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Pressing keys while it's booting up is pretty scary with the threat on the screen to delete everything.
> Twitter began investing heavily in video, aiming to draw a more mainstream set of users and premium advertising deals

What's with this whole "pivot to video" trend among websites?

Why is it preferred to text which is probably easier to write, needs less network and is more accessible than a large number of videos (which don't have captions)?
Very much this.

The longer the license, the more likely it is that you have not understood the effects.

The simplest license is abandonment to the public domain; that won't work. You need something that establishes that you are the original author (so that you own the rights) and that you are offering certain specific rights to most people (now it's open source, though not Open Source) and that keeps the same restrictions for people making derivative works -- and now you have the BSD 3-clause.

So that's the simplest license which can possibly work for the OP's purposes.
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Only if you care about other people.
I think the big problem is users trying to shoehorn increasingly long-form conversations and complex ideas into a platform designed for explicitly short top-of-mind contextless posts and link aggregation. That's why they named the service after the sound a bird makes.

I also think Twitter posts should be banned from HN for the same reasons (anything of value will be linked in a tweet, the tweet itself is bound to be void of quality.)
From what I understand, the previous config kills all desktop notifications, overriding that config, which is just about push notifications.
Very nice. https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad is decent as well.
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if you are not a business nor journalist/celeb you cant tweet more than x links a day.
Vsauce had a video about this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxhxL1LzKww
Expanding bit by bit is extremely fragile, arcanely complex and error prone. Not worth the amount of financial savings, especially when the cost of time and effort is added on top of that.
I forgot I lived in 2017, where _literally_ anything can be taken out of context and made into a race issue.
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> But just imagine, if 200 years from now, you could grow a space-worthy carapace overnight, with attachments for gear. And organs that transform a dense solid into maneuvering gas and oxygenated blood.

I would expect that to happen. It's not a weird approach, it's perfectly reasonable - biology, after all, is technology. A very advanced nanotech that we did not engineer and we don't control yet, but technology nonetheless. Humans are not bound to deal only with metals, plastics and electricity forever.
I agree, but these things go up the chain. Sure people won't say 'I wont buy broadcom', or 'i wont buy snapdragon.' But they will say 'I won't buy PhoneCoXYZ because they were in the news for being hacked.' Not after this necessarily, but after enough times, I think we'll see it.
Yes, if someone buys the product and it turns out to be counterfeit, they can sue Amazon. But Birkenstock can't sue Amazon for selling legitimate Birkenstock products, and no one (so far) has been able to force an audit of Amazon warehouses to prove that their stock is legitimate.

The problem is that Amazon can fall back on the possibility of unofficial resellers of hypothetically genuine Birkenstock goods - you or me walking into the mall, buying a pair of Birkenstocks, and reselling them on Amazon. This, obviously, isn't an efficient business model: You or I paying list price, adding our markup for our expenses and profit, and Amazon's profit demand that we find a way to get them at less than the price on the sticker at the mall to have a competitive price (or we just list them on Amazon at higher than list for people who want to NOT go to a Birkenstock shop and would instead prefer to have them appear on their doorstep...just saying...). Hypothetically, we could find them on sale, or go to the shop owner and get them at near wholesale prices under the table, or the shop owner could list them himself. Of course, the other hypothetical way we could make this business work is to make our own fake Birkenstocks and send those to Amazon.

Amazon is just throwing their hands up and claiming they aren't responsible for determining which of these is the case. And I honestly don't understand why Birkenstock isn't able to bring them to court, get a warrant to check their warehouses, and prove that the goods they have are counterfeit. After this, they could either go for monetary damages and try to incentivize Amazon to self-police for fear of a repeat suit, or they could see if the judge is willing to force Amazon to stop listing products under the Birkenstock name.
1.b. Those businesses that promote and display their Twitter handles on public broadcasts (ahem CNN etc) $2000/month/user.
You can have verified boot, and use the TPM and the U2F security key without the chrome os on a chromebook.
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I've been running the Chromebook Pixel 2015 as my primary dev machine since it came out. Unlike the author however, I've opted for the less-secure "dev mode" on the laptop, and do everything in crouton. (Java web / Android, mostly).

It may not be as secure, but it's hella convenient (still use 2FA). ChromeOS boot is < 5 seconds, and I just stay there for web browsing / netflix. Dropping into crouton is another < 5s when I need to do dev work, or play steam games.

Everything important on the laptop is backed up to some cloud service or another, but it's expensive enough that I'd be distraught if I lost it (plus they stopped selling them).

I'd be more worried about somebody straight up stealing the laptop than any other security risks I may be running by running in dev mode.

I love the idea of natively developing in ChromeOS, but at this point it just seems like more hassle and fighting the system than it's worth.
>But as an iOS user I expect you to use the technology stack provided by my preferred operating system. I don't want to use your app if you're targeting a lowest-common-denominator feature set.

I would wager that the average quality of an iOS app written by someone like OP that "has a web experience and _has_ to learn iOS just to work on that platform" will probably be lower than if that person (with web experience) could just extend their web app natively with PWA.

I completely agree with you that the app should feel native to the platform (I actually quit a job a while back because they wanted me to theme our web Android experience as iOS for "consistency across all devices" instead of matching the user's device's design patterns), but there is huge value in giving the devs the tools they need to write the best product they can, and splitting codebases and requiring more work/knowledge/moving parts is actively detrimental to a quality end-product for everyone, unfortunately.
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You can cover >25% of the US population in just the top 3 states (CA, TX, NY).

The system isn't that strange, almost every business in the US is primarily regulated by the states. What's strange is that most Americans don't realize this.
In German it's nicknamed Lawn Acne.

You don't have to ask why.
Yeah, in getting annoyed with all the (US centric) politics on my feed.

Similar thing is happening with Pocket. It's great at curating articles. It's just that at some point, it got hijacked by politics.
As an iOS user, one thing I surely don't want are more web apps. The web is for content (including APIs Robbe used by native apps) not for apps, if on desktop or mobile. Here's why:

- lower performance. It can't be as fast as native as long as there's still the browser underneath
- non-native experience. I use iOS because I like it better than android. I like the UI and UX, how it looks and feels. I don't want an web app, with an UI feeling different, looking different and behaving different.
- multi-platform. All platforms will never have the same capabilities and features. You will always have to use the least common denominator or hack your things around.

Apple provides ObjC and Swift, the latter being a terrific way to develop apps, in my humble opinion a far better language and environment than JS (or JS). Just use it, your users will thank you.
As I said, desktop Safari allows websites to prompt me for push notifications.

I can't stand it: that a web site has the ability to display a modal prompt sheet that I have to cancel.
I'm surprised this comment is downvoted, with the obvious and blatant criminality Amazon knowingly engages in being pointed out by several other commenters, this seems like one of the better explanations of why there has been essentially no legal problems with the government. Jeff Bezos is an incredibly smart guy, I suspect he realized very early on that having these bases covered is absolutely crucial to success.
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> Apple supporting PWA is hugely important because it enables a future where web apps can natively support (...)

But it is not in Apple's interest to support these kinds of apps. They make money on the app store, and like to keep developers within the walls of their ecosystem.
> ..which begs the question, who are the giants of today? Why are we not hearing about them? Why are they not as "well-known" today as these men and women were?

It seems that one implicit assumption made in your question is that there exists such "giant" today...

Well, then that would depend on how you define "giant"...If we consider Isaac Newton as a giant, then perhaps one good description that illustrates his distinction is these two lines written by Alexander Pope:

NATURE and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.

In any age, inside any social structure that is not largely uniform, there are always "well-known" men or women -- that's a characteristic of human's social cognition capability...

Due to my ignorance, I don't think that in our time I could identify any living person who has advanced our knowledge as significant as Isaac Newton or other of those "giants" ( -- I just borrowed this term from Newton in my initial post...) -- I am not commenting on the aspect of human well-being, and I am only ranting about our knowledge...but as I am too ignorant, perhaps only with hindsight I could see better...

But still unless proved otherwise, there is a possibility there isn't (or won't be) any living giant in our time...This happened a few times in human history. For instance, 3000 years ago, after Mycenaean civilization ended, the Greek civilization seems to be moving into a state of falling back (which was a period that we refer as Greek Dark Ages): the practice of writing had ceased (i.e. linear B system), and even been forgotten in many places; their buildings were modest, and decorative art unimpressive -- even their favorite pottery was generally painted with less complex patterns ( -- perhaps it's not avant garde intentionally, as in our modern taste) ...bards and poets after the this dark period would only remember the heroes and giants in the Trojan war which happened in the Mycenaean age that preceded the dark age...

Nevertheless, the Greek Dark Age would eventually end, like all other historical periods...but I just feel sad for those people living in the dark days, although they might very likely not share this similar empathy for themselves (or they might factually have lived a very happy life)...
Yes, all you're saying is it is possible to make shitty native apps too. So that would explain your results. Native isn't a magic wand, but except for the simplest of things web will not be as good. The cracks still show in things like Google docs and sheets and overall those are pretty good as far as web goes.
A few days ago a code school raised $85,000 USD on Kickstarter[0] to build a Rails application.

Rails is really stable and has a battle hardened community around it. That's a good combo for teaching, learning and practical usage.

When it comes to teaching / learning / real world usage, the last thing you want to deal with is 18 new versions of 5 different tools every month.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leotrieu/build-your-own...
Yeah. I've actually never tried recreational narcotics, however have taken up the (now rather moderate) use of alcohol in the later years.

I would rate drinks + a good sleep as better for my work performance as higher than no drinks / poor sleep. So many factors. Having a baby certainly tested the sleep thing; I've been far more productive with a serious hangover than some of the nights where I've been up most of it looking after the baby. In fact, sleep deprivation was rather harsh on my cognitive abilities at that time.

Some of my best memories come from stuff of extreme adrenaline, and they far surpass anything on alcohol. Such as riding a motorbike at Phillip Island, being able to make a pass on a guy with a far better bike than the one I had at the time. Or a really good mountain bike ride where I really nailed a particular section.
I searched and clicked one of the first few products and among the top reviews is a one-star review with pictures claiming to show a fake pair they'd received from Amazon. So that's at least part of it.

There are large categories of items that I just don't even bother looking at Amazon these days for exactly this reason. I can't believe they can get away with selling so much counterfeit stock.
"There were production hiccups. An engineer who led the software development team insisted on revamping the drone software to be his own original invention, several engineers told me. (The prototype had been made with open-source software.) The engineering team rebooted and the drone prototypes stopped flying. Production was set back about six months."

There seems to be something about software that makes this a particularly appealing tarpit.
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You could even get rid of "On". Most people probably think Darwin's magnum opus is titled "The Origin of Species" anyway.
> Pity evolution didn't give us the intelligence, restraint and good judgement to make sure that we will not screw this up. And we will.

Because this is how we grow up. We screw up, again and again, but as long as we come out stronger each time, I'd say it's worth it.

That's why I believe a top priority today should be ensuring that our technological civilization does not collapse - through neither technological mistakes, nor through social upheaval. And if we were not given enough intelligence, restraint and good judgement to avoid making stupid errors, then maybe at some point, we'll fix that too.
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No, but a company paid a bounty for a leak in Rails, which is open source. Isn't that what this topic was about?
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Surely you realize that McDonalds is a franchise? Therefore that company isn't paying the wages of workers, it's the local franchisee.
I suppose Nike could have a contract with their resellers requiring they not sell Nike products on Amazon.
Hi all, author here.

Backstory: I'm a CS engineer/teacher and this book is a side project started in December 2016. You can read a bit more about it here: https://medium.com/@bpesquet/walk-this-javascript-way-e9c45a....

The writing process is now completed and I'm actively looking for feedback to make the book better. Any opinion or advice about content, pricing, or that hastily created Leanpub cover would be greatly appreciated. However, please keep in mind that this is a self-published effort still far from being polished and open to improvement.

I'd also like this thread to stay focused on the book itself, not on the merits/weaknesses of JavaScript or the usefulness of choosing it as a first programming language.

Thanks in advance!
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Scrolling is very inefficient on Twitter - to read the equivalent of a single screen on reddit or HN means to scroll 20x more on T. When reading comments I have to be very careful not to click outside the column because it gets closed and position lost.

Another big one - you can't filter out the political crap from the domain specific stuff.
Leading is a stretch, I've seen way more Mattermost and Rocket.Chat installations these past few months.

Mattermost is OSish, but Rocket.Chat seems to be a much more modern/UX friendly version compared to Zulip and fits the bill with FOSS.
I'm more saying that there is a social consequence to investing, and people should be mindful of them. I know we all (well most of us) enjoy the benefits of living in a Capitalist society and can put our money where we like, but as I said property is divisive and money sitting there doesn't generate wealth in a meaningful way.
It's certainly not just about myself, if you talk to any person under 30 in a major city in a G7 country they will cite housing concerns and access to a stable home as a key concern.

There's nothing anti-capitalist about investing to protect wealth and benefit society.
This isn't new. Desktop browsers have been showing modal prompts via the javascript `prompt()` method for quite some time.
You can combine GPL-licensed code with code licensed under many other similar licenses without any trouble. This pairing is not viable because the terms of the two licenses are not mutually compatible.
I can't find Ethereum on this diagram. Is this just for Bitcoin and its forks?
Again - not really trying to discuss Flash, was just drawing parallels.

Even though my Mac never had significant problems with Flash. I mean - fix what? I don't have Flash installed any more but my fans still spin-up with multiple tabs and overactive pages trying to open a bunch of animated or video tabs.
I saw that too. Probably should have been a "giga-light year" or something.
Pretty much this, yeah. I buy all my tech stuff at Amazon because I know if breaks down within 2 years, they will refund or replace it within a simple 5 minute livechat.

Another experience: my (second-hand) Kindle Paperwhite suddenly started to displaying ads. It had never done this and I had specifically bought an ad-less version. Go to Amazon, open livechat - fixed within a few minutes. Another company would have probably told me tough luck and to buy the ad-removal.
Nope, they are not more important because you can easily fix those by installing an appropriate javascript library. We are talking here about functionality that a developer can't possibly fix if it's broken.
> If hosting is enough to be considered present in the US, then the US cloud providers better get ready for some unpleasantly stiff competition.

That has been the case for a really long time, hasn't it?
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> This isn't new.

Just because it is old doesn't make it a good user experience.
Don't do it!

I got a Lenovo 14" IdeaPad N42-20 and desktop to replace my 256gb MacBook Pro.

It turned out to be a bad idea, mostly because the screen is terrible. It's the same resolution as the Samsung 3 mentioned in the article.

It also seems so small compared to a 15". Side-by-side windows isn't very nice, either.

I find myself working less because I don't feel like sitting at my desk or using the Chromebook.
I moved to https://feedbin.com/ after Google killed Reader and stopped supporting me as a customer. Feedbin supported the use case I had which was nicely aggregating my RSS feeds. YMMV.
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You've clearly never used the product in a while because you can DM more than 140 characters.

Who is to say the value of "meaningful" is dependent on the number of characters?

You have no idea what you are talking about. Go to a speech? What if you're in another country? What if their email isn't publicly available? What if they prefer to communicate via twitter precisely because its so low-stakes and informal? I know many devs who love it precisely because of that. Brevity is key.
> and that should be the term for someone who pre-orders the product

I'm sorry I can't agree with this at all. A person who pre-orders something isn't investing in the company, they are buying a product being promised. Now, long delays and things of that nature are perfectly acceptable, but you aren't investing.

An investor gets a stake of the company. An investor (of certain worth) has a say in what is going on.

A customer doesn't, they speak only with their desire to buy whatever product is being pitching. And after they hand over their money, their opinion doesn't matter anymore. Sure they can dispute the charge and get kicked off whatever crowdfunding site they are on, but they still have no voice in the company.
hopefully, after many years, when we look back with our hindsight, we would find that we have been steadily moving forward...
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Follow people that only tweet about stuff that interests you. Don't hesitate to unfollow or mute people. You can tweak your follows and end up with a pretty low signal to noise ratio.
I wish more apps had CarPlay (apple) support too.
I think it's quite reasonable; the tld suggests the location/nationality, which suggests the language. It's not ironclad, but it's implied.

Those three english-speaking countries (UK, Ireland and Malta) make up roughly 13.7% of the total population of the EU; when the UK leaves, it will drop down to around 1.1%.
It's not coincidental that the ability to do so has been actively limited by so many browsers (with opt-out forever options in some cases).
Twitter is amazing, but it needs to ditch the 140 chars, improve discoverability, and get more modest in its expectations. Twitter is an interest network, where you follow interesting people and read what they write, re-tweet what they write and sometimes interact with them. Given that a lot of people don't have that much interest in things that can be expressed in Twitter form, Twitter has a low ceiling on how big it can get. Most sports fans would rather watch sports than following an athlete. I think Twitter should try being better at what their users use it as.
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This will likely always be the case with open source chat solutions.

Developing clients is hard. Especially good UIx and complex feature sets across a zillion platforms like Slack does. A lot of their day I bet these days is simply tracking down obscure bugs on certain platform combinations and trying to keep feature parity between everything working properly. I think most of us can stipulate Slack does a decent job there - or at minimum is far better than the competing (open) solutions.

I really wish there was a Slack alternative where I could purchase a really nice unified frontend and simply connect to an open protocol backend such as IRC or Jabber or whatever. This was the original intent behind IRC as well - back in the 90's there were a number of shareware style IRC clients developed for Windows - and you saw some interesting protocol hackery to make some more graphical features work.

I have yet to see open source really truly compete in the "client" arena, save for an exceedingly few notable exceptions. However, it excels at the backend where you will have developer interest and competence - and the long tail of possible bugs (and user competence) is a much more sane problem to tackle.

No, I do not expect this to ever exist for obvious reasons :)
... but how many of those 328 million are in fact bots?
I think it actually runs counter to that mantra. Here, it seems they weren't good enough at faking it with later-stage VCs.
My current view is that best what average fullstack dev can do is still to buy beefy desktop with linux/nvidia + windows on virtualbox/vmware (for Windows stuff). Additional cheap Chromebook is nice but eg. IntelliJ is to heavy for it.