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I had en elementary school teacher that made a website dedicated to flags games appropriate for students. It was amazing, FULL of games from my childhood: https://web.archive.org/web/20050407011006/www.gamewing.com
If they can get that working I’d be ecstatic!
I just don't have any time for any of my hobbies any more
Exactly this. I have 2 under six, and outside the odd night were my wife bathes both kids, from 6am to 9pm I’m either working or hanging out with my kids. Maybe 2-3 times a month I’ll get 4 hours to myself to go watch a baseball/hockey game.
At the end of the day though, I look back and I’m grateful. I tell myself “where did my hobbies go” but deep down I know I probably would have spent that time watching a 3 hour super smash brothers documentary or re-reading LOTR or something stupid like that.
Kids have made me more focused. Their unconditional needs force me to weed out the time wasting, unimportant things in my life. I honestly sometimes wonder how it ever felt like I was busy before.
To this day nobody does notifications as well as WebOS did.
IMO the hard-headed refusal to make a touch keyboard even optionally available also contributed to their demise.
Late to this. Here’s a screen shot. https://imgur.com/a/gYLytqh
Good read.
It’s kinda funny that, on a CSS focused site, the position of the “latest” article label on the homepage is set above that of the site logo and navigation bar.
It’s nice to know even CSS experts make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It’s a “luxury belief”[1] and it shows that some people either forgot or never really knew how the other half lives.
1: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of...
Think Google Inbox (RIP :tombstone:) meets Basecamp (:campfire:).
A little like Superhuman in that it's a an email client that uses Gmail as its backend and it has a plethora of keyboard shortcuts.
Pretty blown away by how quickly the setup completed.
Even if you factor in investment returns you're not getting the full picture IMO unless you take into account price increases over time as well.
A common refrain is that Carnegie Hall only cost $1M ($29,581,868.13 when adjusted for inflation) to build, so why do we still credit its founder with their name? Shouldn't we rename it in honor of someone who's contributed more to the Hall?
What this doesn't take into account is what it would cost to _build_ a new Carnegie Hall today. Labor is far more expensive (highest $/hr ever in 2019 if I'm not mistaken [1]) today and so are building materials [2].
So it's true he'd see compounding returns from investing, but to do what they did back then would cost significantly more today. IE, their dollars took them further back then.
Also, worth noting Rockefeller donated 6% of his salary to charity every pay check every single year of his life, not just when he could "afford" it [3]. So if you take into account the _missed_ compound returns of those charitable contributions, you can start to get a sense for just otherworldly their charitable efforts were.
Not trying to say these guys were angels. And yet, as rich as they were, I think too often that overshadows the gargantuan contributions to charity they made.
[1](https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/02/are-wages-increasing...) [2](https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-price-in...) [3](https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-o...)
Echoing others here, I honestly prefer this than dealing with outdated defaults built into the OS. More often than not they just get in the way.
The real bummer is for newcomers. It's going to make getting started much more of a headache since they first need to learn how to setup a local environment.
$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.
Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.
The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.
Paywall :(
It's wild that this is still around. Just re-installed it to manage my Discord, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Telegram all in the same place =-)
Granted, but how long until its used as precedent to put you on a list?
I've built in house versions of this for a handful of roles. Frustratingly common problem.
Great that there's a free model, but would love to see a `hobbyist` tier as well. 50 QPS won't cut for a lot of folks.
edit: forgot a word
I cannot for the life of me get that link to open. Here’s a web archive version for those with the same issue: https://web.archive.org/web/20201029194008/https://karl-voit...
edit: fwiw the author has web archive links at the bottom of all their posts. Since the page isn't loading, I couldn't see it.
Pretty, but performance is abysmal.
Also looks like it changes the browser history on every interaction, ie any drag and drop, which seems, to me, to indicate some behind the scenes UUID tracking.
I've been using DDG as my main driver for over 2 years now. Contrary to the vast majority of commenters here, I almost never use !g.
90% of of the time, if my first search didn't produce a useful result on DDG, I end up !stackoverflow or !stackexchange.
The other ~10% of the time I do use !g, it's almost always if I'm looking for something very specific, e.g. that one article on markov-chains from HN years ago.
Frankly I don't understand how someone can go back to googling after using the DDG interface for so long. There are so may ads on Google now it takes forever to get to the relevant results.
I’m shocked, shocked, to see favoritism going on in this establishment /s
Came here to say this ^ , would be good to either remove the links or add a note in the docs.
Experian fiasco (and others that came* long before) taught us the shortcomings of these types of regulations.
Do you really feel like banking and medical records are being kept secure? If so I envy your confidence.
Compare that to the way our messages are being encrypted these days (iMessage comes to mind) and i think we’d find the regulation to be lacking.
The incentive provided by regulations (I.e. jail time or fines) doesn’t compare to incentives derived from competition, or (heaven forbid) profit.
It’s, for better or for worse, human nature.
The conclusion that nation wide legislation would fix this is, at best, wishful thinking.
ATMs are secure because banks would lose money if they weren’t. Not because of regulation.
Regulation leads to a bare minimum of safety, not a best-in-class security.
One thing banana-republics all have in common is nationalized voting commissions. Doesn’t turn out as well as the author here suggests.
I don't understand what editor allowed the A.M. section to remain in the article. Felt like an afterthought.
They built up the 'Voldemort' file but then barely referred back to it.
Would have preferred they wait to publish when the had the report in hand or could at least quote directly from it.
I use this thing as my daily driver. It's not* just advertising. It's a darned good keyboard.
edit: apparently there's an affiliate link. Didn't see it on first read. Still a good keyboard imo though...
Oh great, now anytime the window seat needs the restroom we get a little hug on his / her way.
Nice work! I would suggest adding a controls screen that fades out. Took me a while to realize I had to combine aiming with the mouse and WASD keys for movement to get everything going.
"When I was a[t] IBM I had a mouse with a nub.."
I'ver never wanted anything so badly! Link to Alibaba?
Got tired of all the phalic-volcanoes so I made something nice for you https://sandspiel.club/#2scDpZpyMACGp65FrkPT
The irony of this linking to Quora is painful. Spen 0.5 on the page; get a request for notifications permissions.
Another tragedy is that RSS dropped in popularity at the same time that appreciation for the "open" web did. The great fake-news scare has greenlit walled gardens of the kind people never envisioned back when RSS started.
Content discovery for the everyday internet user consists of either Facebook, Google, or Twitter. And none of them are opaque about their SERPS / timelines.