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   by firasd 10y ago

   Sure, emailed. Also added a screenshot/twitter to my profile in case anyone else is interested.
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   by firasd 10y ago

   I'm building a podcast discovery app and I find myself being de-facto pulled towards modularity. It's because my feed checker is in Elixir, my site is WordPress-based, and I communicate between them using the WP API, and I'm
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   by firasd 10y ago

   I think they wanted to move quickly to offer a substitute to Facebook Instant Articles without waiting for other players in the market (Bing? Mobile browsers?) to adopt it in their own time…
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   by firasd 10y ago

   I've been trying to keep this "launch fast" advice in mind as I work on a product (pretty much the first serious personally-created app I'm putting out there.) Another piece I looked up to re-read is this from the founde
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   by firasd 10y ago

   They have over 100 million MAUs so even 1000 UTF-8 characters for each each active user (email, first name, last name, location, tokens, other stuff) would be up to 0.4 TB. Then add all the inactive users, and pins, tags, friend connections
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   by firasd 10y ago

   Interesting post from Philip Greenspun about this: https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2013/01/15/plea-bargaining-a...
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   by firasd 10y ago

   Great line: "Learn to estimate your capacity. You’ll learn how many seconds are in a day because of this."
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   by firasd 10y ago

   Interesting passage: “The fact that Babbage’s Analytical Engine was to be entirely mechanical will help us to rid ourselves of a superstition. Importance is often attached to the fact that modern digital computers are electrical, and that
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   by firasd 10y ago

   “lots of the traps within ‘Plenty of Time’ are not due to us choosing other priorities. The traps are choosing comfort.” I think this hits the nail on the head. It's a mistake to think it's too late and what remains of life is g
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    by firasd 10y ago

    I find the Babel REPL useful when trying to figure out es6 code samples: https://babeljs.io/repl/
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    by firasd 10y ago

    I think the narrative in the article may be a bit of a stretch (Thiel is not against creating restaurants because he thinks they are worthless, he just says they aren't profitable), but I think the conclusion is pretty much correct: th
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    Why You Can’t Keep Secrets (1996)(williamaarkin.wordpress.com)

    2 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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    by firasd 10y ago

    This is great. React has this weird dual nature in that on one hand, you can drop it in as a <script> tag and it 'just works'. On the other hand, if you want to build using it, you're going to end up needing things like
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Facebook offered to add an indefinite number of partner sites to the Free Basics program. But the problem is regardless of how many sites are offered in the free data program, it legitimizes the concept of 'zero rating', enabling
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Most U.S. tech companies were strong proponents of the FCC's net neutrality regulations because they don't want telecom networks to intervene between them and their users by segmenting access based on pricing or speed. Although it
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    by firasd 10y ago

    On Free Basics: "We’ve learned a lot about how we need to interact with governments and the political system and regulators, and build support in order to have these things work. And I think we’ll take those lessons forward on the fut
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Interesting to ponder. I'm working on an app for podcast discovery (think Youtube for podcasts; I've put the twitter link in my HN profile page if anyone is interested in updates) and I've been thinking about this. I am gener
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Thanks for the code sample! Will give it a try.
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Interesting. I was trying to do something like: tasks = for i <- urls do Task.start(fn -> :timer.sleep(5000 * the_counter) # more stuff end) end So each task would run 5 seconds after the previous one, etc
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Good stuff. I've started using Elixir and Phoenix in a new project (I wanted concurrency for making a lot of HTTP calls) and while functional programming does take getting used to (you can not write something like a counter that increm
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    by firasd 10y ago

    The issue with creating tech for such semantics is whether authors put in the effort to provide metadata. For example, rel=next/previous has been around forever but most webpages don't have them because they are not exposed in bro
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Good insight. I suspect that some American hesitation about "density" and "apartment buildings" is based on specific history from the 20th century and 'white flight' era. Do people from other countries really f
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Great comment there. "Taste creates groups, or at the very least polices their boundaries..."
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Interesting. This article and the book it reviews are expansive in their investigation of the determinants of taste, but I’ve been thinking over the last few years that aesthetics are probably more socially determined than I’d thought. Does
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    by firasd 10y ago

    The argument (among others) is that if you're going to be using if/else, for loops, and all that in a templating language you might as well use a full-featured language like JavaScript... (youtube timestamp: https://www
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Maybe, but I like Bloom's point that Victor Frankenstein wasn't ready to be responsible for the burden of creation, underscoring the question of who the real monster is in this tale.
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Harold Bloom (spoilers?): "As the hideousness of his creature was no part of Victor Frankenstein's intention, it is worth noticing how this disastrous matter came to be. It would not be unjust to characterize Victor Frankenstein,
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    by firasd 10y ago

    I really like this essay on the general theme (referencing Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina, Paradise Lost, Prometheus, etc.): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/06/04/robots-are-winnin... P
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    Hypernova by Airbnb: JavaScript Server Rendering (React in Ruby on Rails)(github.com)

    2 points by firasd 10y ago|0 comments
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    by firasd 10y ago

    Here is a GIF of me putting input state (and general form state) in the Redux store: http://i.imgur.com/QRDH1Sy.gifv Yes, if the keystrokes are not debounced it generates many actions. But my point is that concern about the