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I totally missed the concept of having high-level Controller-Views when I first started playing around with React. Just understanding the concept is only half the battle too; you have to have the self-control to keep lower-level components immutable using props and pass in the 'state' via the higher-level controller-views. Has anyone had experience with Flex and the Cairngorm Framework (from back in the day)? I find Flux borrows heavily from its design.


Hello fellow boulderer! I have seen (anecdotally) that climbing has adverse effects on slouching. Your back muscles grow disproportionately to your chest muscles producing rounded, hunched shoulders.


The muscle growth you describe would have the opposite effect. Back muscles help pull the arms and back to the back.

That's just a general rule though. If you hang from your shoulders but let your shoulders go, instead of pulling them back (which builds back muscles), I can imagine a slouched look developing. But if you pull back your shoulders it'll have the opposite effect, building muscle that improves your form.

I guess at the end of the day you have to focus on the sport you love, and do correcting exercises to keep your body in balance on the side. Most sports have lots of repetition on key moves and they lead to all kinds of issues, so I'd argue this is true for any sport.


Having large strong back muscles pulls your shoulders back and keeps you from slouching. The opposite happens if your chest grows disproportionately larger than your back (whether the weight up front is due to muscle or fat).

Also, the core strength developed when climbing supports good posture by makes it much easier to sit or stand up straight for long periods. Not sure


Counter that by also taking up Surfing. One good month-long surfing trip per year will bend you back to where you need to be.

I used to be decidedly concave when I was only climbing. Now I'm roughly planar, varying slightly over the year depending on the current proportions of climbing to surfing.


Some boulderers do develop that physique, but they're typically climbing at much higher levels (V5 and up, Bishop V5 not your local gym V5) and tend to be less well built otherwise.

It's not a problem for most people. Most people get a lot of benefit for their posture from climbing.


They will scale well with high ppi screens.


To be honest, the same can be said for svg images without the need to load a css file (4KB minified) plus a font file (55-230KB).

Specially taking into account that most places will use only a few of these icons.


I was only explaining the advantage over png. Great point about the use-case though. The average site is probably not going to offer 95 payment options/operators; a specialized svg library might be more appropriate.


An icon font generator/subsetting tool can produce a font file that includes only the icons that are needed.


This made me laugh and is totally true. Defining your timeline seems like a necessary first step to using that phrase.


Just started reading Ubik and liking it so far. Before that I reread To Kill a Mockingbird. I really enjoy hacking on side projects in my free time but sometimes it's nice to step away. I've found getting deep into a book is a good way for me to do that.


I wrote a chrome extension called Symplie that lets you write and view notes in Markdown: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/symplie/kjadigajmc...


Pretty sharp. I like the preview toggle - seems to me that keeping the preview visable all the time like other editors is a waste of space.

Since it saves to Chrome local storage, wouldn't notes get synced along with other Chrome data?


I'm actually just using IndexedDB so it doesn't sync. I use Chrome storage to cache the license (in case you were wondering about the permissions). There is a special Chrome storage sync api but it's limited to 800kb I think. I'm still exploring a good way to implement (unlimited) sync. Thanks for the feedback!


Developer here. I've worked on this Chrome extension for ~4 weekends and I've just made it public on the Chrome Web Store. feedback is welcome!

A screen cap showing Symplie in action: https://31.media.tumblr.com/444d12729dc6a5e814253ea6a44aa79c...


> Who cares what people say?

I agree. For me, Facebook has become more of a utility. If asked the same questions I would probably answer in a similar way. I do not 'love' Facebook the way I 'love' other products but it has its uses.


Exactly. It's a utility and for whatever that utility is, apparently the product is working fantastically.


I agree that it is a utility. However unlike water or electricity, Facebook is free service subsidized by advertisements. That's a pretty horrible business model because they have to extract value from their users by reducing their privacy, controlling their information and identity, and cluttering their communication channels with noise.


> That's a pretty horrible business model

It hasn't has yet proved to be an unsuccessful business model though.


Because their main costs are detached from their main revenue streams they have no way to accurately price how much a user costs them and how much value they provide. That's what makes it a horrible business model. How do you optimize what you can't accurately measure?


Are you not proving the point? Saying that government-run projects are limited because of the decisions of the government doesn't seem to be a great argument for government-run projects.


I thought I was proving that local governance works, whereas federal governance does not as much. Its much easier to effect change at the local level than the federal, hence "municipal broadband" and not "federal broadband".


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