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Angry Birds IPO expected to value parent Rovio at $1B(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Ologn 9y ago|3 comments
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by Ologn 9y ago
> Crash Dump Analysis...In an environment like ours (patched LTS kernels running in VMs), panics are rare. As the order of magnitude of systems administered increases, rare changes to occasional changes to frequent. Especially when it i
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> Wow, they are exactly replicating the mechanism that fleeced so many retail buyers of stock in the dot.com bubble. It never occurred to me you could take that experience and monetize it so effectively. Human nature hasn't changed
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> Instant peer to peer value transfer over the internet for example. You can't do a value transfer when there is no value.
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Some startups will grow very large and become very valuable and will stay around for a long time. No cryptocoins will be around for a long time. They are all going to crash to near worthlessness, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Also the id
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I compiled it. I followed the instructions here - https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/java/getting-starte... Actually I followed them somewhat - I never opened Android Studio, I did it all on the comman
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Yes. There is a lot of discussion here about how Apple has a headstart on developer commitment with ARkit. What will actually happen for the majority of games targeting AR is people will write it in Unity (or perhaps Unreal), and then set i
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by Ologn 9y ago
Leading negative economic indicator: when the articles and threads on HN and 4chan's /biz/ start looking identical. Why not head over to 4chan's biz subboard to really get into this topic? The day trading, drop shipping
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Programming an Android app – 17 months in 5 blog posts(vartmp.com)
4 points by Ologn 9y ago|1 comments
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> Nobody wants to spend their thirties in a cramped, overpriced studio, but nobody is ready to leave their hip, startup lofts Well I think this is it. I was born in New York City, and while it may be more expensive than some town in the
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by Ologn 9y ago
Yes, some of the things mentioned as new ideas were discussed years ago. Like the idea that some primitive form of plant domestication may have been happening prior to the agricultural revolution of 9000-10000 years ago.
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If you download VR games, all the ones I have seen so far - that give credit - have been done with Unity. I know ones made with Unreal are out there, I have not download any with the Unreal logo yet though. I dabbled with the Daydream Goog
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Baltimore and Raleigh are tech hubs, and New York is not? In 2000 when the dot-com's went bust, things were not so bad for IT in New York because the other industries were still going along - media, advertising, fashion, and of course,
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by Ologn 9y ago
As he says, he previously had a number of priorities - learning new things, making cool projects, as well as trying to make money. If he's unsatisfied with monetary returns, he has to put more focus on making money. Because even if h
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The first Ubuntu phone was not released until February 2015. By that time, 1 billion Android devices had already been sold. The first Android phone was sold in October 2008. The iPhone was released in June 2007. Ubuntu entered the market
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> Not least is the idea of confusing the Gold Window it’s the Gold Standard (gold backing currency in any way). There's not a confusion between the Gold Window and the Gold Standard. It's just the Gold Window is the only real
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I never said the US had gold reserves to pay off every dollar in circulation. What I said was "Any currency panic can be immediately stemmed by an announcement that the gold window is open". I also said the US government had &quo
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> The only way this statement is different than how the Federal Reserve works is that Bitcoin is voluntary Not at all. Until 1971, a dollar bill was just a piece of paper. However, the US government would redeem it for gold. The US had
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As you're focused on the command line, I won't mention things I generally use in shell scripts like compound commands (if, for, while) or shell parameters. I will also skip things I don't often use. First, there is moving ar
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Programming for Android – app #19, release version 24(vartmp.com)
2 points by Ologn 9y ago|0 comments
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AIDE for Android allows you to write and run Android apps on your Android device. It is on Google Play. You can write and run an app for free, although certain functions need an in-app purchase. It is decent enough, and highly rated, as
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> What drives our economy? Scarcity... Some people view open source as being about a post-scarcity economy in which human labor isn't need, an economy based on abundance. That's bullshit though. I don't think that is the c
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> China...government restrictions on expatriating capital, crypto becomes a valuable alternative denomination Money is expatriated via Bitcoin from the PRC to, say, Vancouver. The point is that with a currency, people would be comfortab
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If we look at the past 10,000 years of history - commodities are useful things, objects with utility. Currencies are commodities which people begin to favor for use in trading. Currencies are commodities which have properties that make th
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> Why are you so dismissive of this new technology? I'm skeptical of the idea that Bitcoins have value in the way commodities and other things which can be traded and exchanged have value. People might find some use for blockchain t
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The difference is the dot-com stocks had some theoretical value - even Pets.com, people buy pet supplies online after all. Unlike commodities, equities and so forth, cryptocoins have no value whatsoever. So to try to make it sound like it
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Bitcoins are different than tulips or homes with subprime mortgages or dot com companies in 1999 in that they are completely useless. They have no value whatsoever. Usually bubbles are built on something real. Even Ponzi's internati
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by Ologn 9y ago
I have been using Python to interact with APIs, download data and files, then manipulate the data and put it into a database. Then I set up my own APIs (Python cgi-bin scripts) to access the data. I also use the PIL library for image thum
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> Your code will be in production either much longer or much shorter than you think it will. The 5 lines of code you spend three days perfecting will be replaced in a week, and that one-line 3am hack will be out there for ten years. On t
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I have a Google Pixel and Google Daydream and am an Android programmer. If you have these things you can go into Google's Daydream store and download some Daydream apps, free or paid. I have done so and virtually every app has a logo

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