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maxscam··on Ask HN: Am I addicted to HackerNews?
You are addicted, but there are worse things.
maxscam··on At Burning Man while your startup burns
This is basically a glorified gossip article but it is still interesting and a novel perspective.
maxscam··on Windows Experiences Substantial Market Share Drop as Linux Posts Record Growth
I bet the vast majority of these linux users are using laptops which came with windows installed though
maxscam··on Ask HN: Truly “open source” create-react-app?
> Since facebook isn't going to change licence anytime soon, how long before JS community comes up with a truly "open source" create-react-app?

Kind of confused what you mean, as I understand it both react and the boiler are open source, but facebook has this policy which apparently means they can revoke access if they want.. Anyway if this is the issue then your question is really about alternatives to react, which there are certainly a few of.

maxscam··on Show HN: CSS Gardener – For just $59 I will fix your CSS code within 24 hours
"Your time is worth more than 50 an hour" ... Uh ... Is that really something you can say so confidently. And if 50 dollars for one hour, can you really say that "fixing yoyr problem" is 50? Which is it, project or time based?
maxscam··on As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong with Us?
I think theyre just too expensive right now. So in the us the case for an 8 dollar a day rental or more is not convincing in terms of affordability.
maxscam··on As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong with Us?
I think theyre just too expensive right now. So in the us the case for an 8 dollar a day rental or more is slim
maxscam··on Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative
I dont particularly care whether or not its faster than vue or react. If I'm going to build a heavy use production app I would use one of those just because it has so much of a community supporting it. But sometimes less is more. The api here is simple, and yes similar to vue and react. The guts of the docs took like 5 minutes to read through. Over time, the novel concepts introduced by these frameworks turn into general best practices. That's what we see here. A boiling down of the reactive web framework into a small set of core methods. Certainly not the most powerful or extensible. But perhaps the most simple.
maxscam··on Code Smells: Iteration
Clickbait title, article doesn't seem to back up this hyperbolous claim either
maxscam··on Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement
If were doing that, we should get rid of the mandatory double spacing as well
maxscam··on Medium rolls out a payment model for writers based on engagement
Is there really any way around this? It seams like the cheapest kind of social engineering
maxscam··on Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it
Yeah its really ridiculous how quickly people focus on gamification, like if you have a marginally functional product just gamify it as much as possible and people are into that.

I remember seeing this guy playing "point and click" games, and they looked so pointless...

maxscam··on Fired Google engineer files complaint, weighs legal options
Yes, sad liberals ... Anti war is cowardice ... Kill em all ....
maxscam··on Fired Google engineer files complaint, weighs legal options
Please extrapolate what is the differerence. I dont see it
maxscam··on Facebook’s Complicity in the Silencing of Black Women
Maybe the original post was a little racist. But it was to a far less degree of intensity than the messages she received. If a white person tweeted "I cant walk through this black hood I'm gonna get shot!" and a black person responded "kill yourself you inferior genetic third world white" that would be over the top too. The other commenters should stop making false equivalence.
maxscam··on The “attention economy” created by Silicon Valley is bankrupting us
Its funny because you say were addicted to our smartphones, but here I am on my smartphone reading your article, thinking how its too short
maxscam··on A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed
I grew up here, it was a very ideal place for families. More suburban than sf (population of less than 5k) but didnt feel like sprawl either. We played in the streets, can't do that in most of sf. Although to be fair this area theyre talking about isnt really in brisbane anyway, its on a industrial stretch.
maxscam··on Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest
Not saying everything the article says is wrong, but some of the comparisons are really off the mark. Vue and React are front end frameworks. They don't replace Rails; they can be used together. Node has many benefits but its not really better for single page apps. In general this article the purposes of front and back end tools. Also, even though there are increasingly more node positions, ruby and rails still have a large number of job postings.
maxscam··on Is there any free multiuser self hosted Linux virtual lab environment?
Cloud9 might be worth a look. It can be self hosted but I'm not sure if it will do everything you need
maxscam··on Choosing Elixir for the Code, Not the Performance
Great article
maxscam··on This year's DEFCON full schedule in json
Let me just plug this into my defibrolyzer
maxscam··on Ubuntu now available from the Windows store
Is this different from the linux subsystem microsoft already supports? Which is nice, and would,be worthwhile if i had enough motivation to use windows gui programs, but is limited given that you have to jump through an extra hoop to run linux gui programs, and cant even access your linux partitions from it
maxscam··on Ubuntu now available from the Windows store
You try and defend windows, but give absolutely no defence other than the fact that Unix isnt cool.
maxscam··on Trying to build a web scale semantic image search. Anyone wants to hack with me?
How do you suppose the program should perform image recognition better than existing tools? Not a lot of experience in this realm, just curious
maxscam··on Why You Should Put Less Effort into Your Online-Dating Messages
Another good data science post from okcupid. The reason I stopped using the site was low response rate, so this is very salient
maxscam··on Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
Which is funny because its basically the position taken by those on both sides of this argument
maxscam··on Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
If you quote the fact that coffeescript has significant whitespace, list comprehension and then in response say that javascript has HoF and iteration protocol, it does sound like youre trying to counter the point, so it seems like for someone to bring up the fact that they are not identical is fair game.
maxscam··on Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
Whether or not bracket free code is more readible might be a personal opinion. I think for people who understand Coffeesctipt well, its easier because theres less visual noise. There are many languages with optional parens, and whether or not you want to stretch the ability of the parser is up to you. Coffeescript proves that they are not necessary in order to write javascript.
maxscam··on Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
You might not feel like you wrote too many brackets, but good luck convincing someone who uses none (except for hashes) that they should start. Coffeescript code is not sloppier, its more terse.
maxscam··on Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to modern JS
Exactly, which sort of mutes the effectiveness of this tool. Coffeesctipt 2 is already a coffee to es6 transpiler
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