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by mhoad 6y ago
I just got done reading this[1] and it's becoming harder and harder believe the idea that Facebook is just pro "free speech". Their actions aren't meeting their words at all. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/
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by mhoad 6y ago
I never knew that but that IS a cool trick.
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by mhoad 6y ago
Rails 6 has a totally new code loader that was built specifically to address those issues called Zeitwerk. Some details here if you're interested https://blog.bigbinary.com/2019/10/08/rails-6-introduces-n
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by mhoad 6y ago
I would second this. I finally got rid of my MacBook Pro after all kinds of hardware problems and moved to Linux as my daily driver. I made a point of buying a new laptop that was built by a System76 type company in Europe to avoid any weir
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by mhoad 6y ago
It feels like you have to squint fairly hard at this point to continue to see Facebook in the same terms that they define themselves as just being interested in "presenting the marketplace of ideas". This seems to be the latest in
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by mhoad 6y ago
I think one of the things I have started to realize is how rarely people in Rails-land tend to reach for more established patterns that are generally thought to be important to writing good object oriented code. There seems to be a real adv
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by mhoad 6y ago
I must admit that does sound like a really nice code base to work inside of.
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by mhoad 6y ago
This might sound stupid but I have ONLY ever known OOP in the Ruby / C++ / Java sense before but this idea blew my mind as such an interesting and different way of thinking about it and I can't tell if it is just my own bias
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by mhoad 6y ago
Nah this is entirely seperate from that although I think View Component (also from GitHub in case anyone is wondering) is super exciting. They are basically doing a major rewrite of Turbolinks and Stimulus I think. If you go to app.hey.com
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by mhoad 6y ago
There’s a new release about to drop which is Rails 6.1 that covers some interesting developments. GitHub took all of their code associated with running “web scale” applications that need to talk to multiple databases at the same time and pu
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by mhoad 6y ago
I feel like Rails is really starting to see some new life that has felt a bit absent from it for a while now. It almost seems like there is a new generation of people extremely burned out from the constant churn of the “JS-all-the-things” m
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by mhoad 6y ago
I presume it would be a lack of history doing the exact thing amazon are accused of doing here? That and the fact that they aren’t doing an e-commerce business in the way Amazon is.
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by mhoad 6y ago
What was going through your mind when you wrote this?
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Facebook fails its own audit over civil rights and hate speech decisions(engadget.com)
4 points by mhoad 6y ago|0 comments
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by mhoad 6y ago
I was about to say that last paragraph seemed like a bad take but it seems to work for Facebook I guess.
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by mhoad 6y ago
Honestly it sounds like a terrible company to work at with a CEO that demands the respect of his staff rather than doing anything to earn it. In what way you would think this is a good example is confusing? His staff seem to be openly mocki
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by mhoad 6y ago
Seems like a really interesting project to keep an eye on.
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React core team considering rewriting some parts in Rust [video][39:05](twitch.tv)
1 points by mhoad 6y ago|0 comments
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by mhoad 6y ago
I'd kind of make the argument that to me at least, it's not really a story about "finding the right balance" between free speech absolutism and a generally pleasant society. To me that is a somewhat interesting conversat
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by mhoad 6y ago
On a related note I just saw someone on Twitter mentioning this report that was just released that does a real deep dive into how the problems associated with hate speech have played out on the ground in India. [1] It's grim reading an
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by mhoad 6y ago
I didn't see this response for whatever reason so sorry about the delay. I think the premise is a bit flawed here. An argument for reducing inequality isn't an argument for enforced equality. I would actually largely agree with yo
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by mhoad 6y ago
I worry this question will sound snarky and it's not my intent but have you ever actually experienced what real poverty is like?
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by mhoad 6y ago
I think the standard counter argument to this is essentially: 1. Governments are ultimately responsible for this. 2. These social safety nets are funded by taxes 3. The specific man in this specific story runs a company that as recently as
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by mhoad 6y ago
I'm trying to have a serious conversation here and you're talking about "many people also watch the Kardashians" as some kind of counter argument. Can we do this without the snark? It's not worth engaging otherwise.
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by mhoad 6y ago
There are a whole spectrum of options between unchecked capitalism and communism. I'm just asking what kind of guardrails if any might be appropriate moving forward now that we can see for ourselves how the current system is working fo
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by mhoad 6y ago
I think you have kind of answered it there in your own response. It is indeed obvious from a moral standpoint. Why you chose to put moral in quotes is kind of interesting to me, it's not inherently a less valid standpoint, hell, I woul
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by mhoad 6y ago
Just a friendly reminder that this isn't normal and that you are responsible for helping to shape the kind of society that you want to live in.
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by mhoad 6y ago
I feel like you're trying to look at this from a very abstract place where it is impossible to come to some all encompassing grand unifying theory and it feels like without that we shouldn't act until we have an answer to that que
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by mhoad 6y ago
I want to be clear, I wasn't debating there was some truth to the idea that racism is that thing that you can tie to an evolutionary biological level around a fear of outsiders. But I guess it is the second part that you touched on her
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by mhoad 6y ago
Humanism sounds pretty good to me...

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