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by johnday 8y ago
Daylio is good! I did it for about 6 months but I've tailed off recently. Simple apps can definitely get away without a remote backend, and for things like single-player games they can get away without any web presence at all. So yeah,
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by johnday 8y ago
That all sounds very reasonable. Ours is a news website which publishes semi-frequently; so we'd probably lose about 5-10 articles on average. It's not just a hobby - it brings in more than a minimum job's worth per month at
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by johnday 8y ago
What do you mean by catastrophic? It's safe from the obvious things: * DB corruption / destruction: The database is backed up. * FS corruption / destruction: The production code is backed up with version control (obviously) a
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by johnday 8y ago
It depends on your speed, concurrent user capacity, and uptime requirements (among other things). I run two production servers off two separate $5/mo VPSs, one getting a few thousand hits a day. No issues whatsoever.
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by johnday 8y ago
True. It's also worth noting that a $5/mo VPS can get you surprisingly far with respect to well-designed websites and services.
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by johnday 8y ago
> There is no learn Haskell in 5 minutes. True, but there is a learn Haskell in 10 minutes... https://wiki.haskell.org/Learn_Haskell_in_10_minutes
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by johnday 8y ago
> I have never seen non-trivial Haskell that didn't enable at least 1 compiler extension. Language extensions are idiomatic Haskell. There is only one mainstream compiler used everywhere. Widely used extensions are a natural resul
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by johnday 8y ago
Sure, but there's a bit of apples and oranges here - for example, any modern internet-connected app would also need a server backend.
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by johnday 8y ago
I feel like you mostly just described Haskell, no?
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by johnday 8y ago
Not exactly write - you would use have to use either view patterns or a case...of statement rather than guards here. But the general gist is right.
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by johnday 8y ago
That does look way blurrier. Interesting though, since it seems to work fine on my screen. Are you using a standard pt / px size?
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by johnday 8y ago
The value add is not for people who have already seen the article from 2013 that you linked. It's for people who have never been exposed to this idea before. You could have added value just as easily by saying something like "this
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by johnday 8y ago
Apologies, I was using engagement in a different sense. As a game developer I want to keep people engaged with the game - not just arbitrarily "hooked" but actually immersed and invested in the game I have made.
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by johnday 8y ago
At the moment, I can't afford to and I can't afford not to. So I'm just muddling through on my own.
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by johnday 8y ago
> Is there anyway to do this properly? The way to do it properly is to hire experienced, competent UX designers and human computer interaction specialists, who understand the problem space and how to keep people engaged without addictive
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by johnday 8y ago
There's an extra difficulty with something like video software. Consider what the expected outcome would be for "isolate from second 1 to second 10". Then the expected outcome for "isolate from frame 1 to frame 10".
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by johnday 8y ago
Exactly. Just buy 100 Ender3s for somewhere around £15,000 and run them in parallel.
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by johnday 8y ago
This form of fabrication exists and is known as DLP. I have a DLP printer that cost me less than £500.
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by johnday 8y ago
It's actually been fairly stable for almost a decade - there's a good graph for the UK on the 'grade inflation' Wikipedia article.
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by johnday 8y ago
Cars driving bumper-to-bumper at 100km/h would be extraordinarily unsafe.
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by johnday 8y ago
This just seems like an argument against putting the variable on the right hand side of the comparator. You also only end up with two options, in the same way, and IMO (x > 5 && x < 10) is much more readable than (5 < x &
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by johnday 8y ago
Why on earth would eating more protein make your children taller? That's the weirdest reading of evolution I've ever heard.
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by johnday 8y ago
The links are direct on HN - you can always hover links to find out, if you'd rather not give the Opinion section any traffic.
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by johnday 8y ago
"Misogyny sort of requires an actual women being treated in a way a man would not have been treated." This is fundamentally incorrect. One can be a misogynist (ie, exhibit misogyny) without any "actual" women being prese
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by johnday 8y ago
That doesn't seem to imply that it cannot be copyrighted. > Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or interve
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by johnday 8y ago
I'm not sure you've been paying attention. By most accounts, the USA in the next war will be the bad guys.
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by johnday 8y ago
You can be blunt without being rude. Most of the post is just rudeness.
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by johnday 8y ago
The CSS inspector in most browsers these days has a "computed" section which lists every property and where it comes from, in order of precedence.
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by johnday 9y ago
> This doesn't mean that is is free, as my National Insurance contributions are substantial, but that I know that I don't bear any financial risk from going to see a doctor. In fact, it's more important than that. Because
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by johnday 9y ago
How?

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