kind of an interesting question -- are product nudges ads? like when there's a button to use a paid feature which pops up on top of a different button, is it an ad? it's not third party.

You'd call it an ad if you saw it in any other context, so yes.

The definition of "ad" depends on context though (that's the point).

I’m sure the advertising industry has a specific term and definition for this type of ad.

On that basis, I think it falls squarely in the advertising category.

I’m sure someone that works in that industry can drop their knowledge on it.

When a TV network airs promos for its own shows, is it an ad?

I remember being utterly baffled by this as a kid at other peoples houses. "Let me get this straight, you pay a bunch of money for 'special' TV channels that say they have no ads, and you still have to watch ads? What kind of insane horseshit is this?".

Put me off non free to air TV for my entire adult life until streaming services became a thing, and you better believe I'm immediately unsubscribing from those the second they pause a video I'm watching to show me promos or ads.

Yes.

spectrum here from 'guest actor promoting tie-in show', to unrelated product placement, to unskippable ads at the beginning of prime shows, to 'watch next episode' button at the end of an episode

dustin hoffman's best horror movie took place in this habitat

I was thinking of Peter Watts' Starfish series, myself - equally horrifying, if not more so.

You can also say that dustin hoffman’s worst horror movie took place in this habitat

> AdminController extends UserController extends GuestController extends BaseController

> Cognitive load in familiar projects -- If you've internalized the mental models of the project into your long-term memory, you won't experience a high cognitive load.

^ imo using third-party libraries checks both of these boxes because 1) a fresh-to-project developer with general experience may already know the 3rd party lib, and 2) third party libraries compete in the ecosystem and the easiest ones win

is this pronounced mic like 'mike' or 'emic' like 'epidemic'

I was going for Code + Microphone. So like 'mike', definitely not epidemic :D

Might want to register (and redirect) the 'mike' version of the domain as well.

codemike.com has been taken for a while already.

But the site isn't a .com anyway...

everyone is 'cattle not pets' except the farm vet who is shoulder-deep in a cow

(my experience with managed kubernetes)

I love finance because they take what is basically logs and name it the LMAX disruptor and rather than defining it, link to a martin fowler blogpost which seems to have a unique domain name for the post

and all the technical sophistication is getting around the fact that java was a piece of garbage in like 2008

unwillingness to use parens

scheme is the true legalese

what about the kids who read HN

either we hugged it to death or the future doesn't work in firefox