madiathomas

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by madiathomas 7y ago
Those in power will certainly prefer your kind of thinking. With your kind of thinking, Nelson Mandela wasn't going to be released from jail. I doubt they were even gonna send him to jail. They were going to quietly execute him. Aparth
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Sorry. I thought you were talking about Hacker News. Maybe it doesn't require HTTPS because there is no transmission of any sensitive data.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Mine is running HTTPS. Even when I try to force it to use HTTP, it redirects me to HTTPS. I am on Chrome.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
If it is a library, I will prefer an open source one, but if it is some software, I don't mind even when it is closed source.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
GitHub probably did more good for the FOSS community than any other project I can think of. Before GitHub, it was so difficult to share code. Solutions available weren't anywhere close. I don't understand why he wants every little
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Any evidence to backup your claims that they track incognito searches? They promised not to track and I don't see anything that suggests they do track me when I am incognito.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
The benefits of using Google far outweighs the bad side of Google. When I want to search for private things, I go incognito mode. I clean up my activity log from time to time. I only allow Google Maps to track my location when I am using it
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I tried DDG a while ago and it didn't feel natural to me. It will be so hard for me to change a search engine after using Google for 20 years. I am too attached to this search engine and it is good enough for my needs. I rarely change
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by madiathomas 7y ago
"Fast, clean and no ads" was a big deal for me. Internet was very slow when I starting using it. When I discovered Google, it was a breath of fresh air to my life. For a change I was using a search engine that loaded fast.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Coca-Cola South Africa reduced the size of a can from 340ml -> 330ml -> 300ml. Their justification was that the government introduced sugar tax to fight obesity. Yep. We do have African countries with obesity problems. Price has alway
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I feel a downvote must only be used for a comment that has vulgar, strong language or anything that isn’t in the good spirit of a good debate. Downvotes must be used only to flag comments violating guidelines, not as a way to silence those
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by madiathomas 7y ago
All I want is a button that allows me to block a website from appearing on my search results. They can keep it for others. I know I don’t want articles from Quora, Pinterest, and paywalled news sites when I am searching for something on Goo
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by madiathomas 7y ago
That’s why I said sometimes. It isn’t all the time that you need to protect people but kids needs to be protected. People who are mentally ill must be protected from themselves. In some cases, even forcefully put them in mental hospitals. T
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by madiathomas 7y ago
> "Nobody knows better than me what is better for myself and mine." Smokers and anti-vaccination also use the same argument. Even though their actions are also dangerous to other people(kids). I am sure they felt oppressed when
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by madiathomas 7y ago
But even countries which aren’t under dictatorship have laws to protect people against themselves. Even those who are on top of the list of most democratic countries.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
That’s why society as a whole makes that decision about what they consider correct and what they consider incorrect through laws and ethical standards. Unless you are in a dictatorship, laws and ethical standards are representative of the m
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I am in the same boat. Whenever I go against ideologies of HN, I am always prepared to lose some karma also. I refuse to use a throwaway account.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
They must get some credit for full disclosure and giving you a discount for it. Unlike Airbnb which is charging you normal fee and still live-stream your stay. The other thing good about this hotel is that you can put measures in place to m
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by madiathomas 7y ago
People need to be protected from themselves sometimes. Just because someone is an adult, doesn’t mean they will always make correct decisions. Plus, you are never sure if they are doing it without being coerced and silenced at the same time
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by madiathomas 7y ago
This part made me to ask that question -> “HN notwithstanding”. it made me think he is excluding Hacker News from Ideologically/politically biased social networks.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
The tools that I have already learnt are working perfectly for me. I feel these days we are just adding tools for the sake of adding new tools. Instead of spending time to perfect what I already know, I have to spend time learning how to us
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Is he a GP or a Specialist? From what I know, the list of best Doctors is full of specialists, not generalists. I am yet to hear someone recommending a General Practitioner because they have broader knowledge. It is always Specialists who a
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by madiathomas 7y ago
You learnt all that without any previous background in JavaScript, HTML, HTTP etc? That is impressive if that was the case. Very impressive. CSS is hard. Even for people who have been doing it for decades. I am one of those people who can d
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I feel our craft is just too demanding. There is just too much to learn. If you stop learning for just one year, your knowledge quickly becomes redundant and you become unhireable.
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by madiathomas 7y ago
One thing I have realised is that most tools developed by big tech companies were built to solve their unique problem. Majority of applications will never reach scale of Google or Facebook but people still use whatever is being used or mark
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by madiathomas 7y ago
I always try to find at least one client who has a problem I want to solve and ask them to fund development of version 1. If no-one is ready to pay for development of version 1, it is a sign that I don't have a market and shouldn'
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by madiathomas 7y ago
5-10 years is too little considering the fact that they spent first 2-3 years gaining momentum. Even worse for Angular because it was completely changed along the way. JavaScript knowledge is still relevant even after 24 years. Whatever is
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by madiathomas 7y ago
Maybe we need to see those skills map. I can't wait for CEOs to disagree that you don't need those skills. Most CEOs became CEOs because they started the company or are connected to the owners of the company. Most CEOs are just po
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by madiathomas 7y ago
The best people in every field are people who are focused on one aspect and one aspect only. Linus Torvalds only focus on C programming and kernels. If you judge him based on these lists, he will be regarded incompetent because he can'
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by madiathomas 7y ago
All doctors, lawyers and real engineers I know only focus on one aspect. They are specialists. I know lawyers who specialises in rape cases, conveyancing, ligitation, but I have never met a lwayer who is expected to solve a rape case today

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