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by brlewis 7y ago
Suppose A has contacts B and C. If A chooses to share contacts with Facebook, and Facebook suggests B and C to A, I can see why you'd say that's not an invasion of privacy. If Facebook suggests A to C, that's arguably an inva
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You envision a world with exactly one way to share photos? In this world, is there also only one word-sharing site? I think there are more information problems out there than software engineers.
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No, React does not feel like a simpler version of Angular. People who have used Angular but never liked it are Vue's target market.
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A lot of YC companies seem to think they got useful advice from him. I don't know what you mean by "obvious nonsense". Here's my dissection of one recent essay, which seemed generally true and useful: https://
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You can try it out without even signing in. It will use localStorage. I'll look into reducing the permissions it asks for. Those are the passport-twitter defaults. EDIT: Looks like I can't set it to ask for fewer permissions. My c
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by brlewis 7y ago
Yeah, maybe I need to give people more examples. Here's the first non-trivial one I made: https://en.howtruthful.com/o/nuclear_power_is_a_crucial_comp... Here's one related to pg's most recent essay: ht
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by brlewis 7y ago
First I'll explain what I mean by "failed". I'm not shutting down or ceasing development. But since I have a previous side project that never became profitable, I made an agreement with my wife that if I didn't get
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Policy doesn't work that way; it's specifically focused on use. It focuses on people and what they do. Policy makers can't create policy around a piece of technology without understanding how it is used -- how all of it&#x27
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Engineers' emphasis on content over convincing is why we often fail to persuade. I think dang is right that this is a piece of marketing literature that's useful to engineers.
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Did you follow the advice of this article and describe why the old way won't continue to work? Did you point to winners who have already gone in the direction you want to move? Did you dissect the pros and cons, acknowledging what&#x27
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> The longer your sentences, the more you'll filter out readers with short attentions spans and limited literacy. And readers who have not yet been persuaded that your writing is worth their time. If long sentences are essential to
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That's something I learned in my 20s that I wish I'd learned as a child.
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Yes, that's why the paragraph after the one under discussion starts out, "Translated into essay writing...". So the paragraph discussed in this thread is about interpersonal social behavior.
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A high school educator once told me that the impetus for the early schedule was businesses who wanted teens to be able to work for them in the afternoon.
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> an 18 year old marine has no problems getting up at 4:30 Define "no problems" Also, most high school students are under 18.
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One advantage of using browsers when you want "modern JavaScript (as supported by the most recent version of V8)" is that the fetch API provides a great opportunity to try out async/await, which is the most new language const
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No browser APIs means you'll want to use node. Except node APIs are largely based on callbacks, and you want to learn modern stuff like async/await. I think you'll learn modern JS best using deno. TypeScript is a superset of
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by brlewis 7y ago
Wikipedia is generally good at choosing and citing "official" sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93con...
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For companies, React is mostly better. For personal and educational projects, or where startup time is key, Mithril may be better. https://en.howtruthful.com/o/react_is_a_better_framework_tha...
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See reviewmeta thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22327272
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I don't think there's anything stopping you from putting the same review in multiple systems.
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It does seem like something motivated more by a desire to make it exist than a desire to use it. Also to have a project where both your program and your programming language are lispy.
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>The world (not the U.S. alone) should engage in a large peacekeeping mission in Syria. Is this statement actionable? It's hard enough to influence one's own country. How would one get the world to act?
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Can you fill this in? The U.S. should intervene in Syria Pro ... Con ... What makes it complicated? If you're unsure of the truth of pro/con arguments or need to dissect them, you can use https://en.h
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The facts look quite similar to me. I think the difference is law. The Amazon case was based on U.S. law and the Apple case on California law. In the Amazon case, the ruling said "These arguments are properly presented to the employer
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If kart23's objection to complexity is how long it takes to get up and running, I agree about CRA. I agree about knowing the why of Babel and Webpack. But how they work isn't something everybody has to learn. If it's some
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The defendants not using all of his facts distinguished this case from ones where the plaintiff won. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/827... Worth's reliance on cases involv
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I followed the link and didn't see where it said they used all his facts.
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and Sunoco
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A single fact isn't protected by copyright, but if I understand correctly, collections of facts are, if creative work is involved. The article seems to describe digesting all the facts in a book, and making them available to third part

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