It would be nice to get something modern to replace what people used to do with FileMaker. This may be it.

Hi DHJSH, I just wanted to let you know that you have been "shadowbanned", which means all of your comments are dead on HN by default. I vouched for this comment to make it visible, but mainly in order to reply to you and let you know that you have been banned.

If you divide the U.S. Annual Budget by the population you get about $4,000 person.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=U.S.+Population+%2F+U.S...

This means that every American who doesn't pay at least $4,000 in Federal Income Taxes is receiving money from the Government.

The resource forks of the Macintosh File System date back to 1984, significantly antedating OS/2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_File_System

To be fair, resource forks have been around since HFS first came out. I doubt Apple invented this concept, but they definitely predate MS on this front.

This is a great project. He had some help from Dad with the power tools, but it seems that he wrote the software completely by himself.

I have no idea why Arduino is so popular--it has NO debugging support unless you use an ICE. (People "debug" with printf statements.) We use Netduinos because with .NET we can single step and inspect variables in live code.

Why is Arduino so popular? Brand name recognition, a decent standard library, and a ton of sample code and tutorials online.

I agree that it's not a great platform, though. I personally prefer STM32 these days; it's dirt cheap (a basic development board is <$5) and powerful (72 MHz / 20 KB RAM / 128 KB flash on one of those boards). I believe there's even a way to integrate it into the Arduino IDE nowadays!

Arduino is popular because it was the first one that got big and built up a community. It's the same reason the RPi is so popular despite not being especially compelling from a pure spec standpoint.

You can get more performance for less money with other boards, but you'll have to figure out a lot more stuff on your own.

IME Arduino is so popular because it's so cheap. I can buy Arduino ProMicros on Alibaba cheaper than I can buy the Mega168 MCU itself. And that's not counting the PCB, additional chips or board.

Weather resistant building design, for example, concrete dome construction.

I can get the same "privacy" and not be subject to arbitrary Bitcoin/Dollar price fluctuations by simply buying Visa debit "gift cards" for cash.

4 and 5 digits? Please

It's already hit 4 digits.

So did tulips and beanie babies.

Good for you! Many other people wouldn't want to be bothered by them. And since you're so sure it will go up from ~350 to 1000 soon, you shouldn't be wasting time here! You should be taking every penny you can get and buying bitcoins!

good advice

There are power plugs on all the Trans-Pacific United flights I fly. What airline are you using?

I just wish they'd help me when there's no copyright infringement at all, so there's no need for a "fair use" argument--but I still get an infringement notice.

This happens, for example, if I sit down at my own piano and record myself playing some unambiguously out-of-copyright work, for example Mozart, Chopin, or Bach.

Just last week I got a notice from a record label because their matching software identified a Beethoven piano piece as being that from one of their copyrighted recordings. It wasn't--it was me playing.

Google should stop allowing companies that do this access to their content match system.

I guess that's their way of telling you that you are so good now that they would like to sign you to their label.