jamestanderson

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Comment · 2 years ago
In my experience, police officers leave voice messages.
Comment · 2 years ago
Huh, I never knew about this! It looks like it's still around. I'll try that next time. Thanks for the tip!
Comment · 2 years ago
It's really cool to see offline support done well. It can be very frustrating when it's done poorly, or not offered at all.

One of my biggest gripes with the Spotify app is the poor offline support, at least in my experience on Android. I have the bulk of my library downloaded for offline listening, so when I have a spotty network connection like when I'm on the Subway, I'd expect that I can still easily access at least my downloaded songs. Not the case. Spotify, it seems, won't use its local cache until it's thoroughly convinced you're offline, which may take several minutes of waiting for requests to time out. Once Spotify is convinced I'm offline, my downloaded songs will then finally load normally.

My guess is that instead of doing it the way the Kinopio does - by reading from the local cache before fetching the remote data - Spotify does it the other way around.

Anyway, nicely done!

Comment · 2 years ago
> But, we wouldn't have expected the manufacturer to do anything except officially discourage the use of the aftermarket tools.

I think the issue here is that McDonalds was discouraging the use of the tool, not Taylor (the manufacturer).

Comment · 3 years ago
I'm sad to see this comment, scoffing at an independent creator just selling something cool online. I wonder why this reaction? Is it the imagined profit margin? Or just the choice of words in the listing?

The listing says it's a 43" 4K Samsung display, which a quick look on Amazon shows goes for at least around $270. They also offer free shipping, so shipping is effectively included in the price. I don't know how much walnut or acrylic costs, or desktop CNC's.

The price doesn't seem unreasonable to me for a turnkey complete package, since I don't have the skills or tools to make this myself.

Comment · 3 years ago
I believe they require contributors to sign their CLA: https://cla.hashicorp.com/

That CLA grants HashiCorp full license over your Copyright, and explicitly allows them to sublicense your contributions[1]. Drew Devault's blog posts[2][3] on this topic are extremely relevant.

[1] > Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to HashiCorp and to recipients of software distributed by HashiCorp a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.

[2] https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html

[3] https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html

Comment · 3 years ago
> companies like Amazon abuse FOSS licenses to stand up their own hosted versions of open source projects

This is not an abuse of FOSS licenses. If developers have a problem with this, there are open source licenses that would make this use case less attractive for Amazon, like the AGPL.

Comment · 3 years ago
All that I get from this is that HashiCorp is no longer an open source company.

> However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals, without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is in the spirit of open source.

This is 100% in the spirit of open source. If this is a problem for them, why not adopt an open source license that compels developers to open source their code instead, like the AGPL?

This is purely a way for HashiCorp to ensure they are the only ones who can commercialize these formerly open source projects. Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.

Comment · 3 years ago
I got their 10gbps displayport switch to use with switching a single monitor between a Windows desktop PC and an M1 MacBook Pro. I have a 4k@144hz monitor and can get the full framerate and resolution with this setup. I've never had any problems, would highly recommend.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm a big fan of this font, I use it every day and have never regretted the purchase. Unfortunately the OP noted they didn't like Iosevka, which I think is pretty visually similar.
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Comment · 4 years ago
What's your experience with group texting? I've been looking for a dumb-er phone, but I need good group texting support to stay in touch with my family. I've tried phones like the Nokia 3310 and Nokia 225 TA-1282, and have been disappointed in the way they handle group texting.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow - really surprised at this move by Netlify. It looks like that's a new policy[1] where a "Member" is not just someone who can log in to the Netlify UI and manage a site, but anyone who can trigger a build.

Relevant quote from the article outlining the policy changes:

> For sites connected to private Git repositories on Pro and Business teams, Git contributors will need to be team members in order to trigger builds.

> Teams will only be billed for the number of team members. Currently, Git contributors are people who trigger builds on your team’s site(s). Moving forward, in order to trigger builds, Git contributors who aren’t Team Members, such as people in the ‘Contributors via Git’ section, Reviewers, or people not on the team entirely, will need to have their deploy approved by a team Owner.

> Once their deploy is approved, they’ll be invited to become a Team Member and can deploy without approval from then on. If their deploy is rejected, their build won’t run and they will not be added as a team member to your monthly bill.

> This change does not apply to sites linked to public repositories or sites on Starter or Open Source plan teams.

So it sounds like you could limit your costs by limiting your team Owners.

This pricing doesn't seem like a good value proposition to me. I see Netlify as a web host and CDN which has products very comparable to some of Cloudflare's products. In those spaces billing is generally based on usage, not number of seats.

What you get from Netlify doesn't scale with the number of seats you pay for.

If I have 1 member on the Business plan I'll pay $99/mo and get 1.5TB of bandwidth per month. If I have 5 members on the Business plan, I'll pay $495/mo and still only get 1.5TB of bandwidth. Hardly seems fair or reasonable.

[1] https://answers.netlify.com/t/upcoming-changes-to-netlify-pl...

Comment · 4 years ago
I also don't put my predictions in writing, but I appreciate those that do. It's easy to look at the state of the world today and say, "Of course. How could it end up any other way?"

Looking at how badly old predictions miss the mark serves as a good reminder that the bets we make today for the future are probably just as wrong.

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