eupharis

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Amazon Payments Epic Fail(highwaterlabs.com)
2 points by eupharis 14y ago|0 comments
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by eupharis 14y ago
If a tenth of the cool projects on github were endorsed by Github, github would be a failure. Or at least it would be a mere shadow of its insane awesomeness.
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by eupharis 15y ago
Fair, especially in light of what others have pointed out. Something more factual. How about: "A cheap, small, powerful computer, whose name is not a dessert pun" Don't see a way to change it now. Can an editor? Still, it's way less impress
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by eupharis 15y ago
Well said. I guess my first thought with the Raspberry Pi was as a ridiculously cheap/efficient HTPC, and secondly as a tool for relatively poor kids to be able to have their own computer to program/explore on with decent hardware. This fil
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by eupharis 15y ago
And just as a disclaimer, I am no stooge trying to make a buck nor a troll. I would link to some product page on FoxConn's website, but the price/ease-of-actually-buying is a big part of the reason why this is worthy of discussion. (Grante
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A Raspberry Pi Killer?(newegg.com)
9 points by eupharis 15y ago|11 comments
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by eupharis 15y ago
Ah ok. That makes sense. As an American, I take it as my god-given right to jump to conclusions based on American conditions ;) I also had the thought that at many American schools/libraraies I bet you could find a sympathetic IT guy to giv
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by eupharis 15y ago
No. $250 is ridiculous, even for buying everything new. I just spent 2 minutes googling: Amazon Class Class 10 8 GB SD Card: $9 Best Buy 20" LCD: $90 Keyboard: $15 Mouse: $7.54 Speakers: $10.54 Total: $132.08 If you go to y
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by eupharis 15y ago
That 50% number seems high to me. Seems chicken-and-egg. Do they buy a Kindle then subscribe to Amazon Prime or do they use Amazon a lot and thus get both a Kindle and Amazon Prime? And like most chicken-and-egg questions, the answer is bot
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by eupharis 15y ago
"for many of my most common tasks (read: tests) I have merely pushed the bottleneck back onto the CPU." This is my experience as well. I have an older computer (2009) with a low-voltage processor (SU3700) that I am looking at upgrading, but
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by eupharis 15y ago
You assume we have to pay the seniors. Social security and medicare are both insurance funds. You pay in now to get benefits later. The current generation of seniors going into retirement spent all their retirement before they retired. They
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by eupharis 15y ago
I'm one of those poor, unemployed young people for whom the $1 price point was perfect. It's the "What the Hell" price point. The benefit of having it on my Kindle and not having to switch windows all the time is real, but rather small. Per