xanderstrike

9 ms·

31.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
The fonts don't seem to matter. This thing is super cool but I disagree that it's not debilitating. `ls` on my home directory takes 0.005 real, `colorls` takes 0.554 real. Over 100x as long and it's an extremely noticeable ha
32.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
It's worth noting that from 2015 and on, iMacs can no longer be used in target display mode.
33.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
> features get deferred It's actually the opposite, bug fixes get deferred in favor of more features. Fixes make your player base happy, but they already paid and are therefore not worth any more money, new features drive sales.
34.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
A real hacking movie would be deathly boring. My favorite hacking in movies is either when it's cheesed up to the max (visually interesting) or happens off screen (more realistic).
35.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
Which is somewhere between irrelevant and a good thing because of the way their products are sold. Namely, consumers search "power bank" on amazon and buy something in the top 5-10 results. The more positions on that list Anker ca
36.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
They may be, but they're not using their AI knowledge to drive better features or experiences for their users. It seems like they're just using it to deliver better advertising.
37.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
I've been running a script that deletes any comment older than 14 days for over three years now and have experienced no ill effects whatsoever.
38.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
Huawei replaced mine. They have something like a 15 month warranty from date of manufacture so check with them and see if you're still in that range.
39.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
This is awesome! I've long thought of making something like this. One caveat though, I would never pay $5/mo for it. If you're writing the recipes, consider advertising and product placement as a revenue stream.
40.
by xanderstrike 9y ago
No, site appears to be down.
41.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Nintendo doesn't get any money from me buying a used cartridge though, so in terms of financial benefit to the rightsholders I don't see a difference.
42.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Those adapters are fine now, but what about in 10 years when it's even harder to find a working NES? 20? 50? At some point there will be no more working systems and cartridges, but because of the efforts of pirates these games can and
43.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
That's not what I said. I'm not very picky at all, I have two requirements for streaming services: have the content I want and do not advertise to me. There are several services that satisfy this requirement: Netflix, HBO Go, Goog
44.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Honest answer: piracy. If companies won't let you pay to avoid advertising, let them know it's a problem by not paying at all.
45.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Spotify succeeded where others failed because the RIAA basically picked it as a winner.
46.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Do people with adblockers count as an impression?
47.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
No it has built-in tools for sharing your messages with state actors.
48.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
I like OkCupid's solution to this problem a lot. You pay $5 once and they never serve you an ad again. If you think about it, $5 is probably more than they could ever hope to make serving ads to a single occasional user.
49.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Perhaps users who are interested in tech are the same kinds of users never click ads.
50.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Yeah but there's no chance to make it big driving for Uber/Lyft. You're just letting other skills you might have wilt while you wait for your job to be automated out of existence.
51.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
What's weird to me is the addictive qualities of "gig economy" jobs. I have friends who had real jobs and could have them again, but continue to drive full time for uber/lyft/postmates/whatever because they ins
52.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
If the company only makes $20 bucks on it, then they're losing $80 by giving it away. That's how profit margins work.
53.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
The sad thing is none of those logos and links have any meaning any more, almost all of them go to 404s, domain parked pages, or completely unrelated sites, and even when they were new they went to scummy ecommerce or porn sites. In 12 year
54.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
No, people without banks currently buy amazon gift cards and shop at amazon anyway. This is just saving them the effort of typing in the gift card code.
55.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
If you know unbanked people this is just an extension of the normal practice of buying Amazon gift cards at grocery stores and then using them. Honestly I think that's most of the reason why Ralphs sells Google Play/iTunes/Be
56.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Mailcatcher is an even simpler solution (assuming you can install rubygems): https://mailcatcher.me/
57.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
If your organization only has public repos, it's free.
58.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
I can't see Github going the way of SourceForge. SF was exclusively a download portal for FOSS, it needed ads (and, eventually, malware) to survive because it had no other revenue stream. Github, on the other hand, really only hosts FO
59.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
It'll be tens of dollars in India but hundreds of dollars here. It would probably be close to the same price to fly to India, have the procedure, and fly home. Plus you get a nice vacation out of it. If this becomes mainstream there I&
60.
by xanderstrike 10y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they also do "dry run" launches where the crew themselves don't know whether or not it's a drill, right? So they could safely assume that the real thing is also one of the regular, unsch

More ›