I also use the $5/month plan, and the few times I have exceeded the 300-search limit, Kagi simply renews my monthly plan early.
For me it's just happened a few times towards the end of the month and I was happy with how they handled the situation.
I have been using Acorn since...wow, 2009!
After the first $49 purchase, I spent another $15 and then $19 on upgrades over the years.
It's very effective. The interface is extremely familiar if you're used to Photoshop, and it's wonderfully Mac-native.
I highly recommend it!
What they actually tend to do is have someone in management call to congratulate you and invite you to discuss banking products. I know this from personal experience.
I agree the name is pretty terrible for a mass-market company because everybody associates it with price, but I believe the origin was due to the fact that they offered direct sales of products that were previously only available "to the trade" (aka professional designers/decorators).
The 14th amendment to the constitution would seem to disagree with your assertion.
You can make it work with iTunes Match. It will upload all your music (it's not just filename or metadata matching, apparently it uses audio fingerprints).
Then you can play your own stuff without needing an Apple Music subscription.
It's $25/year.
I moved to Apple music a while ago, but iTunes Match worked great for me before that.
Great customer service, too. Punch in your account number and you get a smart human immediately. No scripts.
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-pillow-for-side-sleep...
I use the Xtreme Comforts Shredded Memory Foam Pillow recommended; when I replace it I'll probably buy the upgrade pick mentioned in the article just to see if it's much nicer.
I've spent years trying different pillows (usually super-expensive ones) and the memory foam is by far the best for me (I am also a side sleeper).
Other random insomnia advice: try to focus on relaxing each and every muscle in your body so that you are totally slack. Mindfulness apps/podcasts can help you do this. It helps me a lot. Low-dose melatonin (1mg) is good when you're training yourself to sleep but I wouldn't take it long-term (very vivid dreams are a side effect).
I live in Los Angeles near a lot of the construction going on for the new subway line running down Wilshire Blvd.
My neighborhood (Carthay) has been getting a lot more cut-through traffic. There are days that seem particularly "Waze-y", when it's basically just gridlock on our little streets for an hour. I imagine it's due to apps re-routing people.
But I don't really think it's any faster for the commuter. I'm reminded of this article (seemingly now password-protected, so I'll link to a summary) that Waze chronically underestimates your travel time, while Apple Maps chronically overestimates (and therefore overdelivers):
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/02/22/informal-testing-...
From my anecdotal experience, Waze does vastly overestimate the benefits of a crazy route, like making a left turn from a stop sign across 6 lanes of rush-hour traffic.
I use Blue Apron sporadically; it can be a good thing on a busier week because it removes both menu planning and shopping while still letting you make home-cooked meals (take-out more than once a week or so gets really old).
It can also be a great break when your go-to recipes feel too repetitive.
But often one of the three recipes ends up being a dud, and if you forget to skip a week and get a bunch of stuff you don't feel like cooking it's an expensive and annoying obligation to prepare meals you didn't really want or make an ersatz recipe out of the ingredients they sent.
There is absolutely zero chance I would go to a store to buy a Blue Apron box. Without the convenience of home delivery, it really loses its appeal.
At https://chunkhost.com about 25% of our revenue per month has been in Bitcoin since 2014.
Since the price spike it's actually increased to more like 40% (from new accounts, not old ones switching away from credit cards or Paypal).
In the last 18 years or so I've been reading kottke.org, I don't think a single day has gone by without finding something delightful or fascinating.
It's the best site on the internet.
I don't use Apple Music either. I just dislike the idea of not owning something so near and dear to me.
It works OK for me after turning off the "Show Apple Music" option in Settings->Music.
The only really annoying bit left after that is touching a band name link doesn't take me to that band in my library, it goes to some Apple Music type page with everything available, not just what I own.
They're not really that cheap to rent, although they're competitive with bike share prices.
If you, say, used one to get to & from work on a commute of a few miles you'd break even on buying your own scooter pretty quickly.
The big advantage is not having to deal with storing or charging the scooter, ever.
In Santa Monica & Venice there is usually a Bird or two within a block of you at all times.
The law requiring wearing a helmet makes no sense to me. I think Bird is great.
The helmet law seems to have something much closer to a Vespa in mind. And while a Bird can move along at a good pace, it's slower than a bicycle at speed. I believe they lowered the max speed after launching.
You aren't required to wear a helmet on a bicycle if you're over 18, and I think bikes are much harder to control in low-speed contexts.
The law should change.
However people should definitely not ride Birds on sidewalks (although a majority of people do).
That's a specious argument.
You linked to short, mild a speech on the House floor from 2005 encouraging primary home-ownership as a means of investing, and a Fox News report about responding positively to a question about hiring a qualified ex-lover for an entry-level job 14 years prior to that speech.
Neither has anything to do with the advice or article.
Sendgrid allowed attackers to social engineer control of my company's account and intercept password resets, despite an explicit warning from us a week prior (we received a chat transcript of the failed attempt and let them know that it was not us and someone was actively trying to social engineer access to our account).
Then they had the gall to try to convince me on the phone that it must have been my fault (after our blog post about it blew up).
Needless to say, I think they are terrible.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7476836
I remember "Please Let Me Die" very well...watching it in a biomedical ethics class caused me to faint (for the first and only time).
Twenty-five years after his accident, Dax is adamant that he would still want the same thing under identical circumstances, that he would still want the freedom to refuse treatment and die: "Another individual may well make a different decision. That’s the beauty of freedom; that’s his or her choice to do so."
The promise of Coin is that you don't have to carry anything else. It is a fantastic idea.
However, unless it worked at least 95% of the time, it's useless, because you have to carry at least one backup card.
My experience with the Coin 2.0 is that it worked about 20% of the time and was very, very frustrating in every respect. It went in a drawer after a week.
That's a whole other problem with surfing!
Surfing regularly is a terrible hobby. Time-consuming, expensive, cold (depending on location). Wetsuits are annoying. Waves are crowded. People are jerks. People are dangerous. The ocean is dangerous. Injuries are fairly common.
In a two-hour session that starts just before first light (waking up at 4:30am in summer) I maybe get 5-10 decent waves to myself that last a minute, maybe two.
The fact that people still do it tells you just how amazing it feels to ride a wave.
Like other small subcultures appropriated for their "cool factor" by the mainstream, there is a lot of internal policing for poseurs: people who don't know or care about the values or history of the subculture, and cheapen it by wearing it as a disposable signifier.
This particularly matters in surfing, where a crowded wave is frustrating and dangerous. It's annoying when some dumb dickhead who doesn't know what he's doing (and doesn't care to learn) ruins a wave and endangers your life.
Buying a board hand-shaped by a local shaper indicates a knowledge of the community and a commitment to its values. Shapers are generally making boards because they are obsessed with surfing their local breaks and have spent years or decades honing their craft. They live for surfing and their surf community. They do not, as a rule, get rich.
One easy way to spot poseurs is by the board they ride.
Beyond the cultural reasons, hand-shaped boards by long-time shapers tend to be:
- better made
- more interesting
- more beautiful
- particularly suited to the breaks that shaper surfs (and where their customers surf)
- most importantly, support the people most committed to the sport and its values
They're making boards for the love of surfing, not for a profit motive.
But mostly it's so people know you're not a poseur.
An interesting example from the past is the LiveJournal "Express Lane":
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74
I wasn't a LiveJournal user, but saw one of Brad Fitzpatrick's excellent scalability talks years ago. I think he had a special flag that could be set for paid requests that would give them priority in perlbal, the load balancer he wrote.
Obviously it doesn't do much when something big is broken, but Brad did have a way to make sure paying customers' requests were processed first, and had realtime stats on average request latency for paid vs. free accounts.
This reminds me of the recent New Yorker article debating the social value of Wall St.:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_...
Here's a response to the hullabaloo from an attendee of the interview:
http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.p...
It's not very flattering of Deborah Solomon.
Yeah, me too. And when I've called customer service, it has always been fantastic. I've never felt like the rep has just been reading a script.
This bothered me too, but you can re-enable it.
Put about:flags in the address bar, and at the bottom is an option for adding back the "click to play" setting.
The author wrote the only novel I'm aware of that really illustrates what it's like to debug software.
It's called The Bug, and I'd recommend it much more than I would this Salon article.
By "hippies" I presume s/he meant people working on open source.
I just bought a RapidSSL wildcard cert through this reseller:
https://www.servertastic.com/rapidssl/
It's a wildcard for $140-ish, which is the cheapest I could find. The wildcard means it works for blah.domain.com, otherblah.domain.com, etc, etc.
Basically there are those "extended verification" certs that give you the green crap in the address bar. Which I don't think users actually care about.
And yeah, the whole SSL business is an insane racket.
I used Vlad for a while and liked it okay. It's a bit simpler (using 'real' ssh instead of net-ssh, and rake for running tasks instead of its own thing).
I ended up going back to Capistrano for git submodule support.
They're pretty interchangeable from a user perspective. I just use Capistrano everywhere now.