irmbrady

Nice timing for the French Tech Visa:

http://visa.lafrenchtech.com

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13410510

I agree that League of Legends would be a great game to be played with only a mouse. You would just need a mouse with lots of buttons!

Take the Razer Naga for example (http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga). It has 12 configurable buttons on the side of the mouse, as well as 5 on top.

In League of Legends, you only require the following default key bindings on the keyboard:

(The following are crucial)

1. Q [champion ability]

2. W [champion ability]

3. E [champion ability]

4. R [champion ability]

5. D [summoner ability]

6. F [summoner ability]

(The following are less crucial, but almost required)

7. 1 [activate item 1]

8. 2 [activate item 2]

9. 4 [activate trinket]

10. B [teleport back to base]

Pressing numbers 3 and 5 through to 7 on the keyboard, by default, are to activate additional items, but it is very rare that you would have the need to activate more than 1 or 2 items in the game. I would say they are not required to be bound at all (or at least, I never press them).

Other useful keys to use in the game are Ctrl, Alt and Shift. They are modifier keys, which when pressed with the other key bindings or mouse clicks, allow the player to perform different tasks.

Of course, not all of this functionality needs to be bound to a key. Everything can be clicked with the mouse on the game's UI if need be. However, clicking the UI is rather slow, and I think it would be safe to say that a mouse similar to the Razer Naga would allow you to play League of Legends at a rather competitive level, with only using the mouse.

Thanks for the response. Ruby is the only tool I currently use in development on Windows which I have flagged as a potential problem to maintain in the future. Thankfully, Ruby is a rather small part of my workflow, so waiting on RubyInstaller is fine at the moment.

My question was more of a concern for the future of my current dev setup. I was hoping someone on HN would know of a better solution to install Ruby on Windows manually, without having to wait on RubyInstaller.

I will check out Vagrant as you suggested.

I have used Ubuntu and Mac OS in the past, but I am currently favouring doing all of my work on Windows. All of the tools I need run perfectly fine on Windows (and many of them, not on Linux at all), and it would be a hindrance to switch to another operating system.

It is only Ruby which is difficult to keep up to date on Windows. My question was to try and find a solution.

I have tried using a VM (VirtualBox and VMWare), but it is not a desirable work flow. I currently use RubyInstaller.

I have never used Cygwin before. Thanks for referring me to it. I am currently trying to find the simplest solution for keeping Ruby up to date with the current releases, but having a hard time doing so on Windows. I will experiment with Cygwin at some point.

Without being told to use a VM, installing Linux, buying a Mac, and without settling for the 2.0.0-p481 release of RubyInstaller; is there any way for a user to install this version of Ruby on Windows?

What are you showing, exactly? All I see is a sign up page for a book which may or may not be finished soon.

I imagine this resulting in a mass amount of spyware/viruses/exploits appearing on Linux systems.

Nice collection of stories.

The photos on the main feed are stretched on my phone, making everyone's head look extra wide.

As someone who is moving from the UK to HK in 3 months, with no job or visa secured, and attempting to bootstrap my (first) startup; this scares the crap out of me!

The US military had a big involvement in the Korean War (88% of the South Korean force [1]), and to this day are posted at the demilitarised zone in the Korean Peninsula.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War [1]

Here is an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea

>The keyboard has dedicated volume and brightness keys but lacks media player buttons.

A very minor point to take away from the article; but do people actually use the media player buttons on their keyboard? I use brightness and volume buttons all the time; but I do not ever recall using the media buttons on my laptops/desktops in the same way as I would on other media device (phone, mp3 player, etc).

If I wish to switch song on my laptop, I tend to open my media player and select one which I actually want to listen to, rather than be at the mercy of shuffle.

Will there ever be time tracking? That's one feature I really wish Trello had by default.

Ruby is now also 20 years old. https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/305334327938519040

Is this 'SlimBook' guaranteed to be concise, to the point and overall; a fulfilling read? Or is coining it as such just an excuse for the author to skimp out on content? 55 pages does not seem like an awful lot. Although for the price, I suppose it is proportional to a meatier book.

I actually had fun with this. Any chance of adding word wrapping? It lost its charm once I had to scroll to see my longer sentences.