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Just wanted to say, props to NYT for the beautifully designed article.

As someone who owns a $1300 Fuji x100F, color me impressed. The only thing really separating my Fuji from the iPhone 8 is the level of detail when zoomed in, otherwise the images just look great.

The performance of these smartphone cameras is getting closer and closer to DSLR's nowadays. However the level of zoomed in detail still can't compete, but most consumers don't care anyway because most just want to take pics of their food and post on instagram.

As a longtime DotA player and someone who's following the pro scene, this is very impressive. Especially considering how it's beaten Sumail, widely regarded as one of the best 1v1 players in the world. Can't wait to see what OpenAI have in store a year from now for 5v5.

Hey just be glad it's not another one of those even clunkier nodejs "desktop" apps

To be honest though, calibre just works for me. Sure it's not a super optimized c++ project but there's so many things it can do. See I just need to transfer ebooks to my kindle, and it does it perfectly every time.

This is pretty good to hear honestly. Competition is always good for the consumer. This rivalry between Discord and Slack will only make things better for everyone.

I've always had a respect for anyone who has a math major. In my experience (as a comp sci major) there's a strong correlation between being a math major and being smart.

Even if the parts were very optimized price/performance wise, would it still be a good idea? I would imagine that each place has a specific biome that is suitable for specific crops, each person has a different amount of acrerage, etc.

I dont see the point of this. If I were to start a farm I'd buy some farming books on amazon, do my research, and buy the best equipment part per part. I dont see why anyone would want to spend 50k on some random farming kit.

Exactly this. In facebook I am friends with everyone I know from high school. It feels depressing to go on facebook nowadays, because it's just littered with political vomit and rehashed memes. In Instagram I follow only my current high school friends, and generally people that have cool lives. Going on instagram feels much better.

I'm doing art as a career after my comp sci degree and instagram is just perfect for me. The fact that instagram is pics only works very well for visual artists, and I can easily share my work in a relaxed sort of way. There's also tons of other artists on instagram and the way it's set up I can easily see their pieces of artwork much more easily than twitter/facebook.

Also Facebook is a dead zone now. It's literally pointless political junk and rehashed memes shared by "friends". The only usage I have for it is to message my old friends.

Snapchat is also starting to die out ever since Instagram implemented their own "snapchat" feature. IMO Instagram just does it better than snapchat. Snapchat is just too bloated for me. See with instagram I can follow someone like Kanye West, see his life in cool pics and his "snaps" in a convenient way.

Yes, my bad. Must have been confusing # of states with # of presidents

I'm not a business leader by any means so keep that in mind.

I'm an Asian, and I don't see this as a problem tbh. American leaders have, historically, tend to be white men (think the first 49 presidents). We're definitely starting to see diversity in leadership positions. Obama, Sundar Pichai of Google, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Yishan Wong/Ellen Pao of Reddit are some examples that come to my mind.

Even Ellen Pao, who received flak for some reddit drama, was never criticized for being an Asian female.

So yeah I'm not too worried. I think we're seeing a shift towards a more diverse country for sure. It won't happen overnight but it's definitely shifting.

And DO has a nice established UI too, plus the plethora of tutorials for newbies on how to setup postgresql, nginx, node, etc.

When I started out webdev, I was told that I should use AWS. But not having known how private/pubkeys work, or how ssh workds, how servers worked, it felt a lot like being thrown in the deep end of the pool.

Then I used digitalocean because of the free 1 year server time github gave me and everything was a breeze. They had tutorials for a lot of stuff, like how pubkeys and privatekeys worked, how to use ssh, how a server works, how to use nginx/apache, and even node.js stuff. I got up and running quickly even though it was my first time using a VPS. It was super easy, and the best part was with my knowledge gained from DigitalOcean, I was able to start using AWS with relative ease.

I think Lightsail is a good competitor to DigitalOcean, good for newbies who can't exactly figure out how much their server will use and charge them. But imo, with the same stats and stuff as DigitalOcean as a newbie I'd stick with DigitalOcean just because of how helpful their tutorials are in general and how helpful their interface is.

I'm sure it would be helpful for many people, but for me personally once I miss a scheduled event like " At 3PM practice drawing for 2 hours, then do progrmaming from 4-5pm". If I start drawing at 3:15 and finish at 4:15, everything gets messed up. Fixed scheduling just isn't for me. I'd rather have a checklist like "draw for 2 hours" and "program for 1 hour", which I can check off daily and is flexible to my schedule.

Honestly they could have just left youtube alone, let it generate ad revenue in return for hosting videos, and that's it. No need for youtube red, youtube go, "advertiser friendly" crap. Just keep running youtube and use that revenue to fund other projects.

Visiting Norway, I always thought it is kind of a weird country. On one hand it's one of the richest countries in the world. On the other hand, I've seen so many young Norwegian women work hard cleaning toilets and hotel rooms. Such jobs would be considered "low rung" at in the US but in Norway they treat their low rung jobs as something to be proud of.

Not so sure about the mental health part. The article uses Bangkok's low homeless population as a counterpoint to San Fran's homelessness. I was born and raised in Thailand and occasionally visit or have Thai relatives over. I would say in Asia, mental health awareness is pretty nonexistant. The fact that they have a low homeless population and low mental health awareness does kind of refute your mental healthcare point imo.

I think it's the fact that in Thailand, as the article mentions, there is a lot of gray area between "poor" and "rich". There's not many super wealthy people and not many super poor people. There's more of a "middle poor", "average", and "middle-rich", and the "middle poor" get by pretty well because of how cheap everything is. Healthcare is also dirt cheap compared to America, so you can get medical care for basic stuff and pay like $20 for it. My parents have even thought of doing some medical tourism to Thailand to do dentistry stuff because its just so damn cheap. Oh, one more thing, motorcycles are the poor man's transport, and just like everything else they are also dirt cheap. Cant afford rent? Well you can just go and live in a basic shack because a lot of people do that anyway. So yeah, if you're poor in Thailand you will generally get by pretty well because everything there is relatively cheap.

In America, it's either you are above the average line or you sink to the bottom. Like, if you don't make enough money, you can't expect to pay rent and then have money for food/healthcare/car. And in America, you NEED a car. How are you gonna get from San Fran to LA if you have a job interview? Taxi is out of the question, trains are 200+, buses dont arrive early in the morning. So the only answer is a car. Oh you have a problem with drug abuse? Are you poor and cant afford health insurance? Then hospital or rehab visits will cost thousands. Cant afford rent? Guess you're homeless.

It's a brutal system we have in America honestly. Lots of tech innovations, lots of good economics in Silicon Valley, but honestly it just sucks to be poor here. You need to be hovering in the neighborhood of the high GDP per capita if you want to survive. In Thailand, the GDP per capita is low enough that most people are near it, and the rich can enjoy a luxurious lifestyle with housemaids and stuff.

I disagree, I have zero problems with these new features, which cost no extra money to me. These are all extra features, that I can choose to use or not use, that github rolled out for its users. I personally treat repositories as a single self contained code project, and I find that a lot of other people do too. The home page makes me feel less lonely. It's all good for me. Yeah a repo-centric trello board won't serve a whole corporation, but is it really that important? Github isn't trying to kill trello.com, it's just rolling out a nice little feature that the average hacker appreciates. I can see how a bigger team would lump multiple repos under one project but for that why not just use trello.com, after all it's a specialized tool created for such a task.

OS X looks better than ever. Yeah I agree with Notepad and Photos icons looking not good but everything else is perfect. I'm typing this on an OSX right now and it just looks great.

Worst part of the article by far was

> OS X packaging, once very elegant and eccentric (and printed on a physical box), has become thoroughly unremarkable.

This is 2016, no one uses CD's anymore. And that leopard print box design looks like packaging for some kinky underwear.

I'm really hoping to see the React team make React more user friendly. Maybe an all in one React framework much like Meteor, where you can just do `react createapp myapp` or something and start coding right away.

I did the same thing and found it quite nice too. I tinkered a lot with React and while the reactive features are nice, its such a pain to do anything in React because of the millions of steps you have to go through just to do something basic. I've tried it, tried Redux, done server side rendering, etc. For now I'm just gonna use Django and the built in Django template system while waiting for the React community to mature. Right now everything in the React ecosystem just too hacky. There's too many different API's for different stuff you have to learn to get something good going on.

I've done a lot of React but have since been burned out by it. It takes so much configuration just to set up something basic like server side rendering. After a year of hacking around with React and wallowing through the pain, I decided to just use Django and django templates. React is nice for a whole company that has one app with a tough initial setup but great performance in the long run, but its hard for individual hackers like me who just want to get tiny webapps up and running.

Well is there really any incentive to change? Code is just a method of communication with the computer, just like language is. Sure a country like France could move over to speaking English instead of French and probably be a little better off for it, but fundamentally, French gets the job done just fine. There's too much inertia to change amongst established companies I think.

I have not used c9 yet so I can't attest to how good it is, but I've seen a lot of beginner webdevs use c9 and lots of them only have good things to say about it. So let's hope amazon doesn't ruin things here.

I may be out of the loop of some drama, but to be it seems like Twitter has been so successful, and it seems like its here to stay. It's got advertisement in between tweets which will be viewed by tons of people. It's the preferred social network for well known people. My twitter feed is also much less of a toxic junkyard than Facebook is right now.

Vine on the other hand I agree with, the business model is doomed to fail. Instagram already has a huge userbase, and all it has to do is implement a video feature to kill Vine.

Instagram has more everyday users. Think about me, the average dude. I have 100 followers on Instagram, most of whom are from high school/college. I have zero followers on Vine. Unless I dedicate my life to making funny Vines, I probably won't get any followers. Whoa, now Instagram has pushed a video feature, great! Now I can share "vines" with my 100 followers. No need to download Vine after all.

Not to mention a lot of the funny vines get posted onto a youtube compilation anyways, so in the end youtube is profiting from vine's success. Vine's business model was just doomed to fail.

Looks very promising, thanks!

Anecdote, I've stayed at an AirBnB in the outskirts of Paris where the host was a father of a daughter. Daughter had some friends over and they seemed pretty chilled. They just ran around the house talking French and doing whatever kids do. Father was pretty relaxed about parenting.

This concept of structured playtime seems foreign to me. I grew up in Thailand where my parents would just let me run around the neighborhood with some friends. We would start fires and explore abandoned buildings.

Trying to plan out kids playtime just seems counterintuitive. Seems like helicopter parenting to me.

Not a bad idea. Personally I'm fine with using pure javascript. I haven't used jquery in a long long time. But I'm sure many people would benefit from having jquery features natively.