brickcap

well done! I got only to a 512 block tile.

Are there any cheat codes?

has anyone managed to beat it yet?

Well I think the purpose was to teach people who are not web programmers. Or at least those who are new to web programming.

Since we are recommending books on animals, F Anstey's talking horse is really good. It's humor. If you like PG wodehouse then you will probably like this as well.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27284/27284-h/27284-h.htm#THE...

Nice. Would you mind sharing a link of your project?

Many thanks for your detailed response. I have no experience with AQL but the orient db devs say that they chose SQL because most developers were already familiar with it. Personally I would like the graph databases agree on one query language be it cypher, aql or gremlin.

When I was first looking into graph databases the different query languages caused a lot of confusion.

Your comments are very insightful but they have only made the decision harder for me :( One on hand I have invested some time into orient db and I think I am grasping concepts of it well on the other it seems that it requires some care. But my use case does not require bulk inserts so I guess I will stick with it for now and keep my eye on arango db.

The idea of bitcoin like wallet api sounds good. But can you explain the correlation with the stories that you linked?

Ah I see. Well it is encouraging in that it is not totally crazy! Any way I have never heard of such a system in India, where I live. So maybe if I or someone else can make this work there is a lot of money to be made here.

I have one but I think it pretty crazy and I am not really sure if it can work. I would love if you could find holes in my idea and help me to refine it or tell me if it can work at all.

So I have been thinking that the biggest roadblock to solar adoption is the high upfront cost of installation. If there could be an incentive to make money with solar a lot more people might be willing to "invest" in it.

So my idea is similar to carbon credits. It is a lot easier to measure the amount of energy generated by the solar panels. So the amount of clean energy generated by the households could be sold off the organisations with a bigger carbon footprint. Similar to how advertising networks sell page views to the advertisers.The unit of energy is well established. We could set the price of 1 watt of clean energy to a bidder.

So the question remains why the bidder would want to buy this clean energy? I don't have an answer to that besides that it could be a good marketing tactic. For very large cooperation it could be a chance to gain some good PR (if they really care about that).

The people participating in this program would have to install a chip that would monitor the generation of this clean energy. With networked chips like tessel and spark.io coming out soon it could become pretty easy for people installing solar panels to connect these panels to a local cloud where there could be an automatic transfer of funds to bank accounts of people depending upon the amount of clean energy that they have generated. Now for a give area this energy should be the same for a standard solar panel since the are will receive more or less the same sunlight. With some work standard pricing can be reached for a locality.

Share latex.....

Open source.....

I will just come out and say it. I had funny thoughts in my head when I read that.

The official site as well as the products looks well designed (love the idea of templates). Here is the clickable link

https://www.sharelatex.com/

@lostcolony @banachtarski thanks guys. I will start with supervision first then. See if I can make use of it in some of my existing code.

> As an Erlang programmer I often claim that “You can’t pick parts of Erlang and then claim you have the same functionality. It all comes together as a whole”.

I am guilty of this. I am relatively new to erlang programming and I have skipped on some of the features that make the language great. For instance I have neglected learning both supervision and hot code reloading.

Asus x201e

2gb ram

dual core celeron

5400 rpm 500gb hdd

xubuntu

emacs

emmet

magit

nginx

erlang

nodejs

well I don't know about previous versions, as I only tired it first in 1.7, but the documentation is fantastic. Maybe it was not so good for previous versions.

Apart from bulk inserts what other problems did you face. If you don't mind answering why should I consider orient db over arango db?

An Update : A lot of people are using orient db as seen from the client list on the official[1] website but there are no posts regrading the "orient db expereince"

So I downloaded it and gave it a try last night here are my impressions so far.

1. It has got an awesome documentation for both first time users[2] and those looking for in depth understanding[3] of orient db.

2. It is very easy to pick up. A no brainer installation, a familiar query syntax and a small api make it easy to pick up even if you have never experienced a graph db before.

3. It has clients in popular languages + an http api. I see that there is no client for erlang yet so I am planning to write a small http erlang client for it.

4. The default console client that orient ships with is very easy to use.

That is about it for the moment. I can't believe I missed this database before. I plan to write a few blog posts covering the use of orient db. My first impressions are positive and I am going to use it in a new project.

I would love to hear some thoughts of people who have been using orient db for a while (assuming they find this thread)

[1](http://www.orientechnologies.com/) [2](http://www.orientechnologies.com/getting-started/) [3](https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb/wiki#reference...)

I see. Can you share some more detail about your data model?

Am I the only one who thought this referred to the movie plan 9 from outer space?

Well does it not make you feel glad that you took the risk? After all version is just a number :)

It is not really a book but I find resources on mdn very helpful

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn/javascript

Besides tutorials on mdn they have included links to some of the best javascript resources on the internet and classified them according to the level of the individual. It was very helpful when I was starting out in javascript and I still go back time to time to refresh some concepts

Maps look really interesting. They can also be saved in mnesia right?

Very nice. I love the idea of specific social networks where people can connect based on their interests.

I really like the UI as well. The top 10 represented on the map, it's so convenient. I hope you keep working on this.

I think you should include a link to github on the main website it might be a good endorsement?

It might make sense as an owner of the startup to outsource your blog. But as a reader I am interested in reading about the experiences of the founder.

If you have little time to blog then write a post in pieces. One post per week is not that much of work. Besides writing a blog will help you in many ways. It will help your organize your thoughts and it will help you gain new potential customers and you will probably make a few friends on the internet as well.

Thanks for sharing this.

Line numbers can be handy to locate compiler errors. I removed it once but then it became a lot harder to locate where the program was causing problems or where the compiler errors occurred. I would like to remove them but I guess I am stuck with it ....

Thanks for letting me know. This makes me feel good. I thought no one but me used it :). I guess I will spend more time on it now.

Here is a screenshot of my emacs.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7346/12104669276_154ae3d98f_o....

Scroll bars and menu turned off. Theme solarized and transparent background. I feel good when I am programming :)

Thanks for shout out to specter. Yeah it is not as polished as ghost but I am planning to make adjustments to it.

One of the fist things that I will do is to make it's editor(http://brislink.github.io/Abstract) easier to use by adding keyboard shortcuts for previewing and saving. I am also planning to distribute specter it via npm.

Also a new version of elastic search has come out and it has made taking backups so easy. I will have to experiment on that too.

Thanks once again.

If you manage to complete it send it to angry video game nerd. His faith will be restored :)

"Does anybody pay for a product that's not ready yet?"

Isn't kick starter build around that concept? If people think something is looking good and might help them considerably they might be open to pay for developmental costs.