matthewdavis's comments

On: Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge

[matthewdavis]

Guess this is what billionaires do with their free time. Bill Gates did this to his house many moons ago.

[firasd → matthewdavis]

That is exactly what I thought about.

On: A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

[matthewdavis]

>In summer, cruise ships, charter boats, and commercial fishing vessels bring thousands of visitors to Whittier’s harbor on the west side of Prince William Sound.

Sounds like tourism is a large portion of income.

[palakchokshi → matthewdavis]

It seems the tourists mostly disembark and take the train to Anchorage[1]. Though I suppose out of 700000 that visit every year even if 5% make purchases it might sustain the population along with the grant they get from the Alaska government. [1]http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...

On: QCraft: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics in Minecraft [video]

[matthewdavis]

Never ceases to amaze me what people can accomplish in Minecraft.

On: Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And Text

[matthewdavis]

I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -

On: HTML5 Bookmarks – daily news articles and bookmarks

[matthewdavis]

The magnifying glass icon, while looks like a way to search the bookmarks, actually opens ALL bookmarks in separate tabs.

On: Why are firetrucks red?

[matthewdavis]

Why does that read like Yahoo answers?

On: This extension has transformed my Chrome and computer experience

[matthewdavis]

This may be a stupid question, but why don't our browsers do this automatically? This seems like a good idea.

[greenyoda → matthewdavis]

I've noticed that I can have a hundred tabs open in Firefox without much damage, but if I open a hundred tabs in Chrome, my CPU starts to run full-blast making the machine impossible to use.

On: What you need to know to keep your online accounts safe

[matthewdavis]

That's why I use QR codes. And offline QR code generation.

On: Chrome has updated - How to fix the changed New Tab page

[matthewdavis]

I actually find myself using a blank page in firefox. But in chrome(ium) I use the extension Currently - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk... Makes a new tab actually useful for me.

On: One Beautiful Attempt to Fit the US Civil War into a Single Chart

[matthewdavis]

It was a beautiful attempt.