i agree with @marvindanig here. the container is super important. people buy a finished product and container and packaging are an integral part of that experience.
there’s a reason why books are no longer distributed on bamboo stripes or in shape of baked clay.
He can't. Therefore, blame and run. And at the same time people like him with powers use their overreach to arrest and torture an individual without charges. Lame.
> to step back and acknowledge that you're being used by a foreign power?
No.
It is for people of America to acknowledge the wrongdoings of its Government and defend itself from internalizing that such overreaches from USG are unstoppable. Starting from inhuman torture of Chelsea Manning to outrageous house arrest (and cut-off) of Julian Assange in another country to landing a plane of another country's leader to capture Edward Snowden on basis of a "rumor" to millions of innocents put behind bars for life for petty or no crimes at all to meaningless killings of unarmed black people to pushing hackers to committing suicide (Aaron Schwartz) for no rhyme or reason.
Clearing you're doing a disservice to this nation by moving the real elephant out of the room.
These guidelines are rarely followed anymore. I've been seeing/feeling negativity over here for a long enough time now. Don't know when, but I'll surely quit HN soon. It's like a habit that I have to get out of.
Jeebus! We don't even have the books on the web like they do at places where you aren't allowed to select text. Talk about ruining the digital experience when you have it!
Except a book is not a silly document. Just like video on the web isn't. And yet cavemen from enterprise feel that turning everything into a giant Chinese scroll is all about moving forward.
> Make a reader that's faster and smoother than the Kindle app...
Except that Kindle isn't any of those. Neither fast, nor smooth. But that's a kool-aid you've been drinking for too long. And even believe that books should not come on the web and have their own native experience.
> Also: hate,hate,hate page-flip animations - either they slow down the page transition, or they're there to obscure a too-slow page transition; either way they get in the way of the experience very quickly
It's all hatred and propaganda my friend.
Page-flips are an important experience of books, even iBooks has it! And I like it that way. I just checked on this one that transitions are close to 60fps. Agree with you on zoom-in part though, but then I'm reading it on my iPad so I don't need zooming so much.
> They're possible because of the web, but they're also unnecessary because of the web.
I'm afraid that is not your decision to make. It is absolutely necessary and does good for the children to move beyond stuck up books that are locked in time and technology of 15 years ago.
Yeah in the meantime the big boys had their beautiful gardens built with exactly the same specification and offering for profit and praise. No lessons there!
No. For a neanderthal leadership it doesn't take months to recreate code. It usually takes forever.
Goldman Sachs and many such large corporation, including the US Government, are led by a bunch of dinosaurs. People who do not understand what code is.
What they understand instead is bullying, setting an example like some sort of public execution, owning people to the point of slavery etc. They know what it means to prosecute and destroy lives of individuals. And enjoy parties and drinks on the side in the evenings.
And this is just one example of that tyrannical trait.
I have this weird feeling that there has been some bad force working up against Firefox ever since they declared their all out war against user tracking (was anti ad-bearers).
I could be wrong but there are signs and absurd behavior like umpteen number of resignations at the top, Firefox Apps been published with strange love from private players like telefonica/others etc.
Agree! Like they say: You're probably going to be the only one bleeding on the bleeding edge.
Choose whatever takes you to MVP the quickest. Avoid the #beliebers in the echochamber[like this one!]. Choose something that you're familiar with, and probably aren't immersed deep enough yet. So that there is still ground to cover. Usually there is always much to learn.
Focus must be on the MVP and not on the quality of the framework or the hipness of stack. Those things are unimportant until you're ready to hire. Once a bit more stable then play around. Contribute into the system. Push it forward. Avoid stagnation. Have beer. :)
I just feel helpless about this country. I go to these shopping malls and night clubs and see droves of people unconcerned or even aware about the apathy that this country has been fostering. We're no longer a role model of a democracy we enshrined in our pitch last century. Sometimes I feel we're no less bad than North Korea, except for the ton of money floating around that lets a section of people off the hook. Or political power.
> that native youtube(the one used on mobile) is far better at playback.
No, it is not. Playback would get stuck, sound would go away for no rhyme or reason and what not. Better experience? - no - quite the opposite.
I got rid [1] of the native nuisance completely. And the experience of search, comment and history on native was simply terrible. Much lesser control on ad-blocking too, and really the ads on YT are sometimes seriously irritating.
In fact among the various options available for an off-planet settlement, I find an enclosed pressurized habitat on the Moon the most plausible one. At least our orbit around the Sun doesn't change when it comes to our Moon. And we have some experience visiting it too.
FWIW, it's not about saving the species or terraforming at this stage. It's about setting up more space-stations first - which in my opinion would become transit/rescue points for longer hauls and hops at some point in time. A station on Moon sounds like a better proposition than throwing buzzwords like terraforming or considering ourselves capable enough to prevent extinction level event on Earth at this stage. Even the dumbest startup ideas have to go step by step.
As far as I know support on Safari wasn't quite there yet. Last when I checked, and that was almost two months ago, Flex broke down pretty badly on iOS Safari, both on iPad and iPhone.
Guess I need to revisit this probably. Thanks for the great piece of work!
And then why can't this model of board (of Directors) be reconsidered and perhaps reinvented? What makes for the need to have a board and what other alternatives to a board does an entity have?
I'm sure someone here knows about the underlying concepts about Companies & Corporations and can answer this.
It's far more ridiculous to threaten and abuse our abject criminal system to reign in (that is if we assume the theft and not OSS happened) a talented employee who decided to jump the boat and join competition. Make no mistake, the people (wish their names were commonplace!) spearheading the legal pursuit on behalf of Goldman Sachs are evil - of the Hollywood/MPAA kind. Be wary of joining such Corporations, especially if you're a creative developer.
there’s a reason why books are no longer distributed on bamboo stripes or in shape of baked clay.