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Trano··on Framework Laptop Embedded Controller (EC)
Hopefully coming soon, they tweeted on Jan 6 that they are in the last stages: https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/147913722834957517...
Trano··on Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
My understanding is that dumpster diving to get opened food is fairly uncommon. More often it is getting sealed food that was thrown out because it has expired, has damaged packaging, or in some other way is less desirable. So the food that you would eat from a dumpster isn't exposed and probably doesn't smell like a restaurant waste dumpster would.
Trano··on Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
I am present and public on most social networks and my name is still not in this data set.
Trano··on Find out interesting facts about your name (fixed)
The data for this for uncommon names seems really off.

My last name is uncommon, so the most popular first names shows 10 names, each at 10%, and my name is nowhere on the list. Searching on Google for my last name shows many results about a minor celebrity whose first name is also missing from the list.

On popular names this probably evens out, but for uncommon names I appear to not exist here.

Trano··on _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]
For anyone who missed this yesterday like I did, _why's site was updated yesterday but is now back offline.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5571387 shows the progress of figuring out what was happening.

Basically he was sending out print commands to print the book that is linked here.

Trano··on Some months and hard work later, Metricfire announces pricing and GA
I've been wanting to add metrics to a small side project of mine for a while and was looking at Metricfire and Mixpanel.

This announcement actually is pushing me away from Metricfire. The project I am working on now will generate less than 100 data points per day, so paying $30 a month is really high.

For someone who will take advantage of it, the $30 looks like a great plan, but when they say it is for small projects, that just seems like too much for the very small projects like mine.

Trano··on Minecraft creators’ next project is a strategy game: Scrolls
I am amazed that an idea like this hasn't been completed before.

I read this article and realized that this is the same idea I started working on 8 years ago as a high school freshman. I just didn't have the experiences or resources to finish it or do it right.

I just dug up the code though and posted it on my blog if anyone wants to see what a freshman in high school wrote 8 years ago in VB6. http://www.ra726.net/blog/?p=119

I can't wait to play this, I've been waiting to play something like it for a long time now.

Just goes to show what you hear here all the time, just ship it. An idea can be great but it goes nowhere if you don't do anything about it.

Trano··on 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard
Good point, I forgot about that, I don't buy enough apps to deal with it much. I guess I might as well try it out then.
Trano··on 8pen reinvents mobile keyboard
Its out now, and I was going to try it like a lot of other people have said, but there is no way to try it for free. The cost isn't very high ($1.58 right now) but with Swype already I don't see a reason to pay money just to try it.
Trano··on Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
It looks like the 2 different terms are contradictory. We may have to wait and see if they clarify whether you just have to pay the extra fees or if you are completely switched to a paid account if you go over.
Trano··on Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier
They need to clarify the terms, it is unclear if this minimum usage is free or if they will cancel your account if you go over. These are both in their agreement:

"You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer."

"You will become ineligible for the Offer if, ... (b) incur fees for use of the service that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer. ..."