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martcoon With Sobering Science, Doctor Debunks 12-Step Recovery (2014)

"Alcoholics Anonymous, the worldwide fellowship of sobriety seekers, is the most effective path to abstinence, according to a comprehensive analysis conducted by a Stanford School of Medicine researcher and his collaborators."

March 11, 2020

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/03/alcoholics-an....

martcoon Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

I played it after Last of Us 2 and it just doesn't compare, especially in terms of mechanics and visuals. If there's one last game to play on PS4 it's Last of Us 2.

martcoon Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon

This explains how I got scammed on Shopify last summer. I’m not talking about a missing product label or receiving a counterfeit item. I paid $1200 for a Shopify product (drone) and received a box with a poster tube inside of it that said “the world is yours”. Nothing else. The merchant was gone that day. The real scammers live on Shopify.

martcoon With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release

"weird gloating dismissiveness" could summarize most top comments on HN

martcoon Show HN: App that lets you record a video and immediately share with a link

Hey creator, just wanted to say great job. A lot of these Hacker News comments are predictably neck-beardy and lack the recognition of effort and dedication put into a product launch.

Don't listen to the non-constructive "yeah but X already does it" comments. This seems like a simple but useful product, and good on you all for putting this out there. Keep creating and iterating!

martcoon Is Rails still relevant in 2018?

The long and rambling, confusing and grammatically indirect answer that this piece puts forth is that yes, Rails is still relevant in 2018. I could agree more.

martcoon Parse is shutting down today

Does anyone know if the same admin UI (tables, settings) is available with Parse Server?

martcoon React Server

To me this product markets itself. This team has accomplished a lot with this tool, and i'm compelled to adopt and educate myself.

The proof (and splash) is in the pudding here. Kudos to dev team that built this.

martcoon Learning from Tay’s introduction

"We will remain steadfast in our efforts toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity."

But doesn't the full human experience include both the best and the worst?

martcoon Amazon Dash Button

| and when it's my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately.

So, were there any???

martcoon First Impressions Using React Native

How is the real momentum going the other way (native -> Web)?

martcoon First Impressions Using React Native

I use CoffeeScript with JSX. It's even more easy to read and write. https://github.com/jsdf/coffee-react

martcoon Animated Bézier Curves

Didn't Lea Verou already do this? http://cubic-bezier.com/

martcoon Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure

What do you mean? Do you mean this:

perestroika: ORIGIN Russian, literally ‘restructuring.’

martcoon Software engineers should write

Since you seem to appreciate corrections, it's a bit more natural to say "but sometimes I make some mistakes"

martcoon Diversity at Amazon

You're right that they're not consistent between the two charts. That can be misleading.

They are ordered by percentage descending, so you can quickly understand which is the 2nd most populous, 3rd most populous, etc. The ethnicity name is right by the percentage so you can quickly grok it, even though the colors don't match across pie charts.

martcoon Tell: Got 50% bump for faking a counter offer

I think you mean to say, "Got 50% bump by faking a counter offer".

martcoon Amazon releases new Kindle products

"For the first time, you and your family can access and easily share not only your own Kindle books, but also books from the Amazon account of a spouse or partner"

This seems like a really nice feature that was somewhat buried in the Kindle Voyage description.

martcoon Linus Torvalds gives a tour of his home office

  - wears sandals with socks

martcoon Why has Google cast me into oblivion?

Wait, so Google hasn't actually done anything to the article?

"Although the BBC has had the notice from Google that my article will not show up in some searches, it doesn't appear to have implemented this yet."

martcoon "If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow.

"Is he still a member of the smarter set? Or has he aged out? If not, what is the cut off?"

Also, can we please raise the cut off if it's really young? Please?

martcoon OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)

this title is so offensive towards monkeys

martcoon Maximize your tweet's chance of discovery via hashtags

My thought (as a developer) is that it's just lazier (and worse for the product) to ask for everything. The more permissions you ask for, the less users you'll get.

For example, Facebook blatantly recommends that app developers ask for only the bare minimum of permissions on the initial app engagement. They cite numbers showing that click-through rate falls off precipitously once users see more than a few permissions required. They say that you should only ask for more permissions as the user explicitly tries to do something that requires them, for instance, ask for sharing rights only when they click 'Share', not before.

Lots of people are turned off by the number of permissions. Be surprised.

martcoon [dead]

This isn't the only time Yehuda Katz has bogarted a talk.

I listen to the Javascript Jabber podcast. One talk was on Backbone. Jeremy Ashkenas was a guest, and I was really looking forward to listening to it. Yehuda was also on the call as a host.

Throughout the call Yehuda repeatedly interrupted and contradicted Jeremy. He would go off on tangents for several minutes, talking about his own work. The main host tried to re-direct the conversation but Yehuda was consistently interrupting. Apart from him not having good manners as a host, I felt like Yehuda really got in the way of my learning more about Backbone. He kind of ruined that podcast for me.

And I might not be alone. Ever since a few shows after that episode he hasn't returned to Javascript Jabber.

Sometimes people don't know how they're perceived until public reactions like these. I hope this helps him understand more about himself and how he affects others.

martcoon Visualized Git practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

I agree with the author that learning and becoming handy with git cli is very important.

I don't agree that you should stop using a GUI for git, especially if you've already cut your teeth on the command line. Tower, a git GUI for Mac OS X, has a great interface and ties in very well with the core git functionality. I've learned a lot about stashing, merge conflict resolution, and cherry-picking, thanks to that app. Also, Tower shows a tree graph, similar to the network diagram the author "seriously cannot live without."

Why knock visual tools when when you rely on them so much?

martcoon List of every member of congress who supports SOPA, sortable by donations

republicans are more stridently in support of this measure