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rvikmanis

364 karma · joined October 10, 2014

GitHub: https://github.com/rvikmanis SA: http://stackoverflow.com/users/5574539/
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rvikmanis··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
No
rvikmanis··on Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders
How does that make sense?
rvikmanis··on Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today
Sorry for straying, but can I get an invite?
rvikmanis··on A programming language for living cells
Is this a joke?
rvikmanis··on App Makers Reach Out to the Teenager on Mobile
As randycupertino pointed out, my comment was about teenagers being ridiculous. That is hardly newsworthy, but the extent to which the social-media-industrial complex has elevated this nonsense, should be.

Society, by dismantling the old illiberal structures (which I agree, were pretty bad) and offering no real substitutes, has done great harm to its future generations.

rvikmanis··on Herd Mentality
I don't think this article was meant to be particularily insightful on its own.

Its purpose might be to bootstrap the insight machinery, which it accomplished, evidently.

rvikmanis··on App Makers Reach Out to the Teenager on Mobile
This Hegelesque style of verbosity is not productive speech. It does entice me to reply though, but it looks snobbish and manicured.
rvikmanis··on Conceptual Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
Indeed. For example, I am deeply amazed at how in Flux and many of its derivatives Actions are not executable behaviours, but messages describing an action to be performed, while ActionCreators are the actual, well.. "actions".
rvikmanis··on Show HN: Fastflux – Functional reactive state management for React
Thanks!

As someone with FRP experience, what do you think is the minumum viable set of functional transformers (like map, filter etc.) that should be implemented for a library like this?

rvikmanis··on Show HN: Fastflux – Functional reactive state management for React
* A single store is not enough.

But seriously, Fastflux just continues further in the logical direction established by Redux (and arguably React itself) -- a more reactive approach to software development.

Fastflux does this by using an implementation of the Observable FRP primitive as a superclass for stores and actions.

Also reduction of boilerplate.

rvikmanis··on Show HN: Fastflux – Functional reactive state management for React
A support channel is now online at #fastflux on Freenode IRC.
rvikmanis··on Show HN: Fastflux – Functional reactive state management for React
Hey guys, feedback welcome. And I'll try to anwser any questions you may have.

For instance: "Do we need yet another flux library?"

Well, why not? The ecosystem is still evolving. By bringing in more ideas and refined approaches, we may well reach equilibrium sooner.

rvikmanis··on Show HN: SlimScroller.js – Smooth scrolling under 300 bytes
Protip: publish on npm
rvikmanis··on Russia's leading expert on criminal tattoos
Interestingly enough, this man served in the army together with Kim Il-Sung and Peng Dehuai.
rvikmanis··on Neon: Node plus Rust
Could be killer if combined with electron.
rvikmanis··on What Happens When You Can’t Talk to Yourself?
> Thought is more fluid; putting it into words concretizes it, collapses the possibilities of the waveform. Somewhat, formalizes it.

That is a very good description.

I discussed this topic with a colleague recently, and we both agreed that putting thoughts into words takes conscious effort. Though I suspect that is not so for the majority of people, whose default mode of thinking is distinctly verbal, even when not talking or writing.

rvikmanis··on Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave
> whole lot of societies which made different choices and people were free to move between them

The internet is a lot like that. Maybe someday this can be a model for the world at large.

rvikmanis··on Vue.js 1.0.0
It has: https://facebook.github.io/jsx/
rvikmanis··on Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids programming?
Not yet. But I think I will when they are old enough.
rvikmanis··on Show HN: Omniflow – Structure for your thoughts
PROTIP: Include some minor criticism and tone down the praise next time.
rvikmanis··on Remind HN: Call your mother
Then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjuHm_UMofo
rvikmanis··on Agar.io
Custom cell images for programming languages would be fun.
rvikmanis··on Appresenter: Showcase your apps professionally on high quality 3D models
Resenting apps since 2014.
rvikmanis··on Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while staring your computer screen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard

It shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes

rvikmanis··on Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while staring your computer screen
Idea: add SSL and client-side symmetric key cryptography, while not saving the passphrase anywhere.