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Living Room / Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - Unloading capital cannons on customer acquisition
« on: May 19, 2020, 03:03 PM »
A pizza shop discovers that a 3rd party delivery service has hijacked their google listing to offer deliveries for their pizza, and reselling their pizza at a loss... How is this a business model?

Another mystery of capitalism.

But he brought up another problem - the prices were off. He was frustrated that customers were seeing incorrectly low prices. A pizza that he charged $24 for was listed as $16 by Doordash...
You have insanely large pools of capital creating an incredibly inefficient money-losing business model. It's used to subsidize an untenable customer expectation. You leverage a broken workforce to minimize your genuine labor expenses. The companies unload their capital cannons on customer acquisition, while this week’s Uber-Grubhub news reminds us, the only viable endgame is a promise of monopoly concentration and increased prices. But is that even viable?


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Living Room / Distance Board Gaming Guide from BGG
« on: May 14, 2020, 05:39 PM »
Great list of board games in different categories that are suitable for online play.


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DC Website Help and Extras / Fixed sitemap
« on: May 04, 2020, 04:26 AM »
I fixed the donationcoder sitemap -- didn't notice it was broken until now:
https://www.donation...der.com/help/sitemap

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DC Website Help and Extras / Forcing https mode on donationcoder
« on: May 02, 2020, 01:04 AM »
I'm trying to make a change that will force https access to donationcoder for better security; let me know if you spot any oddities on the forum or website.

80
Living Room / Mini Papercraft models of Retro Computers to Print and Assemble
« on: April 30, 2020, 08:17 PM »
This is truly wonderful.  A collection of downloadable print-and-assemble paper craft models of retro computers including the Apple II, the IBM PC, the TRS-80 Model 3, by Rocky Bergen.

These look wonderful -- you just download and print them and cut and assemble.  Love it.

http://rockybergen.com/papercraft

Screenshot - 4_30_2020 , 8_13_56 PM_thumb001.png

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Living Room / System32 - funny indy web comic about computers
« on: April 30, 2020, 07:23 AM »
I enjoyed this web comic that dc member panzer told us about, System32:

https://www.webtoons...list?title_no=235074

Screenshot - 4_30_2020 , 7_20_39 AM_thumb001.png


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Living Room / Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd
« on: April 22, 2020, 07:11 PM »
What does everyone think about having a super short 10 minute zoom meeting open to all donationcoder folks?
Just to say hello and put face and voice to forum nickname and do something weird?

We'll just all go around and say our names and say hello and then quickly sign off before we feel too nervous.

  • Date: Saturday, May 2nd
  • Time: 4pm central standard US time (forum time)

Who's in?

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Developer's Corner / Elevator Saga - Programming Game/Challenge
« on: April 08, 2020, 10:17 PM »
This is a very cool programming game/challenge, which deals with the absolutely fascinating problem of optimal elevator scheduling:

http://play.elevatorsaga.com/

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Mini Newsletter for Mar 24, 2020 - Coronavirus Lockdown
« on: March 24, 2020, 07:34 PM »
Mini Newsletter for Mar 24, 2020
"Codename: Coronavirus Lockdown"



1. Newsletter Editorial

Greetings all.  As you know, the entire planet is currently dealing with a serious crisis -- a worldwide virus pandemic that is overloading hospitals and causing severe damage to entire economies.

I'm writing to you from Champaign, Illinois, in the United States, which has only just begun to see cases reported.  We are under a state-wide stay-at-home order, with more of the country expected to follow suit soon.  Many other countries are further along in the trajectory of infection and are struggling to figure out how to handle it.

I have been finding it hard lately to focused on being positive and productive.  I find myself feeling overloaded and anxious.  I don't know if any of you are having the same problem.

I do know that in times like these, there is some value in being able to share our thoughts, encourage each other, and maintain some sense of normality and community.

With that goal in mind, I thought I would send out a short newsletter sooner rather than later.

For the overwhelming majority of you, this email/newsletter will be of no interest to you, and you can safely stop reading now; we're not asking for any money, nor do we have any money to give out.

However, for any of you who have a little room in your life right now, who would benefit from some positive distraction, I'd like to invite you to make yourself at home on our forum and share a bit of your life with us.  We are a friendly bunch.

-jesse (mouser)
 Champaign, IL, USA
 
 
2. Mouser's Software Updates and Discussions

I've released a couple of very minor updates to my software since the last newsletter in January, plus a MAJOR alpha-version update to one of them, and a new small Android app.




3. Feel Good Favorites

I thought this would be a good occasion to highlight some of the longest running, feel good threads on our forum, and invite you to post in them.




4. Other recent threads on our forum

Just a few recent threads on our forum.


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Living Room / Share your tips and comforts for dealing with the stress and fear of a pandemic
« on: March 18, 2020, 10:19 PM »
I know a lot of people are nervous and uncertain.. Fear of losing jobs, health, investments.

Let's have a happy thread where we can share reassuring tips, projects, and mental strategies to stay sane and calm in this crazy time.

No rumors or panic in this thread, just strategies for staying sane and coping with the stress.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Remind me of feature requests please
« on: March 12, 2020, 01:07 AM »
I've been working like mad on the new extended clipboard format features for CHS; now would be a good time to remind me of older feature requests I've overlooked.

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Find And Run Robot / Example of using FARR to help you easily translate words
« on: March 05, 2020, 12:35 PM »
Someone asked me about how FARR could be used to quickly translate words that you might encounter while reading text in any app.
Here's a two step example:

1. Create an alias in FARR to open google translate on the specified text.  Here I've created a new alias in my MyAliases group, that triggers on "tr [word_or_phrase]":
Screenshot - 3_5_2020 , 12_30_45 PM.png

With that you can bring up farr at any time and type something like: tr computer and hit enter, to open google translate showing the translation.
You can add more actions in that alias to allow you to do other things like look up the definition of the word, etc.

2. Now to make it easier to use, create a custom FARR hotkey that when triggered will copy the highlighted text in whatever app you are using and launch FARR with the tr keyword specified, ready to trigger:
Screenshot - 3_5_2020 , 12_33_30 PM.png

Now you can just select the text in any app and hit the hotkey.

Note that if you knew you only wanted one action ever on that hotkey you could save yourself from having to hit enter by adding a \n at the end of the "Text for Search Edit Box".


You might also try $$u1 instead of $$1 if you need the text urlencoded for a web page.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Amazon Pay has decided to block donationcoder payments
« on: March 04, 2020, 08:51 AM »
Amazon Pay, which we allow people to use to buy commercial licenses for our software from our commercial license page, has decided to block us and refuse to process payments to us.
They have said it is related to us looking like a charity, but won't elaborate or tell us what we could do to fix the problem.
So it goes.  :down:

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Android Apps / Android App: Crave Negotiator - v1 - Feb 28, 2020
« on: February 28, 2020, 03:31 AM »
"Crave Negotiator" is a bare bones minimalist application to help you resist impulse snacking.   It should run nicely on any screen size.

The Basic Idea: The app tries to get you to accept some small delays in succumbing to cravings for a snack, in hopes that you will be able to overcome a momentary weakness.

  • When you push the button to trigger snack mode, you will then be prompted through a sequence (configurable number) of stages where you must wait a small amount of time (just a few minutes), after which you will need to affirmatively confirm that you wish to keep waiting for your snack time.
  • If at any point you fail to confirm a prompt, OR simply press the cancel button while waiting, the snack will be canceled.
  • Psychologically, the hope is that the countdown and small duration will give you the willpower to accept a very small delay in satisfying a craving for a snack.  And that with this brief window of waiting, the peak moment of intense craving will pass.


If anyone wants to try it:

It will eventually be on google play store.

Screenshot - 2_28_2020 , 3_26_11 AM_ver005.png

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Clipboard Help+Spell Extended Clipboard Format Data Discussion Thread
« on: January 31, 2020, 03:42 PM »
Clipboard Help+Spell (CHS) is finally getting support for storing extended clipboard data.. This thread is for discussing that feature..

It can now save clips with multiple data formats in the database and restore them properly.  It has a whole set of features and options to support this, so that you can see exactly what's being saved, and have fine or coarse grain control over ignore certain formats, etc.

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chsa2.png
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chsa5.png


DOWNLOAD Alpha Version:
https://www.donation...AndSpellPortable.zip

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Living Room / Roller Coaster planet of horrors
« on: January 28, 2020, 10:32 AM »
Some creativity on display here..

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Developer's Corner / Long article on Microsoft's abandoned Trident (Internet Explorer) web engine
« on: January 26, 2020, 09:57 PM »
Long article talking about the history of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser engine.. It's internal design and why it was eventually abandoned in favor of Google's chrome engine.

Starting now, Microsoft will roll out their new Chromium-based Edge browser to their millions of Windows 10 users. And this will also mark the end of an era. The era of the Trident-Engine.


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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Rewriting 2xl simulator in html5
« on: January 26, 2020, 01:45 AM »
It looks like html5 may have enough audio seeking to make moving from flash to html5 native a real possibility.
Anyone interested in working with me to convert the 2xl simulator to html5/javascript?


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Android Apps / Android intermittent fasting apps
« on: January 23, 2020, 06:06 AM »
So I've written 3 android narrowly focused intermittent fasting apps of different styles..
And yet I'm interested in exploring more experimental interesting ideas.. If anyone is into this sort of thing and can think of any novel ideas for an app, let me know.

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Automatic Screenshotter / Automatic Screenshotter reviews
« on: January 21, 2020, 07:22 PM »
Posted at ghacks today:
https://www.ghacks.n...t-regular-intervals/

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General Software Discussion / If you are running the alternative router firmware Tomato, an attack in progress
« on: January 21, 2020, 04:26 PM »
Ars Technica reports that routers running the alternative router firmware Tomato are under attack.
It looks like the attack is just looking for default passwords, so as long as you don't have default/weak passwords I think you will be ok.

Internet routers running Tomato are under attack by notorious crime gang.  The Muhstik botnet has targeted other IoT devices. Now it's attacking Tomato routers.


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Developer's Corner / Any coders here on patreon?
« on: January 20, 2020, 12:19 AM »
If you're a programmer who hangs out here and you have a patreon account where you are asking people to support your coding, post a link here so those who want to support you can find your account easily.  :Thmbsup:

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Super-sized Newsletter for Jan 12, 2020 - Codename: Twenty Twenty
« on: January 12, 2020, 07:35 PM »
Super-sized Newsletter for Jan 12, 2020
"Codename: Twenty Twenty"



1. Newsletter Editorial

Greetings and welcome to another DonationCoder newsletter.  It's actually been a little over a year since the last newsletter.  In the last newsletter I reported on the results of our 2018 fundraiser, and we were celebrating the new website.  This last year has been a little quieter -- with the new website working great, and no justification for having another fundraiser.  However, I do have the results of our latest NANY event to report, lots of threads on the forum to highlight, and some new DonationCoder applications and updates to talk about.  Let's get started.



2. NANY 2020 - New Apps for the New Year

For the last 12 years on the DonationCoder site we have run a friendly event called "NANY" (New Apps for the New Year), where we invite forum visitors to help us celebrate the new year by releasing a new freeware program on the first day of the new year.  We typically get a variety of entries -- some are genuinely useful tools designed to be shared widely, and some are programming exercises for new users.  There's no winners or losers; all participants receive a free and fancy DonationCoder NANY Mug.  The 2020 entries are in and we've posted a long wrap-up describing them.




3. Mouser's Software Updates and Discussions

I've uploaded some updates to many of my large applications since the last newsletter, and released some new apps as well.




4. Threads about DonationCoder Apps

I've collected here a number of threads discussing questions, problems and feature requests on the forum for many of my applications.




5. Member Projects

We love to keep up with projects that our members are working on, and hearing what our forum members think of software they use.  If you're working on something interesting -- let us know!




6. Fun, Humor, Games, and Interesting Discoveries on the Web

Here's a collection of some interesting web discoveries, humorous videos, and games on the forum.




7. Developer's Corner

This section highlights some discussions that might be relevant for not just coders and developers, but also people interested in entrepreneurial issues.




8. Software Discussions

Just a roundup of some threads on our forum discussion specific programs, or which programs people prefer for performing specific tasks.




9. User-to-user Questions

A collection of threads where people are asking for assistance or advice, or just sharing their thoughts.  I've also thrown in some DonationCoder website related discussions into this section at the end.



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General Software Discussion / Upgrade to Firefox 72 to fix security hole
« on: January 08, 2020, 11:59 PM »
ghacks reports firefox just pushed out an important Firefox web browser fix:
https://www.ghacks.n...-actively-exploited/

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Official Announcements / NANY 2020 Wrap-up and summary of submissions postes
« on: January 03, 2020, 09:47 PM »
You can read about all the entires in NANY 2020 event in the official write-up here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=49324.0

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