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by sdegutis 7y ago
I had a similar path to Emacs: became really proficient with Vim, avoided Emacs since everyone I knew hated it, saw someone doing things with incredible speed and efficiency in Emacs at Enova (hi Kyle) that I had never imagined could be don
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It's good to live strictly by a philosophy, and I admire anyone who does this. I can't say I agree with Stallman's philosophy, because it places too high of an importance on communist principles which are inherently flawed an
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by sdegutis 7y ago
We can have that here. We need to downsize our lives. Stop paying for things we don't need or really even want. Be okay with jobs that make less, even a lot less, as long as our basic needs are met. Leave our mobile phones on the desk
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The first couple waited almost a decade to start having a family, and accrued $100k in debt. The second couple had a family immediately, have no debt, and are otherwise in the exact same situation as the first couple. And the couple that ha
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by sdegutis 7y ago
That's a good fifth point that I didn't consider: ads inherently promote and encourage data collection in unscrupulously unethical ways.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I know two sisters who each got married. The older one practiced worldly prudence, courted during high school, got engaged at beginning of college, and waited almost a decade until after her fiancé graduated before they got married and star
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Pope Francis talks a lot about this in Amoris Laetitia[1] on the topic of Love in the Family. I've only finished the first two chapters but so far he has talked a lot about the same points you mentioned, and brought a lot of insights.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Not OP but I've had some thoughts on ads for a while that I've never shared: 1. Ads ruins user experience. This is pretty much an objective fact. People can and do adapt, but it's moving away from the ideal. 2. Ads often mani
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They're in no hurry to encourage PWAs, it takes people away from the App Store which is how they get a substantial amount of money.
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I remember writing a blog post years ago about how I enjoyed C and Clojure, apparently two extremes, equally. My current conclusion is that we just enjoy problem solving within mental frameworks, and each language family gives unique mental
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This looks an awful lot like ReactiveX.
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That looks like exactly what SwiftUI is doing.
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When people make alternatives to React, at some point they have to address the concept of state changes and side-effects, building in conveniences for it, or leaving it for third parties to develop this area.
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How would you compare this to React.js? In particular, how does SwiftUI approach the concepts that Redux solves [EDIT: in other words, state management]?
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So React.js but native and in Swift? I'm hesitant but hopeful. Tutorial: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui/
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> but we are competing with people from countries where a good paying job is more rare than a vacation getaway so we can't stop making concessions. In my experience, this is the source of our trouble: we want a middle class life.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I get what you're saying. I also have a wife and 6 kids to feed, and it's not easy to be low income. But I've never found my involvement or awareness of politics to in any way help me with that goal, however I have found stud
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Browsers have become so complicated that it's essentially a miniature OS inside our OS, and even building it from source as an experienced developer is hard. On top of that, there is a sort of inherent monopoly with browsers, and all b
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I think GP means that Chrome deviates from some HTML/CSS/JS/etc official standards, and that they don't intend to fix a lot of these discrepancies. So when you write code how it's supposed to work according to the s
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1. That's a big "(maybe)". 2. The other option does already exist, and that can't be ignored or erased. 3. The second group wins out because most people clearly see that technology isn't the limiting factor in human
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by sdegutis 7y ago
It depends on what you think is "the common good". Advocates for GPLv3 say that the common good includes ensuring that everyone has the ability to obtain and modify the source code to everything they run. However, others say this
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If people's needs can be fulfilled by commerce then the poor are doomed and always have been. But people who have voluntarily chosen poverty such as Francis of Assisi and Ignatius of Loyola have shown that that's simply not true,
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> Rick Marsh worked in the car plant in Lordstown his entire life. Now that job is gone. What does that mean for his politics? That's one heck of a bait-and-switch. The concept of "whence is my inherent worth or intrinsic value
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This is the most amusing comment I've seen on HN all year.
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Their home page says: > Lightning web components are custom elements built using HTML and modern JavaScript. > The Lightning Web Components UI framework uses core Web Components standards and provides only what’s necessary to perform
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Article's like OPs about removing duplicate lines make me want to learn awk. But it feels like it would be a net loss based on how seldom I currently need to write one-off scripts. Based on experience, I'd probably have a perfect
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When Rails came out, Ruby was the slowest language by far because its interpreter literally just walked an AST. No intermediate byte code, no VM, it just eval'd an AST. This reputation stuck longer though, although yeah I imagine Ruby
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Every time I look at Angular, I remember that they use string literals for both HTML and CSS which is strongly off-putting. Especially because for HTML, it becomes another template language like Vue.js, whereas React.js is just JavaScript w
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by sdegutis 7y ago
On a related note, here's a mobile-formatted PDF called "How a Saint corrected children" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wEdBKMA2VZtz0BzOsZEOGc5X7HJ... And similarly, the "Salesian Preventive
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by sdegutis 7y ago
> Close down FB. Why? Because they provide a platform to all ideas, noble, vile and in between. No, because they're monetarily incentivized to be harmful to individuals and societies.

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