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by jochung 9y ago
If you think that, you don't understand the nature of what is being done with HTML nowadays. It's not about declarative markup, it's about efficient updating of a UI whose shape is completely decoupled from the shape of the s
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by jochung 9y ago
This is all well and good, but to recast this to 2018, you need to factor in the people who can't recognize fascistic tendencies unless they come with a swastika on their sleeve. You see it in both the obsession to label anything and a
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by jochung 9y ago
If you want to make Electron obsolete, make a cross platform UI toolkit that mixes UI and document-style content as good as HTML/CSS does. End user expectations are for complex layouts, flexible typography, rich media embedding, animat
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by jochung 9y ago
The existence of a mechanism doesn't absolve HN of responsibility or guarantee objectivity, it just means there is a fig leaf of plausible deniability. Equating vigorous debate with a flamewar is throwing the baby out with the bathwate
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by jochung 9y ago
You'll still see those opinions if you have the link, but there is a very obvious pattern of removing threads about contentious issues from the front page once they reach a certain amount of wrong think. Either the admins are turning a
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by jochung 9y ago
Evolution was opinionated enough to create measurable differences in spatial ability, personality, drives and so on, between genders and within genders. Its velocity is directly proportional to the variance that exists in the population: yo
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by jochung 9y ago
It's not about what you render, but how you render.
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by jochung 9y ago
If this is real good journalism I guess it's time to just move to a cabin in the woods and call it quits for society. The one thing I want is an outlet that knows to shut up if they don't have anything interesting to say. Having a
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by jochung 9y ago
There is plenty of reason to think "systematically underrepresented" is untrue, especially because the yardstick being applied, a 50/50 target, is likely unobtainable. Given that a "bro" was denigrated, persecuted a
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by jochung 9y ago
And the authorities are equally likely to commit a crime as the man on the street, a fact they generally don't acknowledge and certainly don't design their own systems for. You cannot create safety by concentrating power and autho
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by jochung 9y ago
The worst part is that both damore's statements and actions are being dissected with a scalpel, by people who rear their legs at the mere implication they might not be 100% morally right. Replace "white men" with "black
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by jochung 9y ago
Yes but their system is tragically flawed in that it only lets the two most dominant poles compete over the ever shrinking space between them. Without some form of proportional representation, new ideas can be voiced but they can't get
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by jochung 9y ago
"The hard work of well intentioned people" has caused plenty of grief throughout the ages. Considering criticism off limits because it's not nice is exactly the kind of feels-first thinking that spergs abhor and which has no
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by jochung 9y ago
Fake news was an own goal by the left wing press. After selling a fable to their readers about a Clinton landslide, they tried to deflect by blaming the election outcome on fabricated stories. But there was never any evidence these stories
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by jochung 9y ago
Sure, users want to have their cake and eat it too: a free browser, open, produced by invisible elves. But so does Mozilla. They're a big enterprise when it suits them, and a scrappy upstart otherwise. The Mozilla brand is looking migh
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by jochung 9y ago
Firing people for providing criticism of a company's diversity police, while citing science, and letting your friends in media drag the plaintiff through the mud. Cancelling events and boycotting sponsors because their speaker line up
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by jochung 9y ago
Sure but go read the original pitch for it on wikipedia. It sounds word for word like Star Citizen. If we get another Freelancer, the project will have failed once again... it'll be years overdue and missing 90% of its promised feature
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by jochung 9y ago
People seem eager to forget Chris Roberts pitched this exact game before, as Freelancer, and that was released years too late, with none of the promised "living universe" features, after being bought out and handed off to someone
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by jochung 9y ago
What would we like to talk about instead? I'll start: - File formats and open protocols are dead, everything is stored in someone else's database. How do we regain the ability to switch providers and interoperate? - The web has pe
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by jochung 9y ago
This last point was recently covered on wrongthink blog Status 451: https://status451.com/2017/11/05/i-see-trad-people/ When people think of each other as blank slates and make progressivism the only acc
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by jochung 9y ago
The only way for the "open" web to evolve is for Google, Apple and Microsoft to agree on a feature, spec it out and roll it out to their different platforms. All anyone else can do is twiddle their thumbs hoping they don't fu
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by jochung 9y ago
I know from experience that it does, yes. HN is a burst of traffic but it dies down quick, within an hour or two. You're not going to exceed your limit or break the bank unless you're being ripped off.
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by jochung 9y ago
A single nginx instance on a lowest tier linode can withstand HN just fine. If HN is enough to bring you down, you're not even trying.
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by jochung 9y ago
A+ on critiquing social media, but I have bad news for you: provincialism is a normal facet of culture because humans are shallow. The internet of old was also preselected, towards the people most likely to have early access. It did not tra
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by jochung 9y ago
Just imagine if the US had secret prisons, policies of torture, autonomous killing machines, an unaccountable surveillance apparatus, and worst of all, a government that outright lied about some of these things without consequence during a
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by jochung 9y ago
Having been on both sides of the equation: imagine if a complete stranger acts like they are your friend, even though you've never met them, and offers nothing in the way of reciprocal ice breaking. Now repeat this dozens of times and
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by jochung 9y ago
People keep bringing up nazi propaganda as if it's a serious threat, but is it? The most successful radicalization stories I've heard are about people being recruited into ISIS. The political echochambers that have the most reach
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by jochung 9y ago
Apple does apply gamma correct blending, at least when rendering text to a solid surface so that subpixel alpha kicks in. If you render it to a transparent layer and force an RGBA blend, it gets blended in sRGB color space rather than linea
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by jochung 9y ago
The irony of American officials complaining about foreign interference really is amazingly delicious. STFU, hypocrites, and start looking in the mirror. There is half a century of global interference to look back on. Given how e.g. reddit&#
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by jochung 9y ago
It's as simple as it is overlooked: by building off of OSX, Apple delivered a phone that could actually work with all the files and protocols that people used on desktop. PDF, HTML, MP3/AAC, MP4/H264, ... Not to mention frame

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