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I don't mean the product.

Your subconscious mind is not motivated by the product.

Tens of thousands of great products are created each year. Your subconscious mind does not care if there is one more or not.

It is motivated by how good of a life you will have.

If it imagines "more sitting in front of a computer and typing into a keyboard" it will not get excited.

My guess is that you subconciously know that the outcome would not be that great.

Why do you want to do a full-time job PLUS a side project?

What kind of life is that? You would work most of your waking hours. That is not the kind of possible future that motivates one to push through.

Well, tweeting where?

If it is tweeted on an account with 0 followers, then certainly not, right?

And when tweeted to one millioin scientists in the same field, then certainly yes, right?

Yes. That is how they scared him into signing it.

But I suggest standing your ground in such a situation. They wanted to work with him. They had a contract with him. So there was a lot of pressure on them too. If they breached the contract they would lose an employee and face legal repercussions.

I beg to differ. They did not "add" a non-compete. They scared him into signing one.

Someone at Amazon put a paper on his desk and said that unless he signs it, they would not "authorize my employment". Whatever that means.

    So I signed. Because what
    other options did I have?

The option not to sign. He had an offer from them and he agreed. That is a legal binding contract that they have to abide. So don't sign and say "Sorry, but we have a legally binding agreement. And this is not in line with it.".

If you let people scare you by saying something, they will continue to play tricks on you. Stick to what is written.

What does it give you over simple server-side rendered templates?

The way I read it, they scrape 25k pages per day?

I wonder if that could already bring them on Googles radar. If so, Google would probably send a cease and desist letter and this startup would simply give up.

I wonder if Google would also demand their legal expenses? Probably a couple thousand dollars?

I know, nobody would go to court against Google - but what would happen if this did go to court? Which laws would Google cite to deem this illegal?

How does the statement about dead pixels help people who ordered and paid a phone but get no information on when it will be shipped?

Regarding general population vs hackers: Do you imply that hackers value low price higher then others? Are hackers particularely poor? I thought hacker often means coder which usually means higher income then the general population.

Personally, I would totally prefer to pay 50% more and have my emails answered and my orders shipped.

I wonder why they price their products so cheap.

They seem to be totally overrun by demand. And give a terrible user experience when you try to order from them. Friends of mine have ordered (and paid!) Pine64 products weeks ago and get no information when they will be shipped. When you send them an email, it either gets ignored or you get a reply by someone who does not speak English. Telling you something like "Yes will inform you when be shipped".

Why not charge 50% more and treat your customers like customers?

This taints the whole Pine64 brand for me. I totally want a Linux phone and a Linux tablet. But I don't know if I should trust a brand that treats their customers like this.

From this announcement it seems PHP was not a language at first but rather a set of higher level tools.

From what I read on Wikipedia, this version did have language features already. Can somebody in the know explain why they are not mentioned in the announcement?

I use the Music-Map for my "music journey". Every other day, I start from an artist I already like and travel through the names until I stumble into an area I have not been to before:

https://www.music-map.com

Interesting, that you say longer for travel.

To what extend is travel restricted at the moment? What happens when someone from - say - Germany flies to the UK?

As far as I can see, flights can still be booked.

Can you run it locally on your laptop?

I think you still need a steady hostname pointing to it, right?

That might be a step forward. Still a bit complex, but maybe worth considering.

Would that work for mulitple domains? So I CNAME the _acme-challenge subdomain for all my domains to _acme-challenge.cheapthrowaway.com?

    It is free!

Something might be free there. But not the wildcard certs we are talking about.

    If the message is altered then the most pain
    anyone will have is connecting somewhere else
    for the first time

If the page is altered so it loads 3rd party tracking code, then the pain is to be tracked.

If the page is altered so it opens a "Please enter your ebay login" phishing site in the background, a user might switch tabs, think "Oh, I logged out of ebay somehow" and enter their password into the attackers site. Exposing them to the pain of ecommerce fraud.

If the page is altered to use a 0-day exploit, the pain is to have a zombie machine afterwards.

Etc etc ...

Did you miss the "free" in my comment or am I missing something?

Because there is only one free certificate provider (lets encrypt) and it does not allow wildcard certificates via server authentification.

Having the DNS credentials laying around on the server is not a good idea. So creating wildcard certs via letsencrypt is a huge pain in the ass.

If a webmaster has control over somedomain.com I think that is enough to assume he has control over *.somedomain.com. So I think letsencrypt should allow wildcards to the owner of somedomain.com without dabbling with the DNS.

The way things are now, I don't use ssl for my smaller projects at smallproject123.mydomain.com because I don't want the hassle of yet another cronjob and I sometimes don't want the subdomain to go into a public registry (where all certificates go these days).

    opaque byte arrays, only available operation is
    rendering into a bounded area

Goodbye web then. Because the whole request you get from a client is nothing but strings.

So when you run an onlineshop and a customer orders "7" screwdrivers - then you are screwed. Because what does an "opaque byte array" of "opaque byte arrays" cost? How much shipping will that be?

But at least you have a brand new customer: Henry@gmail.com. Since you do not lowercase the email and do not recognize him as henry@gmail.com which he used in his last order.

What will happen when I plug the USB cable into my Linux machine?

In fact, I only want to use it at home while sitting in front of the computer. I want to make some biofeedback experiments to figure out if I can influence my heart rate via meditation.

Now I am confused. You can use the "Polar H10" on your wrist? The product description seems to only mention strapping it to your chest.

That looks good! Will buy one next time I am in an electronics store.

I find it surprising that a we still need a chest belt to measure heart beats. I can put a finger on my wrist and feel every beat perfectly. Strange that a wrist band cannot do the same.

I would think that enabling the "Display advertisers features" only makes sense for webmasters who also use Google Adsense. And then their visitors get bombarded with all kinds of cookies anyhow. So I don't think it applies to the use case at hand. Where a webmaster wants to implement statistics without violating GDPR.

    it also sets a third party DoubleClick cookie

I have never witnessed that. Can you link to a site that uses only Google Analytics where that happens?

Maybe you confused Analytics and Adsense?

This article uses the terms "visit" and "pageview" in unusualy ways.

They give the example that when a user clicks through from yourwebsite.com/ to yourwebsite.com/page then the first is a unique visit while the second is a non-unique visit.

I would neither call a "visit" but rather a "pageview".

In my book, the visit is what started from the first pageview on yourwebsite.com site and continues to the last pageview.

1st party ads are not unblockable. They only lack one aspect that helps identify them (the 3rd party hostname). But they still can be dealt with.

One way browsers try to take away that freedom is by limting what extensions can do. If that continues, at one point we would need a new browser to accomplish it.

My favorite vision of the future would be if Debian would provide a version of Chrome or Firefox that: a) is stripped of all tracking and b) gives extensions full access to everything.

To those who have tinnitus:

When you put a finger in your ear and create a bit more or a bit less pressure - does that change the frequency of your tinnitus?

Because for me it totally does. And I wonder if every tinnitus is like that.

Also: Is your tinnitus mainly on one side or equally on both sides? For me it is mainly on the right side.

A battery with 1 kg of mass would only collapse into into a black hole if it is very small. A bottle of water is 1 kg and I never saw one collapsing.

Aha! So the most efficient mass based rechargeable battery would be one that while loading creates antimatter and while being used burns that antimatter with air (or other stuff) it takes from the environment.