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l9k··on Marc Andreessen: VR will be 1,000 times bigger than AR
The thing that's missing would be the feel of touching the objects. Particularly, this could be bad for toddlers learning to manipulate stuff
l9k··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
Can a Github.io website be freely hosted with a private repo?
l9k··on Preparing for a Tech Talk, Part 2: What, Why, and How
I don't get the pyramid representation? Why not just a list?

Is the "How" more important because it's on top, or the least important because it's smaller? Or is it the first thing to talk about?

l9k··on Try F# on WebAssembly
Is Microsoft not a big name"?
l9k··on Disinformation Report: An Investigation into Russian IRA Activities in 2016
"Good people" wouldn't want their image degraded by the discovery of such tactics. Even when they don't really do these things but they just potentially could, they will be a target by their opposition (George Soros style).

That means only "bad people" who don't care about integrity would do this.

l9k··on Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?
Also related: Fitts's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

l9k··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
Swarz was an activist himself. You might say, not a "political" activist, but today even acknowledging science is political...

I think reading Twitter is generally a terrible idea, unless you carefully select who you follow, but you risk staying in your bubble, and adventuring yourself outside of it is even worse.

l9k··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
The Economist is somehow accused to have a bias in every direction. Some would call it "Ecommunist"pushing a far-left agenda, others decrying a right capitalist ideology.
l9k··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
I used to think the same a few years ago.

But nowadays, with the state of politics, the spread of fake news and false narrative on social media... this is what we have.

"they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper"

This is not what people do. This is applicable to 1% of the population.

Trump got elected and keeps supporters with dozens of 140-character messages everyday. There is no details, no analysis, lots of lies and inflammatory comments. But this is what works.

Whether you agree with him or not, this is the winning method to gain influence. This is also because escaping news on social media and TV is harder and harder, and the more susceptible to get trapped are not the one that would make the better choices for everyone.

So you need to use the same tactics to fight him or support him or support something in general. Or you virtually don't exist.

And the opinion and vote of the people is more important than we realized just ten years ago when he wrote that. Would Swarz stay silent and disconnected in the Trump era?

l9k··on Leaving NYC for Nashville
I lived in France (not Paris) almost all my life with a Polish name and that has been a problem exactly 0 times. (I just need to spell my name when someone wants to write it)
l9k··on Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back
Can a serious project really succeed with a .lol TLD?
l9k··on Spectrum is joining GitHub
And Microsoft already has Teams
l9k··on Medium is a poor choice for blogging
To whom is this article addressed? Medium users.

Where do you find the most Medium users? Medium.

l9k··on Three European Countries Block Tax on Tech Giants
So what you're saying is it's easy to compete with Google and get some market share in that space?
l9k··on Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz
That's why it is called POPULAR culture, because that's what the majority of people know.
l9k··on YouTube comments are heavily manipulated, and I fear for our democracy
They are not available on TV (Smart TV, Fire Stick, PS4...) which is used more and more. So I guess, fortunately, they are not that important to Google
l9k··on A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers
In this case it would be getting back home seeing a note saying "Fixed :)".

So yes, it's actually fixed, but now you know that someone you don't know broke into your house without permission nor supervision and you don't know what he's done/seen/stolen in your house.

l9k··on Made and Distributed in the U.S.A.: Online Disinformation
The Daily Vine issue is not emphasized enough.

In the last years, we've seen "entertainment" pages getting sold by the original founders to companies interested in making a profit from it, by publishing links to their own products, or articles bloated with ads.

But now they're used to political purposes to influence people who didn't follow the pages for this reason. What's worse is they abuse the trust put in the original page to spread misinformation and fake news.

l9k··on Building a language translator from scratch with deep learning
DeepL had a lot of good press when it came out last year. Some saying it was better than Google.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

l9k··on From Design to Front-end
There is a lot of designers that are not that good at design either... Some are just temps, interns, wrongly hired or have switched roles in the company.

And when you target (web) applications, a developer might even have more experience with the UX as a user and designer!

Each case depends on the qualities of the people involved.

l9k··on Extended Validation Certificates Are Dead
This is worse than that, because no one ever wondered if they should have one.

People only notice when it is there.

l9k··on People Like You More Than You Know
This is especially true at work with your manager because he/she they placed a bet on you (by hiring you)
l9k··on Show HN: Rwtxt – a space for reading and writing text
https://rwtxt.com/public/related
l9k··on Qwant – An alternative to Google
Qwant has bangs, called Qwick:

https://help.qwant.com/help/qwant-search/searching/how-use-q...

l9k··on Where in the World Is Larry Page?
At this point, though, such a public-relations strategy feels dated. On balance, the celebrity of even the most caricatured CEO (Zuckerberg) appears to be a net positive for his company.

I disagree totally with that point. The "superstar CEO" Zuckerberg is now ridiculed, hated, and negatively "meme-ed". He is now the face of censorship (for some) and a laissezfaire strategy threatening democracies (for others).

Even the previous paragraph stated: "Bill Gates had become a media caricature during Microsoft Corp.’s three-year antitrust lawsuit".

Page staying in the dark only generated this one article, not a real national scandal. 99% of people don't know him and won't know him after that no-show. Google's reputation is untouched.

Only loss is for the Senators not getting the spotlight.

l9k··on How to Be Better at Parties
I think you have it backwards. In my experience, the "drinking culture" is the excuse to get together and even meet new people sometimes. Getting a beer at the bar is a cheap way to have a place to be and "activity" to do while talking freely. Same with the bottle and the living room at someone's place.

The actual alcoholics drink alone. (And that's essentially the problem.)

Some would say it's sad that we can't just gather around a table just to talk. But the advantage of the drink (not necessarily alcoholic), is you have to be there and not on the phone.

l9k··on Why Is College in America So Expensive?
Competition in TVs and colleges differ largely in terms of quantity, quality.

In any way, those are two totally different things you can't compare

l9k··on Why Is College in America So Expensive?
Points I found lacking:

- Comparing cost of education between countries not adapted to overall cost of living

- Importance of college sports in the US vs youth sports in club academies in Europe

- Research conducted inside the university in the US vs external or independent institutes in other countries like France

l9k··on Switzerland: Welcome to the Drone Valley
It's not an uncommon tactic. The IoT Valley tries this kind of clustering project for Internet of Things startups: https://www.iot-valley.fr/eng
l9k··on In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A "Child Rapist"
I honestly don't understand why he would get into a legal fight publicly with an unknown man, even if he had very secret info and his claims were true.
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