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This is the problem with Facebook. Facebook is not the platform; the people are the platform. All the problems Facebook solves for her are problems that the Internet solves, not specifically Facebook, but Facebook just makes it so easy: everyone is already there.

The author says, "Until another platform comes along, I’ll stick with it." But there are certainly already other platforms. I think what she means is, "Until another platform becomes popular among my social circle."

But it was, precisely, reachable from a public-facing portion of the site!

Sounds like you might be thinking of an anchor element. People ask for the "link" when they mean the URI all the time.

I found it annoying to be forced into a pedantic onboarding tutorial. I decided not to finish it.

Can't you wait until I try to do things, like view recipes or build grocery lists, before forcing me into them? I just want to check out the app my own way. The tips could appear when contextually appropriate, and be dismissible.

I believe gray sky is the intended image.

Great list! But I was perplexed by the text editors mentioned. Author claims to be looking at trend data, but seems to have a bias against Subljme Text editor. I don't know if there is some connection to Atom or VSCode, but it seems easily verifiable that Sublime and vim are vastly more popular than other editors mentioned, yet Sublime is inexplicably absent and vim is mentioned last and sort of offhand as more of just a tool you have to know for ssh sessions.

I've already responded to your previous comments; so I hope it doesn't feel like I'm trying to target you, because you're not the only one who feels the way you do and I can understand where your perspective comes from, but I honestly don't see how you can describe other people's children as "undisciplined brats" and "savages" and then turn around say, "I'm not passing judgement on those children at all".

I think there might be parallels here to many other political issues where income inequality is involved.

> Someone has to decide what the kid learns. It might as well be someone who has a better chance of actually caring about them.

This is a salient point. But I don't think the answer is "parents homeschooling" which can only ever address privileged individuals.

Might there be some way we can get more people involved in the the lives of all children that fit the description of "someone who has a better chance of actually caring about them"? That's the problem I believe homeschool ignores.

Sure, but would you agree that state run public education is the current default solution, in countries like Australia, the U.S., etc.?

Your point is accurate re: historical perspective, but don't you think you have to take that in context? From a historical perspective, children have been brutally exploited, especially from the poor and middle-class.

I don't think they were passing any specific judgement on your snowflakes, but rather just saying it's all relative.

If you look at the tone and language of your comments, there is quite a bit of detectable judgement and condescension. I'm sure your kids have great parent(s) who are involved, but I'm not sure you recognize the privilege your family enjoys. I think this point-of-view is troubling when looking at how we might approach the real problems facing society re: children, education, etc.

Well, that's sort of my point. I don't think there is a good solution to empower some entity to decide what values and intents are acceptable.

But I don't think the values and intents of parents keeping their kids at home for schooling are always acceptable, which is emphasized in an exaggerated way in the Dogtooth film.

I'm sure in some cases homeschooling could be beneficial and "better" for an individual child than the existing school system. I just think mistaking homeschooling as an "alternative" to trying to solve problems of the school system is its own dangerous path.

But wouldn't trying to solve some of these problems make more sense than a turn toward homeschooling? Maybe get more mature, self-actualized people involved in the lives of all children, not just the privileged ones?

I don't see how promoting homeschooling as the alternative to schools is a good solution here.

Also, a turn toward homeschooling can be a total wildcard based on the values and intent of the individual parents. The movie Dogtooth[1] is somewhat relevant here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogtooth_(film)

How can I get one of those Fujifilm jumpsuits??

I agree on all points except re: the mini iPad. I have no use for a full-size iPad, but I have the 9.7" Pro and Mini 4, which are perfectly sized, in my humble opinion.

I think because with plain http there should be no illusion of security.

I believe it's more of a convenience, and React-based projects are setup for it. You can avoid dealing with the global cascade and there's no need to maintain a parallel set of files for styling; it's all in the JavaScript.

> And it is very naive to think that ads aren't necessary in today's society.

Ads may be necessary to today's society, but I'm not so sure everything we have in today's society is all that necessary. Call me naive.

Previously and somewhat relevant: Why Team Happiness Can Be the Wrong Thing to Aim for (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902973)

> wasn't the whole point of WikiLeaks to hold governments and their leaders accountable?

No, not exactly.

WikiLeaks specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption.[1]

I would definitely say the DNC leak was restricted official materials involving corruption.

[1] https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html

Perhaps that is a reflection of your provider's ability to serve bandwidth to Netflix servers?

Commenter mentioned OSX native app being the main thing for them. It is an OSX native app.

But no, it's not a good team solution.

And I'd agree that Paw is subjectively more "nice", but I'm not sure I'd agree it's 12x more nice...

If it were $9.99 instead of $49.99, I would have already purchased it. As it stands, I'm sticking with Hypernap, which gets the job done for my needs.

Hypernap is a proper native app and less than a tenth the cost of Paw...

http://gethypernap.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hypernap/id795069997

A physical book can also be interacted with and utilized, physically, in ways a digital copy cannot.

I do think it is meant to be a catchy marketing play on "You Don't Know X" but the author also describes it as a reference to the fact that "knowing" JavaScript can only ever be temporal:

No matter how much you feel you've mastered JavaScript to this point, the truth is that JavaScript is never going to stop evolving, and moreover, the rate of evolution is increasing rapidly. This fact is almost a metaphor for the spirit of this series, to embrace that we'll never fully know every part of JS, because as soon as you master it all, there's going to be new stuff coming down the line that you'll need to learn.[1]

[1] From Ch. 3 "Into YDKJS" of the first book Up & Going: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/up%20...

This. The term "natural" when it comes to food doesn't even necessarily mean it's not synthetic! Just that it is "derived" from something natural. [1]

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrs...

I disagree. Natural doesn't mean healthy, but all else being equal I would prefer to eat something that wasn't synthesized and consider a non-synthetic option to be "healthier" by my definition of what is healthy. And what makes something healthy is more than just the effects of consuming it.

I assumed they were being sarcastic, but it seems not...

I think this is a great idea. I would love to build it, but don't think I have the breadth of knowledge necessary. Does anything already exist like the CLI tool to determine what OS packages are in your project?

Why are you assuming that the labor is free? And regardless if it is or isn't, how is that even relevant? GitHub has no idea how much or how little a contributor is paid for their contributions.