Google Chrome is now the most popular browser in the world.

aridon_01 · 4 days

In 93, my entire high school's internet connection was a single 33.6 modem that fed a switch shared by a few old (even for the time) PCs and Apples.

GeneralPudding · 4 days

Collectivism is historically associated with communists and socialism in general, but really this tendency for humans to act collectively for collective benefit is a universal attribute of human society. The problem is, which collection of people are laws and actions supposed to benefit? Conservatives in the US for example tend to be members of a class that has benefitted from the current system, so they act collectively to resist progress, which they perceive as hurtful to themselves and their kind. Liberals tend to be (or represent) those who haven't benefitted from the system, so they act collectively to alter the current system.

God_Wills_It · 5 days

I read somewhere that the more intellectual side of Mormon theology has recently taken a decidedly more post modern flavor. Not to bash post modernism in general, but it seems a lot of religious people are attracted to it who feel their beliefs threatened, and want the solace of the "epistemic smoke screen" they think post modernism offers.

theillustratedlife · 6 days

For those of you who can't see past the end of your nose and are saying "use SASS or LESS," you're missing the point. Standards are long term propositions and things like this need to happen first.

The comments I'm reading so far sound an awful lot like the "OMG just use tables" comments you heard so much of when CSS was first gaining a foothold. And CSS was clunky and it did suck, and it still does. But that doesn't mean that introducing a second compile step is either a permanent or an elegant solution to the problem of CSS. The language itself needs to be fixed, and this is the only way that can happen.

greim · 8 days

Thanks, Anathem. (username taken from Neal S. book?)

We'll definitely look into narrowing down that list of permissions, and the button hover states, too. This is great feedback.

greim · 8 days

Ah, I see. So switching contexts between topic A and topic B is bad user experience, even if both topics are interesting.

greim · 8 days

We've gone back and forth with this in the past—allowing users to have channels or categories—and I think the main reason for not doing it so far has been keeping things simple from both an engineering and UI perspective.

If we added per-user channels or categories, do you see it being useful as a way to organize your own stream (the things you create), or as a way to be more selective in what you subscribe to (the things you consume), or both? Thanks.

greim · 8 days

The idea is that you can follow/unfollow people and that's how you customize your home page.

However, when viewing your home page stream, there's a (sort of hidden) feature that some people have asked for, where you can explicitly hide an individual "question" so that you won't see it again. If you hover over the question "card" with your mouse the hide button appears in the lower right corner.

greim · 8 days

Thanks. I'll relay these things to our resident designer people, they'll be glad to hear it :)

greim · 8 days

Aha, good point! Thanks for the feedback, we'll consider tuning the wording there.

greim · 8 days

Thanks! It's nice to hear positive feedback. Anything in particular you like (or dislike) about it?

greim · 8 days

As for how we promote it, we've been fostering some partnerships with a few clients, who we hope to build mutually-beneficial relationships with. So some of the promotion has come/will come from them.

We also hope to be social and viral enough to have organic growth. Obviously there's no magic formula for that, but as we work out the bugs, we'll be ramping up the promotion.

greim · 8 days

Thanks. Our original launch (v1) was August 2011, and our re-launch (v2) was about a month ago. Although v2 is quite a bit different, there were enough similarities to migrate v1 users and most of the old content into v2.

Some of our growth has been organic, starting with us employees and extending out to friends, family and other connections. We have several thousand users, not all of them active, and we're looking at how to improve our service to make it overall more fun and useful to people.

Sensitivity · 11 days

Before looking at the price, close your eyes and decide how much you'd be willing to pay for it. Then, open your eyes and if it's below that price, buy it. I've only bought one item that way out of many instances. Usually because it ends up being $30 when I'd only have paid $5 for example.

Diamons · 12 days

I'd say it's rare to impossible. I think there's something about being a programmer which actually hampers your ability to design. Even if you're a talented designer, if you're programming a project, you won't be a very good designer for the project. Partly because both programming and design take a lot of mental effort and time to do well, but also because a designer needs the perspective of an end user, and that's difficult to do when you're intimately familiar with how the software works.

[edit] I should add though that when designers have some coding skills and coders have some design skills, projects benefit greatly. But the idea of having one person do it all—and do it all well—is a pipe dream.

theaceoface · 12 days

Read my post again. Where do I say I'd oppose such arrangements? I didn't.

theaceoface · 12 days

You're bending over backwards to extend rights to some while denying them to others

That's an assumption on your part, that I favor denying people the right to enter into three-way (or larger) legal "marriages." But my point is only that such contracts are fundamentally different from two-person ones, purely because of the structure and logic of the situation, so the laws defining them would necessarily have to be different from ones for two people, institutionalized sexism not withstanding.

theaceoface · 13 days

Think about it this way. Take the traditional definition "marriage is between a man and a woman." You can substitute "two consenting adults" for "a man and a woman" without affecting the legal nature of the arrangement at all.

But if you start tinkering with the number of individuals involved, it becomes a fundamentally different kind of arrangement, legally. Think about it from the POV of a software engineer trying to design a database schema to track poly-amorous marriages. Try reading this for example.

If you stop letting religious sentiments and moral opinions get in the way, and purely think about it in terms of what sorts of contracts people can enter into together, then it makes more sense.

excalo · 28 days

The crazy thing is, one's epistemic views/principles are also of themselves beliefs. This adds another dimension of regress, along the "meta" axis, if you will. And I think once you start examining how people do their meta-justifications, the ultimately pragmatic nature of this whole exercise becomes apparent.

The problem with pragmatism seems to be parallel to the is/ought problem. It describes how real-world belief works, but it doesn't then tell us how we ought to believe. Should I believe a given way, beyond just adhering to internally-consistent, reliable methods? Is there such thing as normative epistemology?

the_christian_left · 1 month

But we have to agree on some shared values for society.

I think that all differences in values ultimately reflect brokenness in our ability to understand the world and each other. If these breakages were fixed, our values would naturally converge over time. Therefore, as trite as it may sound, I think education and the free exchange of information and ideas are the best hope for humanity. Only then would we have a common metric.

nucacids · 1 month

Collins, on the other hand, would be barred from preaching in many (if not most) evangelical churches because of his failure to reject the theory of evolution. There are levels and layers going on here, it isn't all just "us versus them."

canopyracer · 1 month

I don't like this because overflow:hidden has some downsides. For example, box shadows get clipped, vertical margins no longer overlap, floats behave differently, and of course, overflow gets hidden. This all adds up to weird, unexpected bugs cropping up later that take just long enough to track down to be annoying.

f0rteresce · 1 month

This is great. I was introduced to Logo in 5th grade in the 80s, but for only for a few minutes at a time because the computers were in hot demand. I'm going to see if my daughter has any interest in this.

maloney7 · 1 month

seek to understand everything

This is the best advice, in my view. Don't waste brain cells memorizing frameworks, but definitely make room in your head for the rare novel idea or abstraction. Fortunately they're pretty easy to understand and remember, once you find them.

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