky, interesting ideas. More of a philosopher than anything else.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Getting some real 1999 vibes here
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by aphextron 5y ago
I thought this looked familiar https://youtu.be/0L01FxuRBZY?t=11
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by aphextron 5y ago
>I have no idea what you would use such a thing for. This can be said for pretty much all of Ted's work. Interesting and thought provoking, nonetheless.
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by aphextron 5y ago
So you've discovered domain squatting.
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by aphextron 5y ago
I've noticed this trend lately on HN of people digging through user history to make some meta commentary about the poster. It's weird. This isn't reddit. Let the statement speak on its' own regardless of who posted it or
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by aphextron 5y ago
This hits hard. I can remember landing my first job in SF as a poor kid from the midwest who had only ever worked menial labor before. For the first few weeks I would leave my Macbook at the office every night, because I was incredulous to
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The US just had its lowest number of new cases reported since the pandemic began(nytimes.com)
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NYC's 24-hour subway service resumes 1 year after Covid shutdown(msn.com)
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by aphextron 5y ago
Everyone's a genius in a bull market.
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by aphextron 5y ago
I thought this was well known? The Kraft Parmesan cheese bottle literally lists "cellulose powder" on the ingredients. Never buy that crap.
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by aphextron 5y ago
I went on a Tinder date the other day. Totally random, no mutual friends, never met or spoke before. Within five minutes she told me she was a palm reader, so I humored her and asked her to read mine. I was absolutely shocked. The level of
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by aphextron 5y ago
And I'm sure I'll be downvoted to oblivion for even bring it up. But the evidence, as you've explained, has increasingly been mounting. I was all in on calling people Sinophobic for even suggesting this in the first few mont
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by aphextron 5y ago
I've always wondered this since COVID hit. Why has this not happened more frequently? If it were a natural event, why are we not constantly being bombarded with these things? And what happens when we get 3, 4, 5 different ones at once?
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by aphextron 5y ago
>That has nothing to do with Javascript's merits as a language though. Sure it does. DOM support is built into the very core of JS as a language, and that has shaped the entire history of its' development and subsequent API cho
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by aphextron 5y ago
>If people didn’t like JavaScript for front end work, it’s not like they could just switch to python Sure you could. You can develop for the web in practically any language you like these days. People use JavaScript because it has native

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