Pretty much what I would do. Netflix has such a large catalog, that I don't bother cancelling during periods when I'm not even using the service. If the content I'm interested in is spread through various services, I'll simply sign up, watch what I wanted to watch, then cancel. One month's subscription is enough for me to catch up on a season's worth of some series I like.
This however creates the incentive for providers to start enforcing long term contracts for the regular price, or a much higher price for a monthly plan, in which case DVDs will be relevant again for me.
I'm on the same boat, the only complaint being the lack of history search. And I like Discord so much that I switched our office from Hipchat to Discord, despite it being exclusively marketed towards gamers.
We have been completely happy with the switch, in special the ability to hop into voice chat with remote coworkers with one mouse click.
(Discord Dev here) Awesome to hear Discords a good fit for workplace environments too, we've heard a couple success stories around remote teams swapping. Search is a huge priority for us, but its also something we wanna spend time getting right. e.g. soon!
I haven't used Discord but if it's better than Slack you are sitting on a huge opportunity. I know your focus is gamers but the market Slack is targeting is huge. Their mobile app is garbage (at least on android). Always 'reconnecting'. Doesn't keep the recent chats offline and has to always fetch it from server. Missing/delayed notifications. Desktop app on OS X is better but it too has 'connection issues'.
It looks like we will be able to use Discord when you add search. Seriously, tell the management to think about it being an alternative to Slack. We are a paying Slack customer and while they are better than hipchat/IRC, it is far from perfect.
I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more, a 'business-oriented' rebrand of discord (basically ditch all the gamery shit and allow people to host their own servers on their own hardware) would basically be pure profit.
Remote startup checking in here - we're in the gaming industry and Discord has been a perfect fit for us. We love it.
Our top "wanted" features right now are video chat/screenshare, so that we can drop Hangouts entirely, and search. We wish we could pay you guys. Seriously.
This was incredibly educational for me. My only feedback/request would be to reinforce the difference between `align-content` and `align-items`. I still don't quite get when to use which.
My understanding is that it seems `align-items` is to do with the children of the element, while `align-content` is to do with the spacing with regards to the parent container. In some ways, `align-content` will always imply a certain "bunching" to the children (they are either stuck to the start, end, center or spaced evenly in some manner - but never changing order, wrap or size), whereas `align-items` changes how lone-items behave in the flow, be it start, end, center or some stretching).
These two URLs provide some decent visual demos & distinction:
I too struggled on the last level, which was certainly jarring because the ramp up until that point was quite gentle.
That said, I did enjoy the last level as a challenge; it prompted me not only to review earlier levels, but also check documentation elsewhere. Much like a real-world challenge, these can be valuable learning experiences.
I might be the exception, but I find Github comments much easier to digest and manage as an archive than mailing lists. In all the years working in the industry, I could never get used to mail lists.
Agreed. It's a trade-off – threading leads to repetition and/or references to already-mentioned ideas. The more truly linear a conversation is, the better Github's style is, and the more a discussion splits into multiple independent conversations, the better the threading style is. Unfortunately, you can't know a priori which kind of discussion it will be, and most discussions are a hybrid.
Personally, I find a linear style with mentions, quotes, and backlinks (a la Discourse) strikes the best balance for most conversations. But of course we'll never all agree.
Here's the wonderful thing about email and nntp: It provides a list of backlinks, and it's up to clients to decide to render it in the form of either backlinks and mentions, or in the form of threads, instead of forcing the choice on you.
That sounds very nice in theory, but in practice I've never seen an implementation that is as easy (for me!) to follow as Github's or Discourse's linear flow. Links to the great implementations that I've missed are very welcome!
Do you mean you have no idea what I find easy to follow, or that you can't understand how I find it easy to follow? I don't have any trouble at all with the typical Github or Discourse thread, and I don't think there's anything confusing about Gmail. On the other hand, when I go to Gmane or someplace, things seem all over the place. But I recognize that my experience isn't universal. Like I said, we'll never all agree. I really like the idea of leaving it up to a client to organize things however works best for an individual, but I'm not aware of a good implementation of such a thing.
I mean that my idea of 'easy to follow' is far enough off yours that I haven't looked for what you're looking for, and I have no good way to really evaluate any examples I could google up.
Yup - in fact there's an old bug that jQuery (in versions < 2, I believe) accounts for where IE would return elements with a name equal to the id you're searching for as the underlying system there was all wonky.
e.g:
<input name="test">
<div id="test">
document.getElementById('test'); // <input> in IE6
I believe this also wound up in some Webkit and Opera releases, perhaps for emulation. Someone more knowledgeable about it all should feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.
(Edited for code formatting, I don't comment too much these days)
To counterbalance, I think the Beats products look great and I've been tempted to buy them, but this very "image" around the brand sets me off greatly. That's the problem with endorsements, you end up wrangling your brand image with that of the celebrities endorsing your product.
This however creates the incentive for providers to start enforcing long term contracts for the regular price, or a much higher price for a monthly plan, in which case DVDs will be relevant again for me.