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I'm not sure I'd agree- the data is accessible to anyone who wants it for free. There's no restrictions on creating the account.

Radio is free, but you hear advertisements. Probably better to create an account than to have product placement in the actual data.

I feel like kicking out the actual founder of the company may have been a bad idea. Politics or whatever, I get it, but it doesn't feel like there's a vision guiding what VR is supposed to become.

Upvote just for the term Blogchain.

Isn't that like only following people whose political views you agree with?

On one hand, we've got to burst this bubble we're in and get out of the echo chamber.

But if you burst the bubble and get out, then you'll just be depressed looking at everything you hate.

Hmm.

I have this great idea for AR input that would probably replace most mice and keyboards in the future, but I need funding. :-(

> we had an old carbon copier that we could use

You know, the kind where you slide the thing across and you don't have to plug it in?

Why not `git track` and `git untrack`?

Is it really worth tipping someone to open a door or press a button in an elevator? I never understood the need for this position, let alone why anyone would ever tip them.

Couldn't we just give everyone health insurance for free and then raise their tax a lil bit?

Who needs https when you have barbed wire?

Also, the first person to jump on the football does get possession of the ball for the team, so there's that.

> but it's really hard to replicate production traffic

This times 1,000.

They should treat the internet like they treat electricity. It doesn't matter if you're using it for a hair dryer or a work light or to charge your phone- you get it the same as everyone else for the same price.

Why aren't we de-regulating power companies too?

If they pass net neutrality, can we legally build our own internet/ISP/distributed network?

srcset + sizes, anyone?

I don't think that's really fair- the early-unlock "Hero" characters are just as viable as the late-unlock "Hero" characters, they're just less famous. You get Yoda and The Emperor instead of Luke and Vader. They all kick equal amounts of ass.

If they made the end-game characters (Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, etc) 40+hours to get, and they DIDN'T have microtransactions to get them quickly, would gamers be complaining? Doubtful.

They made the game HARD. That's good, that's what people asked for. Then they made the game EASY if you want to pay extra to make it easy. I think that's a fair trade, but that's clearly a minority opinion.

But blocking icon fonts makes the web less usable for you.

I feel like this is a bad trade... let me break every website I visit, so I don't have to download Font Awesome and Material Icons?

Why would you do that to yourself? What's the benefit? A couple KB?

There's a massive gap between the pirate service and the "legitimate" media service.

For one, you can just type something in, and get the movie you want. You don't have to navigate between 15 different services, and then find out the film is only available on mail-order DVD, or in other countries.

For television, the networks are HORRIBLE about providing their content to cord-cutters. Want to watch the latest episode of Mr. Robot, which airs on Wednesday at 10pm? You're gonna have to wait AT LEAST until 9am on Thursday morning, WITH YOUR PAID SUBSCRIPTION. Or, you can pirate it for free.

I'm not sure how many times it needs to be said, but Piracy is not a payment issue, it's an access issue.

Also, companies being greedy is a bad look. CBS hiding Star Trek behind their proprietary $10/month service is going to kill Star Trek, because the intended audience sees it as a bullshit cash grab. Put it on Hulu you greedy bastards.

The idea that an iPhone in landscape gets the same styling as an iPad in portrait has always kind of bugged me.

You asked what justified the price bump, and he told you. Whether you care/will use the things that are raising the price is irrelevant. If you have no need for those features, then buy the cheaper version.

Pokemon on the street was a great way to introduce the public to the concept of AR, but you're right- that's not how it's going to work. As long as our phones are the "lens" into the augmented reality, it will stay out of the mainstream.

We need Google Glass, Spectacles, or some equivalent AR device. All of that stuff you're talking about- projecting onto the street, onto the windshield, etc... that's setting the bar very low. We'll be able to do all of that on a per-user basis once we have AR glasses.

And those are hard problems to solve- projecting holograms into daylight without a surface? Good luck outshining the sun without overheating your tiny pocket projector. They all require unique solutions tailored to the problem and the environment they'll be used in. Why bother with that, when you can either work on AR glasses, or wait until AR glasses are readily available, which is pretty much an inevitability.

Quasar framework for Vue is a breath of fresh air.

I work at a small business, and our customers are constantly asking that we make an app. We have a fully functional website that is completely responsive, and we do more mobile sales than desktop. But they keep asking for an app. I have no idea why- I guess it feels more "legitimate" than a website. I try to politely explain that I'm our sole developer, and I'd have to support the website, AND an iphone app, AND an android app, and they pretend to understand, and say "yeah, but an app would be nice...".

I mean, do you want the app so you can have an app, or do you want the app so you can make a purchase? I don't understand.

I was always told that math is the most exact science.

VueJS absolutely adds to the development of complex applications, and takes almost no time to set up.

Webpack... not so much. I've spent days fighting with webpack over nonsense.

Site just displays a blank page. No error or anything.

I think that's a better statement than whatever the app actually does.

I'm loving Google Play Music, although the branding really sucks.

What if someone just maintained a list of "bad" npm packages, and you could run your package.json against that service to make sure you didn't accidentally install crossenv instead of cross-env?