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The site has a Janet repl (downloads pressing Esc) with autocomplete. That's enough, now I have to give the book a spin.

The fact the author points out, being able to distribute the program without requirements, is a big plus. Multiple times I have been doing some bash script that later I can't share with my non-techy friends until I translate it in some google sheets or something they can use. If Janet can let me do simple script stuff and let me share it just sending the binary as a file on some chat app, then I'm more than interested

Welcome Center now has a mobile-friendly layout. The content itself is still fairly desktop-focused, but this will soon change as well!

Why can the desktop have a desktop-focused look and the mobile a mobile-friendly layout? Said another way, Why does the experience for everyone must degrade the most popular common denominator?

People say this like it's a truism, but the notion that social media only shows successful people or is like a highlight reel of life, is possibly false. Unless your social circle is limited to tech founders or celebrities, most people live pretty mundane lives.

The article is missing the whole point of envy. Envy manifest for those around you that have it better than you. The coworker that started with you and ended up climbing positions faster and has a better salary. The photos of the weeding of an old crush. Is about someone being an step up and the what-ifs that would have made it so you had that now.

If you are start up founder yes, it makes sense being envious if you went in a round and someone got the investment you wanted; or an acquaintance is already retiring while you are still iterating on your 5th failure business. Envy adjust to the grandeur delusions people have. Tech founders and celebrities may be yours, but for most people those around them that have it better.

Your site makes my cpu sweat with Firefox 108 on linux. Seems the problem are the animations on the page. I disable that and there is no problem.

The product does seems good. I may give it a try.

It just means when the article was published, the need was real and make was useful. Context matters.

Based on that commit they don't need to download the data to generate the .json file, so they don't, Make became irrelevant. If anything this shows that a tool can be really useful but you don't need to marry it. Don't use if you don't have to.

More like they moved from the need of using Make to create the topoJSON to use prebuild ones with Node.

In the package.json of that commit:

- "description": "Roll your own TopoJSON from Natural Earth.",

+ "description": "Pre-built TopoJSON from Natural Earth.",

OP wasn't planning a devious plan here. The 6 month contract seems standard from the company side. They shoot themselves on the foot and the loan just got voided. OP would be paying the company for nothing without a new loan

(7 months instead of 6, we're not talking about multiple years later here)

Maybe this is a disagreement based on past experiences, but the most infuriating thing when working with home contractors is chasing them around so they do they finish their job. I get if this were business to business transaction that are used to year long delays, but as a person I find having a half finished ceiling to by a big disruption in my daily life. Being fair OP didn't say anything about having to fix their roof before installing the solar panels, but having to put up with business delays in your home projects isn't the most pleasant experience.

If we go to the ethical side of things, in this case the company installed something without doing proper diligence in their part. This could have been solved if they presented a new contract in OP home when they went to install the panels. Paying without a loan would have been foolish from OP side, same if he paid it at the more expensive 2022 prices. In fact OP would probably be forced to do if they asked him about it before installing the panels. This would be unethical from the company side: delaying 6+ months the installation and proposing a more expensive loan before installation.

Let's not skip the company trying to swindle OP to pay without a proper contract by scaring him. Some of us may be used to this kind of threats. Doesn't mean they are ethical at all. They should have been upfront with the problem from the beginning, not bullying people with scary letters.

They took 7 months to install the panels. I'm sure times during all that the OP thought if they forgot about him, called them to ask for a installation date, etc.

As a way to curb any thought about undue wait time, the company made a contract guaranteeing installation between 6 month after signing. They didn't comply and the loan lapsed. Now the company needed to negotiate a new contract with OP or go for the legal route. There is nothing unethical about this.

The company had everything to lose going the the legal option, with all the long terms procedures, paying money for a pay back that may never come. They are probably grateful that OP just asked for a discount instead.

This is from 140 years ago but feel very modern

"The manufacturers have lost their bearings and know not which way to turn. They can no longer find the raw material to satisfy the lawless depraved passion of their laborers for work. In our woolen districts dirty and half rotten rags are raveled out to use in making certain cloths sold under the name of renaissance, which have about the same durability as the promises made to voters. At Lyons, instead of leaving the silk fiber in its natural simplicity and suppleness, it is loaded down with mineral salts, which while increasing its weight, make it friable and far from durable. All our products are adulterated to aid in their sale and shorten their life. Our epoch will be called the “Age of adulteration” just as the first epochs of humanity received the names of “The Age of Stone”, “The Age of Bronze”, from the character of their production"

Can someone ELI5 what Mozilla did to deserve this derision?

I would say its because Mozilla isn't the incorruptible champion of web browsing. Yes, they have done bad decisions, bad(and good) products have been axed that are unrelated to a browser, and they have being influenced by political issues because, well, people work at Mozilla and people get to be influenced by that. So bad impressions triumph over any campaign they have done, like the ones quoted from the article below.

Browsers and the Quest for More Private Advertising

- 2009 - Mozilla leads the Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) Working Group at W3C. This is a signal sent by the browser to websites indicating that the user does not wish to be tracked online. All major browsers implement DNT. The advertising industry fails to adopt DNT and the initiative ultimately fails.

- 2015 - Firefox launches “Tracking Protection.” This was an important but small step. It is off by default and blocks ads that track. 2018 - Firefox launches Facebook Container based on several months of work to isolate first party cookies.96 This is another small step forward against tracking.

- 2019 - Firefox launches with Enhanced Tracking Protection (“ETP”) based on learnings from earlier efforts alongside an “anti-tracking policy”.97 ETP is a success, and drives all major browsers except Chrome to implement similar features.

- 2020 - Firefox blocks third-party fingerprinting resources98 and includes pro- tections against redirect tracking.99 Mozilla leads the formation of the Privacy Community Group at the W3C.100

- 2021 - Firefox takes on supercookies,101 introduces Total Cookie Protection,102 and trims HTTP Referrers to protect privacy.103 Mozilla leads the formation of the Privacy Advertising Technology Community Group at the W3C.104

- 2022 - Firefox launches Total Cookie Protection by default105 and adds manual protections against link decoration.106 Mozilla continues work on Privacy Pre- serving Advertising107 through both criticism of and collaboration with Google, Apple, Meta and others.

Why is the fingernails of the last image grey? Gave me flashbacks of a really fucked up toenails I saw in a podiatrist

"I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends, and understandably so. However, I believe that there will be a certain number of people whose motivation is to “play to contribute,” by which I mean to help make the game more exciting... with advances in token economies, users will be provided with explicit incentives... this will lead to more people devoting themselves to such efforts and to greater possibilities of games growing in exciting ways. From having fun to earning to contributing"

You weren't kidding. They really want people as grunt workers in the virtual world. I guess that's why they are trying to remove any association with the words 'games' and 'fun'.

You made me notice I use 'tall letters' as cues when reading, which help me read a little faster. I's seems to be an important letter for me. It took me, maybe, some extra milliseconds to read without them, enough to make me aware of it.

Personally the caps are second nature. You may find me sending U's and O's before you see me sending i's :-)

When you know what module and functions you will need to work on for the next feature, pointing out what lines of code you will need to work with isn't hard. Making people look around where in the code they are supposed to work on shows lack of preparation, which is against what this article is about.

There is context, if you just open the article and see the link in the same sentence. But I guess is asking too much

Every time I search for a youtube channel verbatim, the channel appear at the top and the latest videos follow. Searching now I can only see a channel with similar name and 50 subscribers and BS videos aren't even the first ones. You can be more subtle youtube

I just learned that tapping a comment's time let's you see the option for adding it to favorites. So thanks for that, and your future bibliography reference :)

No level of communication skill will matter is you are below the company's 'thinking individual' position. Any business opinion you may have will be ignored or worse, chastised for not being part of the vision.

Your first view is sane only on an individual, isolated basis. If you step back and see that a particular e-cig is banned while the original (and the causes for this type of product) is still legal, then any sane argument gets throw out of the window. If legislators wanted to remove causes of societal damage, they would ban the use of nicotine on cigarettes, that have the biggest share of nicotine consumption.

In this particular case, the word normies is just pointing out more that goblin mode is something an average person can end up.

According to the article goblins have the career path track, money is good mindset that most people have. They are just in a burnout. When they rise again out of that state, they will be career focused again like before, a.k.a. 'normie' in this article. The article talks about Gnome mode as the alternative track when moving on from the goblin mode .

I have read some of Dr. Milewski blog posts like Functorio[1]. He always reminds me I don't know FP as well as I think I do.

Will use this to test, and learn again about it. Get it while is still hot (Last updated: May 21, 2022)

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/

I would try to disassociate my work income from my personal worth as a worker. We always leave some money on the table, but can always do all the steps we can to reduce how much we are leaving on it.

In case I have an offer that I'm actually happy with, personally I'm the opposite. I already reached my expected range, failing to negotiate for more doesn't worry me so I can do it more confidently, which may kind of help me in a way. Don't ask for too little tho, they may notice they can get you less than what you are asking by holding firm.

Gotta love HN. OP talks about phone useflows that in "no way your everyday person would have a clue how to deal with such cases" on a Samsung phone. They get a reply about a hack about apple phones when unusable.

You do notice the irony, right?

Kitty

Could you elaborate on what do you feel is better or makes you more comfortable using kitty against any other random terminal?

I also vouch for KDE Connect. Painless to use after installing. Very convinient for file transfer

Thanks for sharing. Personally I also add background-color: #edd1b0; for any site I plan on read more than five minutes. For me is more pleasant to read compared with than a white background.

It is well known that if Google bans your account it will ban any "related" account and that includes your immediate family including your spouse, parents, children and your official job/startup.

I find this behavior terrifying. Destroying people's accounts just for having the same blood as someone deemed ban-able.

Guilt by association taken to the extreme

Seconding the tab idea. I need to know in which tab I am. Sometimes I have the five tabs of the same page (hello hn), look up, and I don't know which tab I am. I end up closing the tab with Ctrl+W when I'm done and learn where I was.

Thanks for the extension suggestion I may give it a try.

Problems 1 and 3 I could imagine. I would need to learn how to be a better writer to share a literate program.

As someone experienced in the topic, What's the biggest hurdle when trying to refactor the code?

Quoting the article first paragraph I think is the best response

"I view the field of software development as a big logical system with highly interconnected and complex parts. Understanding such a big systems naturally requires having an excellent grasp on the tools used to build them. And the most fundamental one is logic itself. What follows from what, what are the starting-points or the elementary parts, what are the ways of composing these into more complex ones, ways to spot complete non-sense in the system and how to decompose the complex parts back to more fundamental ones to check their consistency and truth. The following book list contain titles that are all playing fields for one to start experimenting with such systems and gain the required confidence that one can master them. "

The recommendation are from that point of view and the authors selection from book he actually read and consider good for it.

I thought this was going to be an article with some historical examples of leaders bad behavior against the general populace that actually helps them keep power and the effects on it. Instead is more of a tips and tricks on how to accrue long lasting power.

Also I disagree about "democratic leaders have to dole out public goods to maintain their power". At least I think public goods here is too flimsy of a phrase to use here. It is alluded later that one of the problems of a leader is bankruptcy. This implies most favours to the 'winning coalition' and doling up public good being just monetary compensation. I don't think is a good way to phrase it. Bread and circus goes more to the point, the former seems an anesthetic, harder to understand way to say drop some money to keep the masses happy. And I don't consider that a 'public good'.