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Good luck trying suppress the news further. You may find temporary success. But dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And as long as men die, liberty will never perish.
We're done.
One of the first things the Americans did in Iraq was to shoot at a hotel full of journalists. They killed a Spanish journalist called Jose Couso. His family tried to get justice for 10 years. Even Wikileaks tried to help. They couldn't do anything. He had been effectively silenced and they got away with it. Still, more journalists went and told us what was going on, so you should be thanking the news.
What reddit banned wasn't a smear campaign of fake news. It was an accurate account of something which had happened. They decided the public shouldn't know about it. The only thing that does is people learn about it from media linked to the other side. It just destroys trust. "What else don't they want us to know?" People are going to learn about it anyway. They're just going to read it from a media that's far less sympathetic. So that's a pretty bad own goal. There is no suppressing the news altogether. Can't be done. Have a think about this one.
Hiding stuff and lying is never good for the public. Transparency and truth are good things, even when they don't help your side, because better informed people make better decisions. The trick is to be on the side of transparency and truth, and to update your opinions accordingly, rather than falling in line under a partisan flag or banner and suppressing conflicting evidence.
There is no dogwhistle here. Reddit banned discussion because they're partisan and the news hurt their side. Sorry.
Finally, it's very funny the guy in favour of suppressing the news is calling the guy in favour of transparency and open media a cryptofascist.
There's an obvious ideological one-sidedness amongst mods on reddit and they do what anybody does after acquiring absolute power. They crack down on dissent. It was the other way around 20 years ago when the neocons were in power. Back then, the liberals were all for free speech and alternative news sources. It's just humans at work.
I'm sorry if you thought liberals were better human beings than the rest.
I may well be wrong, but Elm strikes me as an academic exercise as of today.
I think it would do these types of projects a lot of good to do something real using third party libraries. Convince developers and companies they're real, not toys. I still haven't seen a blog post explaining Elm along with a masonry library, socket.io, bootstrap, shopify, etc.
Probably I'm not getting what's the real use case for these things. It can't be writing web apps.
Please stop. This spam is giving me more fatigue than JavaScript ever did.
For example, I'm very glad I did not spend any time learning webpack configuration. All the big frameworks have a cli or equivalent doing it for you nowadays.
You can be conservative at work and just keep an eye on the news. Don't delve into the code - playing around with alpha stuff is the real time sink.
Regarding this bit: "Remember Google’s Polymer? Angular 1? Express? Perhaps the creators of these kinds of tester projects which get abandoned if they don’t pan out should be more transparent about their intentions."
Angular 1 and Express did not pan out? Not only do I remember them, I maintain half a dozen enterprise applications that use them. Is he actually mentioning Express as an example of a failed module that should not have been published?
Back to internet argument territory - as a double quotes user, prettierjs surprised me by changing everything (that could be changed safely) to double quotes and I was glad to discover Crockford likes them better too.