[everydaypanos]

He lost me when he described Canada using a dictionary-like wording but also adding some pretty personal perspective. Describing an entire country as Socialist seems super opinionated to me.

Client-side navigation is quite tricky to get right - since there is no definition of right. Browser back buttons and scroll positions between back and fourth page loads are not standards-based things and the only way to study them is by just using the browser.

The only fashion that I have come to hate in client side navigation is endless scrolling on product pages. In my view it is completely pointless and hitting the back button NEVER returns you to the exact point you were. On product pages I think page-based pagination is the only way to go. Amazon does that. I think only feeds are a use-case where infinite scrolling makes sense.

P.S. I wonder if client-side ajax calls are GZIP compressed🧐

[bscphil]

> He lost me when he described Canada using a dictionary-like wording but also adding some pretty personal perspective. Describing an entire country as Socialist seems super opinionated to me.

I think this was pretty clearly supposed to be a joke. Author is probably American - the joke is that healthcare and free (very slow) internet are considered socialist by Americans.

[saagarjha]

> Author is probably American

He goes to college here in the US (but I think he might have lived in Canada in the past?)

[gruez]

>P.S. I wonder if client-side ajax calls are GZIP compressed🧐

I thought HN filtered out emojis and other graphical characters?

[LilBytes]

This is news to me too!

[claudiawerner]

>Describing an entire country as Socialist seems super opinionated to me.

Not to mention the fact he's wrong; contrary to popular belief, "socialism" has been described as many things but the simple fact of offering healthcare, market regulations and some amount of free Internet access(?) - Socialism is a mode of production in which means of production are operated and managed (and some would say "owned") collectively by the workers, i.e. the majority of the adult population. This is also a form of society in which abstract labour is not valorized. A modern nation with money, capital, rent, predominant wage labour, and capital accumulation is in no way "socialist" - never mind by Marx's term with which he considered "socialism" and "communism" to be one and the same thing.

[csande17]

I, uh, was kidding about Canada being a socialist state...

For what it's worth, I had a 128 kilobit connection in Canada because American T-Mobile plans give you one for free when you're outside the country.

[claudiawerner]

Unfortunately it's not always clear who's joking and who's not; many (most?) people who feel the need to comment on socialism and capitalism have done very little reading in political philosophy.

[LilBytes]

... are you being serious? I ask this question pragmatically. Perhaps my nuance for sarcasm after spending my entire life in the UK & Australia is more finely tuned than most.

The author went as far as to describe Canada as "a socialist state in North America" and later followed on with:

"(T-Mobile told me I could buy an “all-access high-speed day pass” for $5 on the black market, but I didn’t want to get arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Secret Police.)"

I don't think it's possible to be more overtly tongue in cheek without having to retort to using Reddit's HTML sarcasm tags.

All in all, it seemed quite clear to me that is was in playful jest.

Also, dear author, thank you for the laugh.