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by hoodoof 10y ago
This is what the BBC microbit should have been.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Divide the $70 by the number of hours that you use it, and then think about the value it provides you. How much per hour? Still "pretty steep"? Next question - are you writing software that you hope someone will pay for?
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by hoodoof 10y ago
And all the sites nag you to include a capital, a non alpha and a number blah blah. How is that different?
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Ask HN: Why do websites let people make their own passwords?
3 points by hoodoof 10y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Was wireless data transfer possible with the Altair 8800?
2 points by hoodoof 10y ago|2 comments
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Tell HN: I feel ike I'm waiting for the show to start
2 points by hoodoof 10y ago|2 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
It's going to be needed.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Phishing.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
For me the essence of it is this: Perl says "there's more than one way to do it" Python, by contrast, says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." The practical outcome of the Perl ph
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Am I the only person who thinks that Docker adds unneeded complexity?
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by hoodoof 10y ago
This article is wrong. It assumes that priorities are the same for all programming. When programming you should be programming to a set of priorities i.e.: software performance/speed maintainability security reliability conformance to
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Ask HN: Is Angelist now the spammy new LinkedIn?
2 points by hoodoof 10y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is your greatest achievement(s)?
7 points by hoodoof 10y ago|1 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Cause JavaScript is used in browsers so it is the language of the web, and because it has turned out to be incredibly flexible and adaptable, and because it's pretty simple once yo get past the async thing, and because alot of effort h
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Why is this on hacker news?
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Is this different from other cloud providers?
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Newspapers should sell subscriptions to the latest news, and provide slightly old news for free, like 8 to 12 hours behind.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
And the government just takes all your private information without any terms of service.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I'm no Trumpist and no fan of Thiel, but I believe anyone can place their vote where-ever they want. I may not agree with him but I would fight to the end for his right to vote for Trump if he wants.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Maybe in the Ruby SDK, not in the JavaScript SDK. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.h... And anyway, this is not something that should be in the SDK, it's a core part of the AWS
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I really wish there was an API that allowed me to just get a list of all available regions including their descriptive names. As it stands, when AWS adds a region I have to make manual updates to update my systems. AWS has APIs for everythi
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Wow it's pretty amazing that this is a Z80 https://education.ti.com/en-GB/aus-nz/products/secondary-cal... Yes the only missing thing is the ability to connect a screen.
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Ask HN: Are there any 8 bit computers still manufactured?
3 points by hoodoof 10y ago|4 comments
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by hoodoof 10y ago
This is the sort of thing that needs to live in a bigger company that wants a quality database product to round out its product offering.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
I would have thought some wealthy game company would want to buy the company behind a game this popular.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
The "phone on the face" approach to VR is a solid one, but it's going to be Apple that makes it work and owns it because they control the ecosystem. VR needs low end alternatives and "phone on the face" is it. From
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by hoodoof 10y ago
The solution - don't use them.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
You lost nothing, you launched nothing, ideas are a dime a dozen. And you're wring if you think it's the same product. Just the fact that Facebook launches it means it's not the same product. You would never have had the au
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by hoodoof 10y ago
Cloud providers should make their smallest instances basically free. Bottom end instances/pricing is the drug through which developers become addicted to a platform.
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by hoodoof 10y ago
If the two of you cannot easily answer this question then your journey is going to be a troubled one.

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