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by jtms 8y ago
well guess what... the overwhelming majority of uber drivers ARE men - why would you want to waste your ad spend on a non-productive demo?
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by jtms 8y ago
From many of the interviews I have seen/read, he really only seems to care about human beings becoming a multi-planetary species. Everything else is a side show - means to an end. I know you were lampooning both him and the current adm
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by jtms 8y ago
I'd imagine they have some pretty heavy duty air filters that could catch and remove that sort of particulate. Total speculation though...
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by jtms 8y ago
The information density in this post is insane! This is easily the best things I have read on hacker news this year.
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by jtms 8y ago
FYI - tried viewing your landing page on iOS and it came up a blank white page
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by jtms 8y ago
Having tried both Gibber.js and Tone.js I would give the edge to Tone.js - less crackles and pops and generally more a more stable bridge to the Web Audio Api. Give it a look if you like.
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by jtms 8y ago
Not sure it qualifies as an introduction to any particular field within tech, but for a general deep dive into the inner workings of computers: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software I just love this book! It was a jo
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by jtms 8y ago
Can you not sue the government in the UK? I am struggling to understand why this was not a massive class action lawsuit. They severely impacted these people's lives and deserve compensation.
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by jtms 8y ago
Minecraft is an amazing learning tool even for adults! I used Minecraft as a "build along" tool for fully understanding logic gates while reading "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" (which I hig
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by jtms 8y ago
That mechanic is my favorite part of the souls series. I love the surprise of hitting a trap or particularly nasty ambush for the first time and getting destroyed. the next time through you get to know the future before it happens and have
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by jtms 8y ago
The fact they supposedly recovered 15k Bitcoins tells me he wasn't sophisticated enough to secure his private key sufficiently. If he had memorized a BIP39 mnemonic for his private key we wouldn't be reading about $162 million dol
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by jtms 8y ago
hosted where? On a VPS, in a data center, or in your closet? All of these depend on third party services and good luck keeping them up and running as well as someone who makes just that ONE little thing their entire reason for existing.
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by jtms 9y ago
You do realize ETH is just the abbreviation/symbol for Ethereum (not "ethereal") right?
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by jtms 9y ago
I don't think anyone can be sure about anything, but I am very impressed by the team behind this and the source code I have looked through so far.
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by jtms 9y ago
don't worry, Cardano is going to eat Ethereum's lunch and it most definitely will not be using solidity.
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by jtms 9y ago
The last time I did anything with Websockets was about 5 years ago and they were relatively well supported by browsers even then. I used socket.io because it automatically falls back to long polling when native Websockets are not supported.
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by jtms 9y ago
calm down there buddy, its a software rendered keypad... easy enough to flip it 180 for lefties with a setting
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by jtms 9y ago
the infrequency with which I even use the dial pad on the phone really makes me inclined to file this under "not broken, no need to fix"
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by jtms 9y ago
came here to say exactly this
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by jtms 9y ago
Do not leave your coins on an exchange. Use a hardware or paper wallet that is physically secured.
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by jtms 9y ago
No where in their statement do they say they based said special treatment on gender - you assumed and added that.
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by jtms 10y ago
Tried to read this article and am now unsure if it is just extremely erudite and beyond my ability to grasp or just complete horse shit.
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by jtms 10y ago
wow that is incredibly cheap! I think you could double that and then some.
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by jtms 10y ago
This article's title is total clickbait BS. This has NOTHING to do with table layout or tabular data.
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by jtms 10y ago
I have been a professional dev for 12 years but have often considered other paths. Just a few: Placer gold miner (yep, like the TV shows), Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructor, metal sculptor, mechanical engineer
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by jtms 10y ago
And this is a problem how?
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by jtms 10y ago
If I had an AI that could write code better than I it would be AMAZING. As a solo game dev I could be 1000000 times more productive and spend all of my time designing and balancing the game with the help of the greatest dev of all time!
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by jtms 11y ago
interesting... i found that bit one of the most interesting in the book! I also found Snow Crash to be his most readable. I devoured it in just a few sittings!
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by jtms 12y ago
Bad ideas deserve to be mocked.
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by jtms 12y ago
Wow! Very cool... I could play with this for days! Thank you for posting this.

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