intendedeffect

The article writer is has younger children, though. For older children the ability to set a daily time limit makes sense based on what research I've seen, and (if you, parent, would like) it could skip the helicoptering and invasiveness: kid gets x hours per day to do what they'd like, and then they need to find other things to do. My oldest is only four, so I haven't begun to think about raising teens yet, and he doesn't get unsupervised time with an iPad, but I'd love just to have a way to track how much time he actually spends using screens like that.

Surprised and then not-surprised to see this discussion turn into a shitshow. I never spent much time on Reddit until relatively recently, but I think they're doing a pretty good job, and that's speaking as someone who ran an online community of a few thousand people for a while.

A lot of my favorite corners of the internet are places where people obsessively talk about some fairly narrow niche, and for me assembling a stream out of such forums ends up being pretty delightful! Plumbers post plumbing in-jokes in /r/plumbing, but explain them to anyone who asks and help out the non-plumbers who wander in with questions. I never bump into the darkest corners, and I'm glad that they've been sweeping them out. Periodically I'll see a pile of [deleted]s, but generally in some thread clearly vulnerable to inappropriate comments or dumb yucks jokes.

I'll assume all the "power hungry mods" people here aren't idiots having their "that's what she said" comments and race theories deleted. Is the mod dynamic significantly different in much larger subs than I frequent? Are people frustrated at having comments deleted, or are they running afoul of some subs' (sometimes very persnickety) posting requirements?

"With Tucows’ success in wholesale and retail domain names (OpenSRS and Hover, respectively) and more recently with mobile phone service (Ting) and fiber Internet (Ting Internet), tucows.com/downloads has become less relevant when looking at the balance sheet."

I had no idea that:

- Hover is Tucows

- Ting is Tucows

- Ting sells fiber service

- OpenSRS exists

So, nice work PR team? It's been a long time, but Tucows really did used to be the go-to non-scammy software download site. So, to whatever extent that's still a thing people need to use, this is good news!

Is this still seen as a safety thing? To explain, people used to advise waiting a few days after a minor OS X update to be able to use the combo updater. "Less mysterious problems than the diff update," better-safe-than-sorry computer voodoo. I haven't heard anyone advocating for that in a few years, though.

Is there a plugin to let me use SQL to query Elasticsearch?

Thanks for sharing this. I had a little tank a few years ago with "Amano" shrimp in it; I never knew about their namesake.

Maybe wishful thinking, but I don't think this is bad news for Skylake. It's just a token refresh, but it also gets Force Touch into the 15" Pro ahead of a WWDC where FT APIs for 10.11 and iOS 9 will presumably be topics of discussion. It might actually mean Skylake is right on time: people would also be ticked off if they bought what looked like a bigger update (i.e. to Broadwell) and then a redesigned Skylake model appeared just months later.

Only recently listened to an ep or two, I've enjoyed it!

Sorry to go offtopic, but man, I miss DS9. Where in this television renaissance is my high-quality serialized space sci fi?

As for the post itself, I could see it. And in addition to price drops, I think you'd need to see improved inter-device communication—I want to copy text from the PADD I'm reading and paste into the email I'm writing on another one. Seems like there's already wheels in motion on that point.

Where's the shot of people exhaling purple stuff?

Looks pretty nice to me, though giving in to the irresistible force that is SDWebImage has allowed me to remain relatively ignorant of the finer points of image caching on iOS.

He's pretty vague about his application, but what are the odds that the execution speed of Java vs say PHP or even Rails is going to matter? Only asking because he highlights this as one of his criteria.

I use a similar scheme, and one definite advantage has been being able to access my passwords anywhere, on any device with a web browser, without worrying about synchronizing something to my phone, work computer, etc.

I made something similar for myself that I've been using:

https://c-cr.it/new/

(The "new" version is a few in-browser algorithms instead of my original PHP backend) It's a pretty decent scheme, I think, for most people who are unlikely to be the specific, individual target of some crafty password thief. The technical details of my implementation are described on the about page:

https://c-cr.it/new/what.html

I learned PHP years ago, never got past the "futzing around making a basic CMS" stage with RoR (I currently do most of my work in C# and ObjC). I'm sure I'll be politely corrected in this view, but the piles of add-on gems and scripting utilities that characterize Rails-in-practice meant that Rails struck me as kind of a moving target.

Coming from PHP where basically nothing happens unless you make it happen (for better and very often for worse), I found Rails confusing once you got beyond easy Active Record calls and into using gems. There are tons of add-ons that do useful things, but they do a lot of their work behind the scenes assuming adherence to certain conventions—which, I know, is a strength as well as a weakness, I get it. But that increases the difficulty of jumping past the stage of following a tutorial and just installing one persons collection of gems, scripts and other helpers.

Along those lines, I listened to The Talk Show a few times, and it often sounded to me like Dan really had to work to pull material out of Gruber. I would've expected Gruber to just stop podcasting before taking the show elsewhere.