justjimmy

And for those rare places that only do cash, it's not uncommon for the person in line to turn around and ask a stranger for cash and they'll pay that person in a WeChat transfer. Done in seconds. Happened to me and observed it myself a couple of times.

With digital wallets, there's zero need for credit cards and their predatory interest rates.

China is just absolutely crushing it. The Amazon Self Serve store that's still in testing in USA? Tao Bao pushed their version and it went live last week.

Or wallet stolen (arguing for the other side).

Same here. Introduced to ICQ while playing UO. Used it to ping each other when there was a rare spawn/scrolls up.

Good times.

What are some of your competitors? Haven't come across any other sites like yours!

“Because the Oculus headset works on Steam games, but the Vive doesn't out of the box work with Oculus Home. You can make it work, but it's not quite official. The Rift is also a little bit more comfortable and people seem to the think the display is generally better."

What? Why would you want Vive to make it work with Oculus Home? Isn't that like saying you want your Android phone to visit Apple's App Store?

Vive works with Steam and I think that's more than adequate. And Vive works with Steam games too, so not sure why you said your first sentence.

I really enjoyed using my Withing as my daily weighing tool.

However, Nokia is not a brand that I associate with statements like "creating beautifully designed products" or general consumer products period. I wasn't aware they're tapping back into the general consumer market after selling off its mobile division? (Though I did hear something about making a come back in making phones for Nokia)

Still waiting for new the dashboard…almost a year now :( And how I wish Stripe allows non automatic deposit, keeps the money in the currency it was paid in and peer to peer transfers! One can hope…

Shouldn't that be the other way around? If it doesn't work out, charge the 2 weeks, if it does, you get a job?

"If I need beautiful or creative content for my art gallery, graphic designers are invited."

No, you don't - you'd need artists, not designers.

Learning to identify and distinguish between the two will allow you to avoid the wrong (but common) generalization you just wrote.

The problem is the price. When they first launched, the price was starting at $120,000 NTD. You can get a cheaper, gas scooter for say $30,000 NTD. In China, you can get an electric scooter for around $40,000 NTD.

Once the electric market catches on here in Taiwan, the flood of cheaper eletric scooters from China will be Gogoro's biggest challenge.

Gogoro has recently (3 months after launch) reduced their prices and introduced more models - with the light model (no battery plan included) starting at $88,000. And even with cuts from government programs (up to 3, depending on your location in Taiwan), it can be reduced down to $62,000.

I haven't seen a single Gogoro out wild on the streets since it launched in Taiwan 3 months ago.

I think a better strategy would've been getting people to buy into electric scooters first before pushing an 'Apple' E-Scooter with such a irrational price tag.

www.hearthstoneplayers.com

Right now I've replaced the banner spot with an Amazon link with a more relevant ad message.

That's some nice Adsense income! My site gets about 13k visitors daily and I can't even average $5 from Adsense :(

DrTwister and LumtheMad were 2 sites I followed closely back in the day. Wonder what they're doing now…

Do you have one you can recommend? :) If you do, mind emailing their contact info to me? jimmy at justjimmy dot ca

I run www.hearthstoneplayers.com

It's a profitable site (making enough profit the equivalent of a 2nd job), minimal upkeep - just managing/scheduling content/writers. If anyone is interested in taking it and scaling it or even automating it (it's about 2 years in and I don't mind letting it go and moving on to bigger stuff), I'm open to contact!

It's the biggest/sharpest drop in WoW history. I used to go back to WoW once in a while, just to get back in a familiar surroundings, check out new content etc. But I've missed the last 2 expansions cause it is so different now. It's a completely different game, and it just moves further away from what a MMORPG is with each expansion.

I don't think calling it a MMO is even accurate anymore…

What a perfectly timed piece for me to read. I just finished watching Colin's presentation of the 3DR Solo on YouTube seconds earlier.

I only just started getting into this drone hobby - mainly for the purpose of aerial photography. Right now I'm practicing about 45 minutes a day (total flight time) with a $50 drone, flying around in doors to get used to piloting a drone by sight. Rest of my time is spent reading and researching on 'hobby drones'.

For those looking to get into it, here are my tips so far:

1. Start off with a $50 drone, something like Hubsan X4. You will crash a lot. 2. For the drones with filming capabilities, it's usually 1k-2k range. Camera are either built in or uses GoPro. 3. DJI Phantoms are the most popular ones with the Phantom 3 out this month. DJI is notorious for poor customer support from what I've read so far, so most people go to the forums. Just YouTube Phantom 3 footage and you'll see some awesome videos. 4. 3DR I also just discovered. Solo will be their first product. I'm waiting for its release so I can check out some aerial footage. 5. Another drone to consider is Yuneec Q500 Typhoon. I haven't done much research on it.

I'm waiting for Solo to release then gonna decide either that or the Phantom 3!

For those interested in the 3DR Solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L8lZUMzhwo&feature=youtu.be

Unboxing Phantom 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzSILvb9R1k

These are popular here in Taiwan, I think there's like 1 every day - held by many different organizations. The concept's the same - solve puzzles before the time runs outs.

Different organizations go to different lengths to make the activity feel more immersive, some are great, some are meh. Sometimes the group is so big, it can get very chaotic with everyone running around looking for clues.

The only downside is once they reveal the clues/answers, it can be frustrating if they were impossible to solve in the first place.

Wow, this piece cuts close to home.

I currently live in Taiwan and just yesterday there was a subway stabbing - a 20s male started stabbing people on the subway. Naturally, reactions was slow as most people was playing their phones or getting some shut eye. He managed to kill 4 people, get off the subway and intimidate more people, before finally brought down by a 62 elder man.

Everyone can be armchair quarterbacks, shake their heads in disappointment, raise their fits in anger, but when you are in a situation such as the above, or witness a knife attack - you are stunned. Taipei is one of the safest city in Asia. Most of us don't see scenes such as this except on TV, and most of us don't know how to react. It's fight/intervene or flight/stay out of it.

I've taken defence classes, including Krav Maga and they all emphasize that knives are the most deadly weapon in the world due to its ease of access and the damage it can do.

Sorry it happened to the OP but I don't think society has 'become' anything. There's no proof that people are more willing to jump between a knife wielding maniac and a victim before the iPhone age.

And there are people renting phones - yes, phones, really cheap ones too, those with only the 12 buttons and no other functions - for over $50 a month, from their telephone companies. These customers are mostly elderlies. It was just sickening.

(Worked at a call center)

I can't imagine anyone using PS to do flows.

I actually use Illustrator to handle the different artboards and do my flows and wireframes.

My team member uses Sketch for precision coordinates - our developers have Sketch too so they can just load it up and get coordinates for each slice.

"Taking a premise and applying it to a more extreme situation just battletests it. It's done in justice and law courses, etc."

I'm really interested in this sentence/concept - is there a term for this or anywhere I can read more about the concept behind this statement?

The icon for aisle seat looks like a stack of people sitting on each other's lap. No need to clutter the pass with new icons (that user will need to learn to identify and understand) when the word 'Aisle' is sufficient enough.

I'm surprised you think Scrolls is a deep strategy game. I've only sunk no more than 10 hours and I already see everyone with the same decks (3 factions, 3 decks). Not much room for different strategy since there are hardly any cards. Scroll's complexity isn't 'complex' - it's needlessly cumbersome and tiring - having to do consistent mathematics in your head isn't fun (for me anyway).

Hearthstone is way more complex simply due to the 9 (vs 3) classes.

The level of skill required to build a building upright and straight and the floors flat is even more mind boggling to me - and those that goes like 100+ floors? Can't…comprehend…

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote/Toronto

Small/Side project I'm looking to have it built.

Frontend/Backend needed - HTML/CSS/MYSQL/PHP. (If you prefer to use others, that's fine.) Related to gaming (but it's not building games)

If interested, contact me (see profile).

So I set up a VPS for the first time this week, here's how it went:

1. Shell? SSH? Wtf is this? Console? Huh? Why am I using something that looks like DOS, it's 2013! Where is the GUI and menus?!

So I learned about Shell/SSH, connected to my server, root and all that stuff.

2. Navigating folders and directories - dear god, this was a nightmare. I never used 'cd \' since '98 and that's only cause I wanted to run DOS games.

3. Kept seeing all these commands with '-' that makes installing extensions seem oh so easy! I wanted APC for PHP, stared at this page (http://pecl.php.net/package/APC) for an hour, trying to figure out what to do. Googled like mad. Searching for anything.

Learned about "pecl install APC", nope no luck. Then I was told to compile it from source. Yeah, I know exactly what that means! Spent the next 4 hours trying to understand why phpize wouldn't work!

Oh, I wasn't doing it from the right directory. -_-

I mean, I'm slowly beginning to see how it all fits together but none of the education sites teaches you this stuff!

It's like learning cooking recipes when you don't know how to turn the stove on, or what a stove even looks like. Or what's the difference between gas and electricity stove, how to turn on the tap to get water, etc. You learn a great recipe, know all the ingredients and the cooking time down to the second, but when it comes to use the tools and actually cook? Nope - cause I don't know how to turn on the stove or know what a stove looks like! (I know this is an extreme analogy)

I wish tutorials would start with projects and setting it up from scratch. If you're going to show me how to do something localhost, you have to show me how to do it on a server (and set up) as well or else I'll never be able to make that connection. (Well not never, but makes it harder)

Oh, editing files in the terminal is a blast too :P http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/unix/vi/ This saved my life that day.

So…I definitely vote for teaching the environment before programming.

PS: I did eventually install APC…after an entire day :P Now I'm trying to find and learn about setting up master/staging/production (and what it all means).

Edit: Just to give some context of why I needed VPS - I wanted root access so I can make a wiki have clean URL (rewrite) and figured why not, learn about VPS. Then that's where I realized I need to learn 10 other things to do this one single thing. The APC was a suggested caching option to improve the site, and trying to do that also needed me to learn more stuff. So it's all kind of ties together when you're trying to accomplish a (seemingly) tiny thing.

I came across Nginx, for the first time today, when I was trying to figure how to make 'cleaner' URLs for the wiki I'm making. Totally going over my head and out of my comfort zone…what a coincidence this article pops up on HN the same day…maybe it's a sign I need to figure this Nginx thing out.

Thanks for the link!

Oh come on, you can't show that video w/o filming what happens when you try to touch the stream!

*The reverse flow is quite mind boggling :O

Speaking of Comic Sans…here's a $100,000 rebranding for a town in Ontario - Port Hope.

http://www.designedgecanada.com/news/2013/20130115688.shtml

:P