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> Drop support for Python 2

Python 3 released on '08. Flask debuted a couple of years later in 2010, on Python 2. 11.5 years later Python 2 is nearly in the rearview. The history of the Python 3 release is surely an impressive one.

On a more related note, props to devs/contributors for this release. My experience with Flask was pop-up projects and never mission critical, but i always found it a joy to use and quite intuitive.

Do you push arrow functions to production? IE still accounts for 2.5% [0] of browser share and has no support [1] for them.

My guess is that most of us have Babel in the mix of a production deployment, in which case I think the “20 year old code isn’t vanilla” loses some of it’s effect.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272697/market-share-desk...

1: https://www.caniuse.com/arrow-functions

> Stop using Google Chrome, and install another browser

As a thought experiment, i've wondered what would happen if webdevs started to add those ugly "This website does not support Chrome, please install [Firefox](...) for the best experience."

Does Chrome have the branding to sustain it? Would the websites take the traffic hit? If trends continue as they have the last 5+ years, it may be a test worth running.

> U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other officials have warned about the use of cryptocurrencies for illicit transactions.

Wait until you hear about cash.

More seriously (and hopefully less reductionist) i feel nations who embrace cryptocurrencies early will see mixed results as the landscape matures. I am more confident that nations which turn their back on it, or shut it out completely, will see a loss of otherwise valuable businesses and mindshare.

Whatever your stance on cryptocurrencies are, what is of little dispute is the business opportunities they have created. Binance and Coinbase are large, successful companies. Poloniex was sold for ~400M.

Knowing the US has soured on cryptocurrencies doesn't make me any less interested in them, it just makes me less interested in holding them/working in the space on US soil. I'd be surprised if i were alone in this sentiment, and in spite of its negative reception on HN, the tech space around cryptocurrencies is quite literally growing as we speak.

Filecoin, at it's lowest value since inception, traded for ~ $4, which would still make this a $200k donation. I hope we can agree such a donation is still worthy of praise.

Any currency risks devaluation in some form. Cryptos are orders of magnitude more volatile than USD, of course. That is both a curse and a blessing. This donation is evidence of that, but belittling this donation because of disagreements with the underlying tech does little to add to the conversation.

I'm afraid you are wrong. This document reads like the Nigerian central bank is barring banks from serving as on/off ramps between Naira and cryptos.

Banks have no ability to prevent crypto trading itself. This is by design.

Great word. For those like me:

  senescence (noun)
  the condition or process of deterioration with age.
  • loss of a cell's power of division and growth.

I don't follow the logic here. Cryptos biggest battle (and thus Coinabse's battle by proxy) has been legitimacy. A listed coin coming under SEC ire and Coinbase banning said coin actively harms their IPO, not assists it.

Last year i replaced my aging mac pro with a 3900x amd Hackintosh. The cpu upgrade was hard to believe. Everything felt fast in a way even my 2019 air failed to achieve.

The idea that the laptop-grade M1 is keeping pace in these tests with the processor in my desktop is mind blowing. Sure the 5800x was tuned for these tests. Sure the M1 is on 5nm. All of this is missing the point: Intel created a huge market opportunity and 2 of the best poised companies to take advantage of it have.

Computer consumers are winning big thanks to TSMC in 2020. Let's all hope intel can turn things around and keep the space competitive.

This headline is only part of the story, looks like ~10 ISP's were awarded sizable subsidies.

While i am not a fan of subsidies in general, the ISP space is particularly tricky for free-market forces to ensure competition. The capital requirements are overwhelming in many cases for a traditional startups, leaving the only other option as local/municipal votes, which have been successful in some areas.

Long-term, i could see internet access to receive utility status in the states. Until that happens, funding ISP competition, particularly in rural areas feels like a wise move.

There's nothing paradoxical about this. In fact, people arguing for platforms to more heavily moderate content are implicitly requesting what you describe.

Actively silencing voices doesn't stop those people from speaking or change their minds, but it does push them to find new places to converse with others who share their ideas. As such, it should come as no surprise that people with fringe or hateful views make up many of the early adopters on explicitly lightly moderated platforms.

> Without Growl I do not know that we would have any sort of decent notification system in OS X

They are right to say this, as the current Notifications system in OS X is ripped nearly pixel-for-pixel from Growl's implementation a decade ago. Like Spaces, Quicksilver, Cover Flow and others, Growl paved the way for a lot of the usability enhancements OS X gobbled up in recent years.

Apple folks: take note. These are real, material examples of the benefit brought by developers being on your side. Shun them as you have in recent years and you might find another OS starts to benefit from their weekend projects and innovative ideas.

> Who cares? With everything capped at 1 or 1.2TB of transfer per month, there's no point to having internet any faster.

What? I definitely care how fast my internet is regardless of my bandwidth cap. For most people, internet consistency and speed is a more noticeable metric than data caps. Speed effects video/audio call quality, page load times, etc.

Look, i get annoyed at data caps. I've taken multiple comcast employees to task over it. But the idea that speed is irrelevant when caps are present strikes me as pearl clutching.

Both my Hackintosh and MBAir are on Catalina and have been freezing repeatedly for the last hour. Definitely is effecting Catalina.

Every negative review i have tried to leave on Amazon has been denied for similarly vague reasons. This is not a new trend and goes back at least a decade. Receiving damaged products, wrong products, overtly used (skin buildup on "new" keyboards, etc).

While this should represent a long-term concern for Amazon but it is not a short-term one. For now they are benefited by potential buyers viewing their products as superior.

Incidentally, Amazon's real failure for me as a consumer is their delivery service. In spite of spending hours on the phone with their logistics departments, Amazon's delivery people have a roughly 33% success rate getting a package to my door, compared to nearly 100% for USPS, UPS and Fedex. This has diverted thousands of dollars in the last year alone to other vendors or in-person stores, as i preemptively avoid the frustration associated with waiting for a package that never comes and then having to chase down a refund or another shipment.

Awesome project. So nice to see these logos collected in a place with attention to the underlying SVG detail. None of the garbage comments/ids/etc outputted by Adobe and Sketch.

Seems people are disregarding this vote based on hypothetical loopholes. Instead, i am focused on the awareness this bill represents.

Facial Recognition and Right to Repair improvements both ended up on state ballots and came away with citizen/consumer wins (as opposed to gov/corporate).

HN comments are usually quick to point out that "normal people" don't have a clue about these issues. I tend to agree. I for one am happy to have such objective data points that the public is sensing some urgency here.

Start with your connections. A 20 year career suggests you have worked with lots of people who respect you and trust your work.

Use them to test your market. Before making the move, send an email to coworkers you had strong relationships with (bonus points if those coworkers are nontech) saying you are starting your own consulting company that will build out sites/apps/tech. Ask in it if they know anyone they would introduce you to.

While I don’t think there is an answer other than “get lucky”, it’s important to get a sense what your early deal flow will look like, especially for financial planning.

I own a 77” LG oled that I positively love and have not noticed any strobing. I’m also no longer epileptic, so maybe that also plays a role?

As a former epileptic, the strobing that comes with CRTs is something i’m happy to be rid of. It wasn’t something I could see so much as perceive, but it’s a feeling my body still remembers.

That said modern monitor tech still has big problems. Quantum dot has a chance of shifting the field in the next 10 years but right now any monitor effectively excels at only 2-3 of: color gamut, color accuracy, pixel density, refresh rate, response time. HDR is a whole different topic that the industry hasn’t figured out.

It depends on if your use of BLM means "lives of those of African-decent matter" or "the Black Lives Matter movement/group".

Personally i would expect the former to have more widespread support in America. The latter stands for many things that could be more controversial in the states. A DuckDuckGo for "blm demands"[0] returns the following NPR piece[1] from DC-based interviews. It lists BLM demands as:

  - Defund Police
  - No New Jails
  - Decriminalize Sex Work
  - Police-Free Schools
  - Drop Charges Against Protesters
  - End Cash Bail In Maryland
  - Ban Stop And Frisk

0: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blm+demands

1: https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/06/09/872859084/here-s-wh...

Who is "we" in this comment? Democrats? Not Republicans? Progressives?

While your comment is both technically and strategically correct, this sort of binary "us vs them" mentality has caused america such harm and always strikes me as somewhat reductionist. I wish more focus would be on policies and individuals instead of D vs R (as if greens, libertarians, socialists, etc simply do not exist in america's 300M+). Perhaps i am just romanticizing an impossible future, though.

Platform specificity typically comes with native performance and, in the case of Panic, a UI that closely follows OSX conventions. For some (many?) these are meaningful value-adds.

I'm not sure i've ever read an HN comment i find as distasteful as this.

The OP is building an app to help people meet, yet by their own admission have managed to attract one user. They asked a question about a common issue engineers face: onboarding and marketing. Your comment ignores nearly every shred of this substance. Instead you accuse them of "getting [users] killed"? Patently absurd. To cut them down at the knees in this way is counter productive at best.

In the greater context of American society, Urban Isolationism is a real problem. You can argue that it is a less urgent issue during covid, but the dangers remain all the same. I applaud the OP for trying to chip away at this problem. Crazy to think your comment is the HN-upvoted response to their efforts.

What a place this has become.

I’ve owned a blank WASD board for years. Im no expert typist but i’ve had a similar experience to the author.

Anecdotally it serves as a layer of computer security i didn’t expect. Friends of mine (IT pros, graduate students, programmers, etc) who make their livelihoods on computers throw tantrums completing simple tasks with it, such as typing “youtube” into an address bar. Entering their passwords is particularly impossible exercise in my experience.

Good for them. I daily drive an AMD Hackintosh (3900X) and the price to performance ratio of this chip is excellent.

More broadly, consumers are real winners with this zen-powered competition of the last few years. Intel first dropped prices aggressively and now with them shaking up the tech org it seems likely the two companies will have to fight one another for consumer dollars for years to come.

Consider this: i'd argue that the fundamental feature of twitter isn't tweets. It is the underlying certainty that the tweeted content belongs to the person with the blue checkmark.

My friends in social media positions heard about the twitter hack from me, not the other way around. Given how this info disseminated, combined with the breaking of twitters fundamental feature, i'm surprised more people didn't fall for the scam. A commenter yesterday claimed Coinbase had blacklisted the wallet very early on. I assume Gemini and Binance had similar reactions. Without this swift action, i'd wager the actual haul could have been many times the ~13 BTC they ended up with.

I have [self-diagnosed] Code Style OCD. Like you, the Flutter nesting levels was a major fear entering the space. It feels both ugly and inelegant.

I found i was over this fear in days if not hours, and continued to improve with my ongoing discovery of helpful UI components. Furthermore, defining your own components and breaking out inline functions into proper functions in your UI classes goes a long way, too.

Android Studio, if you use it (i didn't), auto-appends closing bracket comments to keep you visually aware of your nesting. For the reasons i stated, i don't think it is as important as you might think.

If you haven't tried Flutter, particularly for syntactical reasons, i would urge you dip your toes in.

2 other figures to consider in your analysis (since 1970):

- Total US inflation rate: ~550%

- US Population growth: ~60%

This suggests education spending, per child, is roughly 1/3 what it was in the 1970 (or so my late night napkin math says)

But who draws the "human liberty" line? Where and how does "human liberty" and "individual liberty" intersect? Is the Non Aggression Principle the doctrine on this? Or something more progressive that helps ensure minority rights? Some other option entirely?

Liberty and humanism are topics built on millennia of context and nuance. Blanket statements like yours, while passionate, risk being so reductionist that they distract from the important substance of the conversation.