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by firasd 11y ago
I'm not very familiar with this topic but you may find yesterday's Mozilla Webrender discussion interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258
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by firasd 11y ago
I'm watching Nick Schrock's keynote video and at 5:15 he says someone made this stained-glass window: http://i.imgur.com/tBx7zku.png
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React.js Conf 2016 [videos](youtube.com)
52 points by firasd 11y ago|8 comments
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by firasd 11y ago
I think it's just the business model... whether ICQ in the 90s or Facebook Messenger today, there is no incentive for interoperability (especially if you're one of the bigger networks.)
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by firasd 11y ago
Interesting. Also telling because of how their deployment and revenue model was tightly coupled to carriers (old school thinking) v.s. being consumer-driven from app stores.
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by firasd 11y ago
Yeah I was thinking in terms of the future, especially if FB integrates digital wallets like WeChat. Not the Amazon-like shopping part necessarily, but payments, talking to customers, stuff like that.
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by firasd 11y ago
I was just thinking about this. In 2010 (when many people were building GroupOn clones) I don't think people thinking about tech really saw this coming: that chat apps would not just be successful at such large scale but also subsume V
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by firasd 11y ago
Not using JSX won't mean your React doesn't mix HTML & JS though. React's whole philosophy is to mix them. So it just means you will have to keep typing ".createElement('h1'...)" instead of typing &quo
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by firasd 11y ago
This is great. Also see the React docs tutorial: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/tutorial.html
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by firasd 11y ago
Okay… 1) When Free Basics launched India, the problems with it turned out to be even worse than I expected. I wrote about how the local marketing (‘Free Facebook’) and Zuck’s post (‘farmers getting weather information’) had completely diffe
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by firasd 11y ago
When this first launched in India a couple months ago, the realization of what was going on really hit me. I was already opposed to it for net neutrality reasons, but in practice the program just rolled out Facebook and a few apps without d
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by firasd 11y ago
I found this interesting and prescient: "Hitler's Program", by Leon Trotsky (1934). “Hitler has been widely regarded as a demagogue, a hysterical person, and a comedian… It takes more than hysteria to seize power, and method
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“Computing machinery and intelligence”, by Alan Turing(loebner.net)
5 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 11y ago
Got 8/10. Of the choices, I was instantly sure that this one wasn't computer-generated from a photo because of the unnatural dark area on the top: http://turing.deepart.io/t/6.jpg . I think (even if photos wer
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Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken(chronicle.com)
3 points by firasd 11y ago|0 comments
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by firasd 11y ago
Interesting historical context: When Firefox split off from the old Mozilla browser, the whole Firefox (then called Phoenix) project removed a lot of menus and buttons.
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by firasd 11y ago
Consider a list. If you only had server-side rendering, you would define a function that iterates through the list and outputs list items. If the list is to be changed when you reload the page, you'd use the same function to render the
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by firasd 11y ago
It’s kinda interesting that when people ponder React, they sometimes think of complex ideas and cite math-related terms like Immutability, Isomorphism, or as in this article, examples from circuit design. When I look at it, the first thing
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by firasd 11y ago
Any science or medicine types know if a potential solution to the problem this company wants to fix can be achieved by a 'hack' of sorts: just make a finger-prick, but keep it bleeding somehow (using mechanics or other chemical ag
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by firasd 11y ago
Twitter's problem is not really revenue; the ads and other sources are working (they'll probably announce over $2 billion in 2015 revenue). Their problem is that Facebook has trained Wall Street to look at Monthly Active Users as
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by firasd 11y ago
I think Facebook chose this type of campaign after seeing how http://savetheinternet.in rallied support for pro-net neutrality responses to an earlier consultation paper, from an uncommonly broad audience for a telecom policy is
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by firasd 11y ago
Harshest sentence: "your urging has the flavor of reducing this meaningful consultative exercise designed to produce informed decisions in a transparent manner into a crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll."
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by firasd 11y ago
That is exactly what I thought about.
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by firasd 11y ago
Right. The main source of linkrot isn’t that a webpage was carefully moved from place A to place B (in that case you could just use google to find it again), it’s that the webpage content isn’t maintained anymore. It's just gone.
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by firasd 11y ago
This is kinda unconvincing, because Rick Perlstein throws the kitchen sink at Rahm Emanuel, blaming him for everything from NAFTA to the last Congressional election.
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by firasd 11y ago
Speaking of Mozilla, they have weighed in by making a submission to the regulator, siding with net neutrality http://blog.mozillaindia.org/1558
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by firasd 11y ago
Hmm this is an interesting question. Does a Kindle (or other device) that is connected to the internet, but can only access limited sites or services violate net neutrality? It really depends on applicable regulations or legislation, and ho
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by firasd 11y ago
Instead of repeating my response I'll link to our previous exchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793258 (edit: updated the link) Meanwhile I'll point out that this sort of disdain coupled with a demand
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by firasd 11y ago
This is why I don't like to use metaphors when discussing net neutrality. The current regulatory question in India is very specific: whether telecom services should be able to differentially price data. The internet is in a class of it
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by firasd 11y ago
Looking forward to reading these patents to learn their cutting-edge blockchain implementation for making a $1 overdraft accrue $35 in fees.

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