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Interesting timing and similarity with something I built last month! :)

I built https://fishygram.com with a DSL you can copy and paste into ChatGPT to build diagrams for you.

You can take a look at the examples to see what it can do.

I find this test interesting because I received an ACE score of 1, but I'm the oldest child in my household and I'm realizing that my siblings would probably score slightly higher than me... :-(

I moved out when I was around 20 before alcoholism and divorce destroyed the beautiful family dynamic that I grew up with.

This makes me want to try and understand the differences between myself and my siblings a bit more closely.

Citi is doing a great thing and it's charging a fair price. There is a benefit for all of us when businesses charge a fee for the products and services they provide: We don't take those products or services for granted.

Just because some big bank can afford to pay for your bike ride, doesn't make you entitled to ask them to do it.

I'm going to engage because there's nothing pathetic about these guys.

I bet many people said people like "Thomas Edison", "The Wright brothers", and "Steve Wozniak" were "sad and pathetic" like you say as they tinkered on their projects.

I just remembered compiling an early 2.0.xx kernel on an old 386DX AT&T server that was given to me when I was a teenager in the 90s. It spent hours doing it and I loved watching gcc take several seconds to compile each file! I also recall that the hard drive in that thing must have weighed at least 40lbs. Those were fun days!

Here's an eBay item that is pretty much exactly what I had back then: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294597619526?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=...

I'm going to upvote this comment because not everyone in the world can afford $300 for 64GB+ of RAM. The solution to not dump everything into RAM is a great one.

Fortunately, I've had a fancy Silicon Valley job for 15+ years which now lets me afford many GBs of RAM if I wanted to but it was a different story in my 20s. I relied on free or almost free hardware to learn. And that free hardware usually lagged in specs.

If you're like me and have spent several years working with Java projects, moving to Kotlin will slow you down at first. You also may not know all the cool new features available in Kotlin from day 1, so you may find yourself doing "java" things in Kotlin, or not knowing how to do some things in Kotlin at all.

If you're on a tight deadline for something, you might want to just stick with Java (if you know it) until you can dedicate enough time to learn Kotlin well. If you're new to both Java or Kotlin, then learn both. :)

These tools made my life so much easier when I worked as Windows System Admin several years ago! Thank you Nir Sofer for your work!!!

"I would advice Mr. Sam Altman to not write such an insulting article. He should take it down immediately. Many of us reading it live in San Francisco."

Hi ars, this is an article that discusses your concerns: http://www.xencraft.com/resources/multi-currency.html

Take a look at the section titled "Presentation Formats"

Thanks for the reply. I think you're doing great. Keeping your focus on the core components of your product is probably the best thing you are doing for your business.

I also want to say that your site has a great design. Are you doing that yourself or would you mind sharing the service you're using?

Thank you for noticing this. The $175/month came from the intercom services. Given that support is likely his main selling point, I think $175 is perfectly fine for the added functionality.

This seems ok given that the startup has generated approximately $60,000 in stripe revenue.

I would try to reduce costs in those Heroku workers... $175/month seems steep.

Disclaimer: Cuban here (living in US)

Available in Cuba? Try to find the bandwidth... Seriously, why include Cuba in the list? That makes their statement a bit of a joke in my opinion.

This reminds me of some of my early linux boxes. As a poor high school student in the mid to late 90s I was only able to get free computer equipment. Some of it was pretty cool. In order to squeeze as much performance out of them, I ran slackware and debian.

Some of the most memorable were:

386DX AT&T Server tower (a huge case with a 40lb 1.2GB Hard drive) - got it to run slackware and serve files on a 10mbps network

486SX-40MHz desktop machine running linux with FVWM and Englightenment! :) Biggest achievement: Play a 128mbps Mp3 file streamed from an Apple LC475!

Apple LC475 (68040-25MHz) - The 68040 could decode an mp3 file. I used to use it to decode the MP3 files and send the audio over the network to a 486sx that lacked an FPU. I ran linux on this, not mac os.

Apple Quadra 660AV - awesome little machine. I ran linux and mac os on this.

Those were fun times!

I've been playing with Meteor since 0.5 and only recently discovered the WebStorm IDE. I HIGHLY recommend it even for personal projects. It has built in support for meteor, and gives you a truly powerful debugging environment. You can set breakpoints and examine the state of the app (var values, etc...) while viewing the console within the IDE itself. It also has a Chrome plugin that allows the IDE to launch and debug apps in the browser.

Here's the link to download the 30 day trial: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

Simple set up instructions: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/help/using-meteor.html

I recently visited the island. Foreigners are prohibited from providing internet access to Cubans. Jail time for the offense is in the order of 30years+.

Hi everyone, this is something I've been working on during late nights and weekends. It's a social network for movie goers that allows you to cast your vote for movies that are currently playing in theaters then see where you and your friends overlap. You can also receive email notifications when new movies arrive in theaters!

Please let me know what you think. You can try it without signing up, but to vote, you must sign up. I currently only support facebook.

Recommendation: Add an input box to the page where I can type in my email and receive a notification when the android app is available. By the time tomorrow comes I won't remember that Bento exists and I really want to try out your product.

Developer here. I'd like to receive some feedback on this side project I put together over a weekend. Any kind and not so kind words would be greatly appreciated.

The app is built using Meteor and it's very rough around the edges, but should work in most modern browsers. Firefox users will see some design issues but it should work.

Cheers! -Jg

In my opinion, this would be a bad idea for both Tesla and Apple. I like Tesla, because I appreciate the effort Elon Musk puts into the company and I am betting that many others like Tesla because of him as well. In my eyes, Apple buying Tesla would be the equivalent of Apple buying Elon Musk and that would make the purchase of a Tesla vehicle much less attractive to me... But then again, if Apple can somehow speed up the price drop of electric vehicles by utilizing its massive overseas engineering machinery then I'd be totally wrong and buying a Tesla vehicle would be a much more attainable goal for many.

How accessible is Cron to people?

This is an excellent point. Cron has to be one of the most difficult pieces of software to use, and it shouldn't be. When I first heard of IFTTT, I thought it was a joke. I thought: "Who needs these services when I can just spin up a VPS somewhere, write a couple of scripts and get the data I want where I need it"... How silly of me. I don't think my mother would like to take VPS Setup 101, Scripting 101 and Sysadmin 101 in order to have recipes from one website show up in her mailbox every morning.

IFTTT and similar products helps productive people build bridges between services they use in order to further improve their productivity. No need to pay for a VPS, manage it, develop API interfaces, etc... It all makes sense... and if they're able to bring that simplicity to event handling in small devices, then that would be great.

Wrapbootstrap does not have the diversity in their 'components' category that I see in this link.

I believe they intend for you to use them as building blocks. You can use their layouts to get your idea on the screen, then add additional CSS in order to 'make it your own'.

I agree. The use of the Norton Secured badge made me quickly leave the site.

A possible solution:

There's a "Login with Amazon" service that may be what the developer needs to be using: http://login.amazon.com/

Does anyone know if there's a similar video capture app for Android devices?

I personally prefer to use Times New Roman.

I had this experience when trying to verify my Google Wallet account and my Google Music membership due to their failures with Google Wallet. I had no way to pay for Google services for over a year. I also had problems upgrading my Google Drive disk space at some point, and it was again a matter of throwing an email into a hole and waiting for the problem to be fixed with very little feedback.

Others with the same issues:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=google+wallet+account+v...

For the same reason you ride a roller coaster: For the thrill of the ride.

You also get to work for something you care about.

And yes, there's the possibility of high financial rewards, but that's unlikely.

I haven't had a bad experience with Google's technical support either, but their technical support tends to work like this:

1. Hunt for solutions to your problem on forums.

2. Discover the magic link where you can submit a form with a message regarding your problem.

3. Sit back and wait for 24 hours.

4. Your problem is resolved, and you may or may not receive an email stating that the issue was resolved.

Communication is completely one way for most products.