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randomchars··on Progress Studies School
Yes, an introduction to CS course should include algorithms too.

But this isn't an introduction to history course. It's a course about the "story of unprecedented human progress in the modern age".

randomchars··on Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
From the article:

> If a customer contacts us asking for support, and we need to look up something in their account, typically we can just ask them for the email address on their account. But with “Hide My Email” that wouldn’t be easily possible, because the customer would have to figure out the privaterelay.appleid.com email address used for their account.

> Furthermore, if there are platforms where AnyList doesn’t support Sign in with Apple, like Android, and someone wants to log into their account, they’d have to know their privaterelay.appleid.com email address. (And that certainly won’t be easy to find if you no longer have an iOS device.) And then they’d have to create a password with us, since they wouldn’t be able to sign in using Sign in with Apple.

> Finally, for a service like AnyList, which is heavily focused on sharing lists with other people, the “Hide My Email” option greatly complicates collaboration. Typically, customers share a list by typing in the email address of the person they want to share with. If that person already has an account, the list is instantly shared. But with the “Hide My Email” option, your spouse or friends obviously won’t know your privaterelay.appleid.com email address, so when they enter your email address, our systems will believe that you don’t have an account. At that point, you’ll get an email from us asking you to create an account. If you accidentally create a new account, it won’t include the work you’ve done in your existing account created via Sign in with Apple. And if you manage not to make that mistake, then there would be a link between your email address and the account you created with Sign in with Apple, negating the value of hiding your email address.

randomchars··on Progress Studies School
But this is not a program, this is a single course. Not all CS classes are about algorithms either.
randomchars··on Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health
Well, that's definitely correct. But they do require soy, GMO soy to be precise, and monocropping is harmful, while on the other hand, cows are grazing animals, which can have a dramatic effect on the fertility of the land.

That aside, I don't believe there's a study about the environmental effect of the manufacturing of this sludge vs eating real foods.

And as an aside, the emission from cows is not as simple as it sounds: https://www.farmcarbontoolkit.org.uk/news/methane-myth-why-c...

randomchars··on Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health
And GMO soy leghemoglobin, plus soy leghemoglobin soy protein.
randomchars··on Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health
Yes, that's my point. If you want to go vegan, go ahead, it's probably healthier than a standard american/european diet.

I think the problem starts when people can't let go the idea of certain food, ie. burgers, and try to engineer alternatives that fit their diet. This is what brings is stuff like the GMO meat replacements, which are marketed as a healthy alternative...

randomchars··on Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health
I'd like to reverse the question; which one of those are healthy, especially compared to the real version?
randomchars··on A New Standard Deal
> young, single, attachment-free man.

Some YC founders bring their whole family with them. Also, at some point in life, living a dorm starts to sound like torture.

randomchars··on Ask HN: Why are you against open plan offices?
Why do they need to be quiet? This is in a cafeteria, not in a classroom.
randomchars··on Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system
It's nice to have some people like you, but a significant amount of public servants I encountered visibly took pressure in making the life of other's miserable, and the processes as convoluted as possible.
randomchars··on Designing the perfect TypeScript schema validation library
Do you have an example of the kind of validation couldn't be expressed in the type system?
randomchars··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
This is quite frequent in countries of the ex-soviet block. Most of the language classes we had were about rote memorization and recall of words without context.
randomchars··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
What is the bottleneck your you?
randomchars··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
I understand your feeling, that's my biggest gripe too. Making cards is chore, with lots of copy-pasting and editing, sometimes even image editing. As time goes it also gets more and more disconnected from the context; I sometimes as myself, why did I even want to learn this?

Have you tried premade decks? What was your experience with those?

randomchars··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
This looks amazing, thank you for mentioning it. Do you have experience with it? Are there more advanced topics, or is it only aimed at beginners?
randomchars··on Ask HN: Why aren't you using spaced repetition?
How does your process look like? You take your notes in notion, and move (some parts of?) them to Anki?
randomchars··on Little known features of iTerm2
While these may do some or all of the apps OP mentioned, the UX of most of them, even from the screenshot seems horrid.
randomchars··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
Should all previous content be rewritten on the internet to be PC? This is from 2012, and as far as I've noticed, this gender neutral thingy started coming up a few years after that.
randomchars··on Off-Facebook activity
I think they either:

- use Facebook pixel tracking on the site.

- hand over all of their user's email addresses to use for audience building.

Or most likely both. Creepy stuff indeed.

randomchars··on A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
> don’t use Atlassian JIRA’s screenshot on the main repo page. Have a screenshot of the UI you’ve actually built

Unless it was changed since your comment: that is the UI, the project literally is a clone.

randomchars··on Show HN: Personal Card Will Be Your Business Card

    If you would like to apply a custom link for you.
    Just invite 1 or 2 friends to join us.
    And paste the Card LINK of you and your friends.

   Then there you go! A unique link for you!
That's pretty spammy. Invite 2 people, just to get such basic functionality?
randomchars··on Incarcerated and Facebook
The form that was mentioned in the article: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/564493676910603
randomchars··on DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
> A typical applicant will have at least two years' experience in a professional environment, and an undergraduate degree in a related subject. However, more extensive experience may compensate for a lack of formal qualifications, and a strong, immediately-relevant qualification may compensate for a lack of professional experience.

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/study/apply.html

randomchars··on All I want for Christmas is to sign in with Apple
You need to pay the $100 fee to Apple, to actually use that.
randomchars··on The $100M ARR Club
No the parent, but... I think there's nothing wrong with paywalls. But this is not an ordinary one: I can't even pay, because their overpriced subscription is not available in my country.
randomchars··on The $100M ARR Club
No, these articles are usually pretty long, so the point where it gets off is only at the beginning of the article.
randomchars··on The $100M ARR Club
This article is exclusive to their subscribers ($150/year), which is only available in US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain as per their website.

Is the full text of the article available for you? Because for me (and others) only a teaser segment is available.

randomchars··on The $100M ARR Club
All these 'extra crunch' articles seem very high quality, but it's beyond annoying that I haven't been able to ready any of them.

I understand why services like Netflix are only available in some countries, but an online publication? That's just crazy. Take my money already!

randomchars··on Headless Chrome in Google Cloud Functions: Go Runtime
Hey! We faced a similar issue. We wanted to use Headless chrome in Cloud Functions, but with python, not go.

In the end, we ended up going with Cloud Run instead. It allows you to use an arbitrary docker image, so you can just bundle chrome in there. Le me know if you need some pointers with that, my email is in my profile!

randomchars··on Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte
Try it this way: https://outline.com/hDqg78

Generally, you can add outline.com before any news or blog domain, and you get a reader view to share.

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