DeusExMachina

I am not an English speaker, but everything that ever went into my code was always in English, including names of variables, types, etc. Programming languages are in English and there is something that irks me in having another language mixed in.

If your code block does not fit in the window, it's too long. You don't fix that with a comment. You should break it apart into smaller units.

These things are not comparable.

Flutter and Dart are used on a plethora of platforms, including Android which has a far larger market share than iOS alone, and Windows, which takes the cake on the desktop.

Swift is used only on Apple platforms, and mostly for iOS. The use of Swift on macOS, watchOS or server-side development is negligible.

> It’s not surprising that more are preferring to use Electron, React Native, or Flutter

Do you have any data to back that up. As an iOS developer, that is not my experience at all.

How is the original comment harder to understand?

If there is one freedom people have is to control their language, wether to avoid certain words or to utter words that other find silly.

People are replying "it's better than what they had" but that's often not true.

Many are promised something that does not exist, go through lot of danger only to discover that they were better off where they started. But now, they can't go back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_fz9EW5Iw

> none of them support the claims that the vaccination accelerates or causes mutation.

Says who? Vanden Bossche has been a credentialed expert in vaccines for 20 years. I'll take his opinion over some HN comment.

> No one ran around saying get the whooping caugh because if you get a shot it will mutate

That was never his argument.

> None of Geerts papers are peer reviewed or based on scientific research/data.

They have an extensive list of peer reviewed studies from plenty of other scientists:

https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/blog/supportive...

Polio was a different kind of virus, though, with a different kind of vaccine. We never got a vaccine for other coronaviruses either, it's unlikely that we will get it for this.

Also, there is solid literature on the fact that vaccines during an epidemic cause stress that induces the virus to mutate. https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org

There is no way to eradicate covid everywhere, simultaneously or otherwise. It's now widely accepted that the virus continues to circulate even in vaccinated people.

Besides, you are not even going to vaccinate 100% of any western country, let alone all of them or the entire world.

Milder mutation are what is actually going to make the virus endemic, like it happened to the Spanish flu. Reports from the South African government seem to suggest that this variant is mild, although it's early to say.

Israel is already at the fourth shot. Not evidence, but definitely grants the suspicion.

Nuclear waste is much safer than all other waste from energy production:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19...

How you define waste of electricity? You writing that comment might as well be declared a waste and prohibited.

That waste is much easier to dispose that the waste created by "renewables" like solar panels, especially with newer generation plants that burn old nuclear waste.

Can you? A lot of psychological literature shows that we are far from being masters of ourselves.

Depresses people cannot reason themselves to any result at all. Addicted people cannot reason themselves out of addiction. You can fix many things with therapy, but that's far from just "reasoning" and takes a lot of time and work.

Emotions come from a much older part of your brain than the one for your reasoning skills, and thus have a far stronger pull on your actions. That's not to say we are completely at the mercy of our emotions. But controlling them is a matter of practice and reinforcement, not pure logic.

Your personality largely determines your emotions and you can't generate them at will.

"Twin studies and other research have shown that about half of the variation between individuals results from their genetic inheritance and half from their environment. Researchers have found conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience, and neuroticism to be relatively stable from middle age through old age" [1]

What if you don't feel any curiousness? Or you feel it for something that is counterproductive at the moment?

What if your desire of making something great clashes with your boss order to make some more boring CRUD software because that's what the client wants?

In these cases, anxiety and inadequacy could be the very emotions that recenter you on what you should to do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits

Since your premise is that there is no way to know, your speculation is then as (in)valid as any other.

> Anxiety, inadequacy, and shame are just not helpful. It is good to reduce them if we can.

Uhm, not really. All emotions have evolved because they are useful. The ones listed here could keep you from doing something stupid, dangerous, or potentially deadly. They are also likely to make you notice something wrong earlier than others.

Are those emotions not helpful in some cases? Absolutely. Sometimes they are not justified. But that's true of any emotion. Even positive emotions can make you reckless and take too much unwarranted risk.

One might argue that for a programmer those statements are more accurate, but I'm not so sure. Blow some deadlines because of too little anxiety and too many positive emotions and you'll take a hit for sure.

I could not find much data but it seems that the finale of Games of thrones had 19 million viewers [1], while the books sold 90 million copies [2]. Since I guess the latter are cumulative over all the five books, it looks like books and series have a similar performance.

Looking at something similar, the Lord of the Rings had around 80-90 million viewers (very rough estimation from the global box office [3]) while the book sold 150 million copies [4], so the books seem to have fared better.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_Thrones_episod...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#cite_no...

[3] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0120737/?ref_=bo_tt_ta...

[4] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arts-tolkien-novel-idUSL1...

It is amazing how things that we take for granted somewhere do not work in other countries.

Here in The Netherlands, I can walk in a shop and get contact lenses off a shelf. It does not even need to be a dedicated shop. These are available in generic care shops where you can also buy shampoo, vitamins, and even some medicines that don't require prescriptions.

I use f.lux on my Mac [1] and Night Shift on my iPhone since on the latter there is no alternative thanks to Apple's limitations.

There is an immense difference between the two. Night Shift just tints the screen lightly. The colors are all still there, including blues.

f.lux kicks in gradually, but at its peak my screen is completely orange and colors are not discernible anymore.

Empirically, I can see why Night Shift makes no difference.

Edit: On the f.lux website they cite extensive research on the effects of blue light on sleep. [2]

[1] https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/macquickstart/

[2] https://justgetflux.com/research.html

Fukushima, and the other two nuclear accidents to ever happen in the entire history of nuclear power, is not such a big problem as we are lead to think.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11...

I don't think that metaphor works. On roads, other people already limited your options: where you can go, how fast, where you can park, etc.

This is not necessarily a bad business strategy.

At the beginning it can be better to focus on the people willing to pay up front. It allows you to test the market and to focus on the feedback of paying customers.

You can add free trials and optimize for revenue later.

Here in the Netherlands, where the ruling was made, it's definitely the case that being able to determine your own hours is one of the requirements of being a freelancer.

When I was freelancing, clients could not tell me at what time I had to be in the office, when I could live, or on which days I had to go, to avoid me being considered an employee.

> but not in an embedded tweet.

Given it's an embedded tweet, I don't think there is an easy way to blur it.

What's the difference? You can register the fingerprint of any finger, not just the thumb.

Speed limits and building codes do not force you to inject something in your body.

The ability to oppose forced medication is a right enshrined in many constitutions. The ability to go as fast as you want on a road is not.

> I have some ancient greek pottery that would VIGOROUSLY disagree with you. Also fertility statutes.

a) Those are not pervasive at all. Pottery and statues are expensive and slow to produce and are found only in specific places.

b) Those are all low-level representations with a totally different purpose. A fertility statue is not comparable to a constant stream of young girls in bikini on Instagram.

"Fertility statue addiction" has never been a thing.

Pervasive sexually explicit imagery definitely didn't.