backpackway's comments

So nice my two favorite apps nvim and nvalt got merged.

Anyone already tried it, how is it?

While I am big fan of Clojure and even more ClojureScript...

The problem is: Once an ecosystem is stagnating or on the decline it's a huge risk to enter this space. It's not just your own market value you might be destroying, it's hard to find resources and to scale development.

Besides this, what I really want is strong competition between lib authors in order to keep the ecosystem evolving. Even current blockbusters like React face problems in this regard, like the react-router monopoly where maintainer Michael Jackson buys competitors from the market to keep his leadgen machine running. I know this is OT but a language without a huge OR trending ecosystem is worthless.

I am so tempted to reply with a BS. Because this is a super hard problem, with hundreds of edge cases making it even harder, some tried to solve it in the past, with underwhelming results.

Yes, this is utter BS, sorry.

This is an awesome idea and would love this paired with a 'fluff' counter telling how much unnecessary fluff is around a key message of an article. In this case it's low.

Switched last year to Lenovo and while the ecosystem around Windows has for sure its issues, it's still night and day. I've been decades on Macs and I lost the interest for computers then. Since I am back to Windows/mainly WSL somehow this interest came back.

Back then, I was smiling at those PC builders with their RGB 'crap' but now I'd love to build my own battlestation with RGB everywhere. The PC ecosystem is more authentic, honest and more about tech.

> I don't use tilde much.

What?? I use it all the time: Tilde in vim for upper/downcase and bash for home and backtick for jumping to marks and in JS for template strings. Great key.

> Save passwords in private browsing mode

While this might be handy when visiting your favorite paid porn site, isn't this counter-intuitive? When I am in private mode, I expect nothing to be saved.

While I share most of DHH positions, I still dislike him/his tonality/too dogmatic view/his lame way of doing content marketing--which is the only thing he seems to be doing nowadays.

It is click-baity and doesn't add anything substantial or new to the discussion.

Don't get this.

All influencers and wannabes on IG expose their email in their about section on purpose.

Crawling them incl. further specs like followers, posts is the first thing every Instagram marketer does/should do.

Before GDPR, there was even an open API which gave everything out.

Serious question: Is here some voting ring upvoting or HN being hacked? Reading the weird submission and this thread full of confused users, I am surprised this got on #1 and even stays there.

Had exactly the same feeling. Non-responsive, want to raise money, did RSS. Didn't get more info after a 10sec skim.

A tldr would be a good start. What is Getpolarized in two sentences and why will users prefer it over existing stuff?

Guess I get downvoted to hell but I won't care and share my thoughts:

Slack is for most employees a way to socialize, to get connected, to be not alone because employees are actual lonesome creatures looking for community, looking for something to belong to. Heck, companies are for employees the same. They want to to find friends, to get laid, to network because they can't outside of their free-lunch-corp. If they had to work in the basement in a shitty 3-people-firm, alone, they would have run away the first day.

I haven't been employed for a long, long time, so my view on employees is quite negative and opinionated: employees except the sales ones are in terms of social interactions, networking, finding friends compared to non-employees way underdeveloped (to use a polite term). Don't confuse hanging around with peers in a company being social. Most wouldn't be able to find close peers outside of their company and comfort zone.

Hence, they need Slack so urgently, so they can chat, plan boring get-togethers and like each others messages with crappy emojis.