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by Ologn 12y ago
Ah Silicon Valley's big ponzi scheme. A year ago today a Bitcoin was worth $820, right now one is worth $360. How long until it hits its inevitable price, $0.00, considering it has no value whatsoever? Who knows? As Keynes said, ma
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by Ologn 12y ago
You want to minimize continuous, repetitive use of the same muscles. * Whenever your hand feels pain, stop typing, and take a break. * If you have a PC at home and work, you may want to have one type of mouse at work (standard) and another
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by Ologn 12y ago
> Doesn't the Play store disallow apps with the same name by default? No.
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by Ologn 12y ago
1) Go to Github 2) Browse the Javascript projects 3) Look for projects which are active with many follows/forks 4) Click on the Issues tab 5) See what open issues there are 6) See if the maintainer is active and applies
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by Ologn 12y ago
In 1996 I worked at a small Internet Service Provider. We were known for being one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) ISP's in New York City. Back then if you wanted a machine on the network, you'd get a 10MB uplink to a T-3 (
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by Ologn 12y ago
Yes, even at home, during the day you are interrupted by: * Phones ringing and other such interruptions * Lawnmowers or leafblowers * Seemingly incessant construction with drills, saws, hammering When the sun goes down, these distractions g
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by Ologn 12y ago
* Create an NFS mount to a directory holding thousands of images. Create another NFS mount with directories and subdirectories holding many files of any type. * Open Nautilus * Go to Edit -> Preferences. Click on the Preview tab * Set
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by Ologn 12y ago
I've made $1500 in the past month on my Android apps. I also did some additional Android stuff with a partner, so that would be another couple of hundred dollars on top of that. All from ads. Mostly Admob, but also Millennial Media a
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by Ologn 12y ago
It also neglects that efforts to alleviate the video broadcasting problem back before the commercial Internet really took off ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone ) were held back by carriers.
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by Ologn 12y ago
Precious metals are a commodity like any other commodity. They are valuable because people had to spend effort finding and mining them, and because people find them useful enough to exchange other valuable commodities for them. Their pric
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by Ologn 12y ago
Bitcoin has no value. It has a price, but not a value. Dutch tulip bulbs, 2008 Sacramento real estate devlopments, Pets.com stock all had prices at some point, but their value was always less than its price.
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by Ologn 12y ago
Interesting. If digital currencies focused more on this type of thing, they might actually stay around for a while longer. This is something I can see the value and usefulness of. A Bitcoin competitor focused around things like this, and
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by Ologn 12y ago
I understand what you're saying. The only problem is what data is in that decentralized, available, secure data store. The only data allowed in is self-referencing data. Most people don't care about the Bitcoin data store. I
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by Ologn 12y ago
Bitcoins are worthless precisely because the Subjective Theory of Value is wrong. Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith and all the early economists thought the Subjective Theory of Value was wrong. Because it is wrong. Bitcoin is a little scam w
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by Ologn 12y ago
> If Bitcoin does fail, a large part of the blame will be one the shoulders of so many software and IT people who make a flash decision that Bitcoin was "tulips" or a "ponzi scheme" Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. That pe
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by Ologn 12y ago
And how many existing mobile devices did Apple blatantly copy with the first iPhone? The first iPhone was nice, but how many features were original, aside from multi-touch?
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by Ologn 12y ago
> I cannot develop a mobile app on a mobile device. You can develop an Android app on an Android device. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui
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by Ologn 12y ago
I mainly program Android apps, many for my side business. Some people here have said "mobile has peaked". I go around with my Android mobile phone, and I have trouble finding out what time stores close. I have trouble finding ne
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by Ologn 12y ago
Canonical went on a binge hiring Debian developers, which is a reason why these releases took so long.
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by Ologn 12y ago
> 2) Party hard, roughly 1 night per week, maybe Friday. This works well for many extremely hard working professionals in NYC. Not sure how well it would work in SV... Probably one of the best comments I've seen on HN on some of the
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by Ologn 12y ago
Unless my eyes are faulty, the statement I see up top is "I could not get what the difference are between GNU Emacs and XEmacs."
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Show HN: Open sourced Android live wallpaper (port of Really Slick Screensavers)(github.com)
3 points by Ologn 12y ago|0 comments
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by Ologn 12y ago
http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html
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by Ologn 12y ago
Very good. I'm pointing http://hurdcatz.com and http://hurdingcatz.com to MariaDB's web site...until I get a legal letter from Oracle. (Actually every fourth load it goes to Bluehost instead, I have to loo
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by Ologn 12y ago
I take classes at a decently ranked public school, and many of the students are not having tuition paid by scholarship or endowment. Their parents are certainly not paying the full ride - they may contribute a little, if anything. Student
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by Ologn 12y ago
I primarily program for Android. One of my personal apps has bounced between $1000 and $2300 a month in revenue since May 2013. Over 99% of that was ad revenue (the other <1% were experiments in alternative revenue). Not spectacular,
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by Ologn 12y ago
This is a website I just launched. I've solely been doing Android stuff for the past three years. The last Android app I launched, in conjunction with another programmer, was a Thesaurus app. There are a few Android thesaurus apps ou
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Show HN: Online thesaurus(matchingwords.com)
1 points by Ologn 12y ago|1 comments
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by Ologn 12y ago
On traditional Wall Street, IT is considered a back office cost center. Back toward the end of the dot-com boom, investment banks were grumbling how the dot-com boom had loosened requirements for IT to wear suits to work, and how with the b
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by Ologn 12y ago
When I consulted on Wall Street I felt my mind turning to mush. Some of my co-workers would kibitz or play chess in the park, and I began playing as well. I became very focused on improving as I felt it was keeping my mind sharp, as my da

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