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Jdam··on An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Please add a donate button, I would so do it! Loved the original game.
Jdam··on A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire
I'm glad that I don't have this limiting mindset.
Jdam··on Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music
My experience was that Spotify radio is utterly bad, Discover Weekly quite okay, but the weekly Apple Music playlist really nails it. I found a lot so far that I didn't know before and added to my library.
Jdam··on Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds new music
So the dreaded filter bubble also is an issue for Spotify ;)
Jdam··on A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire
"luck favours the prepared mind"
Jdam··on It’s not ok for billion-dollar companies to crowdfund
On my way to work, I‘m passing a store of a bag manufacturer that‘s in business for 25 years. Now, they advertise their Kickstarter campaign that will still run for a few days. Out of the 100k funding goal for a new bag(!), they reached almost 500k. Mind blowing for me.
Jdam··on Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
> You can scale HANA vertically and horizontally

Nah, with scaling, I‘m more referring to approaches of eg Cassandra instead of „add another read replica“.

Jdam··on Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
Maybe because SAP HANA requires vertical scaling. For horizontal scaling, I don't see a point in using such big instances.
Jdam··on Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624GB of memory
But only Haswell, where GCP offers Skylake
Jdam··on When I asked Tinder for my data, it sent me 800 pages of my deepest secrets
Tl;dr Tinder stored her messages and pics and she was embarrassed reading them again.
Jdam··on Unsigned apps on High Sierra can programmatically dump and exfil keychain
Proves me once again that the best password vault is sitting on my shoulders.
Jdam··on Bitcoin Is Likely to Split Again in November, Say Major Players
> it will never make it as a legitimate source of money

yes, but because it's far better to hodl and profit instead of spending it on a pizza. It's an investment right now, not a currency.

Jdam··on Optionsbleed – HTTP OPTIONS method can leak Apache's server memory
So it's surprising, what the A in LAMP stands for?!
Jdam··on Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33
"CCleaner is an application that allows users to perform routine maintenance on their systems."

It's 2017, how is this still a thing?

Jdam··on Go vs. Rust? Choose Go
> Sorry, but Go isn't in the same category as Rust or C/C++.

From the article:

> 99% of the time, Go is "good enough" and that 1% where it isn't, you'll know. And then take a look at Rust, because the two languages complement each other pretty well.

Jdam··on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold
As a European, I noticed that discussions held here about X in the US _always_ converge against their healthcare.

"Salary in the US is higher" - but heir healthcare sucks

"Weather in California is nicer than in Oslo" - But you don't have healtcare

"New York is such a great city to live in" - But you're left for dead

Jdam··on A Berlin Borough Buying Out Private Landlords
So from an economic point of view (that is lacking in Berlin in general), which value do the artists and students create and which value is created by doctors?

Fine if the leftist gov wants to sustain their neverland but not if the other part of society (dreaded doctors, lawyers, engineers) has to pay for that.

(also living in Berlin)

Jdam··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
I'm so tired of this Linux/Unix/Posix religious BS. Earning money with software development for 7+ years now and mostly using macOS, Suse and Ubuntu (to precisely name it), I'm wondering if this Posix debate is applicable anywhere outside school and Wikipedia.

Of course, the recruiter is just a recruiter but with this "I know it all & better"-attitude, when the intention was absolutely clear, having no deal was the right choice for fb.

Jdam··on Serverless dev practices questions
For lambda, I highly recommend integrating AWS X-Ray.
Jdam··on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How
My co-workers from the office are frequently recommended to me on FB. Since I don't have their number, it must be location based.
Jdam··on Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?
I tried changing my default web browser. Worked.
Jdam··on Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?
All this "we make the world a better place" is actually the most annoying thing for me as a user. Every time I open Firefox (not so often anymore), I get some "save the world"-spam on the frontpage.
Jdam··on Andrew Ng is raising a $150M AI Fund
Lol, even Filecoin outraised that Fund
Jdam··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
Just like every John Doe currently knows exactly what Trump should or shouldn't do in regards to North Korea and how China will react. You're mentioning a valid point, but this behavior is always the same. I guess that's human.
Jdam··on Ask HN: Have you successfully moved away from Google search?
No, why?

A friend of mine is using DDG and whenever I'm over and we search for something on DDG, what we were searching for doesn't show up. Maybe it's Murphy's law, but I'm always mocking him with "search for it on Google" and that usually delivers the result we were looking for.

Jdam··on Redesigning the airport boarding pass (2010)
> but the gates are available only half-hour or so from the closing time.

Depends on the airport and airline.

Jdam··on Postage – A fast replacement for pgAdmin
Have to agree. I was using pgAdmin 3 that had its issues on Mac. When 4 came out, it looked so nice and I thought "finally they made it!". But after 5 minutes I figured out what kind clusterfuck it actually became. On the one hand, I cannot imagine who actually releases such a crap. On the other, it's foss and I feel bad complaining about stuff that somebody probably built in his free time.
Jdam··on The quitting economy
I'm a "young folk" who worked at a company that implemented his Tour of Duty. However, my "tour supervision" was so incredibly bad, I was way better off jumping ship after not even 11 months.
Jdam··on Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
Funny side note: when I prepared for getting into all this mining and increasing G2 quota in N Virginia from 2 to 20 or so, customer support first needed to check "if this won't disrupt overall region stability". Don't know if this was bs or if scalability in Aws might be worse than we think.
Jdam··on Next-Generation GPU-Powered EC2 Instances (G3)
You probably didn't evaluate Spot prices. I wrote a tool once to evaluate current AWS spot prices against the Ethereum price and sometimes it was a low as losing 2 cents per hour and G2 instance.
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