dlwiest

The first (public) web app was a tool for managing large games of Assassin, which we used for about a week and a half to run a class-wide game until someone complained to his parents and the school shut us down. We probably could have finished it out, but once people get scared and start dropping out of an in-progress game, it's hard to keep going.

BTC is strongly linked to the rest of the crypto market. When BTC drops, the rest follow almost always.

There's very little speech that's actually illegal in the US. You can't tell outright lies about someone with the intention of hurting them professionally (although it's still a civil matter, and when I say "lies", I mean specifics, e.g. you can't claim in an article that someone dropped out of college if they didn't) and you can't say anything that has a high probability of causing immediate physical harm (e.g. you can't order somebody to shoot someone). That's basically it. When you start talking about publishing photographs or recorded audio, things get a bit more complicated because of copyright laws, and obviously CP is illegal, but strictly in terms of speech, online or off, there are almost no restrictions here.

I still think that's an awful name.

"We wouldn't have services like Netflix or Facebook or Google if NN had not been in place."

Facebook was founded almost a decade before Net Neutrality regulations were in place in the US.

True. I may pick it up again. I'll just need to figure out how to make it robust as I'd want without it becoming too clunky.

I actually started developing this but shelved it because I couldn't figure out how to pitch it.

"So what's this app you're building do?" "Well... have you ever had that problem where you know you recognize an actor from another movie, but you don't know his name, and you don't feel like cross checking the movies' IMDB pages?" "No." "Oh. Okay."

In order of priority, it definitely ranks below salary, benefits, how enjoyable the work is, and where the job is located. If my employer happens to be socially conscientious, that's a nice bonus, but I can't see choosing a job based on it.

My approach is to buy a Lenovo with a decent processor and screen size and the lowest memory and storage I can find, then upgrade to 16GB and a SSD, since it's much cheaper to upgrade these parts than to buy pre-assembled with the specs you want.

I wouldn't want to do without a desktop, but I also like having the option of going to a coffee shop or park to work, especially when I'm having trouble staying on task at home.

Have you considered adding dogecoin and/or litecoin? The inflationary nature of dogecoin lends itself to a higher transaction volume than bitcoin, whereas bitcoin inherently encourages hoarding, not to mention the overwhelmingly generous nature of the dogecoin community in general.

Nah. It's neat, but there's no reason for me to go back to it: I just can't imagine ever saying to myself, "You know how I'd like to spend my time? Seeing how people on the internet have answered a random assortment of polls." If I want to know how the general public feels about a specific issue, I'll just google it.

Oh, there's no question that local Apache and Node servers can be valuable tools, but if you're trying to teach your reader something that doesn't strictly require them, why risk alienating people who aren't familiar? How many people who just want to learn how two way binding works are going to see a Node.js server as a "requirement" and move on?

Software and a film script are a bit different though. If source becomes available, anyone can compile and use it. I'm not sure it's fair to the developer if he wrote that code with the intention of selling it and now it's available for free, but at least it's still available. Producing a movie, on the other hand, is well outside of most people's financial capability, and this leak might prevent people who would be capable of turning the script into a film from doing so.