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by graue 14y ago
I can't imagine living in a place for three years and not making any friends. For me, regular in-person contact with friends is essential to feeling motivated and connected with the world. They don't have to be close friends, and they don
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by graue 14y ago
Thanks for offering a different perspective. To me, the basic MBA — which outperforms my previous machine in every spec — clearly has more computing power than I could conceivably need. I never thought of it as low end, but compared to the
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by graue 14y ago
I commented on this a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4849092 In short, it works great. A few very minor annoyances I haven't fixed yet. You can dual boot with OS X using rEFIt: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ You do
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by graue 14y ago
What kind of developing and what are you looking for in terms of specs? I run Xubuntu on a 13" MacBook Air, which is only ~$1100 and does everything I need. For web developers, I feel like the Air is almost the default option. That your bud
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by graue 14y ago
> If everyone did this though many online products and services would cease to exist. This is something I've been grappling with a lot. I use Adblock Plus and Ghostery and set Firefox to delete almost all cookies on exit. For that small
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by graue 14y ago
I looked at Hyde, Cactus and Pelican, but confess I can't recall what I didn't like about the first two. Nothing seems obviously wrong with them. Maybe they looked unmaintained or not as mature as Jekyll, although Cactus has a bunch of rece
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by graue 14y ago
I tried Octopress, but didn't like the default theme/layout — I wanted to design my own theme, and was hoping to build up a site from scratch, not rip out what was already there. After considering a bunch of Python-based SSGs which didn't i
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by graue 14y ago
I'd be very concerned about Spotify, which is losing money. Although they have massive revenue, they end up immediately paying nearly all of it to record labels. http://hypedsound.com/news/details/SPOTIFY-FINANCIALS-DEEMED... - Link inclu
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by graue 14y ago
I just tested at Panopticlick, and it told me my browser is completely unique. Just like it said the last 8 or so times I've been to Panopticlick. So I question how meaningful that is. Yes, it's pulling enough info to uniquely identify a br
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by graue 14y ago
I do have something to offer such a person, and it's the same thing (s)he has to offer me: we had fun hanging out last time, we probably would again.
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by graue 14y ago
I guess it depends on the technical savvy of the user and whether “running your own electrum server or cross checking transactions with a third party” is really going to happen. The project website doesn't advise taking these measures, nor
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by graue 14y ago
I see that now: $1120 “after coupon”. https://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoP... At the time, I was definitely not seeing it under $1400. It may have been before the X1 Carbon was officially released, or while they we
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by graue 14y ago
Right, that's my thinking... based on how much I used to hear about Foursquare years ago, I would think they'd have more users by now if they're on a path to success. When I looked at some business reviews on Foursquare (while traveling— wa
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by graue 14y ago
“If, all you need is to run Linux then you can use one of the plethora of other great machines and save money.” I didn't find that to be the case. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon was the only Ultrabook that compared at all favorably to the Air in re
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by graue 14y ago
For a good personal friend, yes, that works. What if it was just a chance meeting? You can try calling a year later, but in my experience people won't make time for someone they barely remember.
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by graue 14y ago
For a much lower price, actually. $1140: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD231LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO... Or $1430 (still over a hundred dollars less) with twice as big of an SSD: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MD232LL-13-3-Inch-VERS
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by graue 14y ago
I regret that there's no good documentation for installing on the 5-2 (2012 13" Air), something I have to take some responsibility for since I run Ubuntu on such a laptop and didn't share my experiences. In short, most things work fine on U
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by graue 14y ago
This works perfectly for me on a 2012, 13" MacBook Air running Xubuntu 12.10. You can have your nice Mac hardware and run Linux too :)
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by graue 14y ago
News about Foursquare has been pretty bleak lately. I tried using it to find restaurants but their search results page was a disaster on mobile: tiny text and it wouldn't allow zooming in. They just updated the Android app but it has a bunc
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by graue 14y ago
I'm trying to find some middle ground. For example, I use Ghostery to block Facebook comments and like buttons, so they're not aware of my activities on the web. And I've used a special email just to sign up for Facebook, so people don't fi
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by graue 14y ago
Serious question for you and everyone else urging this: How do you maintain weak ties? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties#Research_da... Like people you see once a year or less, maybe because they live far away, or maybe the
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by graue 14y ago
For non-celebrities, it very much is a new problem. Facebook, cheap digital cameras and widespread internet use have turned average people into paparazzi. You can be a regular Joe Schmoe, go to a party, and have everyone you know looking at
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by graue 14y ago
Elsewhere on that wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Server-Trust... “All thin clients listed below currently connect to a single server, and are vulnerable to an attack similar to a double-spend. The attack can be run
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by graue 14y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of, based on mrb's figures, buying 11 FPGA boards and letting them pay my rent. That's substantial enough profit that if I didn't file properly, I'd be worried about a knock on the door from the IRS.
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by graue 14y ago
I'd be loath to put my credit card info there since it's on an HTTP (not HTTPS) page. How is this remotely secure?
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by graue 14y ago
This sounds like good business. Any links on getting started? I'm especially curious about the legal aspects like how you report mined-Bitcoin income when you do taxes.
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by graue 14y ago
However, using Electrum entails putting significant trust in the third party that hosts the blockchain for you (and it's not clearly identified on the Electrum website who that is). See past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by graue 14y ago
The demo for this jQuery easing plugin also allows testing the easeInOutQuint equation: http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/
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by graue 14y ago
I recently set up HTTPS on my personal blog, and this article saved me a lot of time doing so. The free StartCom certs really work. In the end it doesn't matter so much because I switched to Jekyll, but if your blog has an admin interface w
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From HTTP to HTTPS with free certificates(blog.ruilopes.com)
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