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by mekoka 7y ago
I'm not a yogi and I admit that my view of yoga as practiced in the west is skewed toward categorizing it more under "fashion and marketing" than "spirituality". But whenever I read something like this article and s
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by mekoka 7y ago
An OS? An exaggeration maybe, but only slight. The browser is pretty much its own environment already. It's been the case for decades. It can display text, process a variety of media, and run programs (written in JavaScript). The main
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by mekoka 7y ago
> Maybe at some point web developers have to accept that the web was simply not built for the things they're trying to do with it, and that comes with a cost. So what's your proposal? To have one browser for "web documents
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by mekoka 7y ago
Mixed feelings. I decided to pick up front-end JavaScript a year ago and chose Vue. Although I'm a fan of that specific framework, one thing that I found annoying about the ecosystem (and the great JavaScript family in general) is the
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by mekoka 7y ago
An author may care so much about readership that they value reaching 50 million people, over a few dozens, if the price to pay is some inconvenience with the medium (see what I did there?)
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by mekoka 7y ago
That's not fair. Medium's content is community contributed. There's a lot of value in there. Let's not throw the baby with the water.
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by mekoka 7y ago
Thank you for your input. I'm not very familiar with India's politics, so I cannot be too assertive on its politicians' inflexibility. I noticed that you expanded a bit on the "cryptocurrency" angle. May I invite yo
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by mekoka 7y ago
Not all-cash , rather mostly cash . They do have banks, but think of banking as a luxury in those economies, not a commodity. They're for well established businesses and the rich. For everybody else, banks can be really tedious to de
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by mekoka 7y ago
Let's play a game of predictions. Regardless of HN's opinion of Facebook (and regardless of my own for that matter) I predict that this thing will work. This is only one thing my crystal ball showed me. Facebook's presence in
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by mekoka 7y ago
From the article: Scientists later discovered that this bias encompasses the entire living world. Synthetic chemical processes will generate both left- and right-handed molecules. But when nature makes a molecule, the product is either lef
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by mekoka 7y ago
Because 'z' is unambiguous. If it sounds like a 'z' it must be a 'z'. Especially from the perspective of a non-native speaker, or someone who needs to learn to read and write as an adult. As for your other ques
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by mekoka 7y ago
Looking into the history of American English hints at why it's so powerful. It was designed for pragmatism over elitism, to favor a broad adoption of a writing system for a population of then recent immigrants, many of whom were not
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Stephen Wolfram on Richard Feynman (2005)(stephenwolfram.com)
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by mekoka 8y ago
You're describing society. Any free "social" system, virtual or otherwise, can and will attract the same ingredients and the outcome will be a strong approximation of a normal society.
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by mekoka 8y ago
No reason to be terrified. The difference between now and the past times you're alluding to is that if back then people's freedom was being suppressed, nowadays they're volunteering it away. Want to stay free? Inform yourself
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by mekoka 8y ago
I scanned the report for Knorr's involvement and nothing seemed fishy to me. There was this paragraph: This was assessed by Knorr cross-functional teams of marketers, nutritionists, chefs, and product developers spanning across Asia,
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by mekoka 8y ago
Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder, but although subjective, there seems to be a popular consensus that the browser's defaults can be improved. And apparently it doesn't take much to get to another popular consensus of
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by mekoka 8y ago
Thank you for this. There's a bunch of us who, once in a while, think of finally putting up that simple website or blog, with a minimalist touch. But then we have to think of how it'll actually look and we go into analysis paralys
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by mekoka 8y ago
I think his comment was mostly about the fact that you can learn a lot about relational databases by reading Postgresql's source. He did say at the height of NoSQL hype . To me, that choice of words gives subtle hints as to the histor
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by mekoka 8y ago
Snarky, maybe, but I wouldn't say it's that ignorant. Truth is just facts. If you're someone approaching it rationally it should empower you to make more informed decisions from then on. But I think we can agree that not ever
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The most important invention in the past 2000 years (1998)(edge.org)
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by mekoka 8y ago
> Some of the names are unintuitive, sure. Though I don't think the ones you provided are in particular; I think your distaste for those is subjective. Relative and absolute... Is there a CSS book or tutorial that doesn't take
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by mekoka 8y ago
> I'm fascinated by the fact that so many of my fellow programmers - often the smartest ones - have so much trouble with CSS. I'm not sure exactly what the reason for that is I will demonstrate why. First, think of all the too
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by mekoka 8y ago
In a traditional MPA yes. The user would have to choose and hit submit and wait. Regardless, I think this is a superior experience. It does require some getting use to because of the screen/price chart, but just because it's diffe
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by mekoka 8y ago
I'm a long time server-side developer who've been working on the front-end for the past 6 months. I don't agree with this article. I think its author has a significant misunderstanding of SPAs and overstates some of the pote
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by mekoka 8y ago
> For example, weeks of overseas travel where nobody knows him and he doesn't talk much are great fun for him. I've lived the solo traveler lifestyle for nearly 4 years and I think this fits the portrait of most other solo trav
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by mekoka 8y ago
Comments like yours make me react because I feel sorry to see people fall for this kind of manipulations. Don't be deterred from applying advices that have helped thousands of companies because of an unsubstantiated rant by some guy on
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by mekoka 9y ago
Many here don't see a window of attack, the reasoning being that if the (presumably) malicious user gives the wrong email address they lose access to the account. Same outcome if the password gets changed by the recipient of the messag
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by mekoka 9y ago
Just because you can't see the destructive nature of a technology does not mean it doesn't have one. Sometimes it's a matter of perspective and context. When gunpowder was invented the purpose was medicinal, three centuries l
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by mekoka 9y ago
Please note that there's a sharp distinction between bringing the Internet to new places and bringing "the Internet" aka Facebook's walled garden to new places. From a wikipedia section on Free Basics https://

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