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Jam0864··on Ask HN: Gaming with one arm
Depends what he wants to play. Sim racing could work, as it's mostly foot control with some arm movement for the wheel. Can be done with one arm and one leg if need be.
Jam0864··on Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides
Better cross-platform support. In my experience .NET works fine in Mono anyway, so by extension F# is likely fine on Linux/OSX, but your mileage may vary.
Jam0864··on Improved default settings for Linux machines
How much swap space should you allocate for e.g. 16GB RAM?

Every reference I've read suggests there's no need for swap space once you have more than ~2GB of RAM, but I find that extremely hard to believe.

Jam0864··on Why Being an Australian Startup Sucks
Taxes didn't get reduced, they just got reallocated to fighter jets.
Jam0864··on Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
Apple has overcharged both in Australia and Europe for decades, even when the currency has been strong. It's simply because they believe that people who live there will stomach a larger price. It's probably true. It's still infuriating.

It results in funny cases where a Nexus 4 can be 1/3 the price of an iPhone 5.

Jam0864··on Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.
Jam0864··on Use up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit Windows 8
Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?
Jam0864··on Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
not in neutral
Jam0864··on PNG vs SVG for sprites
Seems like a Ubuntu issue... uses 5% CPU on my 2630QM under Windows, which is a slower chip.
Jam0864··on My former employer Opera Software has filed a lawsuit against me
Opera Mini has a proxy server it uses to compress data before it reaches your device. This is extremely useful when using mobile data because it's both faster and cheaper. (At least, in Australia, where mobile Internet is both slow and expensive)
Jam0864··on How I ended up with Mac
...no it doesn't
Jam0864··on Flow Charts
Hopefully this one day becomes the case with UML.
Jam0864··on Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire
This makes perfect sense; we think of programming languages changing the way solutions are designed all the time. That's why we learn so many different ones.

Unfortunately I doubt this will be proven at any time in the near future... it is nearly impossible to isolate this characteristic from other factors.

Jam0864··on Stop Using Small Font Sizes
This trend towards ridiculously large font sizes is becoming exceedingly annoying. There's been so many articles about it, and many pseudo-techy (trendy) blogs are adopting the large size. 16pt minimum? Really? There's a reason that so few sites and text editors use that by default. It may look great on your retina display but on 99% of screens out there it just makes your site look like it's aimed towards kids.
Jam0864··on Debuggex: A visual regex debugger
This is an amazing website, cheers!
Jam0864··on Windows 8 Pro upgrade to jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1
The heat causes the brittle solder joints to crack; applying more heat melts the solder and "reflows" it.

This is a common fix for PC video cards too.