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Re:What shall I teach my son? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:55AM (#50178827)
Lovely article, and something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. There is some amazing (evidence and strength based) stuff on both parenting and schooling from Dr Billy Garvey [1] that I really can’t recommend highly enough. He just published a book specifically on raising boys too (which I haven’t read yet).

But seeing as the comments are answering the title question (and because I haven’t seen these mentioned yet), I’ll offer my 2c:

I hope to teach my son to embrace his emotions (all of them), to process those emotions in an healthy way, to ask for help when he needs it (without guilt or shame), to value practice (not success) and to play. I think everything else will follow.

[1] https://www.guidinggrowingminds.com/

Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.
Re:Being fat is a trap on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:16AM (#44201159)
Yeah, I think accountability is a straw man.

If you make it cheaper, easier and more socially acceptable for a group of people to eat low quality processed foods, even a portion of the time (as is the case where I live), that group of people will be more likely to eat processed foods.

It’s not impossible to follow the advice in the in the article, it’s just harder than it should be for some groups of people. Unfairly so, I think.

I wrote to my local federal "representative", just as I did with the Assistance and Access Act. I convinced others to contact theirs too. But even if we convince one politician that they should vote no, I strongly suspect they would vote with their party anyway. It just doesn't feel like representative democracy any more.
The University of Queensland website has a nice summary [0] if you're in a hurry:

> The University of Texas Hexapro vaccine candidate – delivered via the UQ-developed and Vaxxas-commercialised high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) – provided protection against COVID-19 disease with a single, pain-free ‘click’ from a pocket-sized applicator.

[0] https://stories.uq.edu.au/news/2021/needle-free-covid-19-vac...

Re:Build Yourself a Redux on Saturday May 06, 2017 @04:51AM (#14279384)
Neither React nor Redux really prescribe an architecture so building an app with these libraries requires some extra thought over just using a framework. An approach I often see is to use Redux as a single state container in a monolithic flux architecture (which seems to be referred to as "Redux") but this has advantages and disadvantages, and is certainly not the only way to use these libraries.

If you're going to go down the flux path, I would suggest you map out the minimal state which can completely represent your user interface (store structure), then list all the state mutations (actions) which you expect to affect this state. That might help you build up clear picture for how to develop your CRM app.

It's good to keep in mind that at the end of the day React and Redux are just tools, and it is up to you how to use them.

Re:Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:15PM (#13527237)
Wasn't the system that you seem to be condemning at least in part exploiting taxi drivers? Why wouldn't that earn them your sympathy?
Re:Deepstream.io – Open Realtime Server on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:15AM (#12547825)
I know the question wasn't directed to me, but the animation on the 'Cluster Messaging'[1] page really helped me understand.

[1] https://deepstream.io/tutorials/core/cluster-messaging/

Re:Deepstream.io – Open Realtime Server on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:09AM (#12547788)
This is a really good point actually. I particularly liked the overview of other realtime libraries[1] for the honesty factor, and it really helped me understand how it relates to more familiar frameworks too.

[1] https://deepstream.io/blog/realtime-framework-overview/

Re:Australian Census 2016: Error messages abound on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:15AM (#12253759)
Confirmation from the ABS after denying any issues for over an hour: https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762961251764805633
Good point actually; you could extend this with a number of properties to make an awesome learn-while-you-play td game for CSS more generally... keep us posted ;)
Re:How do Promises Work? on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:19PM (#10617757)
Nice summary! I wish I had this when I started getting into Promises a couple of months ago.

For a really interesting look ahead to how Promises (and more!) might address sync/async symmetry in ES6/7, check this out: https://youtu.be/DqMFX91ToLw