lord_jim's comments

Say that I am building an app that leads to real world interaction, potentially with strangers. Clearly a real name policy is not a good way to make these interactions safer, but what would be a proper alternative? A reputation system? Any existing apps that do a good job with this?

Right now I’ve just surfaced links to user’s social profiles so that other users can verify if this is someone they may be able to trust

Yawn. Wake me when you can actually mine cryptocurrency using this

(Although if anyone wants to build something similar, the lovense toys are actually a pretty good choice. Just serial commands over Bluetooth as far as I know, so it’s super easy to hook them up to an Api or sensor)

Street art is supposed to be ephemeral and free. The people who put it inside frames and sell it for $200,000 are the real destroyers

Any advice if you really do want to produce a cheap, disposable product? I’ve seen a ton of postmortems about what not to do, but few write-ups on what to do

The value of bitcoin, as with other currencies, is the value people believe it holds. More concretely, this would be the value of goods or services you can exchange it for today, and/or the future value you believe the currency will hold.

Your argument reminds me of a classic eBay seller problem: you can price your rare collectables however you want, but if no one is buying, they are worthless

I found that number surprising, although I also know very little about what it takes to manufacture things. Any idea what the employee breakdown looks like in terms of profession and area of focus (since they have solar city too)?

IMO there are some extremely questionable design decisions in 11. Some of these are just ugly (like the super bold date on the calendar icon) or wasteful of space (like the headers), but others hide useful info or decrease discoverability (like requiring force touch for normal flows).

I’ve only been using it for half a day but right now the details feel sloppy and the bigger picture UX feels poorly thought out.

Full steam ahead with decriminalization of possession/use, and with regulated markets for psychedelic and most stimulants

However after seeing how business behaves when it can sell opiates, I'm in favor of even more regulation than we currently have on some drug markets

(Also, if it were up to me, I'd ban ads for drugs, including alcohol and prescriptions)

I'd argued that heavy regulation has been just as important. For example, how many other products besides cigarettes have to carry a warning over half of their packaging?

Also taxation. Ideally the taxes should make people understand the true cost of their purchase. (I know this is not usually how cigarette tax is actually determined)

All used deliberate scarcity, a large number of product editions, and rapid product cycles to create a collectors market and ultimately create the impression of value. It is also debatable in each case how organic the growth in desirability of each has been, and how much of this has been engineered by the companies themselves

With the nuke mania of the early Cold War, I'm surprised that the military never tried creating a nuclear version of Project HARP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

(I've also always enjoyed the parallels of this story with "From the Earth to the Moon")

Came across this Wikipedia list of wingsuit fatalities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_due_to_wi...

The past few years is pretty sobering, especially given that most of these guys were experts and clearly knew their stuff

(after reading through https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/58 and other issues related to this situation)

The Github comment revision needs to stop. It makes it impossible for people who were not involved in the original conversation to understand what actually happened. Without a full archive of all revisions, you cannot even judge if the edits were made in good faith or if the current text represents the author's original intent. It casts doubt on everything.

The whole mess is even worse on long threads like the ones linked to. Editing a comment that other users responded to can make the responding comments look silly or stupid, or completely change the meaning of their response.

This is mostly a process thing but Github also needs to improve how edits are handled.

It would probably be better to use a trie directly, maybe a radix trie or a b-trie.

You promoting your software company that promotes software companies yo

CoffeeScript. It had its time but it's focus on syntax failed to address much of what makes JavaScript difficult to work with.

jquery UI. Jquery still has some use in banging out a quick page but it too is no longer essential

Also possibly Bootstrap. What the hell is going on with development there?

Amazon's growth was methodical and controlled, with a net income near zero or slightly negative most quarters. This is different than how Tesla is operating. I like Tesla but do have to wonder if they are on more of the Twitter business track with their aggressive reinvestments

Good timing. I need to create a short porn film for an art project (yes seriously) and been wondering how the hell to actually find professionals who I can work with.

Random emails have not been working but this article provided some new avenues to explore. I'll even pose as a VR goggle fetishist if that's what it takes to get the damn thing commissioned

I wish you could just run ghost locally and then publish a generated static site. I actually much prefer the Jekyll flow to ghost but the core ghost ui and functionality are great for less technical bloggers. It just seems like a waste of time and money to be running a node app to serve what are essentially static pages

Bolivia has had a small cocaine tourism industry for years, sometimes peddling just the leaves and sometimes more refined forms. Certainly not hard to find