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Agree. It's too expensive. I rationalized it as art and less expensive than most NFT's. As an art piece I do expect it to be good discussion piece and the construction makes me think that it'll last for 10 years without issues.

My initial thought was to turn this into a product but the cost of eInk at this size would need to drop to the $500-800 range to make it reasonably viable.

I thought about this. It would be a throwback to Pointcast (Circa 1990) for anyone who remembers that. They did the same thing... news, weather, stocks on a rotating schedule.

Thanks for posting. I didn't see a way to post directly to the display. I'll have to dig into.

Not sure why http://commoncrawl.org/ wasn't mentioned.

The subtext seems to be that the acquisition is a bad thing? Perhaps this is worth discussing. Microsoft has had a number of great acquisitions and in recent years it has been a good steward.

With any acquisition there is risk that this ruins the platform but there is the potential that it gets tied into better systems and tools. Anyone can always jump ship but I think it's a bit early to get on the life-rafts without understanding why?

Slack is now owned by Salesforce. Should we also ditch Slack? I still like both products, Microsoft's ownership by itself doesn't change much for me. It's up to them to improve the product or screw it up. Too early to say and I'd rather it be Microsoft rather than Apple or Facebook.

A great start for a truly open approach. It's ironic that OpenAI isn't particularly open about its tech.

I've been keeping copies of the HIG for years because the advice has been watered down over the years. The 1992 HIG is the oldest one that I have. The 1995 version is mostly edits and minor revisions. The 2006 version was heavily adapted and as we moved from Mac OS to iOS more and more of the good bits were dropped from the guidelines.

Chapter 1 is a great example, you can't find anything similar in the current HIG.

I can't read this article without a paid medium account? Never seen that before.

This is messed up. The only the stock exchange (NASDAQ/NYSE) should be able to halt a stock. We need a "stock neutrality" for trading platforms.

Robinhood claim that they are protecting investors assumes that they don't understand the risks of stock investing. Did the shorts understand the risks of shorting a stock over 100%?

Loans get paid back... donations don't. An organization that takes donations (like wikipedia) will have to keep asking for donations... while an organization that has a debt can take the time to figure out a revenue model not driven by ads to allow them to repay the debt.

I went down this rabbit hole at the start of the pandemic and it's more complex. The thing that makes for a good web-cam is a great lens. The sensor and body of the camera is mostly commodity and contributes at max $50-$100. A good lens with shallow depth of field will cost $500-$700. So the best case current solution would be $700+ for something that will look as good as a high-quality DSLR without the body complexity.

I designed a prototype of this type of camera and I think there's a market but it's difficult to defend. You end up competing with Logitech or Canon, GoPro & Apple enter the market.

It's more likely that cell-phone quality cameras start being added to laptops and the shallow depth of field is done in software.

There are a number of authors who do make a living by blogging. WaitButWhy and DaringFireball come to mind but I'm sure there are others. Ads and affiliate links did drive non-trivial dollars to my site in the past and while I didn't do it full-time it was much more viable than it is today.

Amazing seeing what a big performance difference there is between Chrome and Safari on a Mac. It's clear that Chrome on a Mac isn't as hardware accelerated as I previously thought.

Interesting concept but digging a big hole sounds expensive and prone to flooding. I can see how this would have better efficiency than pumped-storage hydro but I wonder if you couldn't raise and lower weight near cliffs rather than drilling wells.

If it does work, I would imagine the Boring company would be all over this.

Conclusion > I don't think the mobile web – as experienced by users – has become slower overall.

Even as a subjective result this seems really bad. Most web-pages are text & images, outside of apps like maps/email, most content is static and while CPU's and bandwidth has skyrocketed the UX has stayed about the same... we think.

A distributed ledger approach is a very bad idea because a foreign country can launch a 51% attack on the ledger and has the resources to win and thus modify the ledger.

Yep. This was one of the possible directions but it also has an initial startup problem. Right now only large app makers are making these types of frameworks because they don't make any money. (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Apple)

I didn't get super far, but far enough to see that an alternative to HTML/CSS was very fast and certainly viable. I also haven't been able to figure out if it's a cool software project or a business. My sense is that it's a cool tech but Netscape & Mozilla never had a strong macro-business when compared to Google or Microsoft.

I had a very similar idea and started to prototype a layout engine, tokenizer and parser. I was able to render things about 1000x faster in the basic case (rendering styled text, boxes and images). The problem I can't crack is mass adoption. If you have ideas on that, call me. :)

AMP is the consequence of HTML and CSS being awful at performance. I'm not sure why the underlying problem hasn't been addressed. Rending text and images on a page shouldn't require a secondary cache and an amp rendering framework on top of ton of css and layers of javascript. It's text and images.

I would love to see the help article that references this image. Hot-linking the image is interesting but without the context of the help page I don't know what to think. Anyone have a link, screenshot or wayback machine?

Ok. Let's put aside the content that Cloudflare will produce. They aren't a content company.

What they are showing is that cable is dying and using Cloudflare technology they can standup a global 24-hour TV station.

How many TV stations are there around the world? A lot and the future of TV is certainly digital. I don't care about the content but if they can pull this off then it's a showcase to every one of the tens of thousands of QVC, MTV, BBC, CSPAN, Discovery Channel, networks that they don't need the big cable players to broadcast anymore.

I actually worked on the followup to this book for the release of Windows XP at Microsoft. You can find it on Amazon if you're interested. https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Experience-Professi...

It was written largely by Tandy Trower (inventor of Clippy) and has many similarities to Apple's original Human Interface Guidelines though very different too.

Maybe contact support first, figure out what happened and why before writing the blog post?

Maybe it's a cloudflare issue, maybe it's an honest mistake, maybe they are bad at customer service... either way, it's not great to shame a company before you even open a support ticket or talk to someone to find out.

They had a leaked email posted last week that they were pushing for 100K. So 97k is less than was priced into the stock. Not sure why institutional investors don't like the stock and it's so heavily shorted and twitchy.

Tesla could use a COO to manage operational expectations and let Elon focus more on engineering in the future. It'll keep his twitter/email free from setting market expectations.

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This should really be an <input type="checkbox"> with bonus CSS/JS so that it's backward compatible and doesn't break the world of accessibility, tabs, focus, forms, etc.

I think it's fine for design to explore visual representations of an input but the HTML should try to stay clean.

I suspect that 'BatteryTimeRemaining.c' is used in both iOS and OSX builds. It seems unlikely that a MacBook would have an extra battery pack.

That aspect wouldn't have to change from how it's done today. Go to your polling location and show/prove residency for registration purposes.