Hey, I work at Fly, too. We have a built-in Netlify integration... If you configure your domain with Fly, you can use it as a custom domain for a Netlify, but also serve any other content on arbitrary sub paths. Here's more about the Netlify integration :) https://fly.io/articles/fly-netlify-explosive-static/
I definitely do not want to have to verify my account by logging into facebook... and I also dont see how this is much different than, say, meetup.com + social media.
As a woman in tech who recently moved to a new city, I'll pass :/
It’s important for our community to authenticate that our users actually identify as women so we leverage FB to confirm that the women are real people. We appreciate the feedback and are already thinking of using other ways to sign up!
Present enables you to start, discover and participate in location-based conversations in real time. There's really nothing like it, let alone a network just for women!
I just moved from California to Tennessee and only recently got to experience fireflies for the first time in my life. They're incredible :) I don't see them in the city, but that doesnt surprise me... there are tons once you leave downtown, though.
I went to Pennsylvania for the first time in my mid twenties. When I saw fireflies, it affected me in a way writing about it can only hint at. A sense of surprise and wonder that I haven’t experienced since childhood - maybe not even then. I haven’t experienced anything like it again, and I suspect I never will.
Intellectually, I knew they were ‘a real thing’, but that in no way prepared me for the reality.
Since then, it’s always been reassuring to look back and know that such wonder can still be felt by a grown adult.
We called them "lightning bugs" in rural Texas. We used to have ice cream after dark in the back yard with the parents and grandparents and neighbors, amidst a swarm of moving stars. It seems magical now, as though I'd dreamt it. But back then, it was just a typical Saturday night.
We called them "lightning bugs" when I was living in Pennsylvania (as I recall), but since then I've lived in North Carolina and Virginia and now think of them as "fire flies".
No, he really didnt... (sorry, this article kind of makes a few ok points, but it fails miserably at giving a bunch of credit to Trump on something that shouldn't be given to him. Feels very clickbaity).
> "Ironically, Trump used the tools of technology to win despite Silicon Valley’s overwhelming support for Hillary Clinton. It’s almost as if Trump bested tech leaders at the game they invented."
That seems to be a key statement, and it's true, as far as I can tell. What about that would you disagree with?
If you think Trump bumbled into his victory, he (himself) did. But he had some incredibly clever people abusing the media to boost his campaign, and they ran circles around Obama's 2012 strategy (which is very similar to what Clinton was using, digitally).
Definitely experienced it in my first few years in tech... I'd made quite a career leap and I honestly _did_ feel like a fraud. But I'm here now and I'm happy and I know where I fit into the mix and I no longer feel like a fraud.. I feel like someone who is growing with my role and where I fit in the community.
This did resonate, though (reminds me of the buzz words in mental health that gain popularity every year or so)
>it minimizes the impact that this experience has on people that really do suffer from it
Doesn't surprise me... Utah has a pretty solid tech community. I'm indifferent on the Snapchat stuff.. not a user.. but I think it's a no-brainer for a company like this to head out there.
I generally agree except re: screentime... I think managed screentime without overbearing expectations from the parents is way better than obsessing over the time spent. I worked with kids for 10+ years pre tech and the kids who had strict "no tv" guidelines were generally _obsessed_ with tv, whereas the kids who had parents with a more relaxed approach were pretty indifferent to tv.. Anecdotes, sure, and some kids had zero tv and were incredible kids, and vice versa... but this is just my observation over many years.
I wasn't allowed any TV when I was a child and I definitely had a similar experience, any time I was near to a TV my eyes were glued on it and my attention was completely held. When I was a little older (highschool) I got my hands on as much media as I could and subsequently desensitized myself to it and now don't have the same effect, but I'm not quite convinced that was the "better" option. It lets me operate in the world a little better (I'm not entranced by TV's in restaurants like when I was 12) but is desensitization and normalization of that much stimulus a "good" thing?
tbh, I don't disagree with you here. RethinkDB invested in our open source community more than marketing.. it's arguably part of why we didn't succeed as a business.
Not surprised at all. I wish more people would emphasize at least _working_ on social skills or real-world problem solving. We would all benefit from this.
