Psilidae

Great recommendation! I haven't really used our local library because I keep forgetting that it's an option. But, I just checked and it looks like ours has the same Inter-Library Loan process for requesting books.

Thanks, I'm going to try to remember this and start using it more. Hopefully it'll help me both save money and reduce the number of unread books collecting dust on my already full shelves.

I'll use it while comparing multiple projects to guage community support and how "alive" the project is. Stars are obviously not the best representation, but it's a nice way to see how many other people have evualuated the project and are either using it or at least thought it looked good in some way.

This past weekend, while trying to choose a JS framework for a webapp, stars played a decent role in my choice when it came down to two that seemed to have similar features and comparable commit activity. One project has ~200 stars, while the other had ~13,000, which definitely helped push me toward the latter.

That seems like a really cool concept. But also way too free. How are they making money?

Their privacy policy (which was hard to find) doesn't describe how they handle your transaction data, yet almost half of the policy is describing how they're going to collect and disclose (web) information for advertising.

For what it's worth, I'd argue the same should be permitted of a small car maker. If I want to go build my own cars, step 1 should be putting a motor on a chassis and being able to drive forward. Step 1 shouldn't be adding airbags and seat belts to a couple axles.

The safest car is one that can't drive, and the most privacy-friendly software will fail to compile. You should be able to build a functional car before you need to worry about making it as safe as possible, and similarly you should be able to build a functional MVP of your software before you need to worry about compliance with a huge international policy.

If I were running my own company right now, this is probably the approach I would take. I'm a big privacy advocate, but I'm also anti-authoritarian and don't like being forced into things by overbearing laws.

Blocking Europeans sounds a lot more reasonable than having to hire a lawyer and spend double the time and effort just to be compliant while writing a new JavaScript MVC Todo List app.

By that logic, doesn't the entire Internet fundamentally violate GDPR?

And while you're at at: every coffee maker should be a Keurig and buy only disposable utensils to save time washing silverware.

I like were this is going. When do we start burning books and arresting people who speak something that isn't in the list of Good Words?

Where can you buy those now? I remember they existed, but I thought that was basically a registrar bug that was fixed. The last time I searched around, I couldn't find any registrars that permitted emoji domain names.

Every week I still get a Quora Digest email, and every week, if I glance at it, I find myself asking "seriously, are these really the best there is?"

I'm sure they're algorithmically picked, but it seems to be heavily polluted with things phrased as questions that are really just rants/complaints, political provocatism, naivete, bragging and showing off privilege (interestingly, frequently tied with seemingly being very naive); the ones that depress me the most are questions being asked by people who clearly must have been incredibly sheltered and repressed. For some of those, I am glad there's a place like Quora for people to actually get those questions answered, but Quora itself doesn't seem to be great at highlighting interesting questions.

SA is still my go-to when I'm looking for some random stranger's advice on a topic. Bonus points because I think humor is a good thing to have included in any subject, including serious discussions.

That's also a description of ads.

Anyone have any idea why it's on there?