I don't see ruby mentioned anywhere and the article mentions shellcode. I thought it was informative and interesting and I am well aware of shellcode. Your comment is unnecessarily condescending and may discourage posts like this.
It looks like it doesn't take more than a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Could this be cut with an inexpensive router? If so, the materials and router would probably be like $40 + $80 = $120?
I have found 30 minutes, 6 days a week, to either run or bike for 5 years. I probably miss ~5 days a year on it, where I have to skip a few days in a row. I have two kids under 3 as well. It's not easy. I have to wake up early (5am) even on the weekends, but that's the time I can control while the kids sleep.
Why not track how many times the entrance/exit doors open or close? Or add a laser(?) that cuts across the entrance that counts each time it's line is broken. Directional but also simple to do.
To target a broader market, you might consider dropping the "Vim built in" and explain it as "Create stories efficiently in plain text with our editor that uses familiar key bindings from Vim. Alternatively, use your favorite editor and paste the text in. Phaser's story parser will slurp them up for you."
As a remote worker, I could see getting something like this for our central office. I need an almost frictionless solution and this sounds pretty close "walk into the room, click the remote once and you’re instantly in the meeting." My coworkers aren't interested in walking into a conference room with their laptop and sending a hangout. It would be useful if it supported multiple cameras somehow - which might break the hangout model. I want one pointed to the table and one pointed to the whiteboard.
Just wait until the newborn gets a little older. I have two kids under 3 and found a renewed sense of purpose as they've gotten past the newborn stage. My priorities have also shifted away from career and startup success to family. Perhaps it will be the same for him.
Censorship in this context appears to be bypassing blocks on pirating software, movies, etc. The screenshot shows the web page title of "Download music, movies, games, and software." The toolbar buttons are for piracy related sites. The name of the product is even PirateBrowser.
Censorship to me has a different meaning. Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet or other controlling body [1]
Searching for a band that's not in your database gives a blank response. I searched for mumford and sons and got nothing back. Once I figured out how to search it worked reasonable well. I like that it starts playing videos and has music available.
Missing MSVCR120D.dll. Can you compile in release mode or include that DLL too? Installing the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 didn't help.
Neat, the linked hd.img file contains windows, Simcity, AutoCAD, etc. Has anyone compiled this for Windows? If so, would you kindly post the binary? It'd be fun to play with this old software again.
I disagree completely. I'm over twice your age and started programming when I was 12. My birthday present for my 14th birthday was a $99 retail copy of Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0. Back then I wrote a notepad clone, cab archiver (zip was a fad, really!), and various other utilities. I remember thinking how cool it was when I was 14 to have over 50,000 downloads. I've been a professional programmer (big corp, consulting, etc) for 15 years mostly doing web and desktop applications for businesses.
I can't sit down and write a pacman clone or an asteroids game. Therefore, I can say that it takes more skill than "little to none". I am impressed.
Any recommendations on how to inexpensively (free) experiment in making techno music? I downloaded some synth programs on my iPad (HexASound, Synth) to play with. Would something like Algorave, Archaeopteryx, or Overtone be better?
Can someone elaborate on how this could even work? If someone asked me to give them a dollar and I'd get 3 dollars back in one hour, I'd want to know what they are doing with my dollar. I assume the subtext is "we have some guaranteed way to arbitrage bit coins at a 300% return - send us your money and we'll give you at least that much back". I realize it's a scam. I just don't understand how the scam could work.
Rdio is fantastic. It's the only online service I pay for. I just tried xbox music and was turned off. Rdio instantly starts playing and I can switch tracks without a delay. I have the same experience on my android and sonos. It feels like a CD. Xbox music has a slight delay, which is enough to turn me away.
Is it possible to sort my feed by # of likes or # of comments in facebook? I see "sort by top stories", but I don't think that does it. It seems like more control over sorting and filtering would help.
I don't understand hash tags and I don't understand why someone would want them on a shirt. Is this best understood by immersing myself in the twitter culture? I don't get it from the outside. The main place I see hash tags is where networks will display them with a TV show. Aside from that, I don't understand how people come up with them and how they are used other than searching and linking?
For example, #SalmonCat (a TV shirt on the home page) apparently refers to some tv show called Sam and Cat? Googling that reveals it's the 17th episode that aired today. If I loved the show enough, would I go buy a shirt with the hash tag on it? http://hashtagtee.me/products/salmoncat-shirt
I am admittedly not one of the 230 million+ twitter users.
Great work! It might be helpful to show images of common keyboards to show where the print screen button is. For example, on my keyboard it's labeled PrtScn. I've had to explain hundreds of times where the print screen key is. https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+images&oq=keyboard+...
To make it even more dead simple, you may even want to show a video. I'm not kidding.
> Features return a glorified tuple (Feature<TOutcome,TResult>) that combines an enum value that represents what the outcome was, with a value that represents the result of the operation.
Sounds similar to my understanding of what a monad is. If you have many cases of this, it might simplify the switch statement and improve maintainability.
Some easy way to capture a written reply would be good too. Voice is personal; email not as much. Handwriting is personal for me. Maybe it's a smart phone app that makes it simple to take a picture of a letter or note card. Maybe it makes sense to suggest replying on a 3x5 card or something (instead of a a full sheet of paper) and maybe that simplifies the photo issue. The digital record is captured and then a physical one can be kept. It can also be extended to have your parents take a picture of a picture of their favorite memory
Good work. The install process was very smooth. I like that it doesn't require admin. Also a neat architecture. Looks like it's a .NET app running an in process web server.
hadley, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to say thank you for ggplot2 and plyr. Both have made R infinitely more useful to me and have been used thousands of times by me over the past 3 years.
It's not too different than other hobby turn professionals. Like to work on cars? You may want to become a mechanic. Replacing brakes for the hundredth time is not nearly as interesting or challenging as the first time. On the upside, you get to be around the environment you love and occasionally there may be some new problems to solve. As with any profession, there is always an opportunity to learn and improve even on something that is considered routine. For a mechanic, maybe do it faster or with different tools.