Supermighty

I feel like I need to do something about this. I see the marginalization of small sites and niche sites (self hosted empires) and the growth of large massively huge systems like facebook. The web is becoming a tool of multinational corporations and less a community of people. This makes me really sad and I don't know what to do. I feel like I need to something.

There are moderated lists. When someone gets out of hand give them a temporary ban, and tell everyone why there were banned. People will learn that if they want to participate they will have to behave. After time, when the community scares away the trolls, they can loosen the moderation rules. There are plenty of communities that self moderate after having a strong leader show them what was socially acceptable and what was not.

I agree that technical solutions help. But they will never be a real solution. The eager troll will find a way around them. The real problem is a lack of strong leadership and stewardship. There is no BDFL setting the tone and punishing those who don't toe the line. Or maybe there is and this is the result. Ha!

He's not looking for up/down votes. He's looking for a discussion. Which well-meaning participants in an open source project should be able to have with some civility.

I used to be like you. I believed in the proper correctness of of markup; proper closing tags, proper nesting. But I've come to see the light. The WWW succeeded and flourished because of it's faults and it's lazy error checking. Thousands of non-technical people writing their own html. Thankfully it didn't have to be perfect and it worked.

I still like tidy clean code, but I don't agonize over it's perfection.

I don't remember. The test I took were online versions. I took several at different websites. I really don't know the validity or reliability of them.

When I said I was trying to get different results I didn't mean artificial results. There were times when I answered the questions how I thought I would actually act in a situation. And I've answered the questions in how I would want to act in a situation. I wanted to see if there is a difference between who I am and who I want to be. What is the difference between actual self and idealized self.

If I wanted a different answer then all I could have done was answer the opposite of what I did before.

I've taken the Meyers-Briggs several times and tried to answer in a way to get different outcomes. I've answered realistically, speculatively, and hopefully. Each time I got the same result.

I really want to make an app for this platform. I just don't know what it will be yet. But I believe in Mozilla and I want them to have a place at the table.

I didn't realize it until just now, but I ignore the meaningless titles. I come to HN to catch up on the news first, and save the fluff later.

It would be nice if every title accurately described what it was about so I could make better decisions about what to read now, what to read later, and what to pass over.

They should put an innocuous call to action at the very end of the story to help track this.

I love that they both have RSS feeds. Both of which I am now following.

I wonder if he stopped calling himself a freelancer and used a business name that he "worked for" would he stop receiving these kinds of offers.

It's all about branding and perception.

Are you saying when I rebase off of upstream on my private branch does that change the sha1 of the upstream commits?

That hasn't been my experience. As far as I can tell.

Edit: OK, I did a test and I can see that it is changing the sha1 for my commits on my private branch after I rebase from upstream master. So at least the way I'm doing it I'm not changing public comit hashes.

You're not missing anything. Rebasing off master is the same as a fastforward only merge. It is -i that can actually change the history.

Open source is awesome, yay! It's given Google, Samsung and android device manufactures a hugely successful platform that they would have otherwise had to build from the ground up. And how do they repay the community? Binary blobs. While staying true to the letter of the license they circumvent the spirit of it.

I don't condone GPL violations. I also don't care about distributing binary blobs. Without them there wouldn't be alternative android distros.

> Iacuzza's car was inspected by valet attendants on orders from the TSA.

They are turning ordinary citizens into spies and informers. Soon we won't be able to trust the person next to us in a line. Or look our neighbors in the face without suspecting them of something.

I think your website looks very professional. However I think the logo looks awkward. It needs work. Good luck.

Would doing a majority of the reflow work on a canvas element help with speed?

I'm in the same boat. I've used vim for a while now and I'm faster at a couple of small things. So much so that Sublime feels slower to me. (Having to take my hand off the mouse to do a two handed key combo. Or having to move my hands too far from the home keys to do a key combo.)

I spent some time last year using Sublime Text 2. [1] But I didn't get very far before I switched back to vim. My guess is that I'll have to unlearn my vim-ism or go all-in on vim and spend time practicing the more esoteric commands until they become second nature.

[1]: https://walledcity.com/supermighty/first-impression-sublime-...

I've really enjoyed using Feedbin.me. They have a three column layout and keyboard commands. Makes it easy to read. Feedbin is web based, but they have an API that I can sync with Press on my phone.

Ctrl-Shift-n

Go has a built-in testing framework, but I've yet to play around with it.

> In fact, i'd go so far as to say that if Microsoft ever actually tried to enforce, it would run them into serious regulatory trouble.

And Microsoft probably knows this, and would avoid it at all costs. But having an overly broad EULA helps them push around the n00b Linux installer who doesn't know any better.

As long as they still offer the option to host your own I'm OK with that.

Self-hosted communities are an amazing life blood of the free and open Internet.

My hope is that people will choose self-hosted forums over services offered by facebook or google. However the host providers do it they need to make it very easy.

Are there enough simple ruby hosts for Discourse to catch on? In the same way that there were simple php hosts that helped PHPBB catch on.

There are not ads on Netflix. I wasn't being clear enough. I meant that if there are video on demand services like Netflix without ads then people will see ads as a discomfort in vod services with ads, like Hulu.

Hulu having ads isn't about the money they make. It's about keeping ads as normal in peoples minds. If Netflix and Hulu and any other online only vod dropped all ads then people might start to resent ads, and seem them as abnormal. Then people will watch less network and cable TV, which need ads.

Commercials break the flow of the TV/movie that I'm watching. It's the same reason I don't watch the networks or cable TV. It's a Netflix life for me.