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Put that way it's ridiculous enough if you are not refunding. Someone should do a points-free card with decent security (2fa on each purchase?) to minimise fraud that just gives say $50 cash of that to the consumer. They can then knock off 2.5% of whatever price they see in the store when thinking about what to buy. Such a card would be popular for expense accounts!

I'm bad at names, so I didn't know the name, but followed the Wikipedia link and saw he was the "modeless" advocate, and I learned about that from this awesome Bret Victor talk: https://vimeo.com/36579366. Someone has commented to forward to 38 minutes to hear it.

That Bret Victor talk still influences me today, so please watch it I think it'll help you if you haven't watched it already.

That it is on by default (well it seem so anyway) is interesting from a fingerprinting perspective.

Hi I have two questions:

1. How can I be sure sensitive date sent via the APIs is secure / private etc?

2. Is you reliability and availability 100%, because if I use you my app's availability is now only as good as yours. We've been bitten by cascading effects of outages of upstream cloud services, but something like this would knockout everything I guess if it was down.

No not the email client. It's about choice of timber for TV studios.

The domain licorice.fun is available!

Maybe. The problem with ad networks is they don't pay well. Google is probably the best but still it's a pittance.

I think the sweetspot for adsense is a site will millions of visitors who are not targeted for anything so adsense individually targets them for you.

But if you have a site that is niche then you are better off finding a direct advertiser who will pay you more, and neither of you have to worry about getting banned or quality scores or all of that shit.

Especially for a "brick and mortar business" I can't see why you couldn't try other things - direct marketing, cold calling, events, cards in doctor's offices, whatever else.

IFTTT is indeed a SaaS but I would also classify it as a general purpose tool like Excel. A jack of all trades. Definitely a master of none. Would you use IFTTT or Pingdom to check your site is up?

If people are setting up IFTTT for business critical things, then potentially there is scope for a dedicated SaaS to some of those things.

Don't use Adsense for revenue.

There was no other marketing channels you could use than Google Ads?

Is IFTTT the new Excel ala "if people are using an Excel sheet, turn it into a SaaS"?

Watch out for that Thanksgiving or Christmas false alert!

I'd do that but make it below 80

Handy! I like seeing all these little problems solved in React JS, and its good UI inspiration.

Precisely!

I honestly feel cranky if I have been in the house for too long. I long for a nice walk in nature, which in a city could mean a walk in the park.

I'm not sure how people can live inside all the time, it would be like that Black Mirror episode where all they do is play video games and rack up points to try and get out of it. It would be like prison.

I like them. They are quite subtle.

I think the developer of this needs to do something though - it says "Unknown Publisher". Surely that can be fixed.

Yes I should have said: art, generative art and retro-nostalgia sites are excepted.

I agree but with the cavaet that animated SVGs can be good for some special cases:

* Loading indicator - from a UX perspective we are used to this so having a non-animated loading is weird. I think gmail used to do it but that was back in the mid 2000s.

* Confirmation of a user action - if I have sent an email then a sound and/or animation can feel good. It is not necessary but sort of adds a magic to the application.

* Where the animation is useful in explaining something, for example, an explanation of balancing trees.

We shouldn't use them on:

* Static "non-app" information pages / landing pages etc.

* As a button icon pre-action. E.g. the word SUBMIT sliding from side to side would be annoying!

True, although startup navel gazing is not as common as one would expect. Current top 10:

  Swift Playgrounds for macOS (apps.apple.com)
  Judge Orders Navy to Release USS Thresher Disaster Documents (usni.org)
  Where are all the animated SVGs? (getmotion.io)
  Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine (piqnt.com)
  How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (washingtonpost.com)
  N26 will be leaving the UK (n26.com)
  The coming IP war over facts derived from books (abe-winter.github.io)
  Growing Neural Cellular Automata: A Differentiable Model of Morphogenesis (distill.pub)
  A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians (roboflow.ai)
  Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions (pspdfkit.com)

Hanlon = plausible deniability

Is that the dose of the element, or the compound? Does that vary based on the compound?

Yeah it said "3G" but it seemed more like 33.6kbps dial up speeds of yore based on the experience. I've gone through extended periods of using both 3G and 33.6kbps to know the feel!

But still 1st world problems. A CB or ham radio would have been nice though!

eh? Fortran is not dead. How can RoR be?

are the shorts all emotive humans saying "damn it I lost money, boo hoo!", or is much of that money just bundled up money hedging against something and doesn't really care.

One danger is looking for correlations in a dataset means you will find them. It could be by noise. I can't even see what the percentages are in the visualization, when you move the mouse it changes the view, it is quite annoying.

Let's say you have a room full of developers and 15% of them have their birthday in May. Do you make conclusions from this? What is the chance of that happening purely by chance given that all developers had a pretty-much equal chance of being born on any given month.

We had some storms and network outages yesterday. I was down to 3G, it seemed like dialup speeds. Hacker news faithfully loaded after 30 seconds (I think most of that time there was zero connection, so when a few bytes could fly through it loaded up).

I couldn't get any other site to load. Not even google.com.

It made me want to create a website called "lowbandwidthsites.com" or similar that is itself minimal and just lists the sites that you can load when there is low bandwidth for news etc.

A low bandwitdth read-only repeater for sites like reddit.com would be handy. Or maybe a general purpose low bandwidth repeater that can take any site - a bit like outline.com/mysite.com but even lower fidelity - just returns the markdown!

Edit looks like it has been done: https://www.textise.net/

My internal translation: "I feel" -> "I have concluded, based on no evidence"