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I totally understand why one might want to buy "genuine Arduino" parts to support the company doing the work to shape that hardware/software ecosystem, but is there a point at which it's reasonable to acknowledge that the price increase over compatible Chinese knockoffs isn't worth paying? I mean, that Nano is $22 from them, which is like a 600% markup over the identically functional cheapo ones you can get on Chinese eBay.

There's a couple of sites out there that do a similar "fill out our template and get a .ttf of your handwriting" thing, like Calligraphr[0] and Fontifier[1].

The concept of using a typeface for Parkinson's awareness and fundraising isn't too bad, though. It'll be interesting to see the next version of the font.

[0] https://www.calligraphr.com/en/

[1] http://www.fontifier.com/

> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I'd argue this counts as that.

There's some overflow happening if you feed it 0.0.0.0/0 and the like.

So? As any corporate sack-chortler worth their salt will eagerly tell you, to seek rent is not only their prerogative but their moral duty.

"The complaint further alleges that Kik marketed the Kin tokens as an investment opportunity. Kik allegedly told investors that rising demand would drive up the value of Kin, and that Kik would undertake crucial work to spur that demand, including by incorporating the tokens into its messaging app, creating a new Kin transaction service, and building a system to reward other companies that adopt Kin. At the time Kik offered and sold the tokens, the SEC alleges these services and systems did not exist and there was nothing to purchase using Kin."

Who even bought this stuff? Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam ICO?

Worth noting that the article is from 2013.

I'd definitely heard of Coolmath. It was really popular when I was in elementary school, and I imagine a huge proportion of their hits come from kids during school hours. The reason it does so well is that it's a bunch of arcade-style Flash games, but since some of them are tenuously educational in nature, the site doesn't get blocked by web filters.

Same premise as the scooter, i.e. a company litters the sidewalks with dangerous toys and says "make sure you wear a helmet, have fun!", except pogo sticks are perhaps even more injury-prone.

Right? It's blowing my mind that it's possible to pre-approve PayPal payments without knowing how much you're going to be billed. The system should not allow users to hand a blank check to a retailer.

The big red "LIVE HELP" button on the left flashes before disappearing then animating back in from the left of the screen. Likewise, the counting-up animation of the number of vehicles available lags halfway through, maybe because other elements are loading in.

If you're going to do animation stuff like this, it had better be perfect. That said, I think it's tacky in the same way that the marquee tag was tacky, i.e. just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Oh, also, "LIVE HELP" buttons invariably connect me to some idiot chatbot. Being spamfucked by a chatbot is unpleasant in the same way that being startled by a retail employee asking if I need help is unpleasant. Generally, if I need to contact your business, I'll do so of my own volition. Might want to consider that there are other people who have similarly negative reactions.

I remember writing a timer-based switch debouncing routine for my microcontrollers class in undergrad.

Too bad people have to resort to homebrew hacks like this to fix their $1500 laptops.

Huh... got halfway down the article before realizing having this shit on my screen at work wasn't a great look.

The slide in the article has the same text, but is a recreation of the original (The Calibri typeface used wasn't part of PowerPoint until 2007).

The original slide can be seen in the full report linked in the article:

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

At my workplace we use Skype for Business. I often get "IM?" or "OK to IM?"

Starting the conversation that way requires me to greet them and request that they continue.

Why ask if it's OK to IM, if you're using an IM to do it? Ostensibly it's to prevent, like, notification sounds going off from my laptop if I'm in a meeting, or to avoid disrupting me while I work... but sending the "Permission to communicate?" message is already a disruption.

Also, S4B has available/away/busy/meeting/call status indicators. Why not use those if you can't decide if it's OK to IM?

Cute; I remember writing something like this in school that would display semester progress as a percentage out to a few decimal places so you could watch it tick up during a particularly boring class.

Bug: you're not displaying the minutes value of the starting time with leading zeros.

Main difference I see is that Popcorn Time tries to replicate the complete Netflix experience, i.e. displays a catalog of movies and shows you can watch. This thing is just a web torrent client that knows how to download videos in order and start playing them as soon as possible.

My machine was $1500 in 2014, I'm fortunate enough to pay $60 for gigabit, and I tend to stick to one or two games, maybe spend $100 a year on new titles. Only a money pit if you want it to be.

"But how much do they really help? We found that the latency of a system with one of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards is halved compared to a GeForce GTX 750 Ti, and nearly 6x less than a system without one."

In other words, systems with graphics cards from the newest generation perform much better than those with graphics cards from three generations ago, and better still than systems without graphics cards.

And this is surprising... to whom, exactly? This is just a marketing article that tries, poorly, to connect the product it's hawking with a currently-popular trend in gaming.

I really like cVim[0] for this. Think there's a couple of extensions for Firefox that accomplish the same thing.

[0] https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

Mine came out pretty good. I'm impressed. https://i.imgur.com/gogGNws.png

Putting aside the fact that you want us to sign up for your spam list, the text on your signup form is barely legible over the eye-searing confetti background.

I think it's a nice-to-have and not a need-to-have.

This is a super basic example, but I had a phone-screen question that was "reverse the order of the words in this C array in-place without allocating more memory." I found out with clarifying questions that I could use a temporary variable, but midway through I remembered how the XOR swap worked, and I think that scored me some points with the interviewer.