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Vektorwegon Guide to Slack import and export tools

threats are hardly a good reason for mass surveillance.

Vektorwegon How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)

I was a C++ fanboy, before I had to deal with Lisp in college. While Lisp itself seemed unusual with all the parentheses, it had a few good ideas I really missed in C++ . That was the point where I looked for languages similar to Lisp and that lead me to what I'm working today with: Haskell.

Vektorwegon Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

There are still many simple websites made today. They are certainly hard to find, but not gone.

Vektorwegon 3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices

Zero security though.

Vektorwegon Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG

Experimental mesh gradients maybe?

Vektorwegon An Open Letter to Intel

The modern conception of economic competition is disturbing.

Vektorwegon Why Wages Aren’t Growing

True. Also the employer often has leverage. There may be other candidates for the job. The job seeker may be in dire need of a job. Hardly a fair stand for any negotiations at all.

Vektorwegon Cutting your salary by 40%

Some thinking-intensive work can bring you at the edge in just 3 hours a day. After that, you generate more problems than solutions. Especially mathematicians are prone to this. Similar cases in software development need to be respected.

Vektorwegon SVG can do that?

The problem with SVG 1.1 is, that it doesn't support text wrapping. Text wrapping came with SVG 1.2 Tiny years later, but this standard had been ignored at that time. Then came HTML5.

Vektorwegon Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?

Didn't mention OpenNIC tho.

Vektorwegon How economics became a religion

Democracy itself is certainly not the best decision making process, but it tends to avoid some radical pitfalls of oligarchic and tyrannic processes.

Vektorwegon How economics became a religion

Suggested recently by Richard Wolff and many others before him: a possible solution out of this economy is worker coops aka democracy at work.

https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc

Vektorwegon What is “modern” programming?

This article is not about programming, but software development in regards of tooling.

Vektorwegon Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones

This sounds like a cyberpunk story.

Vektorwegon Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

No offense, but 1. sounds like slave capitalism 101.

Vektorwegon Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?

Having a employer - employee relationship is already considered unethical by socialists.

Vektorwegon 14 People Make 500K Tons of Steel a Year in Austria

Most animals are perfectly fine to live without much work. Humans are animals.

Vektorwegon Stop Buying Things and Start Borrowing Them

The problem is, that you have to move for every new job. Our parents and grandparents lived in the same very spot for decades.

Vektorwegon The traits of a proficient programmer

In short: if you have done it before, you are now an professional who can implement a very similar thing again. For everything else, you are not a professional. Thats how I understand the article.

Vektorwegon New results on preschool from a Tennessee RCT

I think, that especially in immigrant families, both parents have jobs and usually a hard work life, which means less time with children. But I don't know the statistics.

Vektorwegon New results on preschool from a Tennessee RCT

The current education systems are hurting kids.

I don't know how preschool looks like, but when I suspect to have a less constrained (less or no tests and grades) learning environment then I think, is this shaping the expectations of learning in general and that the kids simply get bored of school and its constraints. As the study results say, the "negative effects" are seen in second and third class, which is the time things get tight in school. Also likely that the use of advanced teaching methods in preschool also leads to higher expectations of school.

Vektorwegon Ask HN: The Internet is getting lame. What's next?

Its going to be GNUnet without fancy JS sites.

Vektorwegon Project Euler has been hacked

Wait. That was a problem that shouldn't be solved?

Vektorwegon The Haskell School of Music – From Signals to Symphonies

This has been posted often.

http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&query="The%20Haskell%20...

Vektorwegon Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (2011)

I wonder what the problem with visual design is. To make a sufficiently good design, it just needs time to try out things. I think that everyone can get something nice done by experiment and selection.

Vektorwegon Generate memorable passwords using Markov Chains, Huffman trees, and Dickens

Her watches, why him, fog

A nice description why crypto.

Vektorwegon Show HN: Performance-focused pure CSS loading animations

And why not SVG?

Vektorwegon The Gravekeeper’s Paradox: People want permanent tombstones that also show decay

My mother designed a tombstone using AutoCAD for my dead brother some years ago. Its already possible.

Vektorwegon Replacing Photoshop with NSString

This reminds me of the ASCII-fied arrow notation. http://scrambledeggsontoast.github.io/2014/09/28/needle-anno...

Vektorwegon Bill Gates warns on future disease epidemic

It isn't the point that Gates made money. The point is: at what cost?

In capitalism, its considered fair to hurt people within legislation, just to make oneself rich. It is argued as the market and "the better shall win", but we are far away from sane market mechanics. More often people suffer than profit from it. The overall goal is to make everyone happy. But this can't be achieved by our capitalism.