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I can't tell you how much I love that your first example of contrast failure is HN.

> Our favorite orange website isn't leading by example, either. Some comments are almost unreadable

Orca is amazing, and it's creator Devine Lu Linvega is inspiring too.

Listen to this future of coding podcast where he is interviewed about Orca: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/045 and about making your own tools: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044

The Future of Coding podcast is a treasure.

Edit: excerpt from the Devine Lu Linvega's intro:

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Devine Lu Linvega and his partner Rekka live on a sailboat. He makes art, music, software, and other cultural artifacts. When Photoshop’s DRM required that he maintain a connection to the internet, he wrote his own creative suite. When his MacBook died in the middle of the ocean, he switched to Linux with hardware he could service. His electricity comes from solar panels, and every joule counts — so that’s out with Chrome and Electron and in with Scheme, C, assembly, and maybe someday Forth.

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A consequence of using block-justified texts is creating gaping chasms or rivers of white between words, that looks amateurish.

I am sure the ROI would be Amazing!

I hope this means i will be able to buy a graphics card soon.

Picassa was the best thing miss it so.

Upvoting because of spicy sailor talk.

For a 2x speed up, I am not sure I would be willing to sacrifice legibility as in the example. The OOP method definition reads like english.

The article suggests the true benefits of DOP aren't all that great unless you understand the target architecture.

I feel like the pendulum is at its new zenith.

Thanks!

The cynical anti-intellectualism in this thread is bracing.

All part of the zeitgeist I guess.

News is fake. Science is fake. Schools are barriers. Everything is subjective, objective reality is nonexistent.

How do we have productive disagreements going forward?

Thank you!

Is there an open directory of radio stream URIs?

Like if I wanted to build my own tiny radio streaming client, where would I look for the streams?

I tried snooping the network tab in dev tools on Radio Garden, but couldn't see many requests that weren't either grabbing map tiles, or connecting to Radio Garden itself.

I am old enough to remember when US media was lobbing criticism at China for downplaying the threat to the public.

We are what we think China is.

'responding to it' is engagement, and there is a financial incentive for that.

So the algos are boosting controversy, to boost engagement, to boost financials.

I came here to say this ⬆ Glad someone else did it for me, better than I could have.

ding ding ding ⬆

If they did chase such a lawsuit, it would expose them as having serious double standards as per the recent Pelosi news item: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/technology/facebook-pelos...

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday strongly rebuked Facebook, saying the company’s refusal to take down altered videos of her demonstrated how the social network contributed to misinformation"

Someone has to put a deepfake Zuckerberg video up on Facebook where he forecasts a terrible financial quarter.

Maybe that would have some influence about how seriously they take takedown requests.

I have enjoyed the elitist jokes that were on the internet

and which you were probably saving for April 1ˢᵗ

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and

IRONIC

Why is this the top comment? It hasn't been edited. I can't even decipher it.

This is my favorite (and the most unexpected) Hacker News comment of all time.

Thank you.

A 'full-time dad' must mean different things to different people. To me, it's incompatible with working full time.

Making them breakfast, seeing them off on the bus, picking them up from school, shuttling them off to activities, helping with homework, making dinner, cleaning up, helping them when they have nightmares ... &etc.

It's healthy to think of raising children as a creative, meaningful project on its own merits.

Can you provide an example?

This might be the first time I have heard a critique from that angle.

Many of my capital-skeptic friends were against the bank and insurance bailouts without meaningful consequences.

They are still pretty irked TBH.

I think of these people as 'liberal' in the 'leftist' sense of the word. Maybe you mean 'neo-liberal', as in the economic sense?

Or maybe you just have a different demographic group in mind that I am unaware of.

Regardless, I would like to learn more.

I download ebooks from my library.

You could use that argument to defund any infrastructure you wanted, existing or proposed.

In the long run, not funding infrastructure has the same effect as killing it.

Once a sizeable populist group decides that taxes are theft, it will frame every policy decision we make, until we destroy our once-great institutions.

There was a time when the USA dreamed big, believed in itself and invested in itself. We had a growth mindset.

We have all been told to "look out for number one." They say that our government is corrupt and incompetent. They say we should drown it in a bathtub like an unwanted kitten.

Some A+ fear mongering out there in the austerity universe.

You must live in one of the few places in the US where high-speed internet is available through multiple providers.

That is definitely not the norm. Most people won't be able to simply switch to the least nasty provider.

Thanks to pedantic rules, Wikipedia and StackOverflow are the two most useful sites online right now.

Spoiler:

A possibly delusional Minister misleads a wife and child into moving across Canada repeatedly because "the mafia is trying to poison them".

How Very "You won't believe what happens next".

WHY is it here on Hacker News? 20 Points???

Cutest thing ever.

The history of fashion and marketing tell us that appearance matters.

It drives engineers batty, because it's often irrational.

Just because something is irrational doesn't mean it doesn't have a huge impact on something like adoption.

If we didn't care how things looked, we might all be wearing google glass.