The hostfile is great! I use it for more permanent blocks. Reason I use the plugin is to be able to turn blocking on and off quickly if I need to, and as of the next version which will hopefully be available tomorrow, I'll be able to block going to sub-directories.
So, say you have a habit of typing in /r/cars ... I don't know how to block that using a hostfile, but with the plugin this won't be a problem.
Great idea! I hadn't thought about the autocomplete feature making it easier to go to a website - but you're right! I'll try to a way to reduce it's effects in a future version.
I think it'd still be a good idea to leave auto-complete on for useful websites -- you've taken care of that by adding those sites to the bookmarks =)
before arriving at the above solution, I found a way to remove an URL from the list of candidates for autocompletion. the reason that did not solve my procrastination problem is that the next time I visited the URL, it was added back to the list of candidates.
If I had found a way to arrange for a URL to stay off the list of candidates (even after I visit the URL) I would have used that because, as you point out, it is a good idea to leave auto-completion on for useful web pages.
Potatoes are very nutritious. Maybe there's a less greasy way to make fries so that they'll taste good? Maybe make them in coconut oil and a lot less salt?
All the meat served in restaurants is far worse for you than fries.
This makes an interested accompanying read. We are still eating 'em taters because root vegetable was the only thing our grandparents and parents had reliable access to all year round. And old habits takes several decades to kill.
“The same people who chuckle at the things done with cocktail franks and canned tuna will happily eat something like the tripe dishes common in many ethnic cuisines. Yet tripe has absolutely nothing to recommend it as a food product, except that it is practically free; almost anything you cooked with tripe would be just as good, if not better, without the tripe in it. If you understand why folks ate Trippa alla Romana, you should not be confused about the tuna casserole or the creamed chipped beef on toast.
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Why the hate for tripe? Trippa alla Romana, menudo, phở, various Mediterranean tripe stews, fried tripe with hot sauce, etc. are delicious. Maybe the author had a traumatic experience in childhood?
Tripe has a texture unlike muscle, which makes for an interesting contrast to meat. If you took the tripe out of “anything you cooked with tripe”, you’d be left with something completely different, defeating the point of those dishes.
At least in English, the word tripe itself means "worthless", because traditionally in English-speaking countries, where meat was cheap and plentiful, people threw tripe out or fed it to their dogs. Countries like Italy and various Asian countries didn't have the luxury of cheap meat historically -- so they incorporated tripe into their cuisine. That doesn't mean that good things can't be done with it, just that the original reason for using it was that it was cheap.
I don't know if I would say "very nutritious". They're fairly low in vitamins/minerals/phytonutrient/fiber/protein. They're an okay source of extra calories if you're very active, but I wouldn't have someone sedentary and trying to lose weight eat them.
This is the PERFECT attitude to email. Companies that do this really well (AirBnb for ex), their emails look and feel just like their website, and always focus on highlighting the relevant information.
Is there should be a way of creating an "original" file - the first, which can only be moved, rather than copied? The copy will always have a "copy" symbol on it of some sort.
And the British even before that. The British are a large part of the reason the Saudi family gained exclusive control of the region. They supplied and aided the Sauds... against rival Arabs and against the Turks. The religious extremists were the foot soldiers... shoring up the wealth and the trade routes for the Saud family and for the British. On the occasions the extremists got out of control and turned on their bosses the British were there to help again.. with airplanes and machine guns.
This period of history is interesting in light of the rise of groups like ISIS and makes me question that the same technique is not being attempted again.
Like most things in programming, 'it depends'! What's your background? If it's in a more interpreted language like Ruby or Python, learning Elixir instead might be a good idea. If you want something that's going to be more approachable, it also might be a better idea. Are you going to do web development, and want to use a more conventions-over-configuration type of framework? Do Elixir with the Phoenix framework.
If you already enjoy Erlang though? Don't get discouraged just because something is built on top of it- keep going! Elixir will be there regardless, and might even be easier to learn when you understand what it's built on.
Elixir is a different syntax and standard library on top of the Erlang VM (BEAM) and OTP, the distributed/HA magic written in Erlang, that Erlang (ecosystem) gets a lot of its praise for.
Ultimately you'll need to know Erlang (language) anyway if you want to use some external libraries that aren't in Elixir natively. IMO, Elixir as a language is not too different from Erlang, other than syntax.
IMO, it depends on your background. If you have a lot of functional programming experience in languages similar to Erlang, I'll say just go ahead with Erlang.
If you come from a more traditional language background, such as C, C++, c#, java, scala, ruby, python, js and others, especially ruby since elixir is very ruby-ish, Elixir is more approachable and I'll suggest that you go with it.
LFE - Lisp Flavoried Erlang - is also an option. Created by Robert Virding, one of the creators of Erlang, it is a Lisp-2 with full access to Erlang and the OTP.
Elixir is cool though too, and certainly is similar to Ruby.
In terms of reach, a native app seems like a pretty big win. KA are aiming for global reach, and, in countries like India where tons of folks are running on old devices, any bandwidth or performance upgrade is significant.
Native apps save bandwidth on each request by relying on the API, which primarily transmits semantic data rather than presentational data. On a slow, metered connection, that's significant.
And, once the exercise framework lands on Android, it oughta have way better performance than the current Javascript implementation that the mobile website uses - especially for manipulating those fancy graphs. When users are frustrated by KA's unresponsiveness, they drop off and don't learn.
That said, the current Android app is definitely just a starting point; until exercises and all the personalized learning features land, mobile web will still be the best tool for KA's non-casual mobile users.
I haven't tried the Android app, but on an iPad the app experience vs the web-experience is like night and day for doing math problems.
You can easily draw your calculations anywhere on the screen, and when entering final results, you handwrite it, making square roots and fractions so much easier.
It is much more fun to do math problems on the iPad app than any other way I've tried.
Giving a look at the content and length of videos, this also looks like a great way to consume educational content while on the way to work (On the train, of course. Not driving! :))
Uh, if you were so smart you'd understand that this is in response to a school in Texas badly handling a smart kid doing smart kid things. Has any high level official in Texas apologized, or said anything decrying this student's treatment? If not, then it seems like Texas is standing behind this.
The comment was a sarcastic joke and did not further the discussion. I like that HN is a community that tries to promote insightful comments and not jokes to the top of the comment page.
Nah, it's just Irving that's a shithole. Most of the cities around it are fine, including Dallas proper.
Last year, an article about the least LGBT-friendly places in the US was published [0]. Irving landed at #2. That same article mentioned that Dallas proper was one of the most LGBT-friendly places in the US. It's not much of a stretch to say that this applies not just to LGBT people but to all kinds of people that the crazy right-wing fundamentalists dislike, including smart people and Muslims. From my personal observation having lived in Dallas and Richardson all my life, I can vouch for this. It's widely acknowledged here that Dallas is a very progressive city and that Irving is a shithole.
Besides, most of our tech industry is concentrated in Richardson [1]. Between UTD, TI, and the Telecom Corridor, Richardson is a pretty damn good place to be if you're smart.
[1] Richardson is a suburb to the northeast of Dallas in the same way that Irving is a suburb to the northwest of Dallas, so it's a pretty apt comparison. Actually, Dallas is kind of shaped like Godzilla: on a map of city limits, Richardson and Irving look like they sit on Dallas's shoulders (though Irving is kinds leaning off the edge).
> It's not much of a stretch to say that this applies not just to LGBT people but to all kinds of people that the crazy right-wing fundamentalists dislike, including smart people and Muslims. From my personal observation having lived in Dallas and Richardson all my life, I can vouch for this
My general observation as an outsider in Texas (Dallas 3 years and Austin 4 years) is way off from yours. It's not a question about right wing hatred, that's just hyperbole. There is an attitude in Texas where if "you aren't one of us", you don't belong here (in a subtle way). That in my opinion is undeniable. I bet if this incident was at Highland park, the result would be the same.
I live in Arizona, so I understand living in an area that is nationally famous for being a bit backwards. Parts of Texas are absolutely amazing, just like here in Arizona. But we both are paying the price for our states' having a poor reputation.
I don't recall any Texan politicians decrying cannibalism today, either. I guess we know what that means, right?
Or we could assume for a moment that not every event requires a politician's commentary.
I didn't need to see Obama or Zuck's responses before I had determined (for myself! Imagine!) that the school's actions were absurd, overblown, and counter-productive.
Nor have they decried ten-foot-tall lizard men, but then there aren't any national stories about ten-foot-tall lizard men in Texas right now, are there? The President commented on this, fer chrissakes. I think a few remarks from Texas politicians are warranted.
No, action from Texas educators is warranted: specifically, actions that acknowledge that what happened to this 14-year-old is incompatible with a positive learning environment and a commitment to education and actions to ensure it doesn't happen again.
A pox on the politicians. They'll spin this eight ways to Sunday and nothing will be accomplished.
> not every event requires a politician's commentary.
No, not every event. Just the ones that give the impression that there is an ongoing systemic abuse of the very rights and principles that America is founded on.
The fact that you brush this off as unimportant is exactly the problem here.
"The fact that you brush this off as unimportant is exactly the problem here."
And how does "absurd, overblown, and counter-productive" (my words) translate into "unimportant"?
The words of politicians are generally unimportant, as they are easy to come by and seldom backed by action. That was my point. Must I too engage in today's Two Minutes' Hate to pacify the Outrage Patrol?
Less "can't" and more "won't". A lot of the most water-wasteful crops (like almonds) might as well be staple foods in your average rich-Californian diet.
He disassembled a clock and then reassembled it inside a case that resembled a bomb (however hollywood-esque it may seem). The kid might be "smart" but I wouldn't jump to the "genius" conclusion.
So, say you have a habit of typing in /r/cars ... I don't know how to block that using a hostfile, but with the plugin this won't be a problem.