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Maybe we quantity the privacy and emotional manipulation/destruction of the ad industry?

If we want to talk energy, maybe we look at what mindless streaming services consume?

Super Meat Boy had done exactly that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Meat_Boy

But... they didn't, so why try to turn this conversation into a BLM issue? Is this to imply all Republicans are racist? Why not pretend it says U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (D-Mo.) so you can feel better and talk about the merits of the letter and the issue at hand.

This is my first comment in 4 years because it is incredibly frustrating to read thoughtless comments that just try to steer this towards a flame war

Just completed it and it was a great quick little tutorial. Appreciate you linking it.

Site looks nice, did you use a specific frontend/css framework for the design?

Cool, inspirational that you were able to get the business up to that level alone.

Wow, so is improvely is run just by you? 30k a month is impressive. I checked out your blog, but have you ever had anyone else working on it or have you always maintained the full stack?

Re RPG Games:

I have heard Roll20 is pretty popular and fun to use. I have never done it myself but it seems like a really cool way to play.

http://roll20.net/

For an audio app, I would really try and get a better microphone for the voice over and the demo audio. It would definitely help sell it.

Also, midi output would be a great feature.

Naive question, but common our enterprise break-ins where a company would need a tool devoted entirely to it?

Maybe I am missing something but who is doing the matching? Is it the group of people on the bottom right?

Reading this sounds like a hit piece. I don't doubt he drank himself to death. There is an embellishment of events and the author is writing from the perspective as though they/he/she were there.

I am writing this after coming back from the bar with friends. I would actually consider myself someone who drinks too much. I have written code for years, tried and failed on over four startups. I have spent a week in a hospital for suicide and depression. I currently work a cushy job where I make great money and write code that a first year CS student could write.

This man was depressed. He tried to find outlets, self medicate, whatever the garbage we need to say about his actions that we need to say. He needed help. Rather than criticize his failures, lets make a note of how fragile our human psyches are and work towards helping one another cope with our internal battles.

My guess? They need more funding to pump out fitbits faster. The flex is about a 6 week back-order to get one right now. Sold out everywhere. Prices is inflated on ebay as well.

Yes, and plenty of other emulators:

http://dayoftheouya.com/a-list-of-all-known-emulators-for-ou...

You are correct.

I love my kindle fire. I have in the past six months read all of the G.R.R. Martin books. I have also read x < 10 non-fiction books. Took notes on all of them. Perfect for this sort of thing.

Programming and technical books are fucking terrible for this. The interface, ability to search, and translation into the real world are just not interactive enough.

They just don't match the ability to flip through the pages like in the physical world.

No. You should have done those things for yourself. Anything that drives you should have been for you.

Along the way, you find someone that views you for the person you are trying to be, the one you are now, and whatever is the spur of the moment.

I don't intend to judge you, just the comment. I really think this post is shit and I have not idea why I chose to respond to your post.

Chuck it up man. We are are all fucking just getting by with our shit.

I am still pretty new to clojure, but I really wish adding jars that are not located in clojars or maven was a little easier (and more straightforward).

Yes, I could always take the Java project, rebuild and upload it myself. It would be nice to just drop the jar in the libs dir and go from there.

Maybe this is already possible (but undocumented), but with all questions out there from a simple search there is no clear way to do this that is not some sort of a hack.

As stated in the article

"We have developed a forensic tool for collision attacks [7] that can efficiently detect a wide range of known and unknown collision attacks against MD5 as well as MD5's successor SHA-1."

Reportedly (I will edit once I find the source), a list of md5 hashes has been released. Just when you thought LinkedIn's Sha1 password hashing was a bad move...

We received our rejection as well. As much as you try to tell yourself say it is not a big deal, it still hurts. You question much of what you are doing. I have been grinding on many unsuccessful projects for a while now, and it's hard to stay positive.

The funny thing is, we had no intention to apply to YC originally, but once we did, you start to dream about how it could change your life. How that might be the defining boost and help you need to succeed.

The nice thing about cofounders is they help you stay positive. We are currently working on game related software, which is not exactly your typical YC company, but we thought it was a decent enough concept. We plan to keep pushing forward, maybe try a kickstarter.

Unfortunately this means I will have to go back to getting a job again, with $36.43 in my bank account, I pretty much am on empty...

So I will give you a little breakdown of my experience from the past couple months from my side project android releases.

Paste.is

The first one was a test to see how viable the service was and if it was usable. I setup a quick site (half finished) at https://paste.is and built an Android app at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.p...

The idea itself was supposed to be a "real-time syncing paste board" across all of you devices. Pretty much pastebin but in real-time, with more personal saving features. So on an os, level, a copy from my desktop would be pasted to the paste board of all of my devices. So far, I only implemented a web interface and an Android app. I also wrote a quick command line script (that I use when I am ssh'ed into a machine and would love an easy way to retrieve output). If anyone wanted to join up and work on this project, email me. I would consider starting working on it again (I think it is still a viable idea). I have not marketed this product at all (mostly due to moving on to game development) and here are the rough stats:

- 14 Total Devices Installs

- 3 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $0 (released it for free)

My First Game Release

So, I have been working on game dev lately and released my first game titled "The Rum Runner". Basically, you pirate a ship through the bermuda triangle and transport rum while defending your ship from sea monsters. About halfway through I realized the gameplay was just mediocre, but pushed through just so it wasn't all a waste. First I released a paid version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.r...

- 4 Total Devices Installs

- 2 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $4 (minus google's cut)

After realizing the game wasn't going so well, I went to free with ads:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.r...

- 36 Total Devices Installs

- 14 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $0.15 from ad's

I quickly blogged before what I learned from the experience, but when it comes down to it, you need to promote the hell out of your apps, no matter what genre. You need to give people a reason to want to use your app.

http://blog.uroboruslabs.com/post/19365449240/lessons-learne...

So I have yet to even make money back from the original developer fee, but I have learned a lot from the experience. I plan to keep pushing forward with it all.

Eskil uses verse (http://verse.blender.org/) and has open sourced the tools he created which can be found here: http://www.quelsolaar.com/verse/index.html

I am quite sorry. I had no idea this would be an issue. I was recommended from a fellow coder to try kava tea to relax and focus and did not realize it might be an issue. The reason I was asking here is because I wanted to see if any of the other HN members have tried it and was not aware that it would be considered a "drug". I simply thought it was like any other herbal tea. I would have deleted the post but it is too late. My apologies...

No need to send but the offer is much appreciated (they sell tea at the local health food store). How would you describe the effects? I have been looking for healthy relaxant to use while coding (and trying to avoid teas and coffee late night).

Wow! That is incredibly detailed and seems like a good system but sadly I gave emacs a try and just couldn't get into it. As of right now I just keep some plaintext files, one with a TODO list, another thats an brain dump of each day, and another for brainstorming projects. I am new to using vim (about 6 months now) and was wondering if anyone knew of a similar process or setup for managing projects and TODO lists?

Yeah I was coming to post the same thing. I "kind of" feel bad for this guy. Granted he might not be the most ethical of people, this might be going a little over the line. I wish I knew some back story as to why they are going after him other than just the fact that they run a crappy site (astalavista.com).

Off topic yes, I cruised through his profile to see what else he was involved with or does and found this small piece he wrote that I found to quite good. I would recommend checking it out.

http://dfranke.us/cfod.html

What is your company if you don't mind me asking?

Why? Is there really a point to moving to SF? I see no plan here and really no reason for you to take such a leap, so why bother wasting your money just to move locations for the summer. Anything you would be doing there could be done from where you are. Save your $3000, continue working on what you have, and if it seems to be a good idea, invest it into that product. You gain nothing by moving there (unless you find actual work). I really don't understand why everyone here is telling you to do it. I know at 18 it can seem glamorous to do something so crazy but if you sit back and think about it for a second, its pretty stupid. If you have a finished product and have something to gain by moving there (like finding people to work with or for you on it) then I could see it. If you were simply planning on looking for work then I could see it. I just see no plan and it seems like a big waste to just do something so irrational.

With school and personal projects I often find my self in similar positions. I have been working on becoming proficient using Vim and what helped is using the Vim plugins for each editor. I pretty much forced myself to use Vim or some derivative for every thing I do and it has worked wonders so far.

The link for the netbeans plug-in is here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3653

It is a java implementation of vim and works pretty well. The plugin for ecplipse places an instance of Vim withing the editor window but I found it was quite buggy and slowed things down a bit (at least on my laptop). I don't know if there is a plug in for visual studio but you could check.

I am so glad I forced my self to use it because it payed off. Just keep a cheat sheet by your side and within a few days you will at least be able to get stuff done, and then just pick up a new trick each day to really learn to fly. Just start now because once you get going you will wish you made the leap sooner.