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You can definitely still buy the standalone app license, but they use a pretty dark pattern to hide it. They don't really talk about it anywhere, in the forums they will just push subscriptions, and they constantly change how you get a new license.

In the past, they moved the standalone license page from 1password.com to agilebits.com, and made it purposely difficult, if not impossible to get to.

Now here's how you do it for the most recent version:

Download and install the app. When it asks you about a subscription, there is another link that you can click, but I don't remember what it says, but it should be at the bottom of the pop-up. It will take you to a checkout page where you can get a standalone license.

They'll probably change it yet again in the next major release so YMMV in the future.

The mobile app is free, but creating entries on the mobile app is a paid feature. Either with a subscription, or by buying the "pro" features. Or at least that's how it is on Android.

this reminded me of Pykrete [0].

basically someone figured out the right ratio of water to sawdust for a frozen block of ice, and it creates a very durable and tough material similar to concrete (as long as it remains at or below freezing).

the british planned to make an aircraft carrier [1] out of the stuff, but it was ultimately deemed too expensive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

lol, Coke also murdered Crystal Pepsi by making Tab Clear to confuse shoppers... and it worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Clear#Post-discontinuation

I did some Ada in college. It's incredibly powerful, but it can be pretty difficult to work with. I don't know where else is used other than aviation and the military.

Yes, I hope so, because fraud is a huge issue with Spotify.

An older acquaintance of mine is a professional musician living in Nashville doing commissions.

He made a track for a trailer of a video game, but chose not to publish it on Spotify (for reasons I don't know). One of the fans ripped the song from the trailer, uploaded it to Spotify, and was collecting all the royalties.

Even though Spotify keeps taking it down, someone else uploads it again, ad nauseam.

I had a few friends in high school that did this. I only witnessed it twice, and both times made me pretty uncomfortable.

The very first time I saw one of my friends do this, I didn't believe he had actually passed out, so I lightly tossed a tennis ball at his crotch and he didn't react at all. I felt bad when he woke up in pain though, but I honestly thought he was faking. He was out for maybe 20-30 seconds.

The second time this girl we all knew did it, and we freaked out because everyone normally woke up in under a minute, but she didn't wake up for almost four minutes.

We started discouraging people from doing it after that.

I don't think anyone is saying that you shouldn't store datetimes in UTC. It's just that time is complex and the errors can be subtle, and you don't want to mess up appointments across timezones because you didn't factor in the timezone when appointment was originally made.

http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/03/19/persisting_future...

Technically summer doesn't start until June 21.

I'm pretty sure they're only killing this because it's going to compete with Stadia whenever it gets released.

Not totally relevant, but if you have AT&T Gigafiber (and you don't have TV or landline phone service), you can actually bypass AT&T's god-awful router by getting an UBNT EdgeRouter or USG and setting up eap_proxy [0].

[0] https://github.com/jaysoffian/eap_proxy/

There is at least one freelancer CRM that I know of (https://cushionapp.com/), but it's definitely not a crowded space.

Ironic that a company that specializes in solving hard problems can't tackle an already solved problem.

so this is gonna seem kinda weird, but I noticed y'all run the audio developers conference.

I own the domain adc.io, for a project that went nowhere years ago, so now I mostly use it for some personal things. would you guys be interested in doing a trade or want to buy it or something? I feel kinda trashy asking that here since it doesn't add to the discussion, but I like what y'all are doing, and didn't even know that conference existed until I clicked that link.

honestly, I don't mind something similar already exists.

the problem I'm having is how do I enter a niche space and get customers away from my competition?

the niche I'm entering has existing solutions, but they're messy and difficult to use (based on early feedback). I want to simplify a lot of it, but I know in the beginning I'm going to lack a lot of features that current existing solutions have.

If I keep at it, I'm sure I'll get to them eventually, but I think the lack of some of these features could be a major deal breaker for some potential customers early on. I don't want to cater to just larger customers, but I don't want to ignore them either.

I'm just not sure what the right balance is going to be, but I think the only way I'm going to figure it out is by engaging with potential customers for their input, while also not pushing them to jump over unless they think we're ready.

for me there were only some syntactic sugar things I had to learn.

documentation is protected under copyright.

I want to like Elm, but every time I try to pick it up it's always my biggest time sink.

is this why we have petrified wood?

Sometimes things are negotiable, and if you list a price, it could be a turnoff for a potential (usually large) customer.

Like if you see that something costs $X, and you can only afford $Y, you might not even bother with it.

But if you talk with them they might be able to work within your budget.

But of course, when you do that, it's a clear sign you're targeting large clients/contracts, so your smaller customers won't want to bother with it.

That's not entirely true... but it's not exactly kosher.

http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/

Google doesn't reward those who make things better, they reward those who launch new products.

Given the current evolution of their keyboards, they're headed to go full Tron and have just a touch screen for a keyboard.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/vj6Zk.jpg

I saw you give a talk about bikeshedding in APIs at Great Wide Open in Atlanta a few years ago.

I don't know why but after that talk I always assumed you played a role in some of the language design.

Sounds like you have a lot of experience with imperative and procedural languages.

If you want to try something pretty difficult, but familiar, try a super-strict language like Ada.

If you want to try something completely different, I would suggest a functional language.

Elixir is already on you shortlist. I would also suggest taking a look at OCaml, Erlang, F#, Clojure, etc... However, I would not suggest Haskell if you're just starting out in functional.

Git wasn't released until 2005, so what did they use before then? I know it says they pulled the history from 24 snapshots.

I think it's worse when you make a reservation, but it doesn't mean anything.

For example, my wife and I went to a PF Changs on a holiday. We had a reservation we scheduled at least a week ahead of time, but it meant nothing, we were put at the end of the queue. It wouldn't have made a difference if we never made the reservation at all.

Betamax might have been a consumer failure, but I had to use it as recently as 2009 because some TV stations would only take our commercials in a Betamax format.

Granted, it was for some local Spanish stations that just had a bunch of old equipment, but I was surprised that it popped up.

I'm still not sure what the ad was about, because I don't speak Spanish, but it was a political ad. I just did audio post-production on it.

So lets lay it all out there.

E-M radiation is non-ionizing, but you can still get burned by it. One of the few major safety topics you'll learn in getting an HAM radio license is about RF burns. However, you have to use a fairly large amount of wattage (like more energy than a cell phone can even hold), and you have to stay located very close to the antenna. So it is _possible_ to receive a burn from a device emitting non-ionizing radiation, but you will not develop cancer from it. The wavelength is just too low to damage your DNA.

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hyperinflation can easily make everyone a millionaire!