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Isn't that how del.icio.us started all this bookmarking in the first place?

I started the year happy in my opinion that "it's ok to be crap at your hobby if you find the process enjoyable". I made some really rubbish things and enjoyed the process.

Then I learned that I feel fine with being rubbish at metalwork, but that I actually want to get better at woodwork. Now I am enjoying the process of failing, learning and improving.

Many people have been running headless Chrome in AWS Lambda functions for a while now. Use cases include testing, screen scraping, screen capture.

The Spectrum (and ZX81) had a big effect on a whole generation of Brits. I know my folks could not have afforded a C64 or BBC Micro but they did manage fifty quid in Currys to start my lifetime of coding.

Just write. Stop procrastinating on HN, and type this:

    mkdir doc && $EDITOR doc/index.md

I like theoldreader.com. It's very similar to Google Reader and worth every cent of its annual fee for premium access ($25 IIRC).

Ah, the memories. Here are my first few:

Sinclair ZX81 with 16k RAM add-on

Rubber-key Sinclair ZX-Spectrum

ZX-Spectrum +3 with 3" (not 3.5) disk

Commodore Amiga (I can't remember the model) with an 85MB hard-disk

I feel your pain as I pay about the same for 1.1mbps down. I can't get any faster speeds (I checked when I worked for Internode) and speed drops whenever it rains.

I once tried to follow the Udacity course on Tensorflow, but could not download a 10GB that was needed for one of the exercises. Download kept failing and restarting and eventually I killed it after 8 days. Utterly shameful.

I generally wake up when 5 kilos of fur jumps on my bladder and shouts "MEOW!"

However, in my life before cats I really struggled to wake up for a 9-to-5 until I got an alarm with a lamp that lights up very gradually, simulating sunrise. I was surprised at how well it worked and definitely recommend them.

I had a Bio-Brite model, which I don't think are made nowadays but google for "alarm clock lamp sunrise" and there are lots of alternatives.

Does anybody have experience with Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS? [0]

Reading through the sales copy, it seems to be a reasonable competitor to Heroku. They offer 3 small gears free and have a startup assistance program for those that qualify.

[0] https://www.openshift.com/pricing/index.html

Discover weekly is the reason that I pay for Spotify. I'm an old guy that prefers vinyl to mp3s, misses the local record store terribly and hates radio, so modern music distribution sucks for me.

I first tried Spotify many years ago, back when playlists were quite new. At the time, I was living in the UK and a big user of last.fm but, out of curiosity, I spent an afternoon building one playlist out of the few tracks they had that I liked.

I was/am into house and techno but the tracks were not yet available on Spotify back then - but the originals which were heavily sampled sure were. So I ended up with a playlist of funk, disco, blues, hip-hop and jazz that was kinda familiar, lotta fun.

Fast-forward several years and I'm living in Australia, where last.fm is a paid service that had stagnated, so back to check out Spotify again...

It had millions more tracks.

It had learned from my playlist. Discover weekly is soooo good.

It had my attention and my credit card.

To the parent poster, I suggest you treat Spotify like a friendly muso willing to lend you her near infinite collection. I've you've ever wondered about $GENRE, go and play. I have no relationship with Spotify except as a very happy customer.

Are programmers not people?

Agreed. My partner is a Wine Educator and this is one of her favorite rants. Consider the costs of getting wine onto a store shelf:

- Glass bottle

- Bottling & Labelling

- Transport

- Cork/closure

- Taxes (29% here in Aus)

- Retail Markup - 25-50%

- Promotions, payment processing, business overhead, etc.

An eight dollar bottle of wine does not leave a lot of money for grape growing, harvest, wine making, aging etc, all the good stuff that makes wine tasty. Probably under one dollar.

Some grape varieties cost a lot more than others, e.g. Pinot Noir is expensive to grow and harvest because it has thin skins and so is easily damaged. However, any recent vintage bottle that retails for more than $100 is about meeting a market price point, not production costs.

We're almost 100% Atlassian at my $WORK (as OP's original list but Jenkins for CI/CD). For my side projects, I don't need anywhere near as much team communication, so free services work for me:

- Version Control (Bitbucket)

- Issue Tracking (Trello)

- Team Chat (Slack)

- Wiki (None, but I'd love to hear recommendations for free, private wikis)

- CI/CD (Wercker.com)

When I was working in the UK, I negotiated to change an IP clause from "during the period of employment" to "during the course of employment" for precisely the reason that you state.

Both parties were happy with the change.

keybase.io do something similar with github - they give you a piece of text to publish as a gist. It seems to work for them.

My kid is still very young and still learning the very basics of reading/writing/arithmetic. So we reinforce/practice those at home. I've found that his motivation is higher when the stuff he learns at home matches the things he learning at school.

We also do a bunch of weekend activities with an educational aspect - from external events like Maker Fair and Science Expos, to taking apart the lawn mower to learn about engines.

We also have this fun ritual at bedtime where he can ask any question about anything and get a serious answer. Of course this is used to delay lights-out but it's one of the most valuable learning exercises (for parents too). At this age, almost everything can be made educational but the trick is to keep it fun.

High-end real estate agents are a possible source of custom. Similarly, commercial property developers would benefit if they can add augmentations to your VR environments (move a wall, add lighting etc).

Eat that elephant one bite at a time.

A former employer tested out a number of residential Ethernet over power devices.

The results were mixed - they either work really well, or really badly. It seems that the home's wiring and appliances have an overwhelming effect on their efficacy. So, the recommendation is try before you buy if at all possible.

This does happen quite often, but does anyone still use del.icio.us?

Would it work if keybase periodically send an email containing a phrase that is encrypted with your public key. You decrypt the email and enter the phrase into the keybase website?

Maybe not "parent bot" but "buddy bot"?

My kid's school has a buddy system to help prevent bullying, wherein each young child gets buddied with another kid that is four/five years older. If they have any problems (with anything at school, not just bullying), they have a friendly face that they can ask for advice or intervention. This works because the buddy is not a parent or teacher, and does not attempt to replace either adult role.

Could a bot help in a similar manner?

As the ease of use and zero cost of LE prompted me to use way more certs this year they get a donation.

Here you go, AU gov notice:

https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recall/samsung-samsung-top-...

Is it possible to hire a young, newly qualified(?) artist for the role but also spend some money on training and mentoring? Aside, do artists need/benefit from a qualification for a role like this?

Or hire a mother that is returning to the workforce. Choices can be very limited for people that need to pick up the kids after school and take time off during holidays. There's a massive pool of talent in that demographic.

I think you are quite correct, and that you've outlined a much more likely scenario than politicians implementing a workable universal basic income.

Sales of socially harmful goods (such as alcohol, tobacco and petroleum) are already taxed punitively to restrict their use and implement harm reduction. It's easy to imagine politicians implementing similar laws to restrict the sale of robots.

I suspect that such laws would not be very successful at addressing the problem but then I can't easily think of any laws work entirely as intended. If robots are to be taxed, it is their use which should incur the penalty, not their sale.

NoSQL is for heterogeneous data that is read in a homogeneous manner, whilst relational excels at homogeneous data read in a heterogeneous manner. If your schema is constantly changing, relational is painful, conversely writing reports against a NoSQL datastore hurts too.

If you come from an RDBMS, you're probably going to dislike MongoDB. I like it for prototyping/MVP but once the schema settles down it's time to move.

However, NoSQL does not start and end at MongoDB, no way. There are lots of different flavours, from huuuuuuuuge key/value stores, to timeseries, to write-one-read-many document stores, to remote syncing mobile app datastores and probably loads of other types that I haven't used yet.

So figure out why you want to use NoSQL (CV building can be a reason too) and play around with some toy installations.

I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me twice(!) and then it tried to delete all my Google contacts.

iTunes is now second from the top on my list of software-I-will-never-use-again[0], so that means no shiny Apple devices for me. Which is a shame, because otherwise I quite like Apple stuff.

[0] Of course, Lotus Notes is top of the list

I like to listen to music that I find fun, and my Thursdays are all about the bongos!

https://play.spotify.com/track/2teN2uYbwMQraPG7Gu2Zfo