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akilism··on Ask HN: How common is a counteroffer for developers who give notice?
i've only left 2 jobs in the last 12 years but both gave me counters.
akilism··on Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade (2015)
hope you are also comparing chattel slavery as practiced in the americas vs slavery is Africa at the time.
akilism··on Angular vs. React vs. Vue
chooooo

https://github.com/choojs/choo

akilism··on Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
no end to end encryption?
akilism··on At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated
There are some viewpoints that should not be tolerated though.
akilism··on At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated
Everything is political especially the conditions under which your exchange your labor for survival / comfort.
akilism··on Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another
Onionshare....

https://onionshare.org/

akilism··on Twitter Fails to Grow Its Audience Again
328 million monthly active users and still not happy.
akilism··on AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
exactly.
akilism··on Lessons learned teaching data analysis with Python
there's a pretty good book out there "Data Science from Scratch" it's all in python and really lays out the workings of popular data science / analysis algorithms without relying heavily on external libraries.
akilism··on It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app
The talk juice it or lose, by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho, is all about this. Gotta be one of the best talks for anyone trying to make things interactive that also feel good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

akilism··on From fleeing Vietnam in a refugee boat to becoming Uber’s CTO
Well the difference is these stories are really really rare where as stories of struggling college graduates with mountains of debt are pretty commonplace.

Might as well tell people to gather inspiration from tales of lottery winners.

akilism··on The Synthesizer Academy
and if you're going to do that Korg's new minilogue has a great omled screen that shows the waveform of whatever sound you are playing.
akilism··on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died
wait didnt the voters decide when obama got reelected? he's still the president right?
akilism··on What happens to a tiny town when Walmart disappears
With what capital? More likely that these old mining towns and more rural communities wont exist in a few generations. With younger people moving to the cities to find whatever work they can.
akilism··on Amazon is doubling down on lobbying
I don't really see any negative spin at all. Amazon is portrayed as a business just trying to get things done in "backwards" Washington DC.

They are made out to seem like they don't even know what they are doing, "Amazon is really having to learn how to navigate all these things," even though they are spending nearly 10 million dollars on lobbying, have numerous contracts with the federal government and have a former whitehouse press secretary as a senior vp?

This is pretty much an amazon fluff piece.

akilism··on Show HN: Netflix Party – Synchronize Netflix Video Playback
didn't the xbox do this 3 or 4 years ago?
akilism··on The Utopian UI Architect
If you like hot-loading code you should checkout this strangeloop video of Bruce Hauman talking about devcards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_g2fnEDg

akilism··on Did we reached webdesign's coolness boundaries?
bloomberg business week graphics pretty much kills it when it comes to cool/weird web shit.
akilism··on Watchdog: U.S. Paid for 'World's Most Expensive' Gas Station in Afghanistan
Another one for the record books!!!
akilism··on The Competitive World of AOL Disc Collecting
There's some 9 or 10 shoeboxes full of 3.5" floppy disks in my parent's basement. Probably 3 of those are just AOL disks.
akilism··on PICO-8
I love this little fantasy console. I've written a few small games in it already it's a lot of fun.
akilism··on Stop using React for everything
The thing is do you want to build something or do you want to learn every JS framework and try to decide which is going to be the very best for what you are doing then build something.

" React, Angular, Ember, Backbone, Vue, Knockout, Mithril, Jade, Django, Rails, etc. "

Oh yeah I never built _____ cause I was busy learning a, b, c, x, y, and z frameworks and by the time you have those down there are three new ones. When most likely what you are doing any of the big ones will be fine so just pick the one you want to learn, or know already or whatever works best for you.

akilism··on Free books to get started with Artificial Intelligence
Here's a good list of AI resources. https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-artificial-intelligenc...
akilism··on The Beauty of Clojure
Living Clojure is really good also.
akilism··on Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview
Just waiting on Om Next now...
akilism··on Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
I just read two really good neuroscience articles over on nautil.us. This stuff is super interesting.

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/heres-why-your-brain-s...

http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/the-neurons-secret-par...

akilism··on G is for Google
isn't amazon already doing the a->z thing
akilism··on New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII
America is building new nukes.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/new-mexico-thrives-on-nuc...

akilism··on In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions
I know what you mean but it really on extends to certain animals and only at certain times and only in certain cultures.

I think human life in general is held in higher regard than animal life by the majority of the humans on the planet if you really stop and think about it.

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