jdludlow

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by jdludlow 13y ago
"doesn't recognize my device" Same here. In this case the device is the same browser I've been logging in with daily. The back-up email is one that hasn't existed for a decade, and the "secret questions"
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Kickstarter is a huge topic on BoardgameGeek.com. It's everywhere, and tends to dominate the discussions of new titles. It's all over the site, but the concentrated discussion is here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/915012/kickstarter/
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by jdludlow 13y ago
This is good stuff. Should be worthy of an interview at least. I prefer Macs, Vim, Nikon Cameras, and Dark Beer. I don't know anything about cameras, but the other three are dead on.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
Today my accountant gulped half his down in seconds. I took it as a sign. It's early April. In the U.S., this is about 1.5 weeks before the largest tax deadline of the year. An accountant here with spare time for a leisurely coffee is a s
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by jdludlow 13y ago
That's backwards. As the value approaches zero, the relative cost of mining grows not shrinks.
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by jdludlow 13y ago
I don't think that Len was being sarcastic. I think what he really meant was, "Thanks for posting my article."
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by jdludlow 14y ago
There isn't a shred of evidence in that article to support the claim that medical care in the U.S. is bad.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Erlang has been my latest hobby language, and while I'm not very deep into it yet I'm having fun looking through the source code here to see what "real Erlang" looks like. https://github.com/basho/riak_cs If any experts happen to notice p
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Part of your sentence appears to be missing, but I'll fill it in for myself. The "ly" thing is beyond worn out. The odd thing in this case is that they actually chose a real word.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Pranaya: and FYI – I use the same password for my bank accounts, etc.. Someone who is serious about security would never do this. The rest of the article falls on its face at this point.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
I use a similar system, but only because I know the people who wrote that one. It's nice to see the code, but there's still no guarantee that this is the code that is running on the real site. Now, having the code available makes it possibl
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by jdludlow 14y ago
"Rich people tend to buy things that appreciate in value. Poor people tend to buy things that depreciate in value". Obviously not a universal truth, but applied to money and/or time it's something that I try to keep in the back of my mind.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
If you think "I'm moving the camera on this tripod" it suddenly becomes very natural. It worked for me anyway.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
BoardGameGeek also has an active secondary market, lowering the risk of new purchases. Unless the game is utterly terrible, you'll be able to recoup some of your money. The user auctions there fetch high enough prices that I would not hesit
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by jdludlow 14y ago
I carry a stack of calculators around with me, since my gaming preferences lead me toward heavy economic eurogames and titles from the 18XX[1] world. Power Grid isn't bad enough to need a calculator most of the time, but if someone in my gr
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Minneapolis has an embarrassment of riches on this front. We have game shops everywhere and dozens of public groups that meet regularly. There's also a monthly gathering that typically runs Friday to Sunday (16 hours each), and sells out it
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Power Grid has a lot of simple arithmetic. You're adding numbers in your head constantly. Barring a runaway leader, the endgame tends to have a slingshot effect where the person who is "leading" is actually behind those who are currently in
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by jdludlow 14y ago
I guess they shouldn't have been making promises like this then, under the headline "Now and Forever". When a customer signs up through your referrer link, you’ll earn 50% of their first month’s payment (after they make that first payment)
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by jdludlow 14y ago
From the same blog, this is the starting point where he breaks down a very simple process of drawing with circles and introduces some basic concepts. http://2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.in/2011/10/lets-get-...
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Having never used github for authorization, I clicked on the sign-up button that Singly provided. Among the bullet points that github issues, this one seemed a bit more than mildly concerning. * Update your public and private repositori
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by jdludlow 14y ago
$ man apropos apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard output. It answers the question "I wonder how to do [this English
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by jdludlow 14y ago
It's mainly about muscle memory. If you're using Sublime, emacs, TextMate, or any other "real" text editor then you're fine. I don't have to think about how to perform most tasks in vim. My fingers just execute what my brain wants to see ha
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by jdludlow 14y ago
My first week in college a distant relative of mine at the same school pulled me into the Sun lab. The sum-total of his instructions were: * This is how you log in. * This is ls. * This is cd. * This is man. * This is apropos. * Learn vi. *
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Most people have read this before, but maybe some of the kidlets here haven't seen it. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html 464gg for the greatest chapter about an OS ever written.
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Speaking of UX, this is what that page looks like when JavaScript is disabled. https://img.skitch.com/20120604-e4x8dgp8u82akj7ngmyhywbtdb.p...
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by jdludlow 14y ago
It's done partially because "everyone else is doing it," but there is also the "wisdom of crowds" value. The number of likes or dislikes is a quick metric that can be used for sorting, searching, populating a home page, or building recommen
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by jdludlow 14y ago
Our experiences are nearly mirror images. I cancelled cable TV years ago. When Game of Thrones came out last year, I naively thought "No big deal. I'll just pay HBO for streaming." I was shocked to discover that there's no way for me to upe
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by jdludlow 14y ago
How do you make money if it's completely free? We have ideas for moentization that does not include charging people to user our service. Ads or harvesting user info or what? Does anyone know where they are going with this?
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by jdludlow 15y ago
The same thing happened for "April 1". Historically, Slashdot was a leader in posting April Fools prank stories. This year, it posted none. That sounds like growing up not dying.
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by jdludlow 15y ago
(I did throw away $100 on an ad on clientsfromhell.net and got virtually zero results) My suspicion on this is that since Clients From Hell offers no reason to go to the site itself (no extra commentary, no user comments, etc.) it's easie

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