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Yes but Data is a fictional character written by a human.

It's a genuine scalability problem when you have to work out how to physically print/place that many tickets, and the mechanism by which you distribute the jobs up to all of your volunteers (are they volunteers if they're being paid?)

Also an extra edge to get you over the line - make sure you have a license to sell the tickets to yourself. Usually the vendors (newsagents, shops) etc that sell the tickets get a commission on each ticket ranging from 2% - 10%

It's the real free money part!

I can't stand to watch other people play games. I'm with you.

You've nailed it right there... "do something that you want to do for its own sake".

There are multiple problems solved - you don't come across as fake or forced, the content you're covering seems natural, because you are generally interested in it. The flow of content comes easily because you're actively engaged in the community, so you're almost creating new content accidentally, as a by product of your self-interest.

I watch my daughters and their engagement with youtubers, twitchers etc, what seems crazy to me, in terms of what I would watch on you tube, they happily consume - watching people unwrap items they've ordered online, new fads, hours of gaming sessions. I mean really? I'd rather play the games myself!

It does lend a lot of weight to the idea that the next generation of celebrities are online based only... The downside is they can't monetize their fame! Or at least, don't know how to yet.

I make that whole "next gen celebs online only" comment like it hasn't happened yet, knowing that it is well on the way again from observing my 13/12/11 yr old daughters and their use of youtube/minecraft/instagram (did you notice the lack of Facebook? Yeah...)

If it's a .net app can you just host it under mono?

Do you really need to use Visual Studio? If it's C#/ASP.Net VSCode might be a possible replacement?

At the time I started thinking about making that change, I don't think I had a good answer. I started using Python, and Python Tools for Visual Studio, and thought, this is fucked, because I love this tool, and it's tying me to Windows still, so I consciously made the decision to switch out my dev tool to Komodo. I don't love it. It's got nothing on PTVS, but it runs on Linux really well.

For a decent dev tool under Linux - what about MonoDevelop? VSCode looks ok, but I haven't tried the Linux version, but apparently you can do C# development in it.

I'm not really up to speed with C# dev these days, last job I had which required C# was 2009, and since then I really haven't done much serious development in it (It's 95% Delphi professionally, and Python for my own stuff)

Edit: I wanted to re-iterate, I absolutely love Python Tools for Visual Studio. Those guys have created (what I have found to be) the highest quality python development tool I have experienced. The downside is it requires Visual Studio. If they can take what they have added to VS, and re-produce that in VSCode.... Wow, I would be very happy.

I didn't realise you can use direct hardware access in a VM! (Other than HDD)

That'd be pretty good

Last year I bought a Synology NAS w/ 12 TB (9tb usable) and copied most of my data to it. So data wasn't a problem. Bonus now is I can use NFS!

No, the Windows 10 upgrade was "Free", but I was talking specifically about Windows 8 with regards to ads in the O/S.

The music app comes with the O/S, and is the default registered music player, for all intents are purposes, it's part of the O/S, and it's ability to inject ads into the start screen (as well as the Games widget, and Store widget doing the same thing) are just more of that.

Same thing I really didn't like about Windows 8. Ads on my desktop, in an operating system I paid money for.

In particular Toyota car ads in the music app.

I did like the UI improvements, the notifications system etc, that switching between new/old apps didn't feel jarring anymore.

I think the kicker was the github project calle dunfuck windows 10 or whatever it was, where you ran a bunch of batch scripts to remove/kill off the monitoring services, and I just didn't want to have to worry about that.

Also the fact that on my other machines, the nagging to upgrade to windows 10 is constant, I had to go find/remove some random windows update patch from June/July to get rid of gwx.exe.

edit: lastly, the licensing terms of the operating system itself, IANAL, and I couldn't tell what rights I had to the o/s in the future.

Windows 10 pushed me to Linux.

I spent the last few years slowly but surely weening myself off a dependence on Microsoft tools (at home anyway). I switched my dev environment from VS/C# to Python/Komodo. Email from Outlook to Gmail/Thunderbird. Stopped using IE a decade ago or more. The idea behind it was to make sure I wasn't really bound to a particular platform.

The last few times I tried Linux, I'd either end up with Windows withdrawals, or some game/app I forgot about that I still used, or the kids would complain (or wife) and would end up back on Windows. This time, I've kept another machine running Windows on it, but my primary machine I installed Mint 17.2 on it, and no dual booting.

Things I'm missing - Can't play Witcher 3 (but apparently a native version is coming soon), and I'll probably miss out on SW: Battlefront. However a bunch of other games I play have native Linux ports, in particular Kerbal Space Program. I went a little nuts and buy a brand new gtx 980ti that might not get stretched as much as it could by switching platforms.

Things I'm enjoying - The font rendering seems nicer? Maybe it's imagined though. Komodo IDE runs way better under Linux than Windows, I have no idea why. I like the fact that my time investment in learning Python is paying off because a lot of the support tools/background tasks are written in Python. Especially good is now being able to see open source/dev projects that in the past I would skip over looking at because hey - no native Windows port.

It's been a couple of weeks since I switched now, and no regrets yet. Thanks Windows 10.

Pretty sure this is an interaction issue with Samsung drives, trim support, and the Linux kernel, so no, you don't need to be worried.

Yeah I was thinking keeping electronics in the freezer probably isn't great, there would eventually be build up of moisture inside the key housing itself right?

some aluminium foil would do just as nicely!

The one upside - the tax I had to pay was on the value of the shares. The value was zero, so I had to pay zero tax.

(I realise that the question is actually about taking on someone/entity as an investor/partner)

Slightly different POV:

I had the opportunity to work for a company for either options, or accrue extra annual leave. I took the options. Smart people took annual leave (because it was still actually payable/real money)

At the end, as it turned out we all lost our jobs anyways, people who had taken annual leave got extra money. I got a huge bunch of options.

Now that's fine they may have been worth something, but I still had to exercise them. It was ok though, the CEO told us all verbally we would have 12 months to exercise them.

2 months later, I got an e-mail from the CFO asking what I was doing with my options as they would lapse in 30 days. I had to exercise them or let them die. I was already committed, so I thought what the hell, I'll exercise them because otherwise I walk away with nothing

So I forked over even more money.

I wish I hadn't exercised those options. They ended up being worth exactly $0.

not just in the US - from the stuff I've read (and I can't cite anything), here in Australia the roads were originally sealed to improve cycling conditions!

Felt exactly the same way. The arrogance displayed by the tip4commit developers is rage-inducing.

I have a chromecast too, its not even plugged in, I hate having to "cast" to it from another device. I use a raspberry-pi with xbmc running on it, but this could be great.... could be.

At first I was thinking I had to have one of these. Then I read feature page where it subtly tells you that most of the functionality is based on being tethered to an iphone. What a pity.

Explain to me why people would want to harm Satoshi? What purpose would harming him serve? The tech is already out in the wild

Damn, I can't recall how many hours (and phone bills!) lost to playing SRE and BRE on all my local BBS's, thank you dude.

I hope they don't, the whole point of the ban is to ensure an untainted jury. The details will be released once the case has been heard.

How long does it take to go from wanting to place a bet, to your money being in the pool? My knowledge of bitcoin is lacking but I was of the understanding that there is some time before the transaction/transfer is verified? Thus if you wanted to submit a wager close to closing time, you would probably be unable to?

IS there trend data available? Can see see where the public money is going, or is it simply a case of monitoring the blockchain for transactions going to the wallets (pools) you're interested in?

Also back in the olden days of ring side bookies at the race tracks, it was illegal to transmit information "off-track".

It didn't stop people inventing systems to do it though.

Clever use of very old mobile phones which used acoustics to transmit bookies markets off-track, and then used for wagering purposes. It's been around for a while.

These day's it's just not necessary. You have the William Hills, the Ladbrokes, the Tom Waterhouses, the various on-line bookies, all providing easily scrape-able data sources.

There are services you can subscribe to for live (in-play) statistical information for football. This is exactly the same thing. You position yourself on betfair, pay a bundle of money for a "courtside" feed, because all media broadcasts are delayed, and you have a slight advantage again the average punter who doesn't have access to the feed, oh and the data feeds aren't cheap either.

Usually it's the large internet based bookies who subscribe to these feeds so as not to over-expose themselves to the public

Considered, but not with any great seriousness until probably the last 12 months. I'm taking a wait-and-see. I think it's just due to more responsibilities/commitments and you naturally question your actions/motivations/decisions

My brother has the illness. Every ounce of self-doubt I have, I worry is the beginning manifestation of Schizophrenia in my own mind. It's not a good place to be - that worry that every time you "hear voices", it's some sort of announcement about your own mental state? The worst for me is mishearing people, or muffled conversations, where I fill in the gaps with extremely negative content, causing a downwards spiral in emotion. I'm sure it's nothing, and I'm perfectly normal though.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but certainly Hexels is an interesting tool for creating cool art

http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/

30 - 50 years, damn I feel old, I only just sneak into that bracket though. TRS-80 coding in BASIC was my first machine/language combination, I was 8 at the time.