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Yeah I think I learned this the hard way: even making DB columns can be a premature optimization.

You can't even edit your own applets right? Like, you create an applet, hit save, and then it's set in stone. Can't modify it, you'd just have to make a new one. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

If that's true, no way I'm paying $2/month for that. I'm moving to Autocode.

Edit: OK I see I can still edit RSS applets after they're created. Still doesn't seem worth keeping the service.

Years ago I put together a Rails app to store iPhone/iPad apps for curation. There was a backend that connected to the iTunes API and then I parsed the data elements I needed and entered them into the DB.

The most infuriating thing was realizing that I needed to update the model with a new data element, or that some API responses didn't include the needed data. There was all this controller and model code and then the migrations every time I needed to make a change.

Is this normal when coding any web application at all? I think if I had to do it again I'd just store the entire API response in a single "document" column and query it dynamically as needed. Did I stumble upon why many developers have moved to "noSQL" models of document storage?

I guess my question is, aren't there domestic manufacturers who can help with prototyping and everything? Or has China completely taken that over?

Note that I'm not talking about electronics in this instance, let's say gardening equipment.

How about if you don't want to go to China?

Chuck Swindoll was once a fan of that poem, but came around to a higher truth. I couldn't find the radio sermon where he used it as an example but the truth is that at some point you ought to learn that 1) there's quite a lot directing your fate other than yourself, and 2) you can't save yourself--any more than Baron Munchausen could pull himself out of the water by his own ponytail.

Rather than "invictus" I would rather be conquered by the Hound of Heaven: https://www.bartleby.com/236/239.html

Nobody said he committed suicide.

Point 3 is what this whole article is about. Butowsky is being sued for defamation, that is, for lying about Seth Rich to serve his own political/personal ends.

The Latin idiota is borrowed from Greek ἰδιώτης idiōtēs which is from ἴδιος idios meaning "private" or "peculiar".

Idiot has historically meant "retarded" so if you wanted to say "ignorantly" you could have just said that, or "idiotically" is fine but don't pretend it has such wholesome roots.

Hmm, checking this out, the original Natural does not do this, but the newer ones, the 4000 and the Sculpt, do this. Thanks for the tip.

An exploit plus 3 different poor security practices... insane.

> The Fed prints money by giving free gifts to banks. That is, QE for $500 billion means banks are $500 billion richer.

This is a straw man, $500 billion in loans (normally above market value for collateral) means banks could be anywhere from 0-500 billion dollars richer but they are certainly not poorer.

>The first person to get a new dollar has an unfair advantage, since they can spend it before the rest of the economy knows about the extra dollar.

Have you seen the stock market lately? Investors have done well in this new easy money economy and until that money trickles down they certainly have it much easier than they otherwise would.

>Inflation is a deterministic function of the money supply. There wouldn’t be inflation if we didn’t create more money.

In the long run this is true. Especially the second statement, it's almost trivial to prove: Imagine an island with 10 dollars in circulation. The amount of goods produced doubles, and everyone is able to trade and consume all the goods. The price of the goods must necessarily be cut in half on average, so that the 10 dollars are able to pay for all the goods.

They're made out of meat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ

By the way, I agree with you, it is unsettling to hear human beings reduced to such terms.

Computers are bad and we should feel bad.

So you roll the dice and then leave them in the case and never roll them again?

Strange to see powershell core have such poor performance. Isn't it basically .NET in a scripting language? I've had great success grepping through gigs of log files with powershell, though I recognize that's apples to oranges.

You know what, you're right. Today I turned off the backlights on my keyboard so it's nearly blank, and I noticed that I was in fact looking down. I do touch type though. So the big benefit of Typing of the Dead was that it forced you to look at the screen for zombies coming at you.

Weird, on the one hand I'm thankful to hear it's not "pay to win" stuff, but on the other, wow that's a lot of skins and dances!

Edit: Insert joke about Quantitative Easing here

Weird, I thought Fortnite was free to play. What could people possibly be spending money on?

Edit: Also I thought Fortnite was a FPS. How can you play that on iOS?

Has anyone attempted to re-engineer a superior UX on top of the git data structure? Would it even be possible?

Ctrl key placement was OK. As a heavy SSMS user I had a lot of trouble making Shift+Home, F5 key sequence work.

More accurately: "Learning to touch type made me an expert typist. Also I bought a keyboard with blank keycaps."

I get that you could cheat if you had a regular keyboard, but if you're learning to type, why would you do that? And even if you do cheat and look, you could still practice the hand movements.

With that said, I learned to touch type in 1-2 weeks with _The Typing of the Dead_ on a Sega Dreamcast and this keyboard: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39589/Dreamcast-Keybo...

You can find the game on Steam today (updated with new crowd sourced text options)

w/r/t HHKB: I have the "Lite" version and I could never get into it. Fn-keys, other key placements were too unnatural. Anyone want it?

One thing I'd recommend is to focus even more on dynamically updating the experience depending on the user's system resources. For instance if the browser starts crashing with too many video/audio streams, or bandwidth makes video basically useless, you could allow the user to participate in a conversation audio-only, or automatically turn off background audio to save bandwidth.

Book or tutorial recommendations please.

This whole things stinks. Why does Facebook need to stick its nose in a viral post about a historical figure? I suppose the possible real-world repercussions of this "fact-checking" are not, like, genocide or anything, but the disposition of various Robert E Lee statues? Or is Facebook really trying to promote Truth as an end in itself? And they enlist Snopes to help them in this Noble endeavor and declare "mostly false" beyond their standards? Really? And you're defending this shit?

Hello, I wanted to let you know that your HN account is probably banned as most of your comments are dead and the only reason I can reply to this one is that a mod undeleted it.

You're right. I think it's time to hang up my username and go learn some math.

It's not 1/60 the size of the original?

I was looking for a comment mentioning Seamless. This is the best counter example. Note that these guys bootstrapped correctly from the start; as you mentioned, group buys was a great low cost/high margin way to get started.