Random_Person

West Virginia, US

I bought a few ETH this morning. I linked a bank account, is that the difference?

Yeah. I signed up this morning and bought a few ETH.

I signed up earlier today and bought some ETH. Coinbase hasn't asked me for any sort of verification, ID, or photo.

It says my transaction will take 8 days, but that's the only waiting I've experienced.

I've seen this pop up a few times now... what verification? Coinbase hasn't asked me for any proof of who I am at all.

The only one I don't see alreadly listed:

LORE

Between 400 and 500. That number is super-misleading though. I only have 3 or 4 videos that have earned me any countable money.

I have a "dear diary" type series that I do every weekday. I have uploaded 433 episodes on that series and it generates nearly no views. It's not the type of content people look for on YouTube.

My YouTube back-catalog nets me $2-5k each year. One video in particular has repeatedly paid for my children's Chirstmas presents as it tends to "go hot" around this time of year.

I'm in the same situation. I have started on a SaaS that will be profitable next year, but as it's education based, I won't be able to monitize until July. My job is ending in June... so I have to figure something out in the meantime. I'd love to start building a portfolio, but don't know where to start.

To "retire" while I still have enough life left in me to enjoy it.

By "retire" I do not mean the absence of work. I mean the freedom to work only when I feel like working.

At work, I had a client say "I wish we had software that did this." What they were asking for was little more than a Google Form with a few reporting options. So, I whipped them up something in PHP/MySQL and handed it off.

I quickly found more clients (word of mouth) that want the same software and can't find anyone that will provide it for less than $5k/yr. I work for a non-profit (education industry) that isn't really built to operate on funding streams like this, so I set up my own business and bought the rights back to my code/ip.

I'm currently in the pre-launch phase as I re-factor a bit and make the code better suited to multi-agent use, but honestly, it's something an experienced developer could code in a weekend. I'm a total hack, so it's taking time. I already have 4 clients and more calls coming in, so the only thing holding me back is myself.

Austin is nice and I have friends there, but moving isn't in the cards right now.

Awesome. Thanks for the info!

I've been playing it several times a day since you hit the front page of HN. That's very unusual for me with anything other than puzzle type games. I read your entire blog and that, in part, fuels my interest in the game... but aside from that, it's just a darn fun game. There are a few things I'd do differently, but overall, I'm extremely impressed with it.

Hm, I've been using KeyPass/Dropbox for quite a while now. Not sure what advantages this method has over mine? Yes, I have to remember my KeyPass master password... but then you'd have to be logged into one of my machines to get access to it anyway... or on my mobile, which everyone seems to be using for 2 factor anyways, so it's moot if my mobile is compromised.

Not sure what the advantage is.

You're right. Honestly. The problem is, I've had this device since day one and switching between input modes still gets in the way. It is not a fluid experience. That's all I was saying. I am an "artist", writer, coder, consumer, and gamer. I carry the pen in my pocket and use it regularly. I have the cool little bluetooth touch mouse and enjoy it when gaming/coding. The on-screen keyboard is actually pretty awesome and I can touch type on it with surprising accuracy. BUT... I still have to consciously determine which input method I want to use for which app. If I'm on the desktop, and my Twitter app goes off, I switch back to Modern. I can continue using the mouse somewhat clumsily, or I can switch to touch input which works great. Then, I switch back to desktop and every darn time I'm still trying to use touch. Maybe I'm dense. Maybe I'm just hoping that one day the transition will be seamless... but, for me, it's not, and that is annoying (even if only mildly.)

Step one for me was uninstalling all the default apps. Some of them have good replacements in the Market, others I just do without. The lack of quality is a serious issue. I'm not sure how they are going to fix that considering Microsoft themselves can't seem to make anything terribly impressive.

Exactly this. I actually like the Modern stuff. The interface has some flaws (lack of a notification bar) but overall, the experience is good and interacting with apps is fine. The issue comes when you switch to the desktop and try to work with it as a touch interface.

One example was at launch, Chrome's build didn't work well with touch. If you touched a dialog, the on-screen keyboard would not come up automatically. Scrolling with your finger was near impossible unless you flicked up first... which made no sense. The desktop side of Chrome has gotten better, but I'm not sure who to praise for that.

Essentially, yes. I convinced work to buy me a Pro after around a decade of being Windows free... and I'm underwhelmed. I like the hardware. But having two entirely separate interfaces is really terrible. Like he pointed out, it's no longer intuitive how to interact with the device, you have to constantly switch between input modes which is extremely annoying.

My battery life is no where near that terrible. I'm not sure what he has running constantly, but I can GAME on my Surface Pro for 5+ hours without plugging in. It's still bad for a "tablet", but not any worse than my HP Elite Book with the same specs.

Did you upgrade or format/install? I'm pondering it now. I've had quite a few system hangs lately and am wondering if I should even attempt the upgrade to 12.10

I am one of those charged with maintaining this equipment. Spread throughout our state, there are 8 Education Services Agencies that manage their region's networks. I personally installed ~115 of these routers...

What's the price? Not a lot.

We are state employees, and as such, are paid state employee wages. I am compensated for mileage, but beyond that, there is no charge to the individual districts. Part of the cost of these routers was a 4 year Cisco Smart Care plan which replaces the hardware within 24 hours at no additional cost. What that really means is, they ship it to me and it's my responsibility to replace and return the failed part. Much of what I do is remote configuration changes and very little on-site time.

I want this so bad. I once tried making an appointment for severe pain and was told three months and there was nothing sooner. They told me if I was in severe pain, I could visit my local ER, pay, and submit paperwork for reimbursement. I informed them that I could not afford that option and asked if they were going to treat me for alcoholism because I was going to drink myself to sleep every night for the next three months... I was then told, "Oh, how about next Tuesday. We have a number of reserved appointments that we can assign for high-need cases."

WHAT!?

Holy! I STILL use this exact thing at home. My T41 handles DNS, DHCP, and print services. I just moved and it's still going strong... I never though to check the uptime before I left the old house, but it had the potential of 5+ years as we have had no major power outages.

I'm going to throw myself out there on this one... but what's wrong with Skype on Linux? I rarely use it (so maybe that's why I'm not understanding), but I've done interviews for multiple podcasts on two different laptops (both with 12.04) and I've never had a problem.

I looked at Flask once. Not sure why I didn't return. This article is great. Thanks!.

It's one of those things that every time I look at templating, I get overwhelmed and my procrastination says that the time it would take me to learn templating would be better served coding the site...

I code my site by hand... each and every page... for these same reasons. I need to figure out templating because it has become quite tedious to update links and I'm only at <50 pages!

Sure, but then I have to rebuild those symlinks after install... now, I don't do installs every 30 days like some Linux users, but I do upgrade with each new release and having stuff "just work" is just simply beautiful.

Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.