Notifications should be opt in, so I usually disable them immediately. Linkedin is especially bad with spam and the "do you know this guy?" If I knew him and wanted to add him, I would have already.

It's mostly problematic for children who don't realize the importance of education.

As someone who runs a team, the biggest problem is the lack of proper social skills. It gets worse every year.

To what do you attribute this decline in social skills?

The decline is from not being in person to experience and take part in normal social interactions. Group work, being patient, knowing when to speak, being on time, etc. Soft skills are arguably more important than anything else for an entry level position.

Ironic that a post about disinformation is full of it. It would benefit anyone to look up what a conspiracy is and how many things are technically conspiracies. It's basically a buzzword for anything you don't like that hasn't been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. News flash, anything that is nether proven nor unproven is debatable.

"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation promised Africa a “Green Revolution” to fight hunger and poverty. It hasn't worked — but it has upped corporate agriculture’s profits."

It's almost like it was always about the profit. Strange

In 2015 and 2019 the Gates foundation invested in Moderna and BioNTech and retargeted them towards vaccine development and production. This investment will pay off handsomely. Are you going to tell me that this was about the profit too?

Try parlor? I hear that allow more freedoms.

That is very fascinating. Can you provide your sources please?

There are a million options for authentication already created and ready for use. Nearly every CMS has this ready for you on install. You could also go with active directory. You could also use the major ones that integrate with Google, fb, etc. Starting from scratch is fine but you'll have to use a ton of development time that could be better spent on your app.

yes, we were using cognito in this case. but all of the logic even with integrating with one of these auth providers, took us a few weeks to get polished and right.

the list i made about the different pages we had to build to get this to work correctly, it took one of our devs a few weeks to really get the login and account system and integrated with AWS cognito

Looks good. I can't post or reply though.

What is your plan for moderation? Open forums are a breeding ground for bots and dirty content.

Also, how do you pronounce it?

Regarding moderation - this is of course the most difficult question. I have a primitive tool to delete user and all its posts with a single click. I also don't allow TOR traffic. Possibly in the future no proxies too. Each channel owner can moderate and ban whoever they need to, either just the user or its IP address if he/she comes back (right now it's very easy to create a new user, just clear the cookie and you have it). Of course website must be somewhat popular to attract that crowd. I hope that in the beginning these tools will be enough. On the other hand dirty content won't necessarily be moderated if it's in a dirty channel and it's not illegal.

Oh, that's very strange - do you get an error when you click Send?

Regarding pronunciation, well umm to be fair what I did was look for free 5 symbol .com domain name and found this one. I don't know how people will pronounce it. I usually say hi: hi:

I'll be pronouncing it like MJ's "HEE HEE"

I think many people are having the same experience with covid. It's all doom and gloom on the news, but we are spending more time than ever with our families. It has been the best year of my life.

I think it all comes down to one question, do you need objects or not?

And also what is an 'object'?

Haskell has a decent system for building up complex data structures. You can write functions for those. Those data structures + those functions are kind of "an object" from the OO world (data + methods).

The differences are:

* Inheritance - well Haskell has many kinds of polymorphism so it doesn't need it.

* Hiding data - well Haskell can hide data using smart constructors, you don't need an explicit private keyword

* Interfaces - covered by typeclasses but they do a lot more!

Also without any of the above you can create object-like things with just closures. If a scope has access to 3 variables in scope, it's "kinda" like an OO object with 3 member variables. You can create new scopes in a for loop, which is like creating many new object. It's a stretch but the underlying concept of something owning other things is still there.

> Those data structures + those functions are kind of "an object"

And in this setting, the type of that datastructure containing the functions can act as an interface.

A trap that OO programmers sometimes fall into with Haskell is to try to emulate OO interfaces using existential types + typeclass interfaces but that is a bit of an antipattern.

When do you need objects? What problem can you only solve with objects?

The problem of providing a language that people stuck in a traditionally object-oriented mindset are comfortable with.

For things that naturally have complex statefulness ... like User Interfaces.

HTML DOM as a crude example, is a big 'tree of state' whereupon OO would lend well to the nature of the noes on that tree for example.

When you're crunching data and the entire process is literally some kind of transform FP I think more intuitively maps to the situation.

On the DB side, there is a niche of OODBs that exist and used particularly in networking because the persisted state there is really topological, in which case it doesn't always lend well to RDBMS.