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It depends? If I'm looking for a new desk on IKEA's online catalog then I care more about filtering/searching, but if I'm reading through a conversation on a forum and want to be able to link to certain sections then I want that paginated.

There are some (but not many people) who will get upset at you if you tell them "Merry Christmas". These are generally people who dislike Christianity or another, and/or whom dislike its pervasiveness in American culture over other religions.

Likely more prevalent are the people who don't like corporations, public services, etc. wishing everyone Merry Christmas year after year while ignoring the holidays of other religions.

To avoid all of this, many places are switching to "Happy Holidays", except there are a not-insignificant number of people who are upset by this and feel that companies/governments should be saying "Merry Christmas" because they should be aligned with Christianity.

In which browsers? This doesn't seem to work for me in Chrome, but maybe it's just me. Works in Firefox and Safari.

Edit: Nevermind, I tried again and it did begin to run before the tab closed abruptly. Tried again in an incognito window and it worked, and it also worked in a regular Chrome window with only one tab. Tried to run it in a second tab in that same window and the tab instantly closed again. Anyone know why this might be the case?

Second edit: While it doesn't run in regular Chrome windows with multiple tabs, it does run in Incognito windows with multiple tabs. I don't think I have the expertise to dig further though.

Yeah, I wouldn't really consider many of these to be "rising stars". There were definitely some interesting libraries on here that I'd only heard mention of or not at all, but in what world are Angular or Node.js or even React "rising stars"?

> I'm curious what makes this an out-of-date design.

I'm not a designer myself but the things that strike me immediately are that the fonts and colors seem out of fashion and the site looks somewhat awkward on mobile. But that's my whole point. You wouldn't want those things on the homepage of a startup, but this isn't that. It's just a simple blog and it does a good job of being a simple blog.

Yeah, I went on to read that post and also didn't quite understand their reasoning.

It seems to me that one of the benefits of the pipe operator is that it very clearly lays out the steps involved, aka

  x
  |> maybe_function()
  |> final_function()

so that the code is dead-simple and clear. It doesn't seem nested in the say way that final_function(maybe_function(X)) is.

Granted, I don't have nearly the level of experience of the author so I can't say for sure, but it seems to me like they just haven't had enough experience with the pipe operator to see how it benefits the code "beauty".

Content aside, I don't get why people keep criticizing the site design, and I say that as a frontend dev.

This appears to be the personal blog of a lone Erlang developer-- why should they put in effort to make bring it up to current design standards?

It does what it's designed to do. It conveys information in a simple, readable way, same as HN itself. IMO there's nothing worth criticizing here.

edit: typo

Ah, that's definitely strange. A bug in the graphing software, maybe?

What about it? The fact that it says January 2 while the caption says it's through January 7? I'm assuming that's just because the labels are generated at 11 day increments and Jan 7 isn't 11 days away from the 2nd.

> how they just used their unconstrained power to utterly destroy a rising competitor.

From the start, this stood out to me as a very faulty premise. How exactly was Parler, a social media site, a competitor to Amazon, Google, or Apple? It would be different if this were Facebook, but we're talking about ecosystems/infrastructure vs a single app/website.

Also how can the power of three separate companies be a monopoly? The argument seems to be that Silicon Valley is itself a monopoly, except Silicon Valley is only a geographic location.

You can't have gone the past couple decades without anyone pointing out there's a difference between weather and climate, so I'm assuming you understand the difference but choose to ignore it in hopes that there will be people ignorant enough to believe you.

As interesting as the tax implications for YouTubers, I imagine.

That's a good point, and I hope this is the case. It just seems that, as with many things these days, people I've encountered are so set in their opinions that contrary messages from anyone, even (or especially) an authority, wouldn't change anything for them. But I hope you're right.

I feel like anyone who would actually care enough to heed this was already planning not to travel for Thanksgiving, but I suppose it would at least give _some_ support to their case when other relatives complain about them not attending/hosting Thanksgiving this year (whether or not it satisfies those relatives).

One would think the fact that cases in the US are rising faster than they ever have would be deterrent enough.

When the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE was released, I was so sure I was going to prefer it over the Pixel 5. I even liked its photos better in all the camera comparisons-- all except for excessive blue-ing of the sky and the softening of features in selfies that doesn't go away even if you turn off the beautifying feature.

It's just so much better on paper. Faster charging (with separate charger), expandable storage, zoom lens, wider wide-angle lens, 120 Hz refresh, MUCH faster processor. All for the same price as the Pixel 5.

I'd already preordered the Pixel so I figured I'd just let it come and return it after testing both together.

Well, I did test them both together, and I'm returning the Samsung. (Remains to be seen if I'll keep the Pixel 5 or stick with my Pixel 2.)

I really wanted to like the Samsung; I had really high hopes when people said OneUI had gotten better. But it somehow just feels so sluggish. The face unlock doesn't recognize my face a lot of the time, and the on-screen fingerprint sensor (which only lets me register 3 fingers apparently?) doesn't recognize my finger like 60% of the time. So instead of just being able to pick it up and use it instantly like I can with my Pixels, it usually takes 5-10 seconds for me to get into my phone, as I fiddle around to get either the fingerprint sensor or face unlock to recognize me before sometimes having to just swipe my pattern. The refresh rate is 120 Hz yet for some reason it feels like there's a delay whenever I try to swipe through the UI. The camera is good but it bothers me even more than I expected, how much it tries to smooth my face.

Anyway, the point of this comment isn't to be a review of the Samsung phone, but just to highlight how jarring it was to experience all of that after having a Pixel phone that just worked. Even at my P2's 60Hz it feels more snappy than this brand new phone with a 120Hz display and top-of-the-line processor. Granted, I haven't tried many other phones than a Pixel in a while so maybe they're better, but I would just remind everyone that specs aren't everything. The Pixel 5 runs smooth and does everything I want it to well (although it does take longer than I'd like to process photos).

My only problem is that my Pixel 2 also ran smoothly and did everything I wanted it to. The only reason I'm considering the Pixel 5 is the bigger screen and wide-angle camera. So we'll see how I feel in a few days.

I hated SGU for exactly that reason-- was an extremely obvious ripoff of BSG. Obvious even to me as a kid. I was like, if I wanted to watch Battlestar Galactica I would just watch Battlestar Galactica. I didn't come here for a soap opera in space, I came here for space adventures just as with SG-1 and SGA (both of which I loved). /rant

I grew up near Chicago, currently live in Canada, and I say "y'all" all the time. I feel kind of self-conscious about it too but I asked a friend here if it was weird for me to say and she says she also says it all the time, so.

Why would they save money on fees? Would the podcast-focused company build and maintain this app for free?

Honest question: If I'm an American programmer, is there any reason I need to care about Ruby's market share outside the US?

Anecdotal for sure, but my Pixel 2 is still running great. My last one was running even better until it got stolen. The batter life, while not phenomenal, was still pretty good since I took care to preserve it (just basic things like not charging it over night, keeping it around 60-80% battery).

After it was stolen, I bought another Pixel 2 used and while the battery life is worse, it still runs perfectly well as far as I can tell.

They're not talking about hardware durability though. They're just talking about software support. Wear and tear on the physical device should have nothing to do with the company's willingness to continue supplying software/security updates to the phone years down the road.

> I admire a meaningful and quick fix more than a professionalistscwork, adhering to piles of regulations for no appearing reason but let many others profit from my money.

I have little experience with handiwork but I'm imagining if an amateur developer said this in regards to building a maintainable and scalable application (as I imagine a house to be) from scratch, and scoffing at tedious time-wasters like writing tests and hiring QAs.

As an experienced developer I know the tradeoffs of cutting corners and various quick fixes and so can apply them judiciously, but I know if I ended up working on or taking over that codebase, I'd most likely end up having to tear out a lot of that developer's work and redo it, or else have a headache trying to build and improve around it.

That seems so backwards if truly a factor. The Chromecast should make things easier for people who don't want to bother with cords, not prevent people from using cords if they really want/need it.

What makes you think we haven't?

"Previous work using CRISPR in mouse embryos and other kinds of human cell had already demonstrated that editing chromosomes can cause large, unwanted effects. But it was important to demonstrate the work in human embryos as well, says Urnov, because different cell types might respond to genome editing differently."

It says of one study "Of 18 genome-edited embryos, about 22% contained unwanted changes". Such a failure rate probably isn't such a big deal in some applications. In embryos, especially human embryos, it's definitely a big deal.

Where do you live where there is a citizen bio lab? I'm considering a move in the near future and would be interested in having a place like that available to me.

The Trickeration Routine, a solo jazz routine by the late Norma Miller, one of the original Whitey's Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. It's one of the harder group routines out there because unlike the very popular Shim Sham[1], there are no repeating sections.

Also just started trying to learn Svelte today. And I'm about to jump on the breadmaking bandwagon.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIhi4BuDSf4

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9WmOlO4ww

Um, a lot of things?

A computer can give me clues as to why I still feel tired after sleeping for 10 hours every night. The right tracker can tell me what my oxygen levels were while sleeping, or how restless I was during the night. It can estimate how much time I spent in each sleep cycle, and identify anomalies in how much REM sleep I seem to be getting, for example.

Many, many people suffer from various sleep abnormalities and insight into their behavior while sleeping can be helpful for helping their conditions, or at least giving them insight into what's going on.

It's not a problem, it's just incomplete. From what I've seen, most studies (especially with animals) start out with only male participants, to eliminate the effect of menstruation and the related hormones, which we've seen can be very potent.

This makes it easier on the researchers trying to conduct a preliminary study. The limitations of the study just mean we can't necessarily generalize the results to both men and women, people of different weights, (nor, I suspect, people of various races,) or even, given the sample size, all men of normal weight.

But first we see if we can detect an effect in "normal weight" males, and then we have doubts about its applicability in other populations we test those populations. This of course isn't the most thorough way of experimentation, but it's the biggest bang for your buck when your resources and/or available subject pool are limited.

So true. One of my most active channels of communication is actually Instagram's chat despite it lacking many features I prefer in a messaging service like a desktop/browser interface and search functionality. But it's what my friends use, more actively than Facebook even, and so it's what I use. If you have Instagram then you already have this messenger, so it becomes a no-brainer.

The 3rd paragraph mentions the text-only versions of both CNN and NPR.