dmsinger · HackerTrans

Until keyboards were everywhere (which was a while ago, yes), I wasn't used to seeing the $ with a single vertical line in a money context. Myth or not, it made the interlocking U S very believable. It just makes me wonder which came first, and how the double line came about, if it wasn't there originally.

dmsinger

12년 전discuss

This is very interesting considering Alaska has some strict alcohol laws. There are many areas that are completely dry, and alcohol is very expensive (black market). It's generally this way due to crime and abuse.

Will these areas kneejerk the same restrictions with marijuana, or will they wait to see how the community reacts?

/serious off

It's illegal to give a moose alcohol in Fairbanks: http://www.legalsource360.com/index.php/strange-laws-in-alas... Hope they're not left out, again.

dmsinger

12년 전discuss

I originally formed my s-corp for contracting. I was in and out of places and it was a lot easier from almost every angle (getting paid, paying taxes).

I wound up getting full-time position eventually, but continued building my own websites. The s-corp acts as the corporate umbrella they all fall under. Maybe it'll be a "real" business one day, but it's a moderate one in the meantime, and worth the separation.

dmsinger

12년 전discuss

This is similar what I was going to say: disposable income, behavior; and I was going to add replacement cycle.

> If you want to predict the future, just look at what middle-class American teens are doing.

I know people love to say/write this, but I'm trying to think of a period of time where this has held up within the last century. Technology, especially today, doesn't allow it. Also, teens hop on and off of fads quicker than any age group. Teens and early-20s adults have behaviors that will all change within just a few years, along with the things they deem necessary vs nice-to-have.

That the iPad, or tablet, has plateaued (or even shrinking) may be true, but I don't think the data or reasoning supports it.

dmsinger

13년 전discuss

I still receive the same alerts I did a few months ago, but now I receive more. Far more, to the point where some have become useless.

I had alerts like: "This" -"Not that" -site:notnews.com

The filters stopped working for me. I removed and re-added the alerts. Now I'm pounded with results. They were amazingly effective before.

I can't say I'm surprised, I don't see much of a business model in it, but I was surprised that it randomly happened to all of my alerts and I haven't seem a word about a change.

dmsinger

13년 전discuss

I don't care for nesting much either. While it may be more like real life one-on-one conversations, I find it more difficult to follow an entire thread and very hard to scan through. I can enjoy a segment, but that's one of the problems I see: it segments a conversation greatly. I think things stay more on topic with a flat discussion, and I discover things I would have missed in a threaded one.

I'd love to see some innovation in the forums space, it's been a while. I still don't see it, but I'm hopeful.

dmsinger

14년 전discuss

When you skip a commercial on your DVR that ad has already been paid for. That content provider has been paid.

When you block an ad on the web it's not being counted as an impression and the content provider is not being paid (if CPM).

They're very different in terms of money-flow. It doesn't mean devaluing an advertiser is better, but they're two different outcomes, even if it just means "no ads" to user/viewer.

dmsinger

14년 전discuss

I found Ray Bradbury a difficult read in high school. Not for lack of understand or the style of his writing, but I was reading for a 'surface story', for lack of a better term. I wanted something very future-tech-Sci-Fi, and it didn't fit.

It only took a few years, a few real world experiences and one re-read of one story for me to see the depth in his writing, the metaphors about today's and yesterday's societies, and his open questions about the future. It led to many re-reads and a lot of appreciation of his work.

dmsinger

14년 전discuss

I like Zen Coding a lot, specifically for CSS. HTML, it's ok, but not always faster IMO. The list example is a good one because I think it's an easy 'this is better' use-case, but for most things that don't require multiple instances of something it's not adding much (and that's ok, there's only so much you can do there).

For this nested table example, it's great. Another multiple instance example. There's probably no easier way to pump out that code so fast, but if it were a standard table, anything will do, even the hated (by most on here) WYSIWYGs, that could drop a customized table in a few clicks.

dmsinger

14년 전discuss

I wasn't confident that Forbes benefited more from the article than the NYT which is why I looked up the Likes myself as that was the most unbalanced comparison metric, and just didn't seem correct. After the look-up, the Likes are close in number (I prompted the update), and the comments on the NYT are greater.

Forbes lists the page views, but it's a metric against nothing as the Times does not.

There's some pretty heavy quoting in the Forbes post (9 paragraphs from the NYT), but it's all sourced, linked and even encouraged to be clicked-through to.

While Forbes did well with the post, I'm not convinced they did any better than the Times (on the web) with it.

dmsinger

14년 전discuss

Cheating. New technology = new forms of cheating; and if the league allowed everything on the sidelines, it'd be near impossible for them to keep up with.

Predicting plays isn't an issue. Predict all you like. Stealing plays (& the play calls), that's the real worry, as it probably matters most in this sport than any other. Stealing signs in baseball is the only comparison I can think of.

The WSJ article linked by breakall mentions it a little, but nowhere do I see the word 'cheat'. I doubt the league would address a question about it seriously anyway as that would imply they don't trust teams' staff (which they shouldn't).