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by munger 13y ago
Meh, it's novel for about 10 seconds... But seriously, did you complete the level? I dabbled with it for about 10 seconds and then realized how long it would take and lost interest.
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by munger 13y ago
Because there is one huge problem - the power usage of the CPUs / GPUs / ASICs. If you buy a "mining rig", probably an ASIC costing $1200 - $6000 (you can spend as much as you want scaling up and across) up front and it consumes something
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by munger 13y ago
I can relate to this. There is a real risk in freezing up when you attempt for your first writing of code to be the fully architected solution. I would still go one step further and at least apply the strategy pattern/polymorphism when you
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by munger 13y ago
I totally agree with you. I could barely finish reading the article myself and you have put into words perfectly why it was subconsciously painful to read. Good points about bad articles in general. =)
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by munger 13y ago
Also don't forget - by the time you read the news about a company, the news has already affected the stock price (in the short term). So in other words if you read big news the minute it comes out about a company, automated systems and inst
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by munger 13y ago
Also in this article that seems sensible to me. Spending on higher quality foods, medicine, sewing machines, blankets, savings, starting businesses and even the occasional "luxury" like a TV or wedding. "... in villages receiving payments,
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by munger 13y ago
I think the main confusion of hot keys going from windows to Mac (as a developer that tried it) is, "On Mac, command is control and on Windows, control is control" - but then Mac also has a control key... but then if you open up a terminal/
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by munger 14y ago
Nice looking site overall. As others have mentioned - image optimization will help you a lot. Taking a look at firebug Net profiling, the homepage footprint weighs in at 2MB. 500K is your "studio" image, followed by the bridge bg photo at 3
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by munger 14y ago
I think college, aside from a few useful things you learn and problems with student debt - if nothing else is a good education for playing a game (and learning some discipline). You have rules and constraints - structure. You can determine
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by munger 14y ago
Well crafted. =)
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by munger 14y ago
I didn't down vote you, but my experience with writing specs has been positive. Maybe you are talking about running your own start-up where it might not be successful yet? And you're trying to find your market fit? Then sure, maybe just wr
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by munger 14y ago
I was actually considering adding "sad but true" to the end of that line... because... it is. =) Also what app do you have to use in Mac OS X for sane window management? One thing that bugged me about giving a 15" MBP a chance was how "max
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by munger 14y ago
For the PC world, I'm happy with a 13" ultrabook running Windows 7 (Asus Zenbook UX31A). At least I can get work done on it from the recliner and plug it in to an external 24" monitor and keyboard for more serious work. In my opinion the gr
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by munger 14y ago
Thanks to Chris Cardinal for taking the time to write this up! I think it's important to be aware of current fraud like this since a lot of HN readers are probably also amazon customers (as I am myself). Also interesting to know about gmai
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by munger 14y ago
A nice slide deck that goes in-depth. The gist of it is using number values (not percent or em or px) is generally the best all around solution to scaling line-height with differing font sizes proportionally, and it suggests tweaks for issu
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by munger 14y ago
display_errors can be convenient on non-production sites. I think a lot of beginners are trying to hack stuff on shared hosting, and transfer their php files in via FTP and don't understand how to access logs and do appreciate this feature
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by munger 14y ago
Consider something like the start of instagram - no revenue and huge data transfer costs after getting tons of users. Although I realize OP is suggesting building something with revenue that is sustainable.
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by munger 14y ago
Not unless you consider every request needing to use disk swap "running" which I can assure you is orders of magnitude slower and terrible. In my experience on Rackspace cloud 512MB instances are the minimum you should use for tiny producti
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by munger 14y ago
AnalTrack.js
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by munger 14y ago
Yep, me too. I have an iphone 4/iOS5 and have also delayed upgrading to iOS6 due to the bad press and my need of transit directions. I have a car too, but I frequently ride the bus to the airport for longer trips. And I still might wait for
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by munger 14y ago
A couple issues with this though. Realtor commissions (possible to avoid if you have enough knowledge), and/or loan fees, closing costs, title insurance, etc. Also in the US, capital gains taxes if you don't live in it for at least 2 years.
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by munger 14y ago
Yeah! Atari 800XL with cassette! We had one of those, my favorite game you had to load in by tape was Zeppelin. I was 5 or 6 at the time, so this game was frustrating as hell and probably made me cry more than once. Video of Zeppelin: http
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by munger 14y ago
Gotta love any explanation and suggested resolution for being overweight and wanting to lose it that doesn't mention exercise. If you exercise enough, your diet doesn't have to be so strict, and you're way more likely to actually lose weigh
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by munger 14y ago
Also, bring back 16:10! Stop putting 1366x768 screens on laptops that are 14, 15 and even 17 inches and saying it's HD! Get off my lawn!
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by munger 14y ago
Our experience with Rackspace email at $12 per user per year has also been great. Although I suspect our pricing is grandfathered in, looks like they have doubled their price in recent times to $24 per user per year: http://www.rackspace.
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by munger 14y ago
As I recall, recent X Games and Olympics had all their online video content accessible only through Silverlight players also. I remember trying to watch some of these events and being annoyed because the Silverlight player was locking up Fi
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by munger 14y ago
Good starting point for this stuff: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-sen...
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by munger 14y ago
I put info like this in a password manager for sanity (Keepass, I work on a PC). One easy way to manage it is make a folder for each hostname, and add things like mysql root password, ssh port, public IP, pivate IP as different entries rela
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by munger 14y ago
Another gem from this video, not that there is a shortage of them - at 3:55 - "It makes us into a vortex machine, sucks things in at the top and shoots them out of the bottom"
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by munger 14y ago
As someone who doesn't follow CPU manufacturers closely, it is still surprising to me AMD is in a tough spot - don't their CPUs power a huge portion of commodity hardware based cloud servers like AWS and Rackspace cloud? It seems like deman

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