johndavidback

I keep a little pocket notebook. Moleskin makes them and others. One of them is just for to-dos, I keep another for ideas.

Yes but perhaps it reminds you of fond memories? Or just makes life a little more interesting - "Hey, dentist, sorry I'm an hour late!"

I tend to agree here - of course security is a concern and the horror stories are just that, horrific, but how often (specifically on mobile) do they happen? And with such a significant amount of our personal data now on devices - photos, health, financial - if there were constant massive exploitation there'd be relentless pressure to improve.

It’s just a massive time sink with little to no benefit.

There is arguably a large social benefit to preventing widespread misinformation being disseminated. Perhaps no great business benefit - indeed it is likely a massive expense. But someone somewhere is paying that cost, however it manifests.

Yes - reading the post it appears OP's specific value proposition is keeping DRM'd videos in sync. This reminds me of watching Dawson's Creek with my girlfriend in 8th grade - we'd call eachother on the phone and watch the show at the same time. Anyway this would be the browser version of that, from what I understand.

We're debating this internally at work, ad nauseam, and one of our engineers put together this post on why. Just in case others are having the discussion. There are merits on both sides. I think it's particularly hard for talented devs to want to work "with a template". But, as we look to serve the business, what is the RIGHT answer?

Ideally, but until someone asks for it the first time, they probably don't even have an account for the purpose. So, an irritated DBA who has myriad other backlog tasks probably runs it on a copy if smart, and production if lazy or in a hurry. Would not surprise me in the slightest if an important table was dropped in this way.

The last line from his CV is a gem:

"Two years experience in swing dancing (east coast swing and lindy hop)."

Fair point. I use a little hyperbole to emphasize the fact that a product with an incredible global reach should default to well-planned and executed features, particularly if they are sprung upon you with desktop alerts. Hate it or not, someone did a very, very bad job here. Most likely many someones.

It was a bit interesting to see, and perhaps not at all surprising, that they've been around since 2010. And they crossed the billion-dollar-valuation threshold 4 years later.

That's all well and good, but a key distinction here is that you are using Facebook for absolutely no out-of-pocket expenditure. Going to Vegas costs actual dollars. I suppose a stark, diametric alternative to being forced to view targeted ads would be Facebook as a paid subscription service. It's the age old issue of 'Someone has to pay for this party.'

Here's the source if anyone is interested: https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts

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I think that on Fiver you give creative direction and that's what they go on, they probably don't care too much about your company.

It's a military reference. Sergeants (I think) have a striped insignia, and it would mean a bump in rank (experience, knowledge, skill).

Edit: Not to say he was in the military, it's a metaphor for how Walton gained experience and 'rank' in retail.

Not specifically about learning, but I wonder how many half-finished projects sit in garages and basements. How many outdoor fire pits are partly built, some guy thinking 'Man I should have just done it in one go.' Desires and whims change on a regular basis for most people, making slow, prolonged progress a challenge for many people.

To be frank, you sound just as hard-lined against this guy's idea as he is hard-lined for the idea.

This might be a stupid question - but what if you have two icons, one with the cat with a black nose, one with the cat with a gray nose?

I was just thinking the same though. Perhaps a bit more crass, however, my thought process was something like 'tough shit'. My assumption would be those investing heavily in BC were thinking 'high risk, high reward'. Well, it proved to be pretty risky.

Please explain how crowd-funding a movie even makes sense? There are plenty of movies with actors I love that are terrible. Have you seen RED (or worse, RED 2)? For the same reason your boss doesn't pay you for the month you haven't worked yet, you shouldn't expect people to produce movies without any reliable way of getting paid.

Well, to be frank, if you want 1,000 MRR, you're going to need to put in the work. You seem averse to the 'upfront work' part of things, but money isn't free. Well, unless you're already rich.

I think he's referring to an LLC 'doing business as' another entity. Right?

If you flesh this out with 1,000 nights... First off: Awesome! That's a hell of a lot of grind. Secondly, I'll totally do it. Or at least try it.

Would be cool to see a simple web app that let you check them off as you went. The preset list of them, that is. So, if you put together this list also in some consumable format like JSON, I'll write the app to read this list format and record progress. Go!

I'm actually a little bit confused by this - is this serious? It all seemed normal (well, normal being relative) until the last bit about ex-drug smugglers and cash-lined suits.

Maybe I'm just not rich enough to fall into this kind of R&D mindset where these things even warrant consideration by sane humans.

I don't know about that, I think anything conversation-starting and interesting belongs on HN. They did 'hack' the traditional method of traveling by ditching all their 'things' and not having any reservations or plans. Plus, there's a hell of a lot more comments on this post than I see on some 'new js library that does X!'

This is a neat idea, though the quality of questions is terrible. Would probably be a good way to garner a decent amount of followers if you spent 20 minutes answering a ton of questions. Not very clear on how to 'ask' questions though..

If you read the last paragraph in the OP, you'll notice that officer has "appreciation" for their intelligence. It's very short-sighted to assume that they are of low intelligence or have poor impulse control. Being born into poverty provides a very limited means of social mobility, so joining a gang is often a rational, and intelligent, decision.

Good point. Which is evidenced by the fact that many airports aren't really 'in' the cities they are named for. Example: Cincinnati's CVG airport is actually in rural Kentucky. Cheaper land.

Ha, the first thing I searched for on this thread was "raspberry". I just got mine last week. However, there's no way in the world that thing will be able to run modern games.

I think reading between the lines a little bit should indicate that because 50%+ of professors are adjuncts means that universities are proactively attempting to keep professors with that status. It means they can pay them less both in salary and in benefits. Hence why Duequesne would want to avoid unionization of it's adjuncts.

I don't know the statistics of adjuncts who have full time jobs as well, so take that with a grain of salt.

My first thought - are the driveways in front of garages in San Fran? If so, then it's impossible, you can't realistically move your garage a couple of feet to the left and everything be hunky dory. Though maybe the OP mentioned that and I missed it.