JimmyM

Ah, thanks for letting me know! That could have confused me.

Same here, in terms of the practical elements of the course. I still found Dan Grossman's lectures entirely engrossing, and I'm not just saying that because I noticed he was a HN user.

I'd assume that some people are unable to cash out of Auroracoin directly, so they dumped AUR for BTC before people on the crypto markets were aware of what was happening.

This didn't drive the price of BTC up, but when they cashed out into USD it drove the price of BTC down.

Alternatively, the events might not be related. Cryptos are very volatile.

You should read the FAQ, http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/faq.html, the design is deliberate.

Curses! I've been seeking a free program with PaintDotNet levels of functionality which works on Mac for ages (We have MacBook Airs at work, while I use PaintDotNet for game dev at home). GIMP is really difficult to draw anything with, even the simplest things, with good cause - it's not a drawing tool.

I thought Krita might fit the bill, but apparently it only has support for Windows and Linux. Much sadness.

EDIT: never mind, just seen the Pixelmator rec lower down - problem solved I guess!

This is the subject of an episode of Black Mirror. It's hardly an exhaustive investigation but it's certainly a good slice of Twilight-Zone-y sci-fi.

Bristol Space Planes fit this bill, have a talented team, and are actively seeking funding: http://bristolspaceplanes.com/

They're trying to make space travel much cheaper with re-usable launches.

I first saw this when I happened to be struggling with the early Project Euler problems. The deeper insights and analysis it offered, combined with the sense of humour, really helped me understand and solve the simple problems where a straightforward "Intro to X Concept" failed.

> programming has always been something I do, not something I am

I think this is important, it's the kind of thing that I read and think "Yes, how obvious, of course!" but in practice I wouldn't think of it myself. A very healthy way of seeing things.

I'm a hobbyist programmer, but I'm able to use my programming in my work - even though it's not strictly related.

Programming skills can be a nice extra to a creative or administrative skillset, especially in smaller & boutique companies.

The nice thing about FP is that you can basically copy-paste algorithms direct from academic texts, tweaking only very slightly for syntax. It's this way in Racket, I imagine it's even more easy in Haskell!

Racket is definitely multi-paradigm, it has a pretty nice line in OOP on the side. Pretty sure at least some OOP is required for any GUI stuff in Racket.

Aww, do I have to? I've been putting that off for so long, haha! I'll give it a go.

I have about a half a year's worth of Racket (acquired over around a year and half) under my belt, and intend to learn Haskell in the coming two years. Is there anything startlingly different in Haskell compared to the LisPs?

EDIT: Thank you for the responses, I have bookmarked the relevant github page and feel like my question has been well-answered :) Also, even more interested by Haskell than I was before.

This is the reason many SEO companies have rebranded as content marketers recently.

Content marketing is a relatively easy sell, and it's almost the entirety of ongoing SEO work (as opposed to the technical improvements, which obviously you can't complete over and over again!).

Few businesses are interested in where the content comes from, the research that goes into setting it up, so it's content marketing for most of the larger companies. I like the broad skillset 'SEO' implies, though, so I thought I'd highlight that.

EDIT: Also I suspect that if you're on Hacker News, you'll be more likely to have a much more technical skillset that fetches a higher price in other niches than SEO. There is, of course, more to the world than marketing!

Hopefully the links and general tone get some people interested though.

Hi clive,

Thanks for the feedback.

Lacklustre is actually correct.

Cheers, Jimmy

Cool! I definitely have trouble using CSS, I depend heavily on CSS frameworks & libraries to lay out anything remotely complex.

I can't tell if you mean 'because I find it difficult too', or if you mean 'because it means I have less/easier competition'. Of course, this could have been your intention all along, but if it wasn't could you clarify?

One thing I don't think many people have realised yet is that in addition to the cheap games and freemium model, Steam is selling other goods too, under the guise of giving away virtual goods for free.

These goods are given away for free - trading cards, for example. However, in order to actually trade them you have to transfer your money into Steam to buy them from another player. That money cannot be withdrawn, it can only move around the ecosystem and eventually get spent on games. Effectively, they have already made the sale, it's just a matter of waiting for you to redeem the money - or not.

I find it interesting that people are willing to pay other users real money for these goods, when (I assume) they wouldn't be willing to pay the money directly to VALVE - even when this is effectively the end result. It's an extension to the freemium model in my eyes.

That's an interesting decision, I wonder why? In such a fast-moving industry where they're constantly making their own old models redundant, wouldn't the models they get back after the lease period be basically useless to them?

I have difficulty distinguishing between what has been described to me as "meta-modernity" and what older textbooks describe as "eclectic post-modernism", and between that and what Orwell described as "double-think", albeit with more positive overtones (plus-good, not plus-bad). I don't really think it's a separate phenomenon from post-modernity, more a natural emergent property of a post-modern culture, but I would add to that that I am not really knowledgeable in this area, just interested in contributing to the discussion and maybe getting some clarification & correction on my views.

The slow shake could be nice, I think. Looks excitable rather than just vibrating.

Those books look pretty general. Could you perhaps give just one or two examples which make Perl great specifically for scripting, to someone who does not know any Perl at all?

Oh, I wasn't questioning them - just asking if my assessment sounded right.

Over-simply, because they do not want to indicate that their site is about those pages, for whatever reason.

In practice, I'm not entirely sure but it looks like it's quite old since those pages don't seem to exist anymore, even as folders which don't exist as pages in themselves, and they aren't 301-redirected to the current relevant pages.

In fact, they're all 404's. So perhaps they used to be pages, were deleted, and kept being crawled which made their site look crap (because of the 404's). Now they could use 301's, but I assume that the reason they didn't is because they might want to restructure the site in the future and re-use those pages. They don't use 302's because 302's are unreliable and freaky.

Does that sound right to everyone else?

I'm acutely aware that I'm effectively posting on your territory, but the term "lynch mob" seems to be almost comically inappropriate as a description of what actually occurred.

The Dogecoin gem is interesting for the same reason.

http://dogecoingem.com/

Based on the BTC gem, which has I think been shut down.

Very true.

Taking all the money from a coddled, unemployed trust fund child would definitely have no effect on their solvency in the long-term, because money is entirely distributed based on merit.

I mean, thank god, can you imagine if it wasn't?

I've actually spotted him on other sites, usually commenting with a Facebook account. He actually gets some interest, some responses, some upvote-equivalents to his answers on other sites.

This is especially true when he is in racist mode, unfortunately.

I hope there is some way he can get help.

Surely such a person would be literally on the level of a drug dealer?