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by dictum 7y ago
Please avoid "why would you do X?" when discussing some tool or workflow. It's needlessly confrontational (and through that, restrictive of diversity, as different groups can have different needs and preferences), devoid of i
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The Web We Have to Save (2015)(medium.com)
2 points by dictum 7y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 7y ago
I was fascinated when I learned that many universities have discussion groups within their Biology/Natural Sciences/Ornithology departments dedicated to identifying and cataloging dead birds, and most of their urban finds died fro
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by dictum 7y ago
> Web developers weren't professional enough to make the web fast. Don't shit on (other?) developers to make your point. It's revisionism that only serves the purpose of taking more control from users and developers, which
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by dictum 7y ago
I share the same distrust about Facebook and Google on HN, but only the latter seems to bring substantial downvotes. To be fair, they have more employees, and I don't assume bad faith in the downvotes — I've been wrong more than a
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by dictum 7y ago
Many thought leaders on social media do. They also write like this. Short sentences, free of uncertainty. They give direct orders, separated by 3 newline characters. Beginners are surprised. If you don't do the same, you cannot count y
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by dictum 7y ago
I don't mean to defend the trend of using undecipherable icons with no text labels, but this is an example of how requirements can clash: internationalization. Sometimes the text label that would fit in English is too long when properl
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by dictum 7y ago
Which then pings Facebook/Google/some other third party about your activity.
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by dictum 7y ago
My reply should be longer and more helpful, but I'm unable to write clearly right now, so I'll be short but regrettably not nuanced: if it involves other people and shared resources, I don't think you can make it non-politica
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by dictum 7y ago
> push the politics of its employees Defense of the status quo is ideology too. To see the information portrayed in the article as normal and good is a political position, just like seeing it as bad is a political position. But even if p
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by dictum 7y ago
> We're fighting an Urban War over here As soon as you start unpacking why and how you got into an urban war , you'll approach the fussy philosophical questions raised by the human rights crowd .
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by dictum 7y ago
Reply to the grandparent, now dead/flagged: Criminals are people too. Your distinction would apply if the headline had "non-criminals" (a rare construct, but for sake of comparison, akin to "civilians" or noncombata
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by dictum 7y ago
I wish I could upvote the half of this comment that questions the wisdom of seeing good docs as a bad signal, and not upvote the part about not disclosing these issues earlier. This same question comes up when people reveal abuse (of any ki
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by dictum 7y ago
It deletes Column A , yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717406
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by dictum 7y ago
At this point I'm wary of hauling the old Dropbox example, having learned that the author has acknowledged his mistake in being prematurely dismissive. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051 ) Regarding 1MB: look
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by dictum 7y ago
Effective policymaking takes into account both the precise technical terminology and the real-world usage of a concept. Otherwise, it wouldn't be able to tackle any issue for which popular usage doesn't take into account technical
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by dictum 7y ago
This is a consequence of subjective choices (even when beneficial) being perceived as easy to perform (hence, cheap and unworthy of value) and likely to be incorrect, whereas choices borne out of systematic processes are seen as reliable an
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by dictum 7y ago
> on the news we get to see extremely violent protests in France It's unwise to compare a country in which protests are allowed (and ingrained in the political culture) with countries that suppress them.
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by dictum 7y ago
Obligatory fanboy comment: it seems that every project you create moves web dev in a better direction, and you don't seem like a bad chap either!
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by dictum 7y ago
"Less code" implies less authored code, which may be a benefit of Svelte (is it? I haven't been able to use it much but it's on my radar) but doesn't necessarily map to its technical goals (less built code, less run
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by dictum 7y ago
You're right; however, people (NYT subscribers and the general public) have the right to press the advertising department regarding the information and viewpoint presented by the newsroom . If the advertising department is the ent
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by dictum 7y ago
Trying out a job site I hadn't used before, I found a position at a local startup. A run of the mill startup, but well funded and with a non-amateurish brand feel . Despite being a few simple pages, with not much interactive features
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We Will Not Be Registering EasyDNS.SUCKS (2015)(easydns.com)
2 points by dictum 7y ago|2 comments
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by dictum 7y ago
There was a window of time (roughly from the eighties until about 2016) when "socialist" wouldn't be used because it was perceived as outdated, too linked with the Cold War and Red Scare... so it would be painted as "ent
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by dictum 8y ago
While your metaphor is merely intended as a comparison of aiding a crime , it's made hazier by the introduction of a crime of a grisly nature (murder) committed directly (the source pulls the trigger; it is not a murder caused by a th
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by dictum 8y ago
It's a kind of ad hoc censitary suffrage. One can only put possessions on the line if they have them, and the greater one's possessions, the greater their perceived "skin".
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by dictum 8y ago
> A little bit like the US maybe? One way humans learn to be less awful is when they observe the same bad behaviors they've been engaging in on their rivals or frenemies . The opposite seems to be true in corporations and nation-st
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by dictum 8y ago
I didn't downvote, but your comment comes across as dismissive of the subject because it isn't directly related to digital tech.
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by dictum 8y ago
Without knowing the specifics, I think it's one instance where any variance from the default, when intentionally set by an user, is an additional signal for fingerprinting. (It's becoming a nice excuse to clamp down on configurabi
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by dictum 8y ago
I really miss Rdio! Just disagree on the performance a bit. The UI was fluid, but their network performance would take a hit from how their API had been designed: every action on the app would trigger a large JSON payload download (and some

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