Dries remains one of the most level headed people in the open source community (and it is a community)
Readit Newssteviedotboston commented on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay dri.es/source-available-i... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
Does the Democratic party actually have a platform capable of beating the incumbent Trump Republicans? Or is it just this kind of stuff? Ban kids from YouTube?
banning kids from youtube seems pretty reasonable
steviedotboston commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
Every site should be behind cloudflare unless its static HTML.
Not to be confused with Old Farmer's Almanac (est. 1792) and yet sad to see a 200 years old periodical closing up shop.
the old farmers almanac is the one people are probably more familiar with
steviedotboston commented on Amish men live longer plainanabaptistjournal.or... · Posted by u/johntfella
I'm glad they mention diet. I would imagine the 5 year difference could be explained simply by not smoking and not eating so much processed food.
the amish diet is pretty unhealthy. lots of carbs, fats, pies, bacon, etc. if you had an amish diet with an "english" lifestyle you would definitely have health issues.
steviedotboston commented on Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation help.dropbox.com/installs... · Posted by u/mercenario
The way Dropbox has mismanaged Paper over the past decade, and squandered so many opportunities in the productivity tools space, has been one of the most frustrating things to watch.
Dropbox bought Hackpad and launched Dropbox Paper a decade ago!
Paper was awesome at launch — so much less friction than Google Docs for teams back then — and had a good internal product team behind it, but leadership failed to see the potential. I think it's because the Dropbox founders were so consumer-focused that they couldn't envision how huge Paper could be in the productivity tools space. They kept framing it as an Evernote competitor, instead of seeing it turning into something like Notion.
Even when they finally seemed to understand that Dropbox was never going to be a B2C sensation, they kept acquiring "side product" businesses instead of ones that built on Dropbox's existing value. (To their credit, this was the zeitgeist back when they started — B2B was not cool at all, and the sort of B2C/B hybrid that exists now wasn't a thing.)
Meanwhile startups like Notion actually saw the opportunity and blossomed. And nowadays, even super-slow Google is releasing features like pageless mode, markdown support, etc. Such that Paper is almost irrelevant at this point, despite having had such a massive head start.
It's sad because I can easily imagine an alternate future where Dropbox understood what Paper could be, and invested in it alongside things like an Airtable competitor, to create a truly viable, and forward-looking alternative to Google Docs/Sheets/Drive, without all the baggage of being a Microsoft Office clone.
I loved the original hackpad. I used it for personal task management at a time when I was really struggling to keep on task at a job.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Good to get some real-world data in this thread as opposed to the emotional condemnations of this rule change.
People make two big assumptions about immigration in my experience
1) They think the system should be extremely simple 2) They assume everyone involved is being honest
When the reality is
1) Many people involved are lying to claim immigration benefits they have no right to 2) The system needs to have a level of complexity and difficulty to prevent these people from accessing these benefits
steviedotboston commented on Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation · Posted by u/rakshithbellare
Drupal works very well as a headless CMS now
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/decoupled-drupalhttps://www.lullabot.com/resource/decoupled-drupal
Drupal has a really strong community behind it, and was completely rebuilt a number of years ago with modern PHP. It uses Symfony, composer, etc.
steviedotboston commented on How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs? data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-al... · Posted by u/aerodog
The Ismaili leaders are super influential and have connections everywhere. They are megawealthy socialites. Basically they wanted the TLDs so they knew who to talk to to make it happen.
Out of curiosity, why?