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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Because children are extra gullible. Children will happily sing a catchy tune from a non-interactive, non-personalized TV or radio commercial, even repeating marketing slogans they don't understand. You can win a kid's trust by gi
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think Mozilla wasted some effort on some questionable initiatives, like Firefox OS. They became a little complacent and didn't put money(?) where their mouth is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_prod
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Because I don't like where my life has been going and intend to change it. It's like watching life from the sidelines, and people distancing themselves from you one by one. I suffered much and realized it was much worse than the e
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
> This fundamental assumption, I imagine, makes it unpleasant to interact with people. Suspicion about the intentions of another person makes it difficult to cooperate and develop good rapport. Do you know what's the alternative ? C
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
XKCD - Password Strength (a.k.a. correct horse battery staple) https://www.xkcd.com/936/
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Wait, it gets better. You're watching movie with someone. That someone is getting a call. Pause that movie. See you in 30 minutes. Phones don't even have a polite way to decline conversation, a button labeled "Call me 1 hour
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
'''Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver. In stark contrast, when you get a phone call, it’s almost always a convenient time for the
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Fascinating, eye-opening article. As a child, I used to have vivid imagination, vivid dreams, be afraid of silly things such as fear literal ghosts that could live in our (dark) corridor, at the attic or the shed on the far side of the gard
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Not necessarily. My brother, 6 years older, insists that RSS is dead, nobody uses it, and he's happy to follow the trend. He will happily chase whatever tech is fashionable to increase his perceived workforce market value. He is intell
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
This is a problem I can live with! So not all solutions to the centralized, monopolized social/tracking web lie in the future. We should also learn from the past, and it's encouraging to see some tools we need are already there, r
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Okay, my question was ambiguous. I meant: how do users store and organize full articles from RSS feeds ? I used a RSS reader before a hard drive crash, and I made the mistake of subscribing to too many feeds. Aside from cutting unnecessar
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
For the websites that actually provide whole articles via RSS, what's your next step ? How do you keep and organize those articles ? edit: I mean how users, not article authors, keep and organize full articles.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Oh look, Google Trends for Javascript is pretty telling: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri... Facebook has an aardvark-shaped graph: https://trends.google.com/trends/
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I was only half-serious about it. My hobbies include SF and fantasy. It's an intriguing idea for a setting.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Even better, sometimes I wonder if history is not going in circles. Maybe so much fuss is made about True Names because it's echoes of a long dead civilization which already had computers and search engines ? Atlantis ? Quetzalcoatl ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If you want to impress people as a programmer, I think it helps to have imagination and side projects. Visual programming is nice, too (like SVG).
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
That's quite true. When you say you're a plumber, people can at least ask half-assed questions or provide a story when they were doing that themselves. When you say you're a programmer, the conversation usually ends with &quo
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Unlike chemical engineers, programmers have the ability to give specific instructions that machines obey. We put things in motion.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I feel disgust for programming domains where I have to use a lot of boilerplate. This is simply because... I can't remember arbitrary bits of information well. I memorize much better if it's something connected by logic.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Another analogy that I can't shake off is True Name and search engines. Since the dawn of time folk tales placed emphasis on true name of people and objects. Knowing the true name grants one power over something or someone. https:&#x2
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Unfortunately, it's also open to corporations. It's free exchange of ideas and human communication without borders... but also centralization without borders. A shop can be only in one place at once, so even a very big and optimiz
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Reification is always there for the (rare?) cases you need it. With GUI, there's no such option, and it's hard to notice something that has always been missing.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think if you use JS your website has broken history by default and you need to go an extra mile (or use a nice framework) to remedy this. And there are things like infinite scrolling pages. And then you find yourself arguing with the deve
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Chess: * The interface is typically NOT optimized for keyboard. Typing E4D5 is not optimized. You need to look at a square in the middle, then look which row it is, and which column it is. I've implemented a better one for a
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I loved the nested discussion of mailgroups. Compared to message boards and forums of today (yesterday? I think they may be passe?) they enabled interesting, meandering discussions. It's the way discussion flows between two intelligent
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Videos (mostly video ads) are the pop-up windows of 2010's. It seems people have memorized that alert(); is bad without understanding what made it bad.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I have this problem with books vs movies too. I find all but the best made movies less immersive than books. With books, my brain and eyes are the engine pushing plot forward. I by definition need to catch all that is happening.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
With one exception: text editors. Videos on Vim are genuinely helpful, especially those recorded with software displaying keystrokes. You get to see an experienced programmer and his editor workflow, things that he now does from muscle memo
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think many web apps are essentially closed source taken to the next level. Back when the war was Windows vs Linux, software could still be painstakingly reverse-engineered. This made making open source alternatives easier, as well as comp
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Fiction or not, religion has very real influence on the world. I'm an atheist, but religion interests me as a force that shapes societies and culture. As a general rule, the notion of conscience is alien to people of Africa. They don&#

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