I think another important point is that Hackathons are what you make it.
I like going to them to meet new people and try out a new idea. If I want to fall asleep, I can. I'm not "forced" into doing anything I don't want to do.
I usually work 14 hours or so, go to sleep, wake up, shower, then work again - doing this for 2 or 3 days hardly makes me feel like crap or messes with my sleep schedule.
I've read similar posts about writing everyday, and I decided to pick it up a little over a year ago.
I quickly realized that as a student my day's were simply not that interesting and my entries looked more and more like "went to school. studied. went home. slept."
Instead I started writing every week.
This is much more manageable and forces you to take time to reflect on your life. I look forward to writing every week.
I now have the last year of my life documented in these entries (by the way, I create a filter and email them to myself with the subject line Write: MM/DD/YYYY) and it's SO rewarding to go back and read them. It really doesn't take that long - maybe less than 30 minutes per entry.
It allows twitter to easily track which links you're clicking on, which some might consider to be a violation of privacy.
On mobile, t.co makes it so that you end up always launching a browser before launching the appropriate application (i.e. YouTube)
When you copy and paste and send a link to someone, they have no (easy) way of knowing what you're sending them without description or visiting, and it gives Twitter a mechanism for tracking who you send the link to. (One could posit a "malicious" tracking twitter where they serve up t.co links to people which are dependent on the logged in user to track that user's social network... fortunately I don't think this has happened yet.)
And as someone not in the U.S. with an unreliable ISP, t.co just flat-out times out half the time unless you modify your DNS settings to point to OpenDNS or Google or something.
I understand the value of being able to track click-throughs and quantify virality or whatever, but there really needs to be a better way to do this.
I've seen a similar thing with related services (mainly Google - although they appear to have removed it for a 'ping' now). I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but my browser gets stuck on "Waiting for t.co...". Refreshing the page just takes me back to the page I clicked the link on.
The fact that t.co don't have global servers probably doesn't help, in Asia and Australia ping times to t.co are 250ms+. Even in Europe it's over 100ms.
I can confirm this - I've stopped clicking links in the official Twitter client on Android when I'm outside in Australia, Australian mobile Internet is already slow, combined with t.co's huge latency all links just time out.
Even without those conditions, it's a problem. If I have too many tabs open in mobile Chrome, t.co will flat out not work. As soon as I "close all tabs", it starts working again. I have no explanation for this.
Why would your ability to resolve t.co be any different than your ability to resolve the actual host? If anything, it should be much easier to get a reliable DNS response for t.co.
I agree - I use Reddit and I was still confused for a little while. I ended up finding another site [0] that did a similar thing and they explained it well.
"monitor all new comments, submission titles and self-texts
posted to reddit for a word or phrase."
I think its only the first episode to attract viewers. I was surprised when I noticed they were airing this season's first episode of Game of Thrones on Xbox for free with no registration/app download requirements. Glad to see content publishers "getting" the marketing angle.
They don’t, HBO is acutely aware of the motivations of pirated content, and even more aware of the challenges they’d face being a stand-alone provider. Not trying to single your comment out but I see this sentiment all the time with HBO. They’ve obviously done the math and concluded that at this point they make the most money by subscription fees to cable providers, DVD and Online sales, then they would - if they started offering every show for sale at the same time as air-date, likely diminishing their cable subscription fees.
It's huge risk mitigation. If they're a stand-alone provider, and one of their shows doesn't draw in the viewership it needs to, they immediately feel that.
But since they've got all this "free" money coming in through deals with various providers, there isn't an as immediate effect.
I've been watching Soylent for a while now, including following the different home-brew recipes[1].
The verdict is still out on whether you can actually live off this stuff. If you're curious about the experience, there have been a number of journalists who have gone on the stuff for a short period and wrote about it. [2][3].
EDIT: To clarify, there haven't been any long-term studies that I found on living off a nutritional shake like this and the effect that it has on your overall health. It's akin to the same stuff they feed people who won't/cannot feed themselves[4] except a lot cheaper and (hopefully) tastes better.
Neat concept, I rather enjoy the website design. However when I'm looking for reaction gif, I use the album I've bookmarked on IMGUR which is already hand curated by Reddit.
Wow, HackerRank is amazing! Can't believe I've just heard of this -- I literally was going to build the same idea (with the same name) at a hackathon. I just wish they had more challenges in Javascript/Ruby.
Would like to see Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to compile/run tests when focused on editor. (or am I missing a similar keyboard combination.
Another problem was that I could not easily click a "Next" button to go the next challenge in a group. I would like to move onto the next functional programming question but I have to go back to the categories screen.
I like going to them to meet new people and try out a new idea. If I want to fall asleep, I can. I'm not "forced" into doing anything I don't want to do.
I usually work 14 hours or so, go to sleep, wake up, shower, then work again - doing this for 2 or 3 days hardly makes me feel like crap or messes with my sleep schedule.