justinlardinois

Right? I don't understand how someone can read an article like this and have that reaction. An anecdote drives the point home a lot more than common sense.

Also, what's this about driving blog traffic? He didn't work himself into the ground with the intention of writing a blog post about it.

I think you're confusing life and medical insurance.

It's a different symbol than the sharp, and I don't blame anyone for not knowing it's rarely used for that purpose these days.

I had a web design professor who said its "true" name was octothorpe, and while various sources confirm that, I've never heard anyone else call it that. Another student in the same class once called it the "tic tac toe symbol."

I don't really agree with this article's assessment.

If your question isn't clear, it's not possible to get good answers. If your question is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology you're using, the best possible answer is "You're fundamentally misunderstanding the technology you're using."

Stack Overflow encourages users to edit other people's questions for clarity and formatting, which I think is helpful for a lot of new users that don't know how the site works yet. And my experience has been that when there isn't enough information in a question, you tend to get comments asking for more, which is productive.

I do agree that Stack Overflow can be a bit daunting for new users, especially because you're not allowed to comment right off the bat. I believe the threshold is 50 reputation, which can be hard to get early on, because questions get answered so quickly on Stack Overflow that it's hard to find questions that still need an answer.

> Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers; Idaho doesn’t put undue restrictions and hurdles in front of potato farmers; and California takes steps to protect its farmers — because these industries are part of the lifeblood and identity of their respective states.

Aside from Detroit not being a state, isn't this also because these industries are the main employers in their areas? Tech companies employ a small minority of the people that live in San Francisco.

Must be a bug or other error. US presidential terms end on January 20, so it definitely wouldn't be before then. According to Wikipedia inauguration is held on the 20, unless it's a Sunday in which case it's held the next day.

What were you expecting to come up?

Believe it or not, having quality content that's presented simply with clean URLs is also a good search engine optimization.

Conflicted?

> As cost slowly rose

I think you have a very liberal definition of "slowly."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/23/this-chart-shows-you-why-a-lo...

Of course, but there's a huge difference between making things for your own use and making them to sell to others, especially in this context.

I feel like a lot of the commenters here didn't read the article.

> Four Thieves Vinegar have created and uploaded the plans for the simple version, called the Epipencil. Also spring loaded, the parts are gathered over the counter. The epinephrine will still need to be acquired with a prescription.

This still involves an FDA-approved drug obtained through normal channels; the DIY part is the injector.

Creating DIY medical drugs would certainly be something to be concerned about, but I don't see the problem with DIY medical tools.

If the current price of the EpiPen isn't due to corporate greed, then why did the price used to be significantly lower?

I'm aware, I read the post.

I was thinking the same thing. Just a few years ago GitHub used to automatically "figure out" what programming language your project was in, and it was pretty bad.

That's what RealNames does; it own the domains for a lot of common last names. trinh.com is one that comes to mind.

Thanks for this writeup. You've given a lot of interesting thoughts and insights.

Yes, that's it, and that's the key feature I was talking about.

> Low-Income Adults Struggle the Most With Saving Money

Is this really a significant enough conclusion to make a subheadline? It seems obvious to me that those who are living paycheck to paycheck (or close to it) would have trouble saving.

I'm not sure I see how that's ironic.

Even in countries with robust social security programs, I imagine many would see value in having more money than the baseline government benefits provide.

I do it only because I find it useful to segregate my cash savings from the rest of my money.

But you have a good point, especially because the survey asked specifically about savings accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12549863

There was an article posted on here a few months ago about Google's version control system. One of the main features is that you don't actually checkout copies of every file in the repository; instead they're faulted in as you need them.

My impression is that the monolithic repository only works because Google's built a bunch of custom tooling to support it. It doesn't mean any company can just roll all of their code into a single Git repository and call it a day.

lastname.com is the holy grail of domain names. You'd think with my fairly uncommon surname I'd be able to get mine, but it got snapped up in 1999 but some French construction contractor that's been using it to host a static site about his business ever since.

> - a series of swimsuit modeling and sexy emails from some lady to her boyfriend, followed by angry emails about his lack of attention

Do you not correct people after the first wrong email they send you?

I think one of my favorite things about Hacker News is that you can comment on a technology and have a nonzero chance of someone who actually had a hand in it piping in.

Also, I realize now I forgot to mention domain hacks, which I think do give non-.com TLDs a lot more value than they'd otherwise have.

> But I think .com is being undermined quite effectively simply by it being "impossible" to find good names.

In my opinion, a "just okay" .com is better than a good domain with some other TLD. I suspect this is a pretty common opinion.

> I also think this is more apparent outside of the US, where we're used to using ccTLDs a lot more often

I thought about this when I wrote my comment, but as an American it's not something I'm especially familiar with. Our own ccTLD .us isn't commonly used.

> I hardly ever seem to visit ".info" or ".biz" (who launched at the same time as .name) sites, even though at the time (I have no idea what the relative counts are like today) they were vastly more successful than .name.

I think the only reason these were ever popular is because they were priced so cheaply. It seems like .info is/was mostly used for throwaway domains, and .biz is just a terrible name. It's supposed to be for businesses, but it sounds like it'd only be used by shady used car dealerships. Nevermind that .com is officially for commercial entities anyways.

> While many of the ccTLDs have managed to build some level of popularity (e.g. ".io") and others seems to have faded into obscurity (".cx" used to be quite popular in tech circles, but I rarely see it any more).

I think .io is a fad that's going to die along with infinite scrolling websites. The fantasy notion of a "startup" is trendy and sexy right now even outside the industry, just like a "dotcom" was two decades ago. It'll fade away just like .tv did after the novelty of TV services on the web went away.

Side note: would .tv still be big if Netflix used netflix.tv instead of netflix.com?

Hell, even using an email address that's not a popular webmail host tends to throw people off. Mine is me@justinlardinois.com; I can't tell you how many times I've confused call center operators with it. I even had one think I meant justinlardinois@me.com.

A rare occasion where Betteridge's law[0] apples in a non-cynical way.

.com was part of the zeitgeist of the late 90s and its cultural ties to the web and technology in general haven't faded since.

Even using a .net domain makes you look a little off; I don't see much utility in attempting to use any of the countless TLDs that have proliferated since then.

I get the impression that ICANN is trying to undermine the ubiquity of .com. I think it's a noble goal, but it hasn't been successful so far and I don't see any reason to believe things will change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Who at any point in the development of the internet ever expressed a goal to elevate discourse?

Didn't the Micro just eliminate the link cable entirely?