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islonon How the Presidential Candidates Spy on Their Supporters

One could argue that if they really knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be in a blocklist in the first place.

islonon Mc.js: A Minecraft clone built entirely with JavaScript

> Motivation

> Having to open an additional app to play a game is sometimes too tiring

Really? This is the motivation?

I can understand just the will to reimplement minecraft for the sake of it, as a challenge, to learn something, etc. but to not double click "another" application sounds really naive.

islonon A Framework for Moderation

The printing press is heavily moderated.

islonon Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019

First they came for the big purchases, and I did not speak out because I was not a big spender.

Then they came for the food/clothing purchases, and I did not speak out because I had my credit/debit card.

Then they came for huge dildos, and there was no one left to speak for me.

islonon Robinhood Stored Passwords in Plaintext

But isn't it bad practice to send plain text passwords to the backend? Shouldn't you encrypt them in the client already?

islonon Math versus Dirty Data

> It's also important because it show that FAANG isn't all it's cracked up to be and so it is a completely legitimate career path to remain in small startups

I don't think there's just these 2 options. There's the other 90% in between.

islonon Partnering with publishers for a better journalism experience

It's not perfect, but I'd rather trust mozilla than google.

islonon Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?

My wifi router has an interface that shows every connected device and I can blacklist them based on their physical address.

islonon HTML is the Web

> In descending order of importance it's the HTML, the CSS, and the behaviour.

I would argue the behavior is more important if the website does anything else other than just show articles.

A beautiful site with no behavior is useless; an ugly site with functioning behavior is not.

islonon Algorithms as Objects

You are not alone!

I kept reading the post in disbelief: "OK, he must be joking... he's not joking..."

islonon Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients

If someone creates an adBlock/uBlock for phones (s)he will get rich.

Imagine having a community-curated whitelist of numbers (plus the ones from your friends/family).

islonon Stadia Founder's Edition

If steam shuts down some cracker/hacker will find a way to disable the drm.

Almost every game has a pirated version in some torrent site.

islonon AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy

While a "AI-powered laundry-folding robot" company files for bankruptcy there's a guy making money selling onions on the internet.

islonon Developer Survey Results 2019

Maybe because the backend is getting dumber and dumber (micro/nano services) while the frontend is getting more complex (SPAs, almost like desktops apps).

And I say this as a backend developer who makes these dumb backends that are little more than a glorified layer over postgres.

islonon Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

Are all these kids learning C or assembly? Because if they are learning Javascript, Python, etc. it doesn't matter in which processor their code is running.

islonon Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default

I use uMatrix since 2 years or so and it works out of the box for 70/80% of websites. By working I mean they are not completely broken.

For the ones that don't work it's normally 1 or 2 clicks in the UI to allow some 3rd parties and save it.

Sometimes a site works by default in the "broken" state but as soon as I give it more permissions it breaks by adding a paywall or some modal window.

uMatrix is like linux: it requires more work upfront but give you more control and customization options.

islonon About V, the language Volt is written in

All Lisps and schemes?

islonon Did wine cause a full-scale revolution in Armenia?

This being hacker news, I thought there was a revolution in Armenia because people started running Windows applications on their Linux computers.

islonon Scripting in Common Lisp

They are intelligible if you know Java and Clojure 1.10 improved stack traces.

islonon Porting 30K lines of code from Flow to TypeScript

Or Purescript =)

islonon I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets

Having opinions != removing choices

One can have an opinionated, canonical build system and still allow unorthodox things.

islonon Clojure's missing piece (2017)

How do you avoid having complicated, nested data structures in your software if your business is complicated?

islonon Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish

"All of the other Romance languages use the term in its original meaning."

Nope, in (Brazillian) portuguese "mórbido" means morbid, like in english, and never means soft (suave, macio).

islonon Brief aerobic exercise immediately enhances attention and perceptual speed

In my last work me and a coworker started the 100 days push-up challenge. Soon our whole team joined. After a few weeks many people from other teams also joined and it became a thing in the company.

islonon Sonder Raises $135M to Turn Airbnb Apartments into Hotels

The same reason you don't visit a city and eat only at McDonalds: you want the local experience.

Last week I stayed at an airbnb in Copenhagen shared with the owner which gave me tips about restaurants and nice places to visit. You don't get that at hotels, only flyers advertising whoever payed the hotel.

islonon Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women

A research done in Brazil (where racial quotas for universities were implemented) showed that students that got in through quotas performed better, on average, than "normal" students. So I guess you are right.

islonon As Google Fights Fake News, Voices on the Margins Raise Alarm

Google has often said that it cannot reveal too much or people would use that information to try to game the rankings

Isn't this the same "security by obscurity" argument?

islonon The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights

> Chop wood or light fires in the glacial wastes of “Skyrim”? No chance.

You can chop wood even in vanilla Skyrim, and with mods you can light fires, ride dragons or do whatever you want.

islonon Grappling with Go

> Unless Rust wants to position itself as embedded-only it will compete with Go for higher level tasks.

But that is true for any fast-enough high-level language like Java, Scala, C#, OCaml, Haskell, F#, Kotlin, etc.

So it's not Rust vs Go, it's Rust (and Go) vs the world.

islonon Asshole driven development (2007)

SNADWFYGDA (smile, nod, agree then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway); when you're tired of your manager making nonsense decisions and not respecting your expertise so you give up caring and do whatever the fuck you want as he won't read the code anyway.