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For those who don't speak Spanish, año is "year", and without the accent on the "ñ", it's a body part that you can probably guess :)

I got into programming for the fun of it, and it's become easier and easier to forget that as it's become more of a job. This was a much needed reminder! No doubt this must have been a joy to build

I’ve been a f/e dev for around a decade and I don’t trust HMR. I end up refreshing manually anyway just so I know I’m not seeing issues that don’t exist due to event bindings not refreshing properly, or app state getting messed up between loads. It’s fine for styling, but worries me when there’s too much complexity involved

I'm with you on it. I respect his work. I actually like Javascript. I think considering him a hero is a bit of a stretch. I don't think that's unreasonable.

HN is really not a fun place to express left-leaning views tbh (or any political views, for that matter), but I feel how I feel.

A potential major attack on an encrypted messaging service would be newsworthy to me, but there needs to be some info on what happened

I have come very close to taking an interview with them, but something always seemed off. The aggressive advertising campaigns, the claims of how easy they can make the process..

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

I recently installed an Insider build of Windows so I could use WSL2 to run some docker containers in a Linux environment.

The insider build requires that you enable full telemetry which includes sending your visited websites to MS. I need WSL2 so I’m just avoiding doing anything private on my personal computer for now.

I understand why the data is useful to them but I don’t think they understand or care why this is an important issue to others

For me, tech has turned into a crutch when I don't know what to do. I've caught myself in the middle of automatic behavior and it's a bit scary - opening Reddit or HN, closing it because I've already read everything on the front page, then opening it again a few seconds later without even thinking about it.

I wonder what I would be doing without it. Creating art? Going out? I'd have to do something. It's something I want to explore more. Maybe I'll schedule just an hour each day where every device is turned off.

I didn't even think of that, but it's a really good point and a likely scenario.

If there's still anything remotely serious that goes on there, they should just wrap it up. It's been a source of urban legends long enough that its best role at this point is to be a tourist destination with some cute attractions and a gift shop.

Grew up in NJ. Most of my family came to the US through NYC and it seemed a lot more exciting to me than NJ.

That was around 7 years ago and now I'm thinking about moving to Miami or LA. My only requirements are warmth, some tech jobs, and a little more space.

Farm workers are classified as agricultural workers. farm managers / owners are classified separately.

There was a whole redacted study because of managers being accidentally lumped in with workers.

https://newfoodeconomy.org/farmer-suicide-crisis-cdc-study/

I'm not a Silicon Valley CEO, but I like hearing this sort of thing because I don't think my work is going away even if the social impact of the industry is known and controlled.

As a kid, I was in love with software because of the possibilities for it to make the world a better / more interesting place. I grew up and saw a darker side. I still want the tech industry to be an industry that makes the world a better place. I don't think that's out of the question for CEOs either.

Any of them, unless you have specific goals that may be served best by one language or another.

For general purpose, I'd suggest writing a hello world app in every backend language you can think of. See what clicks with you.

I've done this as well. I actually have a pack sitting around somewhere. Quitting never felt possible when I told myself I'd never have a cigarette again. I'm pretty sure I'll have one again, but not today. This is what I tell myself every day, and other than really crazy bar nights, I've been pretty good at perpetually procrastinating on smoking.

Who exactly is in this role of deciding how loud and powerful people can be? At what point does a person get bucketed into the category of "the offended"? Clearly you think his actions were disgusting, yet you speak as if you're in a position of superiority over these people. I wonder where that line is drawn.

People don't want to support this stuff, or buy products associated with it. That's a show-stopper for this business model.

It's food for thought if you work in ad tech. Targeting based on tags/interests can be effective, but understanding the visual content of an ad and how it will be received by the user is a different problem that could result in better targeting if solved.

Suppose all ads were tagged for their visual content and their ad-hiding functionality looked for categories of content that you frequently hide. That data could be used for better targeting and passed all the way back to creative agencies to influence design decisions.

How is that not relevant to HN?

I'm glad it doesn't do anything, but if I saw this in my extensions list, I would think it was malware. That does have an impact. I could have spent hours with my hair on fire trying to figure out how my system was compromised, and I wouldn't be surprised if others have. I'd expect better from an org that has to deal with security issues all the time.

So you take code you don't understand and don't want to understand, and you use it to power someone else's business? Doesn't sound safe or professional to me. You don't need to understand everything about every dependency, but you should absolutely be willing to dig in a little

This benefits highly from spread attributes imo https://pastebin.com/nSFHh0NK

If you don't understand how it works and how it can be combined with tools like Redux to create a highly debuggable and predictable app, it certainly looks like a bunch of newfangled framework stuff for the sake of nothing.

I think the experiences are getting better. My first SPA projects were with Angular 1.x and for the whole duration that I was using it, I found that I could point out an Angular 1.x based site off of gut feeling / familiarity with certain pain points (hi Seamless).

I feel like there was a huge reduction in bug-prone madness when React + the Flux pattern started gaining steam. We are still collectively working toward an end (reliable software in the browser) but it's impossible for me not to feel the difference in the past few years, as a dev and a user.

SPAs are sort of a hack. The web was designed for documents that link to each other. Maybe they'll never be perfect until we reach some sort of impossible isomorphic framework utopia, but there is real progress being made

Basically this

http://stackoverflow.com/a/29094545

Rich text format supports font colors, images etc

Pasting this in a browser is explained well here

http://stackoverflow.com/a/30904519

There's also no reason to believe that botting is done via API in most cases. I would think it's easier to detect + ban that way. I don't know how it's done in the majority of cases, but I know it's not particularly difficult to write a bot that drives an actual browser and emulates human mouse behavior.

It's good that they're disclosing this, but they are not doing anything particularly brave. While it's understandable that they would choose not to put their business at risk, a true act of bravery would be to refuse the requests in the first place.

^ that is a medium harshness level, I think.

I find that Windows developers seem more comfortable with GUI-heaviness in their dev environment, Linux developers seem less comfortable with it, and Mac is in kind of an odd gray zone in between. This seems fitting for the general style of the OS - sometimes sacrificing power to make things "just work" in a minimal UI.

There might be cases where I would find it useful but overall its usefulness is subjective and dependent on what you're looking for in your workflow/workspace.

I think they'll be in trouble if a competitor makes an AR game based on a similarly popular IP that is more smoothed out. I'm not sure feasible that is in the near future, but it could happen.

The bugs and lack of features aren't going to be a big problem for some people because for them, it's as much a "meeting random people" app as it is a game. It's an ice breaker. Fighting over the gym with people from the neighborhood. Doesn't need to be complicated.

I'm Latino and it has been available to me. I don't want a "Latino Only" day any more than I would want a "Whites Only" day.

It feels belittling that anyone would think they're doing me a favor by banning the white competition. Real helpful, since my race is obviously a huge handicap. Right? Stopstopstopstopstop. Just stop. You're not giving me an equal opportunity to compete if the competition is segregated.

Unless there was a big conspiracy to make sure that this was an all-male panel, I don't see what the big deal is.

There's something about diversity movements that I still struggle with. I see a commenter on the linked post saying "at least they're not all old white guys". I'm half white. Would that make it half-problematic for me to be a panelist in a discussion like this? Would a transgendered panelist be half-OK? Why are we talking about how OK participation is based on the gender, race, and age of the person participating?

The usual response I get to this sort of question is "Well, it's about including under-represented minorities", but I don't think it's inclusive to exclude the majority. I don't want to be included in something just because I'm half hispanic and I don't want to be excluded just because I'm half white. Both of those things seem unproductive to me.

I don't really have fragmentation concerns because it's basically Chrome with an Opera-like front end. I did a benchmark comparison and they were roughly equal, with Vivaldi winning some and Chrome winning some.

I'm liking it so far. If you aren't crazy about Chrome's UI, it's worth a shot. Hope to see more privacy features, but right now the settings are the same as in Chrome.