He made it to 101
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/irving-lin...
Sad, but not surprising given his age, that his son predeceased him by about a year.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressdemocrat/name/rand...
Readit NewsAlex63 commented on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock arslan.io/2024/09/23/diet... · Posted by u/farslan
Out of stock :-(
Not sold out at braun-clocks.com. Currently on sale.
Alex63 commented on Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes lowercase.app/... · Posted by u/siegers
Non native speaker here, can you detail why the later is incorrect?
It's probably mostly idiomatic. For native English-speakers it is more natural to use "number" when talking about things that are counted units that would be represented by integers (like marbles, or children, or features). "Amount" would be more appropriate when talking about something that you measure and represent with a floating point number (like butter, or gasoline/petrol, or risk). But an English-speaker will understand what you mean if you say "amount of features" instead of "number of features."
And since we're being picky, it should be "the latter is correct", not "the later is correct."
Alex63 commented on The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside newstatesman.com/politics... · Posted by u/infinate
[stub for offtopicness]
Off topic: I thought (probably incorrectly) that the EU required that the cookie preferences for sites were supposed to offer "Reject All" if they offered "Accept All". I realize The New Statesman may not need to comply since Brexit, but their opt-out logic seems almost to be calculated to make people give up before they opt out of everything. Net result is that I didn't read an article that might have interested me, and I didn't see any of their advertisements because I didn't want to be tracked.
There is the concept of easements. Probably not as familiar to the suburban person, but out in the boonies, it is allowed for you to use another person's property to get to your property if there is no other access to your property. For example when your property doesn't have direct access to a road unless using your neighbor's access. Lots of country properties "share" a dirt road
Noted (I'm actually rural, and have an easement on my own property), but an easement is quite different from a public right of way in the UK. An easement does not create a public right, and (at least in WA state) must be negotiated between the landowners.
Slightly off topic, but related: I'm always interested in the different approach to public "right of ways" in the US (and Canada) versus the UK. Given that the concept of public right of way was well established in the UK before the colonial period, why didn't the colonies recognize rights of way based on well-established use? Based on my limited knowledge of the US and Canada, I'm not aware of any State or Province that recognizes the right of the public to cross private land on established paths/trails in the way that is recognized in the UK.
Alex63 commented on Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011) reactormag.com/weird-amaz... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
Yeah, I loved the Split -- most SF shows will make one of the two disposable and then kill them off at the first opportunity, usually within the same episode. Star Trek, I'm looking at you.
Canonical example? The Enemy Withinhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek:_T...
Alex63 commented on UK – "Irresponsible" truck ads are not allowed jalopnik.com/toyota-truck... · Posted by u/Alex63
Your product is legal, but we don't want you giving people ideas that they could use it in a way that is "irresponsible." And yes, we decide what's "irresponsible."
Joel Spolsky said (I'm paraphrasing) that everybody only uses 20% of a given program's features, but the problem is that everyone is using a different 20%, so you can't ship an "unbloated" version and expect it to still work for most people.
So it looks like you've built something really cool, but I have to ask what makes you think that the features that are personally important to you are the same features that other potential users need? Since this clearly seems to be something you're trying to create a business out of rather than just a personal hobby project. I'm curious how you went about customer research and market validation for the specific subset of features that you chose to develop?
[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...