AustinG08

I discovered you on HN several years ago and have been following your progress ever since. You are an inspiration to do-it-yourselfers everywhere. Rooting for you man!

I suppose that makes sense. Still a little disconcerting that I haven't received one yet.

Ok, I will call gmail and ask

I maintain that I never received an email from them. Not in spam or otherwise.

You think they would notify customers. I have a site hosted with them and not a peep, just an invalid password notification when I try to log in.

Edit: just saying, I think it's strange that I'm finding out about it via HN first.

maybe on the equator...

good luck.

I have a friend who is a restaurant owner. From what i've heard, their business model is to display the worst reviews and then try to extort the business owner in order to display better ones. They wanted something to the tune of several thousand dollars. He called them 'The Yelp Mafia.'

Just wanted to chime in that I strongly dislike the new facelift to hangouts for Android. Loading images in the chat cause it to stutter pretty hard on my Nexus 5.

The stock market is inherently different than going to the casino. Buying at the bottom is hardly a bad sentiment to have when it comes to investing, especially when it comes to making swing trades in thoroughly researched businesses.

The music labels will never have to 'realize' this because, short of a cultural revolution, it will always make the most money. I'm a musician, I am very picky about the music I listen to. My wife? Not quite as picky. She will hear a song on the radio, like it, and become a fan of that song. Her, along with probably 90%+ of the general public don't carry the same snobbery that I do, and have no guilt liking a Nickelback or a One Republic song. Edit: I meant One Direction, but same thing.

I would love it if the multiplayer would eventually pair you with faster typers.

I think this could be an excellent tool to learn some piano pieces with the addition of a step-backwards button, so you could practice small chunks or certain chords over and over and really analyze them.

that just sent me down a rabbit hole. came back with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hVuv7mDNqM&feature=share

I feel compelled to post how this was the defining game of my youth. It was the ultimate video game experience in my child brain. I was enamored for years. I wanted to be Ness. My very first website was a GeoCities page, an ode to this game titled "Earthbound: The Best Game Ever." I have scoured GeoCities archives for a copy of it but unsuccessful each time. There was a neat attempt at an Earthbound MMO http://www.skyon.be/node but it appears to be discontinued. I love you Earthbound.

Welcome to the stock market. If I had to guess, they predicted bigger growth, which in turn set higher valuations and expectations.

If you don't think there is massive 'cooking of books' going on then I have some stock of a Chinese tech company I would like to sell you

> do you imagine "neurotypical" people love to do banal assignments that are below their skill level? Actually, yes.

Actually, no.

On another note, you argue 'few good insights ever come of the form "You have $difficult_problem, you just need to do X to solve it"', but right before that you say "getting on medication to fix their broken neurochemistry." Is that not an example of "you have $difficult_problem, do X to solve?" You sound young and confused. It will pass.

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing happened to it. It gets used by front-end developers every single day. I personally can't follow the CSS complaints. It is easier to learn than any other front-end dev language in one's toolkit.

I used to struggle with motivation. Especially at your age (I'm about to 30). Motivation is a byproduct of discipline. You need to integrate some kind of discipline in your life.

Something huge that changed my work ethic was when I bought a whiteboard. I always have two lists on it. One of the lists is "Everything I need to do." This has things like 'pay my taxes by X date', 'call my insurance company and find y out', 'start this project', 'build that dream car i have always wanted to build'. Some of the stuff might always be on it, at which point I can start really looking at those things and figuring out whether I plan on doing them, how bad I want to do it, and if it's worth my time vs the other stuff I want to do.

The second list is titled "Today", and always leads with today's date. Under that are things that I should really do today, or at least try to start. Some times the things on it roll over to the following day, sometimes they get dropped back into the larger 'everything' list. But when I do something, whether it's "Take out the trash", or "Call Person X", I get to cross that thing off the list. It stays crossed out for the whole day until that night when I reassess my everything list, erase crossed out items, change the current date, etc. It has helped me stay on task and get things done tremendously. The whiteboard has had a tremendous impact on my productivity.

Dang dude this is super impressive. How did you get started learning how to create games like this?

and there goes my weekend, this is so freaking sweet

Thanks for sharing. Stuff like this instantly rekindles my desire to create games. It's like being a kid again, the tiny visible portion sparks my imagination as to what could lay beyond...

Lol, shoulda locked those profits when you could!

Lol I am hardly "sitting around and complaining." At my last agency gig we had to support down to IE6 for several months until we built a strong case to only support down to IE8. Even still it was much harder and protracted battle than it should have been.

Tell that to the boss

My brother is in prison until 2018 on drug related charges. He was transferred to a for profit prison that has a reputation for gang violence, but fortunately all the non violent offenders from the state he was transferred from are kept in a separate wing. He has an Xbox One and gets to play games all day. He also reads a lot and works out. He works 40 hours a week and that pays him about $9/wk. They won't let them have computers, let alone internet access. I wish they would. It's strange what they can and can't have. They can buy a Nintendo 3DS but can't buy any games for it. I wonder who came up with that one.

I can only imagine how finicky it is. But it is truly amazing tech, and quite revolutionary. I probably do about 75%+ of my searches via voice, and it would more likely be 90%+ if I wasn't embarrassed about talking to my phone in public and broadcasting my searches to anyone in earshot :P