[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.
When I signed for prime 3-4 years ago there was also a lot online retailers jerking around on shipping prices. "Oh that CD is $0.01 but it is $11.99 shipping, so if you don't like it then you'll be refunded the purchase price." Shipping prices in general seemed to be where quite a bit of profit was being made.
I don't know if that is still the case but it was a major reason for me to move to prime back then.
I have a newspaper clipping from when a car hit me when I was 5 years old... the dark truth of the matter was I hit the car by bolting across the road and smacking my head into the passenger side door as it was trying to drive through an intersection. This little page 6c clipping is all that exists of that moment. No cameras, videos, blog or twitter posts.
If that happened today the driver's name might be permanently searchable and could even cause problems when looking for a job "They hit a 5 year old, that doesn't sound like the type of person we'd want to hire as a delivery driver."
Maybe we can't fix this problem, or maybe it isn't a problem at all but just something we should accept. One thing is certain, we've never been in a situation where everything was recorded so thoroughly before. Can we adapt?
I wish we would kill flash by providing a stronger solution. Does any application exist today that can replicate the functionality of even Flash MX (now 11 years old) in HTML5? An actual application that could be given to non-developers and not a series of javascript libraries.
"Ideally, the broker will make sure everything goes according to plan," the Prince of Peanut Oil told me. "But I once knew a guy who was trading for himself. He bought six egg contracts, with each contract worth 18,000 cartons of one dozen eggs. That's 1,296,000 total. The guy somehow made the mistake of taking delivery."
If it had enough torque (which seems to be a problem given the plastic nature) I could see it breaking loose rusted or stubborn bolts. Maybe? In a scenario like that you wouldn't really care about precision or sound. Though 11 million turns still seems like a lot of cranking... maybe if it had a 9v attachment it could be a portable bolt breaker. Feels like a stretch though, would be fun to play with.
Though now that I think about it the holder of the bolt breaker would probably start slowly turning before the bolt does... weeeee
> Adobe’s stock price has increased from about $30 to over $80 since Check In began.
I don't want to be overly negative but COME ON. Changing their goals program didn't nearly triple their stock price. I'm surprised Fortune included that at the end. If it truly had that much of an impact that should be the title of the article.
Getting the admin-interface correct is one of those holy grails. The problem I typically run into is adding complex wizards or features outside of the standard crud stack.
When I'm investigating an out of the box admin interface I'm _less concerned_ about how they handle CRUD; that's the easy part. Really I need to know how they handle things that go well beyond their stack.
For example, in one application we need to create events for people (like google calendar). You need to be able to search for people, show the system what they already have assigned at that time and allow you to choose times that are best for everyone in the list. This has been designed as a multi-step wizard and it works great but it was a ton of custom code. Looking at the online documentation of flask I'm not sure how I would go about integrating something like this.
This is a very interesting idea. I'd like to see it played with 100% of the cards being generated through a system like this. 4 players, 4 automated decks of random (possibly nonsensical cards), that would be _so much fun_!
Serious question: Is this significantly different from all the similar-themed articles in the 90's and 80's? It seems like the more things change the more they stay the same...
I'm not a fan of thread-splitting but that'd be one option (Ask HN: Who's hiring directly). Otherwise what about people add tags like [Direct] or [Hiring Manager] to their posts:?
I can only speak to MtG when it first came out, I've been out of the loop since eh since when 4th edition started or so. MtG exploded because it was (and I hate to use this term): hackable. You could build creative exploits into the game, at our local shop there was a no CoP rule (no circle of protection) because they were considered too unfair; in hindsight this was a ridiculous rule.
Very few games embrace the unknown dynamic nature as well as MtG did. They would introduce cards that could be mixed with past-future cards almost on a whim, creating moments of pure frenzy as people managed to build systems that seemed indestructible.
Great idea! I understand there are only seven options (hence the name) but I'd suggest adding a music playlist as an item. It's easy to describe and would cover multiple GUI elements: button groups (forward,back,start,pause), display list (what is in the playlist, what is currently playing) and interactivity (drag and drop to re-order).
I think it's an interesting approach. There are some things you can do with a projector that you couldn't do with another screen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JXtTj0mzE)
I could see some applications taking advantage of this when it comes to working with physical items
Yeah it's the pro but the con (IMO) is that if you're the last active contributor then it has effectively become a custom framework... which nobody likes to support.
[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.