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This was by far the most effective way I went from intermediate to advanced. The key is that you can see the key sequence of how other people got to their solutions. Then you can judge whether those solutions are just a one-off niche use case or if you can put it in your tool belt of VIM dominance.

FF76on Surgery Performed with Google Cardboard Saved a Baby's Life

Articles like these are just terrible. I can see this misleading people who don't read the article to think that you can perform surgery with a cellphone. At best, it's a sensational PR piece.

FF76on Surgery Performed with Google Cardboard Saved a Baby's Life

It's true that cardboard may have viable reasons for being mentioned in this context, but the onus is on the writer to prove that this isn't a sensational piece. As the article is right now, we can only speculate on good faith that they had good reasoning to use cardboard vs existing methods that others have mentioned.

FF76on One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job

how would you go about finding out this information as an outsider of the company?

FF76on Nba.com uses AngularJS

how do you tell that they use Angular?

FF76on Plumber sues Ford dealer after truck with logo was used by extremists in Syria

regardless, thank you for the concise tl;dr

FF76on The Radicalization of Luke Skywalker: A Jedi’s Path to Jihad

Nicely articulated.

I think the key consideration should be the context in which the movies were created. Movies are made to make money and the more time a movie-maker spends on ironing out small inconsistencies, the more money they lose.

That movie was made to be relatable by a wide audience so it's no surprise that many people can have differing interpretations of the deeper meaning. This is simply one of them.

FF76on Show HN: ShareQuick – Send stuff from your desktop browser to mobile apps

This is essentially what I use PushBullet for. I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!

FF76on The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice

You assume that:

1) People know what's good for them

2) People want what's good for them

The existence of an economically viable product such as juice indicates that whatever the industry is doing, people want in its presented form.

Whether it's good for them or not is a completely different question.

FF76on 18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1

It's okay to talk about everyone working for $1 after all it has to start from somewhere right?

I think the spirit of the complaining is more of a warning to keep an eye out for the trend rather than stop these one-offs altogether, but that's a lot harder to say and act on than "stop these one-offs".

FF76on 18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1

> Should plumbers be upset about their work being devalued?

The problem stems from contributions that have a big impact. Big impact can be achieved by one person contributing a large amount, or many people contributing small amounts.

Another comment referred to this article where a Florida business man donated a million t-shirts to Africa that resulted in the textile industry bankruptcy: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1987628,00...

Was it bad just by giving away t-shirts? I don't think so. Was it bad just by giving away that many t-shirts? I don't think so either.

It was bad because his actions created a dependency on an unreliable source while removing the main income source that sustains reliable ones. If he subsidized the income loss of the textile industry, the consequences would not have been as devastating.

That's really the crux of the argument; giving away things for free generally takes income from dependable sources of labour. It's only when it has a big impact that people pay attention.

Going back to the topic, the same can be said about volunteering. I think it's okay if volunteering dislodges an entire industry as long as the volunteering is sustainable and reliable.