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wolco··on BitTorrent v2
You pay for peace of mind that little Johnny doesn't download some crazy amount by accident. Now you don't have to monitor family usage so that makes things easier as well.
wolco··on Show HN: Revived my personal website to join the nostalgia
There is a reason why React pays well. Why it's a good choice for managing complexity.

But you might be too far down the rabbit hole. To use react involves learning a series of things (npm/react/command line). To use Jquery copy 5 lines. It is so easy to get started and so simple to work with.

JQuery is the right choice when you are not managing complexity. When you want a simple powerful abstraction. It's usually the right choice for non-programmers who want to do a few things. It's a good choice for programmers who are not building applications.

wolco··on Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (2000)
Wait did you say money?

Money doesn't exist in the situation you describe. Who is issuing the money? At best trading for good is the best possible.

wolco··on Winamp Skin Museum
I was deeping through the old web recently. Sites either had really small pictures or full sized pictures scaled down. You just don't see more than 1024px sized quality anymore. Browsing photothumbs instead of scrolling is so much quicker and offers more depth. We did lose a lot.

We gained more people with shallower content. Being able to lookup and find a picture of most people is an advantage. But losing flickr quality and album length means instead of a photoset you get a highlight photo with mayhe four combined.

Maintaining old sites were always an issue. Costs / site changes brought down good sites/pages so deadlinks were a huge problem. The waybackmachine could bring a site back but they rarely deep indexed or saved media so you mostly got a page full of 'x's.

Someone on here could easily build a better search engine indexing older websites and bring life back to those sites.

But be warned you've changed. Waiting a week or two or months between replies was common. Having tiny text on mobile is the norm so get ready to scroll. There was a lot of shallow content with some real gems. Patience is required.

wolco··on Bullfrog After Populous
Love SimAirport
wolco··on List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills
You are being sold in a different way. A successful course is one where you haven't requested a refund. The courses are designed to create little friction and in the end leaving you with a feeling that you now know 'x' and you are a 'x' programmer now.

In reality you took an easy guided path. Without friction you may not have learned all that much.

wolco··on Regular cannabis use were associated with poorer cognitive performance
Heaping all weed together produces this confusion where one person has one experience and a different person another.

Some strains make you highly focused. Others more social. Some make you more creative. Some might make you scared and hearing things.

It's like thinking all food is the same. One person eats chocolate bars all day and another carrots but are treated as a baseline.

wolco··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?
The number + 1 or x 1 doesn't require an object or oop. It doesn't require a function either and would be better to just inline.

The great thing about repurposing a class as a namespace is I can pass that repurposed namespace package anywhere.

You never need to change their code either inject those objects into a new class or extend one and inject the other.

wolco··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?

   class Math {
    public static function addOne  (int $i){ return $i+1; }
   public static function multiTwo function (int $i){ return $i*2; }
   }
With classes those functions or methods are grouped together under a math class.

Calling it is as simple as: Math::addOne(2)

When you need Math you include it.

Seem cleaner than including little addOne functions as global closures.

wolco··on Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November
The African Prince scam where they email you that they need help and will pay you vast sums of money if you do.

It has been around awhile and the number of people falling for this has dropped.

People catch-on.. not everyone but enough to make an election hack not workable.

People struggle with new ideas but adapt . COVID scams have gone up and then down.

wolco··on Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
Camera network.
wolco··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?
I think you lost the room when you mentioned Haskell. If someone has to reach point where they understand point-free style in order to form this anti-OOP opinion you won't find many takers.
wolco··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?
Too many small primitives lead to grouping. An object can be a collection of primitives.
wolco··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?
I can't think of an OOP framework that went functional.

I can't think of a time where we killed a project or rewrote a project to make it more functional. Or where OOP bite us.

React went functional for a reason. Does everyone share that reason?

wolco··on Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions
Yet no one says anything about turning London into a police state. Are the press still on top of this story?
wolco··on Shared salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
Interesting stats

Mostly all junior and that makes sense in terms of who is sharing. 60% said they were visible minority and 22% said their gender was an issue.

Does that lineup with recent Microsoft hires or is this dataset unrepresentative.

wolco··on Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime
Third party. Any tips for successfully resolving this?
wolco··on Ask HN: Do you think this is a good startup idea?
Solves your problem of whiney pitches. If the kid goes back to normal tone it becomes just a complaint.
wolco··on Ask HN: Do you think this is a good startup idea?
Why would you need ml?

Sampling the background for the correct pitch would be enough

wolco··on She got ill when the pandemic hit – and still is, six months later
I was expecting a different story. This may or may not be covid related.
wolco··on Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime
I am still trying to get my 12.99 product that was shipped a month ago but never moved. Trying to get anything resolved is impossible. I regret not using amazon.
wolco··on FreeCol: Turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization
Slavery in the Americas and Caribean Islands is a European responsibility. The revisionism comes when we forget slavery was happening around the world. The Barbery white slaves taken from Europe rarely gets mentioned. Or the fact that slavery exists in the bible but rarely highlighted are examples of revisionism.
wolco··on The database I wish I had
There are so many more email providers being used worldwide. Who are the 4 or 5 big providers everyone is using? gmail, yahoo, hotmail, fastmail and protonmail? Don't forget outlook and zoho

Many people still use aol or their email given by ips or work email domain.

Worldwide yandex.mail is popular.

Colleges still give email addresses.

People like myself run their own

Vanity domains are popular.

Mail is still decentralized and news of its death have been greatly exaggerated

wolco··on Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow
My name is Nathan K... oh mine.
wolco··on Why we are suing the Administration
When tiktok removes Hong Kong related protests videos this is bigger than the ccp having a facebook group or buying advertising profiles.
wolco··on Interchange in Houston is the same size as an entire city center in Italy
If the problem is change then you will always have problems.
wolco··on App Review process updates
Along with a charge back for a recent developer subscription.
wolco··on China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
They would have a higher variety of output.
wolco··on Chrome is not the new IE
Ever get your ideas on the roadmap? Ever add new features or change how chromium or how google chrome works. I didn't think so.

Open source doesn't mean you have any infuence or say in the future of the project. It only means you can take a copy make changes and roll your own version.

The roadmap changes the internet unhealthy ways.

wolco··on Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions
A random ad would be strange. An ad based on the content of the page or type of site would actually fit in better.
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