MentallyRetired

That doesn't happen to me with the messenger app...

My biggest issue is the amount of unofficial apps that look official. It's a trust issue. If I go to the website I at least know that I'm getting legit software.

Vivaldi and Firefox user, here. Nothing more to say, just wanted to lend my support.

What do you all use?

As someone who has streamed development, it does help in that regard. However, I feel like it also slows me down a bit, and you have to be extra careful not to expose any sensitive bits.

And then there are the backseat coders who only sit in the channel to tell you how they would code it... they're fun.

We shouldn't need cheaper pricing. We should have far less inflation.

I recently bought a $15 pair of shoes at Payless. They were fantastic. That said, I'm not sure $15 shoes were even a thing when I was a kid in the early 90s when my parents used to buy me Payless shoes then.

Adjusting for inflation, my shoes would have cost $8.43 in 1992.

That's insane. These products are INSANELY inexpensive. But nobody buys cheap cars or shoes anymore, do they? Gotta get them social media likes even if it means 72 month payment plans or installment plans on SHOES.

We are so screwed.

How am I going to get my grandma to use gopher? Solve that, then you'll have my support.

You can take a walking tour on Google Maps. Really neat.

My father's entire life fit inside of this bird's life. He was born after her and died before her.

That's insane.

Good catch! I'm actually on vandwellers and not vanlife, was just mobile at the moment and had a brain fart. :)

For those interested in the lifestyle, check out /r/vanlife on reddit.

Yes! I miss the tracking scene. Some amazing music came out of that format.

Seems that way to me, too. I'm not certain, though, since my contacts have long moved on.

I worked at Oakley when it was acquired by Lux.

Oakley puts an INSANE amount of R&D into their products, particularly their eyewear. They have laser stations to make sure the optics of the lens doesnt change the perspective of things (the difference between catching a baseball in the glove and in the mouth), "shotgun" tests, weighted spikes, and even have a machine that opens/closes the sunglasses several million times. They test each design and material very thoroughly. Or, at least, they did when I worked there.

If the design didn't survive all of the tolerance parameters, back to the drawing board.

We also subjected our competitors glasses to the same tests. You wouldn't believe how many name brands just fell apart, or blew up into shards of plastic into our dummies' eyes, etc.

When Lux bought us, they made us take down the videos of exploding ray-bans we had on our website (And some other brands). Then they ran our entire department into the ground. Real piece of shit company. Those of us who didn't leave between 08-12 got laid off in ~16 or so.

"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."

... all we are is dust in the wind.

Truth. This stuff needs to be EASY. If I'm capable of setting up but too lazy, my mom stands zero chance.

Direct, but wise advice. "Deteriorating" is the correct word. Without that extra mile, you won't be surviving more than 3-5 years in this career field.

What would you do if you were facing burnout from a semi-successful company you created, but you can't take a break without hurting the company?

... asking for a friend.

Whaat? How could this be? Did anyone see this coming? Nuts. Guess I'll have to shop at Service Merchandise from now on.

Serious note: Sad to see it go, but it failed to adapt.

No mention of graphene in the article and this is the only mention of it here. We can't have the battery discussion without graphene. It's the future, imo. Soon as we learn how to charge it and maintain stability while doing so.

My first thought is "Requires a paid google account to work between devices!".

A lot of the best programmers I know are older than me, and I'm 38.

Get off my lawn.

SongScraps, a site and app I had developed for songwriters. A lot of writers come up with one line at a time, or a piece of a song or concept, so it was a way to organize those scraps and then assemble them into a song.

The app I had built was built on titanium appcelerator at the time, and both a new phone release and a new titanium release meant I would have had to recode the entire app. So, I closed it down instead.

Side note: I like to think I pioneered flat design with this site. Not as a concept really, but I was just tired of skeumorphic site design so I made everything simple.

Reminds me of the time they called my website dead, but it's still alive and generating revenue 10 years after the article...

So saying you have the entrepreneurial bug is a real thing? Seems like correlation without causation, to me.

This article is at least half a year old by now, though I think it might be a year and a half old.

Dollar General is not a dollar store. It's a General Store with the name of "Dollar".

Agreed. We need a common social media specification. Like Diaspora, but just the spec. Diaspora is a solution, and solutions would implement the spec. Then sites like Facebook/Neocities/Wordpress could comply with the spec. How you treat your own posts on your own site, with your own theme etc would be up to you. Your feed would exist within your own website and would consist of posts pulled in via RSS or some other syndication spec.

Maybe we need some kind of open specification for "the living web" so companies like tripod/angelfire can support the spec.

Maybe where you would sign into your own site and it would have polled posts from all the sites you follow (probably with rss) into a single feed. Your site IP is your identity, so commenting etc would be done as your site e.g., `MentallyRetired.com says: Hey these are cool!`

I dont know, just shooting from the hip, but it seems a lot of these technologies are possible. I remember signing into places with my website.

But it needs to be EASY. As easy as Facebook. And backwards compatible to avoid breakage.

I also switched to Firefox. I wanted to give Opera a try but they also use Chromium, where this feature now exists.

Firefox it is, and they have done a great job with the new version.

I love it. More of these, please.

As an author of SPAs and PWAs, though, I'd really like the ability to push a page hit programmatically.

Reading that legal doc made me wish there was a Genius for laws.