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I don’t think people are dumb, the language is clearly structured so that it is ambiguous to take advantage of people who care about a cause.

I had copied the title from the article at the time of posting, that's literally the title if you search Google:

https://i.imgur.com/Xwheqan.png

Loved BIRD when they first started here in San Jose but now they're painfully slow (~12mph) while Lime has managed to keep top speed around 20mph.

BIRD has an edge in terms of availability but I find myself taking one to find a Lime.

Being single and working from home for me was isolating and I found myself gradually becoming more seclusive while wanting to be social. When I was living with family I found myself wishing for more seclusion. In the article I try to write more of the abstract :)

Proxy is nice but the scope is very limited if you tend to avoid metaprogramming.

One use I've found is for library maintainers - a way to expose a large API without taking a hit for requiring the whole thing. We use it to consume parts of that API without having to require all the dependencies and subdependencies.

I like Pure CSS, it's one of the few CSS frameworks that makes it easy to pick and choose only the parts you need. Bravo!

Love Apollo - they're a great team with many of great open source offerings. Apollo link state excites me because it unites remote and local data under a single source of truth. As a long time Redux fan, it will be nice to have one less layer and dependency to debug. GraphQL as a uniform layer for accessing that source of truth is in my mind, a Redux-killer.

Bragging about first response metrics is a little disingenuous when most of those are automated replies. To answer the question, support is still a disaster and why I left Coinbase last month.

Modern PHP is great but it still has the same inconsistent API. I did PHP for many years and had to look up the manual all the time because functions have different conventions for arguments.

I disagree and actually like it in principle. Languages of any kind change, and this to me feels just like spoken language change.

If enough people establish convention - why break it? A proposal that goes against convention is already under such scrutiny. I don't believe "smoosh" in this case is any better than "flatten" but I agree with the motivation and that's far more important than one function name.

Why is this a surprise? Google's has shown a pattern that they don't care about your Android hardware since they partnered with HTC and released their first branded phone.

- Nexus One / Paperweight Owner

I'm inclined to say that going all in on a Google chat product is like betting it all on a slot machine.

Not since I discovered GraphQL. It's hard to imagine any other abstraction on top of REST APIs that packs as much robust functionality in something so easy to use.

Sorry, but this is not true masonry because the heights of the items are fixed. Masonry layouts have dynamic height elements.

If I have a MoviePass I can go to any theatre. That means I can go watch a movie with my friend who lives in the Bay area, or my Grandmother who lives in Arizona. Your question, "Why would I drive further to see a movie?" is exactly why multi-chain subscription is superior. Because I don't always go to one theatre in one city.

Sorry but the two are not correlated, as much as I'd like to agree.

Trump appointed Carr. Obama appointed O'Rielly and Pai.

This one is on all of us. We let Congress become a swamp in the first place.

Support between browsers can be iffy. I had a grid implementation on cole.codes and it looked perfect on Chrome but disappeared entirely from Firefox. It wasn't supported at all in Safari at the time.

You will need fallbacks. Flexbox isn't going anywhere.

It's a crap analogy, but in this case it means they do content management really well with a good design and seamless integration.

https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...

That argument is akin to saying "let's strip the regulations because ___ wasn't so bad before."

Should it be terrible in order for us to realize when regulations are in our best interest? Should we go back to cars without seatbelts because at one point it wasn't so bad? Should we de-regulate smoking because it wasn't really so bad in the 40's?

Automate automation.

You can use directives to retrieve a REST API through GraphQL.

For example: https://github.com/n1ru4l/graphql-schema-generator-rest

Competition is good. This also looks like a neat browser for staging designs.

No mention of Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Reminds me of the Nexus One when the power buttons failed left and right - both Google and HTC left many customers with expensive paperweights.

Yet another reason Google AMP needs to bite the dust.

This is the problem that is grabbing at me. Well put.

If publishers are upset about people reading their content without displaying ads, maybe they should stop giving it all away for free.

Hence, monopolies. Small timers won't be able to afford the lack of revenue.

I have a very unpopular opinion that pulls me in two directions.

Advertisements have exceeded the point of being a nuisance for many years. But adblocking is a fight that solves symptoms and will affect more than just advertising in a negative way.

The best parallel I can draw is to the Napster era when pirating music cut off the head of the chicken in the industry. Hollywood and like were refusing to adjust to digital downloads and streaming. Part of this was due to the fact that it would drive down profits. But people started pirating the content and getting it for free so they lost money anyways. It's not impossible, but it has become more difficult for artists to break into the industry (along with competition) because of the margin of profitability.

In that same vein - publishers and advertisers have resisted the market and have bled their visitors for every penny. Finally the users stood up and said enough is enough - and now we have adblocking. The problem I have with adblocking is that it doesn't resolve the problem, just the symptoms. Adblocking pushes out smalltime publishers whose only revenue are these obtrusive ads. The "big guys" can stay alive as the reduction will be drops in the water for them. The way I see adblocking is that it will only drive the publishing industry further towards monopolies who will push the little guys out. And once you are getting all your content from 1-3 sources and the little guys are gone - there's nothing to stop them from becoming the same monoliths that exist as Internet Service Providers. They control the means and have no urge to change.

I stand on the fence, wishing there was a better solution to this problem but some times the only way to bring change is to burn it down first and start from scratch.

I wouldn't say it's a dead project. The stable release is doing fine - we just incorporated it into a new project recently.

Facebook's teams have a lot of projects going on I wouldn't be surprised if they're focusing on something else.

The only thing that keeps me from switching to Gemini is instant buy. I only buy the amount of Bitcoin I need to send payments immediately.