el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Angela Merkel urges EU to seize control of data from US tech titans
They already have GDPR, don't they?
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el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Python slithers past Java to become GitHub’s second most popular language
More important than popularity measure itself is WHERE the languages are popular. Python is popular in startup ecosystems and professional developers whereas Java only in academic circles and some android developers (who are also gradually switching to Kotlin). So, in terms of "popularity where it matters", Python is in much better position than Java.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: The wealthiest colleges received $7B in federal subsidies last year
Most likely, those funds will be used for running propaganda against the government that issued those funds and the president!
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
ES6 has been there in our browsers since a long time now, yet why do so many still use babel?
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it just me or has the quality of links on HN improved significantly?
Yes, I've also found that it has. The most likely reason is that either someone (mods) is vetting them to ensure that the high quality posts stay up, or maybe the community itself is doing the good thing by upvoting the good quality posts and downvoting the bad ones. Or maybe, its a combination of both!
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: The advantages of distributing a JavaScript lib with URL instead of NPM
NPM has become a ubiquitous standard at this point, not using it doesn't make any sense.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
Similar thing with me except I stuck up with them even with Quantum until that fiasco with SSL certs happened and all extensions came to a halt. I'll never be able to trust a browser which does such a thing to its users.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
In theory, they can't be a monopoly. What exactly is stopping anyone else from starting an online bookstore or a mart? In India, there is already Flipkart and Big Basket, just two large e-commerce companies among several others who are giving cut-throat competition to Amazon each day, are there no others in the US?
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Why Google+ Failed
GMail's time was different, there was a lot less competition among web services back then.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
Its also good for the freelancing/gig economy. Now even big companies will be forced to look for outsourcing or remote hiring options as the talent pool starts leaving that country.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: A typical Node.js app is orders of magnitude faster than python3 app
But doesn't python3 now generate bytecode (.pyc files or __pycache__) too? Is there a fundamentally large difference between these and the .class java files or the node's equivalent?
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Why we can't have privacy on the internet (2018)
Yep exactly. I consider myself common that's why I don't get offended by the word "plebeian". In my books, plebeian is just a synonym for "commoners", there is no other meaning to it.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Why we can't have privacy on the internet (2018)
Plebeians here means common people or the commoners, no need to get triggered!
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Why we can't have privacy on the internet (2018)
What if the plebeians don't mind privacy intrusions? What if they are happy to give away their privacy on a platter if they are getting free email, digital maps, traffic stats, cloud drive and a whole lot of other goodies from Google? Never underestimate the power of freebies!
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you like working in San Francisco?
I haven't been there either but weather is clearly a very subjective thing. Personally, I don't like rains at all, for example, but most others seem to enjoy them (at least here in India). So, it depends.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Entropic – A Federated Package Manager for JavaScript
Forgive me for being a contrarian but I see nothing more than yet another Stallmanist rant in this?
Ceej and company are trying to portray NPM as the villain here, but is the entire JS ecosystem's burden their's to carry? They keep whining that Roald Dahl is miserable and all despite inventing Node and why the NPM founder is so rich with VC money, etc. According to me, therein lies their hypocracy:
On one hand, you declare your altruism and how you care about commons and not money but on the other hand, you try to imply guilt on those who try to earn money out of JS ecosystem! How is this fair? You do your job and let them do theirs, I don't see how NPM is made the villain here?
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Amazon to shut down its Amazon Restaurants business in the U.S.
But a "restaurant on wheels" is a idea that will be truly profitable, at least in theory! Its true that restaurants abound in localities today but mobility of people (and their eating preferences) from one location to another has also increased. Restaurants which are profitable today may not be tomorrow. A restaurant on wheels can easily adapt to changing demands by constantly moving on from low demand areas to high demand ones. Maybe, Amazon can even build an AI or something to guide it for most efficiency.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes
My gut feeling is that Google won't pull this stunt with chrome, this is some kind of scare mongering or a PR tactic, I dunno.
It doesn't make a logical sense because if they are banning the ad-blockers, it means they accept that chrome is largely used by power users who can install these blockers (otherwise, what's the need?). But they should realize that a power user who installs an addon can just as easily move to another browser like firefox/brave. And the PR repercussions will ensure that a lot of newbies will leave too (because they usually follow the power users on youtube) which will essentially kill the advertising income that they wanted in the first place?
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Why doesn't the Python package manager (PIP) have package signing feature?
pip doesn't check anything. As the top reddit comment quotes from the github issue:
>> This isn't a bug, we've purposely de-emphasized PGP on Warehouse. While we support uploading them still and they're still a part of the API, we're not exposing them to the user in the UI.
el_programmador | 6 years ago | on: Confessions of a Reddit Karma Whore
Totally true. It also gives rise to echo chambers, people just keep circle-jerking around those of approve of them reciprocally and thus keep themselves in constant denial.