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New comment by s73ver_ in "In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:47:41 +0000

That's not a similar situation in the least. Comparing calling out and calling for the removal of bad cops to holding the thin blue line ignores any bit of context there is.

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:47:33 +0000

"I'd love to learn other languages and stacks! It's just that, often, it isn't a worthy use of my time. All that time used into learning C++ and Qt would be better used in making and improving my software."

This line of thinking, that it's not worth your time to learn tools that would improve your software, and make it less resource intensive, is a large reason for that trope.

"Many are using web tecnologies because of the fads, and some out of lazyness, but many (i'd guess most) are doing it because it's worth it."

I can't agree with this, mainly because, it's not worth it. It doesn't improve the software in any way; if anything, it makes it worse.

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:22:13 +0000

"For the last time, "existing design guidelines and patterns" is a myth."

No, they aren't.

"MacOS UI consistency is a mess."

Not really. Most small developer programs I use follow these. It makes it really easy to know what to do to accomplish something.

"Furthermore, most people do not care about this"

[Citation Needed]. I think most people would prefer to not have to learn a new UI from scratch everytime they want to use a different app.

"and the value of marketing with a sleek design vastly outweighs any benefit of conforming to system components UI."

What is this "value"? How does that help me accomplish my tasks?

"If literally every Electron app fixed memory issues and correctly placed OK/Cancel dialog buttons, I'd be fine with it for the rest of my life"

You mean, if every Electron app stopped being Electron?

New comment by s73ver_ in "In Baltimore, Brazen Officers Took Every Chance to Rob and Cheat"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:51:27 +0000

As long as they are not calling out the cops doing wrong, there are no good cops.

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:33:41 +0000

I want both, and it's quite possible to have both.

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:27:41 +0000

No, please do. Explain to users why you need that, and why you feel you are important enough to bypass and ignore all of the existing design guidelines and patterns of whatever OS I'm running on. And why you feel you have to use up all of my CPU and memory to do so.

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:25:57 +0000

See, for a website, that's fine. But not for an application. Why would I not want an application that fits in well with my chosen OS, and follows the design guidelines and patterns of that OS?

New comment by s73ver_ in "Show HN: Cross-platform desktop applications with PyQT"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:19:41 +0000

I wish them the best of luck, but I don't think it's going to happen, because one of the big reasons Electron is popular is because web-dev people don't want to learn other languages.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:20:12 +0000

Are you going to start lobby to make it illegal for companies to put anti-class action clauses in their ToS? Are you going to lobby to make it illegal for a company to force mandatory binding arbitration on their customers? If not, then you're just trying to have your cake and eat it too. You're trying to keep the government from punishing wrongdoing, and trying to keep people from the very few remedies they have.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:18:18 +0000

Because there need to be national standards for education. The citizens of a state do not exist in a vacuum, and being taught Creationism instead of actual science is going to do great harm to those kids ability to get jobs, which is going to have an impact on many sectors of the economy.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:43:20 +0000

Eh, I feel one can be just as angry/outraged at Trump & Team as they can be at Congress for letting them get away with it.

That, and given the upcoming midterm elections, I feel I have more influence on Congress (or at least my Congressional delegation) than I do on Trump & Friends.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:41:12 +0000

I don't buy that, mainly because that only works if I can afford to sue those doing wrong. Most people cannot. Hence, why the government is there: to uphold these laws, and use everyone's collective resources to do that.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:05:01 +0000

To be quite frank, any amount of marketing is over marketing for this. I shouldn't have to pay a single cent to have that kind of monitoring; it is my data that they are using. I should be able to look at and correct the data at any time, with no cost whatsoever.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:38:27 +0000

Most things already are. But there are many things that do need to be a federal concern, because a state does not exist in a vacuum, nor is it a (metaphorical) island. Things like the environment and pollution, for instance, need to have a federal component. One state may decide to relax environmental protections so that they can encourage factories and jobs. However, that pollution does not limit itself to the people that decided it. People outside that area, in other states that do have environmental regulations, will also be affected.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:33:53 +0000

The Congress has the Constitutional Responsibility to act as a check on the Executive Branch, through several means, up to and including impeachment of the Executive. Trump has done several things this past year alone that would have led to censure or impeachment had they been done by past Presidents. If Congress refuses to fulfill its duty, then they deserve the anger they are receiving.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:30:47 +0000

So how would less regulation around data security (which is the thing that this is about) prevent another Equifax? Remember, you and I are not Equifax's customers, so we have no ability to choose anything in this scenario.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:25:45 +0000

You're trying to equivocate basic human rights with being able to dump pollution in the water supply.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:12:37 +0000

In that situation, the only funds for those agencies would come from fines. We're not at that situation.

And I'm all in favor of the CFPB getting pretty heavy handed. I wanna see some Enron style prosecutions start.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:31:35 +0000

Having children rarely contributes positively to the "accumulate wealth" goal.

New comment by s73ver_ in "U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice"

s73ver_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:14:36 +0000

Unfortunately, most of those committees don't have any actual power to enact anything. By resigning in protest, they at least prevent themselves from being used as justification to enact the things that the Trump admin is doing.