drops

You're comparing a victimless "crime" with injuring someone. That doesn't make any sense.

Seems like a lot of hassle. Why shouldn't creators just keep using Patreon? None of the buzzwords in the post would convince me to switch.

Because I live in a country that was under Communism for almost 90 years and actually experienced how bad it is first-hand.

Because Communism is cancer.

>The level of English in Japan is shockingly low, despite everyone studying it for 6 years at school. I honestly think it is kept deliberately low

>I honestly think it is kept deliberately low

Is this guy serious?

Because it implies that Trump and Russia are somehow parts of the same evil rightwing-shilling machine. That meme is getting ridiculous.

The workforce is currently cheap compared to western countries because of the local currency's low value, and IT being one of the very few fields where people get paid in dollars. So as a result, what would be a low wage in the west is an extremely high wage in Ukraine (e.g. $1k a month = 25k hryvnias, which is 8 times more than country's minimum wage).

People will downvote any dissenting or unpopular opinion, regardless of the quality or relevance of the posts you write. It's a shitty system popularized by Reddit and I can't wait until it dies (which, unfortunately, will not happen soon enough).

style over substance

This video will always stay relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGar7KC6Wiw

Is there even a reason to buy a new smartphone nowadays? They get a bit flatter, get bigger screens, but overall we reached the point where their progress kinda flatlined. They have everything an average user could want since early 10s.

Wikileaks' political alignment doesn't have anything to do with the authenticity of the material they provide.

This thing launched just this week: http://gamehistory.org

For a beginner who wants to learn Python, which one is better — 2 or 3?

Please work on typography.

I think it would be more fair to call this "HTML & CSS" tutorial than a "web development" one.

I just want Twitter to die as soon as possible so that people move on to a better (and hopefully a decentralized) alternative.

I lurk on Twitter all the time, but I don't tweet mostly because I don't know what to tweet about, or just forget to do it. When I have some thoughts about something, putting them on the internet is the last thing I remember about. Maybe it's a matter of habit

Nowadays there's not much reason to actually check the email manually because of all the mail-checking browser extensions.

This of course brings up another problem: getting the emails as they arrive can be as distracting as constant stream of notifications from messengers and team chats like Slack.

It's not the final version, looks like he only finished working on the design. He didn't work on it for too long, I guess.

Upboat algorithms should be the least of their worries right now.

Which accounts on Twitter, though?

Articles like this are sadly mostly useless because people who need to read them the most are not going to.

Hardcore liberals who blame Trump and his supporters for "bigotry" usually refuse to accept or even take a look at any other points of view, which is, ironically, the definition of bigotry.

Using a sans-serif font for long form is not the best choice either

>But I think people moved onto other platforms and most (of the cool people) left.

Moved onto what platforms? Left where?

Seems like an overdramatization. I'm not from Kiev but I do live in a Ukraine and I don't see many people finding this a problem. I also have a plenty of friends from Kiev, none of which plan to move out anytime soon; and certainly not because of the war situation.

There's no political or military tension like in the middle-east, and the risk of actual full-blown war with Russia is too small to affect the daily lives of people.

Some people move to other countries like Poland, but the main reason behind that is the better education and work opportunities.

Surfingkeys has a couple of features over cVim that I really like:

-pressing '?' on any page will open the list of shortcuts

-searching through bookmarks / history ('t') is prettier

-very useful feature of switching through all the current open tabs with link hints ('T')

There's one shortcoming I noticed, however, is that when you go to the link hint mode, there are no indication than you entered it. On cVim there's a "follow link" notice in the lower right corner.

I'm a fairly casual user though, someone else will probably find more differences and pros / cons for each extension

Interesting. I live in a country with a minimum wage of $58 a month (Ukraine) and yet the internet is one of the few things that pretty much anyone can afford: high speed connections (50-100mbps) cost about $2-4; rarely more.

Are american high prices the result of scummy pricing on the corporations' side or is it an actual infrastructural issue that prevents the ISPs from providing cheap connections to everyone?