emasser

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   by emasser 7y ago

   Engineered by who and for what reason?
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   by emasser 8y ago

   Well, https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish exists if you want.
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   by emasser 8y ago

   Isn't Elsevier just borrowing credibility from scientists and institutions, I mean, they could all self publish, because it is still their names that lend credibility to these reports, data and papers, not this aggregator/publishe
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   by emasser 8y ago

   Yeah, about that, it's a bit like when people complain about phones just working previously. Cars did not used to have AC, be all that stylish and comfortable, they lacked finesse. Cars today are way more complex with a lot of features
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   by emasser 8y ago

   Well, if you take the analogy of the car, that today is working quite efficient and hassle free, that, I would argue, is in large part due to regulation and bureaucracy. Something that the Internet and computing does not have at the moment.
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   by emasser 8y ago

   So in a sense, web browsers are a bit to promiscuous. Website builders would have more incentive to properly engineer their websites if browsers were pickier. One issue with that is that it is the websites visitors who are most likely to se