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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:20AM (#16821838)
Well yeah, engineers should participate; not only as senators.
Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack on Monday December 18, 2017 @06:58PM (#15956630)
According to the article, this "free" service comes at the cost of their readers privacy, not being in control of your whole blog (comments) and increased loading time because of the size/requests needed.
Re:Ask HN: How do you read programming books? on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:37PM (#15734871)
If the book is documentation, I only read as needed.

> Do you read it in one go and later try examples or go through entire book by trying all examples?

I do a few of the examples until I learn and figure out how the <topic> works. I won't be doing all the examples, if they're just teaching the syntax or simply showing stuff that can be found at the documentation like functions parameters.

> Do you read the entire book or just the part to get the job done?

I only read the whole book if I'm completely naive and want to deeply learn about the <topic>. I usually jumps chapters which have content I've used before and is not difficult to me.

> What methods/techniques have you found useful while reading such books?

Write your own cheatsheet or take notes as you go. Also use the official documentation for functions definitions and similar stuff.

Re:Tell HN: Firefox got slower after new update? on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:11PM (#15706105)
I've experienced improvements on AntergOS with Firefox 57, also tried those pages.
Re:Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:38AM (#15705044)
The main reason I read this thread was to compare both announcements.
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:18PM (#15689820)
Now this is ridiculous. Thanks for sharing this article.
Re:RSS: there's nothing better on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:15AM (#15676870)
Which is difficult to control over a social network unless it's a closed community and still, it's used as a metric.
Re:RSS: there's nothing better on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:11AM (#15676626)
This is fine for most people; the "interaction" nowadays (likes, retweets, ...) doesn't really represent support but a lack of communication skill from the consumer.

When someone likes something without anything to say it's just a metric, doesn't bring value to a discussion.

So far, Unix as IDE[1] is my favorite for all of them. Debugging is a bit of a pain sometimes, but can make it work.

[1]: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/

Found some people to chat, mostly from here which is cool.

Hi, Jason