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Comment · 8 years ago
Alright, if we're gonna do javascript listicles today, indulge me in a bit of shilling:
11) http://intercoolerjs.org lets you add an AJAX front end to your app with simple HTML attributes
Comment · 8 years ago
Ethnicity is almost always a biological phenomenon as well.
Race and ethnicity are simply larger and smaller group categorizations of humans, both with reasonably accurate biological tests.
Comment · 8 years ago
A daily reminder that the US spends more per-capita on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway, and spends more on socialized medicine per capita than many first world countries (e.g. france, australia, japan) spend on medicine in total, both public and private. [1]
Conservatives (I am a conservative) who say we have a free market system are wrong. Liberals who say we are too heartless to pay for a socialized medical system are wrong. Anyone who says our military spending is why we don't have public healthcare is wrong. Anyone who suggests the US is competent enough at public administration to implement a public health care system is also probably wrong.
Collapse appears to be the only way out.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Comment · 8 years ago
Maybe it is off topic? But, on the other hand, this unflagged:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576865
Seems pretty arbitrary to me. That's the internet, I guess.
Comment · 8 years ago
Balance in all things: a design should be minimalist where that is called for (the background, unimportant or repetitive elements, etc.) and should increase in visual complexity/depth/color/brightness in areas that are important and need to draw the users eye. (NB: minimalism does not mean "nothing". Sometimes a slight texture completely changes the feel of a UI, but it requires a deft hand.)
I'm glad to see the flat-ui/material-design over-application of minimalism is coming to an end and designers are getting back to more complex visual treatments. My hope is that, rather than casting back and forth between the various schools of thought, designers start thinking in context-sensitive terms: not "Should I use flat design or skeumorphic design for this app?" but rather "Where in this UI are flat design AND skeumorphic designs best utilized?"
Comment · 8 years ago
I would be interested in an economy that incentivized repair rather than replacement. Maybe make repairs tax-free or even a tax credit.
Comment · 8 years ago
This headline is a good example of getting the target (you) to think past the sale: if you deny bitcoin is "something worse" you are implicitly conceding it is, in fact, a waste of energy (when contrasted with HFT server farms, I suppose?)
Trump did this with the "and mexico will pay for it" addendum to building the wall. By getting people to say "Mexico will never pay for it!" they are mentally conceding the wall.
I dislike these sorts of verbal tactics, but they are effective manipulations.
Comment · 8 years ago
We must cancel everybody's debt for the economy's sake, but we also have to do it in a fair way. Thankfully, we have Steve Keen, who has already worked out a solution:
Comment · 8 years ago
They are stopping at the lower end of Dunbar's number.
Smart guys.
I don't enjoy it, but a well timed shill is what got it to the front of hacker news one day, and got it a ton of exposure. When you are a solo dev without the reach of facebook, google or 37signals, you do what you have to do to get the word out.
Especially since you are all doing web programming wrong. ;)