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A Modest Proposal for the internet age

Thanks for pointing that out. I read through the article and just assumed wework had announced new layoffs after the IPO was aborted.

I thought this list was hilarious (despite some of my preferred languages being on the never use list). I'm surprised to see so many people taking it so personally/serious.

If this list really offends you, I would suggest you haven't been programming very long, you don't know many other languages (than the ones on the shit list), or both. Maybe the list is a little hyperbolic, but didn't you pick up on the tone?

Maybe hot cash means something different, but it means stolen where I come from :)

My mail from DO doesn't get rejected, but ends up 100% of the time in spam.

Was going to comment the same. OP you must be a glutton for punishment if you can't touch type and are using vim

When I was first exposed to Medium (which was before I started coding), the coolaborative notes and highlights really felt like what I would want a literature github to be.

Just as a thought experiment, it's interesting that I think nothing of forking and maintaining a codebase for personal use, but I can't imagine participating in the writing of stories in the same way. Literature seems to maintain the primacy of the 'maintainer', but if I think about the evolution of storytelling generally, this doesn't seem to have always been the case

It a my first time to see lithub.com. I was hoping it would be like Github for writers, but was disappointed.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

The opening of this rings true for me. Once I get a pattern ingrained, it can be difficult to reverse it even if there is a more efficient way. To combat this I usually pick one thing per coding session to work on. I find lists like these helpful to check-in and see if I can add anything to my future to-work-on lists.

When I started learning vim I read an interview where someone (Ben Orenstein maybe?) talked about keeping notecards or a cheatsheet on their desk so they could do the same thing and I thought they were insane (and vim was insane). With time though, this method got me proficient at vim, then better, then better still. Each time I learn something new or unlearn sometime inefficient for something better I get a little bit of joy out of my daily work.

I find t and f more useful in my day to day. On any given line there is almost always some character that gets me within a few words of where I want to be then w or b to get to the word itself. Might be somewhat language/style specific though

Ad soon as I saw the stand and keyboard I had exactly the same thought.

Though I think there are parts of this letter that are obviously self serving and hypocritical the point I find more problematic actually has nothing to do with Spotify.

Apple says most apps contribute nothing to the app store. This is false. To list an app on the app store developers must pay, yearly, for the privilege. This is important because a reasonable person could make the argument that _this_ is a more fair model and one more in line with providing the actual service of the app store.

Apple,rightly IMO, has accused Spotify if wanting to have it's cake and eat it too, but charging a fee to list and taking a percentage of revenue could easily be seen as the same.

One thing I always think about with lists like this is that those goods are made to be consumed at the level in which they are currently being consumed (i.e. not very much).

A few examples: Consumer grade tools and appliances will reach what their manufacturer considers a lifetime's worth of use very quickly with increased utilization and likely fall apart or stop working as expected.

Purely mechanical things, like a bike, require regular and predictable maintenance with use.

It may seem like these items can be rented out "for free" because our own utilization is so low, but if you get a 5x increase in use, you can quickly find your margins evaporate to repair costs.

Obviously it is possible to turn these into successful businesses, but there is nothing magical about the fact that they are currently under utilized.

This needs a date (2001). I was confused for a while why I wasn't seeing this show up in my RSS reader until I checked the date

I have had this memory from some time ago about a scene from a podcast. Scientists in a lab are trying to wrangle an insect (which I remember to be a mantis of some kind) with a glass rod. The insect bites the rod with such force that it snaps and the arc of the motion lacerates the bugs middle (thorax?). From the cut fat begins to come out. Instictually the bug begins to eat it's own fat while dying.

I wish I could remember or find the podcast. I feel like it was radio lab, but can't find it.

I thought the same about those until I tried to follow the examples. First in ruby and then in Vue, neither worked without a lot of hacking/changes. Really cool idea though to put the credentials in the examples.

Although Rumsfeld often gets credit for this statement, it has been around for a long time before him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

Bitcoin is a deflationary currency.

I had the same thought when I read this. I wasn't into Rails back then (or development) so I don't have a sense of context for what the framework was like at that point in time, but the more articles I read about Twitter in the early days, the more of a sense I get that maybe they didn't write the best code.

Just another anecdata point, I have the same upgrades for one bought in the timeframe and got the same message.

This is such an excellent use of parallax scrolling

A premium feature which might also be valuable to users would be tie-ins with other platforms. E.g. you are taking a Udemy course and it has a batch of cards created by the instructor.

Looks really cool, congrats on building it!

This isn't really my area of expertise so if this already exists feel free to educate me.

Would it be possible to have a generic browser that isnt controlled by any vendor, but perhaps contributed to by all of them, which could be used as a dev standard? It doesn't even have to be available to users, just devs. Vendors could still develop their browsers any way they want, but when output diverges from this kit, they would at least know it. As a dev you could use this as your test kit and know that if it works here, it works everywhere.

I could see problems with this being backwards compatible, but at the point where the major vendors sign on, all future releases would compatible (and eventually all releases as older versions are retired).

I suppose that perhaps though this is already accomplished by Chrome, but it seems less than ideal for many reasons.

Rails API + Vue is by far the most productive stack for me. I came from a Rails background but never really liked the view layer + jquery. I tried React but it just didn't stick. When I put those together for the first time though I genuinely had fun building again.

This is good advice. Whenever I'm sure I'm right, I try to get people to walk me through whatever they are proposing because I know they will eventually step through the problems that I see, but they don't yet.

But, you know, sometimes it turns out that I was actually the one not seeing some things clearly and by not coming out of the gate as a jerk about things we can both walk away having come to a collaborative solution and everyone feels good.

Here's the email. Jest may be hard to discern via text, but I if I had made that contribution (directly or indirectly) and was met by this response by the maintainer, I think it would be my last.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495

Actually, after reading it a few more times, I can't find any jest in it tbh

If OP wrote using ES2015 then it wouldn't be included, async is defined in 2017

Nice project, I like the format of entering new recipes. I think you will get good uptake even from users who don't know what GH is :)

Is this project open source or does it plan to be at some point? I've looked at some of the other projects out there that are similar, but many seem to die based on the founder running out of steam or getting busy with other stuff. I would really be interested in contributing to this or a a similar project if anyone has a suggestion for one that is open.

I tried this FtC before this one and really liked the idea. Did you ever do any write ups about making this project or the launch?

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