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lanbanger··on Volumio – The Audiophile Music Player
I paid for and used Volumio for several months, but found it fairly unstable and in need of frequent reboots. In the end I bit the bullet and paid for Roon, although I'm now regretting that in light of the Youtube Tidal/MQA takedown.
lanbanger··on Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer
Another alternative is crowd-funding, at least to get to a "first shareware-quality" release.
lanbanger··on Show HN: Lucidity – an interactive program-state visualizer
This is absolutely spectacular, I love it. Have you thought about approaching a programming tools company like Jetbrains to licence/sell it to them? They would have the resources to turn it in to a viable commercial product.
lanbanger··on StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
Agreed. Sounds like every employment contract I've ever read (and usually not signed).
lanbanger··on Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming – It’s Time for That to Change
I recently had one of my questions that "Closed - opinion based" six years after I asked it, and received several useful answers.

I consider StackOverflow read-only these days, it's years since I've bothered to ask anything, and I definitely don't bother to answer anything.

lanbanger··on Tell HN: 17 years on the same game
telnet jumper.mcc.ac.uk:3214
lanbanger··on The Extraordinary Life of Nikola Tesla
Tesla had many great ideas, but was lazy and had a bad habit of disappearing off down on a tangent that his investors had not been told about, and had not agreed to invest in.

I recommend this book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/494.Wizard) to anyone who wants to know the full story.

lanbanger··on Google Data Studio
And Google Checkout
lanbanger··on Google Data Studio
And Google Site Search
lanbanger··on Google Data Studio
October 2020: "Google is winding down the Google Data Studio product over the next year, but will provide customer and technical support through the duration of license agreements.”
lanbanger··on Atlassian: Our bold new brand
>" Like us, you may notice important symbolism around teams in the new Atlassian logo – two people high-fiving, a mountain ready for teams to scale, or even the letter A formed from two pillars reinforcing each other."

Oh god, really? _really_?

lanbanger··on CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
"Put the customer first" by cutting the customer off.

Looking forward to seeing CrashPlan on the 2018 Startup Dead Pool.

lanbanger··on Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s
Just a shame there are no direct trains to or from London to Cambridge North, eh?!
lanbanger··on Unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane lands after secret, two-year mission
Also the Titan II missile explosion at Damascus in 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...
lanbanger··on Robert M. Pirsig has died
It's no exaggeration to say that this book changed my life. I learned so much from it, and apply what I learned on a daily basis. I was only thinking a couple of weeks ago that it's time for another re-read: that's definitely the case now.

RIP Robert M. Pirsig :-(

lanbanger··on Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
The grammar makes that book fairly painful to read :-|
lanbanger··on Ask HN: What's the best laptop for a programmer that isn't a MacBook Pro?
You can fix the screen flicker by downgrading your BIOS to version 1.2.0
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