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joaq··on Why I’m dumping Google Chrome
I dumped Chrome when it auto updated one day and all pages just kept loading forever. I actually now use Opera and I think it's pretty good.
joaq··on A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters
It wasn't sarcasm obviously. I get your point of view, though. Cheers.
joaq··on Summernote – Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Bootstrap
Amazing, I've always despised TinyMCE. Great share.
joaq··on Trucks Are Killing Us
I can't think of many worse jobs than truck driving. Long hours, low pay, threat to lose your job from self-driving cars, high risk... These guys deserve a higher salary and they should start looking for something else to do IMHO.
joaq··on Ask HN: What does the percentage next to posts mean?
And after two days it turns out it's a random number.
joaq··on JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
Yep, I think the same way. I always prefer to spend a lot of time upfront on something and automate it instead of doing it over and over later. I try to avoid repetitive tasks as much as I possibly can.
joaq··on The Bright Students Left Behind
The whole education system is broken. People learn at different rates and they should learn different things. Having dozens of kids in a classroom all trying to learn the same things is definitely not the most efficient way to teach kids IMHO.
joaq··on JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
Should be quite easy to implement, actually. Some stores have this kind of technology to track traffic. I think the problem is installing the cameras and the software, but that's trivial for an airport.
joaq··on JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
Awesome, this kind of technology should be used in ALL waiting lines. I read that the average person spends months of their lives just waiting in lines. This is ridiculous and should be fixed. Every store should have an average waiting time and they should try to minimize it.
joaq··on Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth
No, I've tried it. I've really tried to like it, but it just didn't click with me. I know it's perfect for others, but it can never reach the growth of a platform like Facebook that is more universally liked. That's pretty much my point.
joaq··on Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth
Am I the only one who never really liked the whole concept of Twitter?
joaq··on Stripe Checkout in more languages
Can't wait for Stripe to be available in more countries.
joaq··on Editing humanity
So what if someone's more intelligent? There was an experiment showing that super smart people don't have much of an advantage over smart people. Past a certain point it doesn't matter.

Most other human attributes that we perceive as desirable like height have their downsides (every extra centimeter takes 3 months away from your life plus many other health problems).

I see the opportunity more along the lines of removing health problems such as schizophrenia, etc.

joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Well the point is that the hackers picked a pretty good target. You're never going to convince me and millions of others that exposing cheaters is a bad thing, even to the entire Internet.
joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Gotta love computer science and how it helps solve so many problems :)
joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
Once a cheater always a cheater. There's some kind of gaussian curve in this regard (like in so many other human attributes). Some people will never cheat, while others will cheat very frequently and most people are somewhere in between. I've done a lot of research on this, there are a lot of facts that affect someone's propensity to cheat including their number of sexual partners, level of education, marital status of their parents, children born out of wedlock, cohabitation with original partner, etc. etc. It's not that hard to find someone unlikely to cheat when you start analyzing the data.
joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
The real question is, do they require e-mail verification after signup? If they do, the list is a lot more valuable.
joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
I feel the same way. Cheating on someone is akin to taking a shit on their self-esteem. Morally repulsive that this happens as frequently as it does, so I actually feel great that many of that cheating scum is exposed and I hope their names are exposed for good. IMHO.
joaq··on The Ashley Madison Database Was Leaked
"It's a private matter between two (or actually, more) people."

Well, given that they're keeping their partner in the dark in the first place I don't see anything wrong with exposing the cheating scum.