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By hyper local I mean something relevant to a small geographic region like a city or state.

To be clear, that aspect was mostly tangential to my point.

I think the point is Google is really bad at understanding web apps, online services, or really any site that isn’t information rich.

The majority of web apps for example only really need a landing page and a sign up form. But if that’s all you have Google’s algorithm is going to show zero interest. And it seems that’s the case even if you put in the work and optimize the content and provide plenty of meta data.

Imagine you own a pizza joint, but the only way Google shows your site to any of your potential customers is if you dedicate to publishing an article about pizza every month. That’s basically the boat a lot of us are in with web apps, and other online services.

The SEO spam exists in part because Google does a really bad job at surfacing any site that isn’t content heavy. This leads to sites needing to churn out keyword rich fluff content in order to get any organic traffic.

I have first hand experience with this. My niche, hyper local online service (of which everyone loves) was completely undiscoverable through Google despite the niche having nearly zero relevant results of any kind, and zero competition of any kind. It seems Google didn’t like the concise, no BS one-pager for my service.

My options were to continue to spend on Facebook ads perpetually or to create SEO spam content. Within literally a month or so of generating fluff articles I was gaining a ton of organic traffic and could stop ad spending altogether.

A good example of larger company doing this is Digital Ocean. Fortunately they’ve been extremely ethical about it and the content is genuinely very good and helpful.

It sounds like you might prefer TaskPaper (same dev different app)

Thank you. The topic is interesting but CNN is a laughable source. These threads have better sources and deeper conversation.

Misleading title. In the article he insinuates that it was because it was an un-approved side project he was doing on company time. That context is important.

The zero-knowledge, copy/paste frontend development you’re describing is a big part of why so much of the web is such a bloated mess. It’s certainly not React or other FE frameworks that are the problem. At least not in and of themselves.

JavaScript classes are nothing more than syntactic sugar. It’s still prototype-based inheritance under the hood.

Prototypal Inheritance is considered one of JavaScript’s strong points, and many, including myself don’t think the class syntactic sugar that was added has much value. If anything it just confuses new developers.

A lot of JavaScripts detractors simply don’t understand the language very well.

The twin analogy is extremely weak. In this case the twin’s unfortunate circumstance is no fault of your own. You didn’t actively make any decision to put them in their situation of urgently needing you to survive.

You need to alter your analogy such that you made some conscious decision that you knew could injure your twin brother, rendering him in need of one of your kidneys to live. At that point you have to show why it’s moral for you to withhold the organ donation.

I agree with your overall statement, but if you’re referring to leetcode puzzles then I would definitely challenge your suggestion that they’re in any way equivalent to an IQ test. IQ tests are much broader and cover many different categories of intelligence.

But MacOS warns you that the batteries are low several times before they run out.

They just added live voice chat. (Clubhouse) and have been A/B testing a downvote button. The iOS app just got a UI refresh. I’m sure there’s more.

Brave has a new search engine.

Check out Bore: A modern, simple TCP tunnel in Rust that exposes local ports to a remote server

https://github.com/ekzhang/bore

I remember the days when Ngrok was just a little indie project. If I recall correctly, you could get the pro version by making a donation. (Which I happily did). Great to see they’ve now evolved in to a full-fledged company.

On Mac you generally just don’t minimize windows unless you explicitly want that behaviour (sort of hidden and available manually through the dock). It’s just a different workflow.

Free speech by necessity requires tolerance. If there are extreme consequences to what you say you’re obviously not free to speak what you believe.

Losing your livelihood, being bullied, death threats, mob harassment etc are not acceptable responses to ideas or opinions you don’t like.

I think you really misread that and defaulted to an overly defensive and negative stance.

Having similar / compatible personalities within your team is absolutely critical.

Diversity is valuable in so far as having diverse skill sets or diverse backgrounds. Not diverse personalities.

There’s no value in putting people who won’t get a long together in a team. Forming a tight bond and shared culture is ideal.

Consequences for gross negligence.

Updated international laws.

Possible banning of gain of function research.

Stronger safety procedures.

What I don’t get is that everyone is always acting like Tailwind invented this approach to CSS. It’s been a thing for at least 6 years or more, far before tailwind. Granted I suppose they have really brought it to the mainstream.

As someone who’s used this approach in production for years I can vouch for it. It greatly reduces complexity and is easier to maintain. Day to day no one is writing any css at all, nor are they bogged down with naming conventions, etc. You just “snap” together your utility classes ad-hoc as needed.

Responsive breakpoints are also much easier to work with because they’re just “built in” as modifiers on all the base utility classes.

The cool thing about open source is you can add any feature you want yourself.

This isn’t a calendar app. It’s a toolbar menu that shows your daily schedule for $10/ month. Anyone could build this in a day. Apple could easily add it as a native feature.

It’s comical that it even exists, and absurd that it’s received funding.

> These are advertising companies deciding what is truth.

This seems to be lost on so many.

That’s because it’s not automatically a fallacy. That’s a huge misconception.

> Logic and critical thinking textbooks typically discuss slippery slope arguments as a form of fallacy but usually acknowledge that "slippery slope arguments can be good ones if the slope is real—that is, if there is good evidence that the consequences of the initial action are highly likely to occur. The strength of the argument depends on two factors. The first is the strength of each link in the causal chain; the argument cannot be stronger than its weakest link. The second is the number of links; the more links there are, the more likely it is that other factors could alter the consequences."

Indeed. To intentionally skew the data such that, for example, men are over represented as nurses, is in fact introducing bias to the data based on prejudice.

You’ve essentially created a fictional data set because it’s biased due to the underlying prejudice (preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience) that men ought to be nursing more, despite that not being reality.

We’re in a strange situation where we have large concerted efforts by activists to inject fiction in to our facts (whatever the medium) with the aim of distorting perceptions in such a way as to some how correct what they perceive to be injustice in the real world.

When it happened, there was a reporter on CBC talking about how it was common knowledge in DC for a long time that there was a protest planned there.

So indeed. The real question is why was there seemingly no preparation to handle it.

Thanks I’ll read in to it.

Doesn’t 230 protect websites from moderation because it would be completely untenable?

Some of the most extreme speech I’ve seen have been on Facebook and Twitter. However I don’t hold them responsible since they’re providing communication infrastructure.

You know I didn’t say that. And your response is exactly what I’m talking about.

You’re operating on stress, fear, and propaganda my friend. Find the truth, and bring your IQ back up.

I’m equally concerned about the rise in left wing propaganda. Including extreme double speak and obvious gas lighting. Censorship and manipulation. Very clear online manipulation by bots and paid trolls. Extreme bias in news.

America has become a country of absolutely insane extremists in a relatively short time.

There doesn’t seem to be anyone willing to try to get things back on track. As an outsider looking in it feels like everyone’s IQ has dropped below room temperature.

Genuinely curious if you can source that in any substantial way?

Would also be curios if Facebook or Twitter was used in any way to plan or facilitate communication leading up to the event.