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Hey, no problem! Hearing that made my day. Glad you enjoyed the book. Flash Game License was really groundbreaking in providing a space for developers and sponsors to come together. A great way to get early feedback on games too!

Newgrounds forums is where I first learned how to code. My early attempts at Flash games were so basic, but in such an endearing way. Such a good community surrounding the Flash games scene. I ran FreelanceFlashGames, if any game developers on here remember the site. Cool to see this surfacing on Hacker News.

What's the benefit to using multiple desktop machines with Barrier? More processing power?

What put you off about the Advantage 2?

From what I've read this one is amazing. Not sure I want to drop that much cash on a keyboard yet though. Plus I've seen some reviews about it being a fixed layout as a downside (and some reviews where that is an upside).

The moonlander looks awesome. The ergodox-ez looks nice as well. I wish there were some cheaper options out there for people who don't know how to solder.

Yeah I didn't particularly like that about Signal. If a malignant person were trying to keep tabs on a person (victim) using Signal, they would be able to see that the victim has switched to encrypted messaging (letting the malignant person know the victim is at least partially onto them). Thinking about the use case of a person trying to avoid a hacker/stalker here for example.

What will you blog about? Make sure the audience is big enough that you can make money from it. Too big though and you might get lost in a sea of voices. Quality content and marketing is key. It’s been awhile since I blogged though so someone else might have better advice regarding marketing / social media platforms / SEO rankings.

This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...

I don't mean as an investment per se, just as a more reliable store of money.

Should we be moving money from the banks into another value store? Gold? Investments?

Agreed, without more details surrounding the test group numbers / selection, it's hard to determine what level of concern this raises.

Agreed there, I know not to mess with plumbing, electric, and/or heating myself. Was debating going with spray on insulation done professionally, although I understand costs will rise the more I hire contractors.

Is it really that difficult? I’m imagine there are things I am missing, but isn’t it pretty much: build foundation, build floor, build frame, build out roof, build walls, etc.?

As long as I research, do proper leveling, cutting, etc. and follow along with other builds’ process, I am thinking I will be fine. Would be great to hear where I might be wrong though so I don’t sink money into a failed build.

I was hoping to sell the local government on it being a green building somehow, or something else that might motivate them to help with the building codes. Perhaps reaching out to universities within the region.

I think I’d like to try the tabletop model idea. I plan on having it be a second home / AirBnB spot.

Maybe I’ll try starting with a tabletop model as the other poster suggested.

Any thoughts on acquiring the land? I was told getting in touch with a realtor local to the area would be a good start.

Not a telescope person, so idk if these are good, but it looks like this is a deal https://slickdeals.net/f/13673954-celestron-nexstar-8se-203m..., and I think I saw a Costco deal as well.

I'm tempted. Do you know which model of the 5700 xt? Is it noisy or not too bad?

I've been watching /r/buildapcsales like a hawk for graphics card deals. Can't decide if I'll pull the trigger on a sub $300 5700 or 5700 xt, or wait until ~summer 2020 for the Navi 2.0 release since I barely game anyway.

Try taking a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/

Here's a login-less one that looks like it doesn't make any network calls with the data you enter: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

Could you expand on this? I’m trying to learn more about using Lambda as a serverless REST API recently and one of my projects has a SQL DB.

I'd recommend Slack, JIRA, and daily stand-up calls. Slack is good for general news and messaging people on your team. Daily stand-ups and JIRA are nice for issue tracking, planning, and making sure everyone is on track.

Yeah I didn't understand if that was namecheap bumping the price up or a squatter trying to sell it. You may have to get a bit creative to find some good deals.

That's a good tip about prefixing with www. And sure thing. It's https://www.namecheap.com/. You even get free WhoisGuard.

Interesting to hear. Even as a technical person I'm often a bit taken aback when a site's primary domain is a non-[.com, .org, .net, .gov, .io, .country, or .city]. For $0.88 at a certain registrar I could pick up a bunch for side projects, but even at that price I'm wondering if it's worth it.

I'm in the process right now of picking a vps provider. Why would you switch? Linode seems to offer more resources for the money.

I'm familiar with Java Servlets and Express for the middle-layer. I've yet to set up a database from scratch, but I've worked with MySQL and Oracle SQL databases before. It'd be cool to learn more about setting up and scaling a database (though I doubt I'd need much scaling for my side-project for awhile).