Poiesis

Given their example scenario ("moment of truth"), I'm far more likely to just buy an episode of something for a few bucks on iTunes. That way I have a much better chance of finding what I'm looking for, and I can watch something current if I want.

I'd prefer a subscription, and I don't really care to own a random episode, but if I was watching so many shows that the money would be an issue, I would have a cable subscription (I don't).

Ah, I assume the reason we all get identical avatars is that gravatar api access gets stopped by the corporate proxy. Any chance that's easily configurable? You're probably going to see a lot of corporate use by places who insist on self hosting everything so you might want to consider dealing with avatars yourself.

Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2.

BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch naming prefix (release/).

I did indeed take a look at the docs. That's why I commented. If there's documentation of REST end points, it's not obvious to me. Maybe someone else will point out what I'm missing.

As far as I can tell, most of the documentation essentially begins, "First, deploy a web app on our platform". Which is fine I guess, but isn't nearly as simple as the HTTP APIs you see from many other recent SaaS providers. As least for me, I'm pretty unlikely to jump through those hoops. Maybe others will be different.

Edit: All the way down on the bottom of the documentation page, past the research references, there's a link to HTTP API documentation--literally the last link on the page.

Two things that jumped out at me:

1. No "special characters" allowed in passwords when creating an account. 2. ...where's the REST API? I've "added a service" (TTS), but I have to write a webapp to expose it over HTTP? It sure is a different experience than your typical API documentation.

I don't know what the right answer is here, but I find it intriguing that this approach is in a way the opposite of what Python ended up doing with the 2/3 split.

Lots of things are wrong with WebDAV, summed up as "many clients with different implementations/interpretations of the spec."

Related: Are there any decent WebDAV servers out there? I don't see any recent development being done on any.

I can access new-hn though I can't say whether it's due to your changes. The https redirect adds an extra step because of a click through "this site could be evil" that Websense adds--I think it stores the acceptance for the http site, but then the https redirect happens which isn't registered on the "possibly evil" click through acceptance list so it initially fails. Manually going to the https version fixes this problem, though.

Man, I hate proxies.

Well, my large corporate employer uses Websense which seems to categorize hn.algolia.com as ("Category: hacking"), and blocks all queries (HN itself is fine). So I guess I'd say I need...search. Maybe you can get off the blacklist/on a whitelist?

Wifi DNS bug? Thanks for putting a name to a very persistent annoying problem in this household with--holy crap--12 Apple devices.

Also thanks for that Launchpad description. Keeps happening to my kids and I couldn't figure out why. I'm really disappointed in Apple. I'd really rather have reliable wifi than, say, Continuity.

If a human was watching the house in person, would a search warrant have needed to be obtained? Not trying to incite anything here--I realize there are differences--but I was curious about the legal implications of video vs. in-person surveillance of a property's exterior.

You're still alive, right?

Maybe that would work for many people, maybe it wouldn't—but it'd be nice if you included a link so that people could decide for themselves. It's an interesting idea but the first ones I found didn't seem to adjust to the height needed (obviously they exist, though).

Going to have to pile on here. The Flex seemed like it was going to be cool, but then the software was buggy for the longest time--wouldn't sync, silent alarms wouldn't work, etc. These are largely fixed but now they won't add HealthKit support. Seems stupid since the software isn't their strong point. But whatever, despite the lock-in attempts I'm not sticking with their stuff. Really like the Flex form factor but can't stand the platform at this point.

I have to agree with the "broken" comments. I can't speak to the API, but the Health app sure is a head-scratcher. Those sub-minute steps intervals mentioned by someone else are just baffling from a normal user's perspective. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to answer "How many steps did I walk on Monday?" without breaking out a calculator and adding them up yourself.

> His favourite "show" is a Youtube channel hosted by a 6-7 year old kid that builds lego and plays video games.

Would you mind sharing that link? I've got some kids who would be interested.

What I could use is a way to add an iphone as a dumbphone to a shared data/minutes plan. I have a spare iphone 4s (Verizon US), unfortunately, and I want to be able to have my son use the phone without data without paying the $40/mo that adding the iphone to the shared plan would cost.

You have a good, well-intentioned point but the article emphasizes that these designers are trying to sell something that's not theirs. That's not disruption.

> Someone will make a service that enables businesses to build applications for $5

Sure, happens all the time. Look at SquareSpace for example. That kind of product you used to need a team of people for. There's examples all over the place. Not sure how you get from there to logo design though. So far computers seem to be at their best when we can clearly describe the rules for them to follow, and design doesn't seem to fall into that category.

For Ruby, I enjoyed http://rubykoans.com . There is a python port (which I haven't tried) at https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans .

I hear you; a lot of people feel the same way (I'm lucky enough to be able to shower at each end; if I don't bike commute it's usually more laziness).

That said, a lot of people seem to sweat less on bikes with an electric assist; people worried about sweat might look into those as an alternative.

Yes! Thanks for posting this. I had read about it years ago and had been looking for it again for some time now.

I liked the terminology. Don't know which one of us is more representative of the target demographic, though.

It's not (necessarily) just marketing fluff. A lot of people view budgeting as "here's what I can't spend money on". It can be easier to stick to a plan when viewed through the lens of getting the maximal enjoyment for the money. There's a lot of people out there who "don't know where it's all going"; the idea is that you consciously decide if you'll be happier spending $100/month on, say, Starbucks or a Beaglebone. Once you know where it's all going, you can decide if you want to spend it on things that might be more enjoyable.

This isn't a spectacular article. I, for one, think the status quo in this case is kind of great: it's not reported on because it's not newsworthy.

Now, I know that isn't really true: in 2014 it's still somewhat remarkable, sadly, for him to be in that position. But things are looking up! I look forward to the day when a CEO's sexual preference is reported with the same fervor as his or her preference for chocolate ice cream vs. vanilla: not necessarily secret but irrelevant to performance and frankly not very interesting.

I'm not always sure what to expect from a vice.com article, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Not much technical detail of course, but I found this to be a great story of, well, hacking.

So, I actually have no love for Java, and am greatly enjoying the higher proportion of scripting irb been up to lately. But I had to comment on a couple things:

> Why only that library...? I've seen it all when a Perl developer is calling out a Java developer regarding TMTOWTDI. Nice library though.

>I would like to execute some shell commands Not sure comparing to a language with an explicit complicit compilation step is fair.

I'm wondering if Swift will fill that role, eventually.

Funny you should pick those two, since if the page "helpfully" uses the visibility feature to pause a video that I'm not staring at, it doesn't matter that I was using playbackRate to listen to it at 2x speed because it'll be at 0x speed.

Can't we all just get along? :D

I happen to agree with the people who are annoyed by the lack of a date. For most technical topics I research, I want to know when the article was written. Even for nontechnical topics, I generally want to know if the article represents the author's current thinking or something more distant.

But I'm not most readers, and like tptacek pointed out I'm certainly not entitled to a date on the post. Since I am unlikely to hire the writer, optimizing for my happiness is not exactly expected here. Of course, if I were to be looking to hire the reader, stale content isn't really going to bother me. It could of course affect if I see the content at all (via a search), which I expect may be one of the larger points here.

I had a similar problem; I downloaded it on a mac that didn't meet the minimum os requirement, then deleted it. Couldn't use the link again on the newer mac. Don't most people expect to be able to re-download this?

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but:

> People who get banned can either start again with a new account or can write a short email showing understanding of why they got banned and asking to be unbanned.

The issue people are bringing up is, what happens when the banee doesn't know why they got banned (not to mention that they got banned)?

For what it's worth, I usually point out Metafilter as a site that seem to do moderation pretty well. There are of course a number of important differences in the way the sites work, but I bet there are a great many lessons that could be shared in both directions.