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I think this will be an essential skill for all "future adults" and I agree with the premise of the article. The real challenge is the elderly. My 79 year old Mom has found her way to Facebook but has zero skills to deal with the chumbucket that Facebook has become. Teaching her to check something like snopes is like trying to stop a hurricane by closing your shutters. She fundamentally believes whatever her "friends" share.

> for the good ISPs...

and those are? Do they actually exist?

> React is intended to be a view-only library but in practice people shove all their business logic in there, mostly because React makes it incredibly hard to do anything else. Because of this, innovations in React are going in the wrong direction. This Hooks feature is meant to solve a portion of this, but it's going in the wrong direction. A better bigger-picture innovation would be to have a React-alike that is actually only the view layer, and makes it significantly easier to write your business logic using plain old JavaScript functions/classes.

This. This is spot-on IMHO.

OMG. I am Dan also. I am getting older also. I LOVE Go also! Too funny but we are living parallel lives. Now get off MY lawn!

We ran Ingres on a multi-processor Sequent machine back in 1991 or so. I liked it then and I love Postgres now.

Interesting article. Thanks for sharing it. On a complete tangent I just decided I can no longer abide publishers who litter their content with inline advertisements. I couldn’t finish and I am avoiding The NY Times going forward. It’s just too distracting.

> policies that do the opposite of what’s needed...

The jury is definitely out if democracy can actually “do what’s right” with regard to social issues, the environment, income inequality, etc. In fact it is mainly showing the opposite - that those with $ can buy elections using “weaponized” mis-information directly targeted at emotional humans using Facebook and then do whatever they want.

I am rooting for a real Mr. Robot to take down Facebook et al.

>similar/better specs vs Macbook Pro at half the price

I hear people say that and I always get excited. Then I just went to Lenovo’s site and I configured one and for a small margin on error they are the same. Why do people say this when it doesn’t seem true? Is there a “50% Off all Thinkpads” website I don’t know about?

Is the person who did it available for hire? Awesome work!!

Data distillery?

I've been using the V2 scripts for a while now to get SCSS support without tinkering or ejecting. They just work. When I look at all the dependencies in NPM for create react app I always shudder (I think am allergic to complexity) but it 'just works'. Kudos to the team!

I believe we all need to be reminded to open our minds and get out of our bubbles. I know I have a hidden bias to read things I already agree with. It’s hard to really try to understand conflicting views without simply dismissing them.

Thanks for sharing this. I use Reddit primarily on an iPhone using the app. I find it enjoyable. Kudos! I like the new React web site as well visually but agree with the usability issues noted here. I have to manually clear all my cookies to be able to login.

Can’t you blend them? In other words I’d love to work in an organization that can politely call bullshit early and often. It is possible to fundamentally disagree without making it personal.

Really good to see him acknowledge this and tackle it head on. I hope he gains a better perspective. Thank goodness for Linus and Linux!

First, thanks for sharing this! Second - based on the language used I can’t tell if he is saying Tesla’s camera and Radar approach will work, or that it won’t. The only thing that I pulled out was that if we increase the types of sensors we get better results because they have different strengths and weakenesses.

USBank?

I am always amazed at the quality, intelligence and experience of HN readers on any topic you can imagine. I love being in a community where a pediatrician from Brazil can comment on a medical discovery. I’ll probably be downvotes for a silly comment but feel like HN elevates my life.

> How many hours per week do you estimate developers at your company waste on maintenance (i.e. dealing with bad code / errors, debugging, refactoring, modifying)?

The question above is mixing dealing with errors and debugging with refactoring and modifying. I think this is the heart of the issue. One can (and should) modify and refactor "good" code too.

I worked for three years at a company that prided itself on being “entrepreneurial”. In practice this meant that management could add/subtract features at will and even launch new products. There was always time pressure due to a strong annual cycle in the core business. The code was atrocious - largely because maintenance couldn’t be done properly. We never had time to refactor/re-write. When we spoke to them about technical debt and the need to address it or our productivity would approach zero as we dealt with unmaintable code and crazy bugs. Their answer? Let’s offshore maintenance. I left after that.

Wing nuts will spin no matter what.

I matters little if he is banned or simply “censored”

In the eyeball economy there seems to be no way I can personally reward Twitter for good behavior. I’d like to send them $100 for banning the creep.

If I feel Apple is doing well with social responsibility I can buy more Apple stuff. I certainly won’t click more ads on Twitter to reward them. So what incentive do they really have to foster good behavior?

The “World Wide Web” was based on only three concepts. A document markup language, an document “universal resource location” (URL), and a tool that could use the URL to retrieve the document and render the markup.

Breaking/obfuscating/demoting the URL is so fundamental I am shocked it would even be suggested.

I personally found vendoring the external libraries into “/vendor” was quite useful to be able to explore/read the code that was being used. I find it odd that isn’t default behavior.

JWT with a split cookie seems brilliant to me. Good write up here: https://medium.com/lightrail/getting-token-authentication-ri...

By splitting the JWT across two cookies, rather than using a single cookie or having the JWT stored in the browser local storage, we are able to meet our requirements...

Net throttling is unrelated to net neutrality. Ironically, revoking net neutrality also potentially helps firefighters. If identifiable, their traffic could be prioritized over yours.

In reality prioritizing first responder traffic over my YouTube cat video will prove impossible. What will happen is the ISP will insert cat videos in to first responder traffic. Therefore, net neutrality is the best we could ever hope for. I’ve called my senator and my representative. I hope you have too.

Yeesh... 80 cookies on average for news sites! Down to 60... how many different ways do they need to track one person?

Bravo. Full summary in two sentences!

If you speak to someone who knows a thing or two about security they may tell you this is a good idea.

Yes - we punished 1,000’s of good honest companies for the deliberate misdeeds of a few bad apples. Terrible policy.

This. The public mkt used be the source of capital for companies like Facebook. Now it’s all private until most of the growth juice is squeezed out and now the public mkt is a liquidity event for the private investors. If/when they want to...