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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Are you making better projects as a result of dropping "old" tech the moment something shinier comes around? That's a lot of assumptions you are making there. Why "better projects" is the only metric considered
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Objection.js, an SQL-Friendly, no-DSL ORM for Node.js(vincit.github.io)
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
That's great SciFi but maybe don't do the spoiler thing and edit your comment? The main side effect of mind-to-mind communication doesn't get revealed until the end of the story.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Yes, I did try googling that. I am not sure why you missed the result from the etymology search, perhaps you should have used "" for strict matching of the term. Anyway, "In theater and film, a hero prop (sometimes just &quot
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This google search: `"hero image" etymology ` provides results with a second link containing a thorough discussion on the origin of the word. https://www.designernews.co/stories/47337-why-is-the-hero-im...
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Do you accept "it wasn't real free market" argument when free market policies and deregulation fail or lead to an increase of suffering, poverty and inequality?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Googling "hero image" yields the answer in less time than writing a comment on HN.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Entrepreneurs != startup founders. A successful developer, for example, starting their consultancy/agency has a high chance of building a successful venture.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Capitalist wealth comes from repeated consensual and mutually beneficial transactions. Tech hiring collusion, 2008 financial crisis, environment degradation and global warming, slavery-like conditions at suppliers of multinational corpo
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Poe's law invoked.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>It makes it look like you're gaining something from it. I object to the implicit assumption that "gaining" from sharing valuable content (corrected for conflicts of interests) is immoral or bad. I would venture forth and
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I had been a lurker for ~2 years and a registered user for ~3 years, so about ~5 years in total. I don't believe that HN adequately represents either independent developers, non-corporate FOSS community or web developers ("JS hips
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I am sure you'll be able to provide reliable citations to authoritative sources supporting these curious claims, right?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Inertia aka traction is very powerful in tech. Consider that all these negative articles do not percolate to various semi-isolated communities and groups.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Medicine is usually right and only sometimes wrong, but alternative medicine is usually wrong and only sometimes right. The fact that medicine can be spectacularly or trivially wrong doesn't provide any inputs for change of personal he
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>both medicine and the science behind drugs have been spectacularly wrong more than once On the other hand, non-medicine (alternative medicine) and non-science (pseudoscience) have been spectacularly right more than once. That's t
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>You are passionate about the mission How come? No, in all seriousness, mission is secondary to growth for startups, isn't it? If you are passionate about the mission, shouldn't you join a non-profit?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Is your productivity dramatically increased by the choice of required separators? Of course not. Yes, for me it does. A large amount of symbols on screen makes my mind drift away and it gets harder to concentrate on the flow and meaning
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
An interesting fact: Marvin Heemeyer, the bulldozer guy, is a hero and a role model for a significant number of people (at least in social networks) in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
This is very relevant to your comment. "In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteris
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
I have been using Fira Code font with Atom for some time and I am absolutely in love with the aesthetics. All credit and praise goes to http://tonsky.me/
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Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures(github.com)
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>We could recapture this lost value with a universal basic income In absolute agreement. UBI may unlock extreme growth of efficiency by enabling risk taking without risk of total defeat.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, you also won't bother to invent any new ones Citation needed. Extremely needed. Counter-anecdote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>Slack and Atom are slow, resource hogging and unstable piles of crap Atom is my primary editor and I am extremely satisfied with it. Your self-righteous arrogant attitude is strange and has nothing to do with objective, rational critici
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>People do not learn by reading If that is true your comment is utterly useless to anyone reading it.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Yes, please! Let's make bootstrapping and indie projects as hard as possible by placing advertising control solely in the hands of large corporations that have means and resources to fight adblocking.
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
thanks!
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
Spotify radio is the worst recommendation system I've ever used in any software product ever.It's just that bad and my music tastes are not really esoteric. Do you have any suggestions for music discovery?
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by vdaniuk 11y ago
>prevented tons of PHP, Ruby, Python,etc frameworks Django is adding websockets support using the $150K grant from Mozilla. Rails is adding websockets support in the next version with ActionCable. Phoenix and Play frameworks have great s

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