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wildduck | 6 years ago | on: What Happens to the Body on No Sleep

That's the exact reason why we should have beds at work and not have regular working hours. People should just work and sleep whenever they want as long as they make meetings and project deadlines.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Coherent OS

Yeah but back then you got all kinds of stuff like Token ring, Novell as alternative to TCP/IP. Seems they have gone with other ones.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you get your cheap servers?

And they have DDoS protection layer! With European data protection law better than US. It is a no brainer to pick Hetzner instead of any other services. They do have a difficult to remember name, maybe rebrand it for English speaking market.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: This To That

Agreed! I'm a JS developer and SPA is over rated!

All web page should have a mode (or graceful degradation) that work in text based browser like Lynx, Links2 without JS.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Secrecy, overclassification, and the the CIA’s hidden history

There are academic researchers have written about this topic:

Amy Benjamin: The Many Faces of Secrecy https://ssrn.com/abstract=3038640

"Political secrecy in the United States has never been more studied – and less understood – than it is today. This irony is due in large part to the slippery nature of the phenomenon: Secrecy presents in different guises depending on the area of governmental activity under consideration. In the classified world of the U.S. national security state, secrecy results from affirmative governmental acts designed to enforce a sharp distinction between official and public knowledge...."

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Which companies are using Erlang, and why?

My main interest in Erlang is mnesia.

A relational/object hybrid data model that is suitable for telecommunications applications. A DBMS query language, Query List Comprehension (QLC) as an add-on library. Persistence. Tables can be coherently kept on disc and in the main memory. Replication. Tables can be replicated at several nodes. Atomic transactions. A series of table manipulation operations can be grouped into a single atomic transaction. Location transparency. Programs can be written without knowledge of the actual data location. Extremely fast real-time data searches. Schema manipulation routines. The DBMS can be reconfigured at runtime without stopping the system.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Open-Source Seeds

>However where it gets sticky is where they place legal demands on the farmer buying and planting the seed. If the open source license prohibited them from doing that it would be a very good thing.

Maybe something like GPL for seeds?

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

I think this can be a cultural phenomenal, and what culture enforces who or how we ought to act at a certain age. I've traveled a lot in Europe. And it is amazing different kinds interesting people you meet. It makes movies and netflix boring.

I find people there tend to maintain more close relationship male and female. I person know someone way beyond his 30's, have many many groups of close personal male and female friends. He once told me that having these close relationship and maintaining them has tremendously improved his quality of his life and it is something he would NOT trade for any amount of money in the world.

The idea that one must marry at certain age have career at certain age is insane. Do what you like when you want to do it. Timing is important.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs

For sure. He is pretty reasonable guy. Just over a decade ago I have CS friends who make fun of him for his appearances. Now at least I think what he talked regarding Free/ Or at the very least Open Source software is prophetic for that time.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android

Unless you need something very specific for the display UI. Try cordova (open source version of PhoneGap), and stuff like ionic, framework7.io, mithril.js will mostly get your most apps done needed while still sharing the code via JavaScript, HTML5/CSS. for anything native you can always write your own cordova-plugin if it doesn't already exist.

wildduck | 6 years ago | on: Why is modern web development so complicated?

The modern web development also turned into app development to emulate functions that is on the desktop applications. That is what is bring ing the complicity to the web.

Rise of the SPA is great. However, I think unless there is a good reason for having a SPA such as hybrid mobile app development, then there is no point of using SPA.

Normal server side web page rendering with latest modern version of jQueryish/Zapeto should be just fine for the non app type of web development.

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