> Dieter Rams complained that the word “design” was ruined by the fashion industry and marketing. They sell products as “designer products” that aren’t necessarily good representations of good design. He suggested that we be called “Gestalt Engineers” - Gestalt is the German word for "form" or "shape".
To credit the original author, Github profile pages have evolved a lot since this project was created (~3 years ago) and much of what you see now is likely influenced by projects like this.
I understand, and I didn't mean to discredit the site itself. I was just pointing out the weird upvote behavior here. It would have been very useful and clever idea back then but why is it #1 today? is what I don't understand
Really strange. Here in Lithuania we had similar systems in some places several years ago, but everyone quickly changed to always require PIN. Even in restaurants they come with wireless card reader and you don't even let your card out of your eye sight.
That seems to be their secret sauce. It's not NFC as that would not be compatible with existing mag-stripe readers. It has to be some method of emitting magnetic fluctuation.
The module system is indeed one of the best things about Node. I'm not sure it fits well into all languages and their ecosystems, but it's certainly interesting to try. For another example, here is an implementation for C: https://github.com/substack/dotc.
> A simple schedule for Philips Hue, so you can f.lux your house
You can pair your Philips Hue bulbs with f.lux! This is awesome! This kind of thing is very helpful for people who sleep odd hours or just have trouble going to sleep and waking up. Has anyone tried this or knows how it works?
> In one case, they said, Ulbricht paid $80,000 in bitcoins to have a former website employee tortured and killed after he was arrested. But according to prosecutors, the anonymity of Silk Road backfired on Ulbricht after he asked a purported drug smuggler to carry out the hit.
The smuggler was actually an undercover agent, the government said - the same agent who had arrested the employee.
Are there more details about this previous arrest?
I think if the lawyer then tried to sell off his fee in bitcoins in order to get some real money, he'd crash the market. Especially since you can't use bitcoins to buy drugs anymore.
Loved this line and the term "gestalt engineer".