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E-Stonia and the Future of the Cyberstate

foreignaffairs.com

8 pointsby drappervor 11 Jahren2 comments

Functional Programming in JavaScript

scott.sauyet.com

1 pointsby drappervor 11 Jahren0 comments

Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles

theguardian.com

3 pointsby drappervor 11 Jahren0 comments

Inequality hurts economic growth, finds OECD research

oecd.org

2 pointsby drappervor 12 Jahren0 comments

Open Source Apps (2013)

stratechery.com

2 pointsby drappervor 12 Jahren0 comments

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vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah, the JS world currently is very pro-modularization, but I already saw some discussions on Twitter from the React/Flux people how that creates too big barrier of entry for the newcomers. One of the things that draw people to Angular is that it has almost everything that you need included - it's easier to say to someone "just use Angular", than "try React, with Redux, and Router, and Webpack - it will take some time to configure it, but it's worth it".

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Someone should make an opinionated, batteries-included JS/TS framework like Elm, based on TS, React, Flux.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

can you link to any such research? that's a topic I'd love to read more about, but don't know where to start even. thx!

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

OK, this looked rather scary and also rather unbelievable so I did a quick research and unsurprisingly it turned out this is blown way out of proportion (if not downright wrong).

The article claims DiagTrack collects "your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage". That description is credited to Microsoft itself ("As Microsoft explained"). But if you follow the link it turns out it's not really Microsoft's explanation, but just what some user on official Windows forum wrote. My guess: Windows Technical Preview did (or had ability to do) that and user confused one thing with another.

Next thing, DiagTrack came to Windows (TP) via update KB3022345, so let's check that update: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3022345

"The Diagnostic and Telemetry service collects diagnostics information about functional issues on Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). CEIP reports don't contain contact information, such as your name, address, or telephone number. This means CEIP won't ask you to participate in surveys or to read junk email, and you won't be contacted in any other way."

Of course, it's still possible there's some foul play here, but I'd prefer it would be investigated first and accusations thrown later, not the other way around.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Never mind the product, look at that list of React components (https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/tree/master/client/...)! Any chance this will become a separate framework?

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I think not, but Meteor or Keystone.js might get there some day.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Possibly decorators proposed for ES7 would be a solution here? Babel and TypeScript already support them.

By the way, TypeScript recently (in nightly) gained support for JSX, so we can now have all of this ES6 stuff + types on top of it.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

That reminds me of what Vivaldi is trying to do (https://vivaldi.com/)

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

that happens now already, so we need to fight with it anyway

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

When I was using Angular I thought doing something like

  setTimeout(function() { $scope.$digest(); }, 0);

was an ugly hack and a sign of angular's leaky abstractionism showing up. Is this considered a good practice now (or always was)?

Edit: just to clarify, I'm asking because in OP this was given as a one of the way to fix Angular speed issues.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

"This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation. It is newsworthy and at the centre of a geo-political conflict. It belongs in the public domain."

Yeah, right. Some of is of public interest, sure, but then find it, edit it and publish the results. Ah, I forgot, it's not how wikileaks operate. For them making everything public is good in itself (except, of course, when it's about themselves).

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Some good stuff there, but I thought "don't do any heavy processing in consumer-facing node.js instance" was part of Node's 101.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I'm full of ambivalent feelings towards Syriza, on one hand they are (were) a nice breath of fresh air, a promise of some positive change, on the other: they turned out to be kinda arrogant, kinda short-sighted and pretty bad at diplomacy. Politics isn't about being right 100% of time (not that they were), it's about being effective, and in that they are lacking badly. Seems they entered this whole thing with this cocky approach of "now we'll show 'em, them dumb fucks!". They've got their wrists slapped for that and now complain again on how bad EU is treating them. Hard to get sympathy for that.

Good article on this from Foreign Affairs: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143294/david-gordon-a...

Some quotes:

"Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Finance Minister, for one, singled out Italy for having debt that was “unsustainable,” which served only to infuriate Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan"

"Within a day of winning the Greek election, he (Tsipras) called the Russian ambassador and protested the EU’s statement condemning Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists for an attack on civilians in a Mariupol market"

"But even then, Greece could have survived its mistakes were it not for one other fatal decision: to move forward with its electoral platform before renegotiating its debt, increasing government spending without the requisite funds and reversing or stalling key reforms (...) All these factors positioned Greece to buckle in its negotiations. It was simply hemorrhaging far too much money far too fast to hold its position."

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I think most common way of thinking about Marx' work today is that he was often right in describing what's wrong with the capitalism, but he was mostly wrong at the solutions.

Marx' apologists point out, not without a reason, that one of the problems with the attempts of bringing his theories to life is that those attempts were done in countries not well suited to do it. Marxism, according to Marx, was supposed to be another step in the evolution of capitalism, yet it was tried in countries that didn't yet have any capitalism or had it in some very immature form, e.g. in post-tzar, soviet Russia.

On the other hand he was claiming that capitalism is unmaintainable and will fall by itself and that didn't happen either.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I remember that some time ago many people were wondering what's the point of Medium, how they're gonna monetize on it, etc. and I think the answer is perfectly clear nowadays - they want to be a youtube of written content.

Just as many people treat youtube as a get-go place for their video/music content needs (many people start to treat it as their TV, especially kids), Medium hopes people will, in time, treat Medium as the only magazine/newspaper/blog-place they need - and that should also push traditional media to utilize it (same as happens for TV channels and youtube). This is a long-term plan, but given how Internet tends to favour natural monopolies (see Google, Facebook, YouTube) it might actually work. Even if they will fail at this someone else will probably succeed.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

""You don't know x." titles considered harmful."

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Better one is on the next slide:

- SQL as a primary interface

- ACID support for transactions

- Non-locking architecture

- High per-node performance

- Scalable, shared nothing architecture

Michael Stonebraker

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

It's actually 19$ for individual developers nowadays: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj8634...

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

House of Commons will be all about that today http://www.theguardian.com/news/live/2015/feb/09/hsbc-files-...

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Not sure about the other things you mentioned, but "all of your social networks in one single messaging hub" functionality was removed in 8.1 update (which, apart from that one change, made Windows Phone really so much better), but, MS says, it's gonna be back in Win10.