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Agree. What is the point of using composer or any dependency manager if you check-in the vendor folder?

Focuses on food replacement cost of calories burnt, which makes very little sense since author at their own acknowledgement does not account for cost of maintenance on car or bike, or better health.

If you're going to ignore all of those things, you may as well ignore the cost of food per calorie burnt as well, which would mean to ignore this article.

Unless it's a financial application...

In a way, this is where it can help to have a developer day job with a salary or at least that mentality. Where commercial pressures and tight deadlines can light a fire under you to just get things done.

In some cases these types of motivators can cause you to hack out something that only barely works at first, before circling back with test writing, best practices, etc. But maybe that can be better than not completing anything at all?

You can always refactor your way to an awesome codebase if it starts out a bit quick and dirty at first. Sometimes just having the minimum amount of friction to complete the requirements to get going can be helpful, as starting is sometimes the hardest part.

Maybe you just need to set deadlines as if you are the CEO of your company and not the developer where by certain dates you need the MVP or new feature and it has to happen no matter what.

Maybe build an MVP such that you can start charging people and get customers, which can also be a motivating force to continue on and continuously improve it because you feel the obligation to your paying customers.

I second Mandrill. 12k free emails per month, $0.20 per thousand after that (and cheaper for very large volumes). This is for a shared IP address with other free tier users. You can add a dedicated IP to build just your own reputation for $30/month. You can easily setup DKIM for your domains even on the free shared IP tier. Libraries in many languages + restful API if needed for others.

Arg, I think I found a dead-end on mission 1. I had the heartbleed virus v1.2 and the mission called for v1.0 and so after installing v1.2, it no longer allows installation of an additional one or deleting the first one so now I am still stuck with $0 because the wrong version is installed. Any advice?

I agree with both of these points. Also as someone else mentioned controlling how many ships to send out - I sent out my largest planet to capture a tiny one before I understood the mechanics - which brings up another point. To replenish a 440 ship planet would take HOURS building 3-10 ships at a time so it makes planets that attack pay a little too high of a price.

Sweet, fun so far. I think the drag/drop background broke on reload for me in chrome? Can't seem to move map anymore.

A little slower paced than expected, and a little labor intensive like farmville. Maybe some hotkeys to speed up tedium? Or a select all / mine gold command or similar.

Overall awesome work though, I'm intrigued.

Unfortunately here in Louisville/Boulder Colorado, it's either Comcast or Century Link. I have tried both and done my own testing, and Comcast is still the best connection despite their price point.

I could not agree more about latency. My first try with Century Link last year had 120ms latency which is terrible because Comcast was 15ms. CL upgraded my neighborhood loop and got to 20ms which is fine, but the CL upload speed is still crippled at an outdated 768kb/s where as Comcast I get 3.5Mb/s upload. I work from a home office so upload bandwidth is important.

So since there is no other contender that has both good latency and upload speed I use Comcast for now.

These days I subscribe to training functional strength as described in this article (Rippitoe and stronglifts 5x5 inspired)- mainly for day-to-day injury prevention in normal motions like reaching for high and low cabinets, helping friends move furniture into a house, and general injury prevention for participating in sports like mountain biking - I'm a 35 year old male.

Also I develop software so getting any kind of exercise and workout is important with all the desk-job health problems, so even without a "why bench 235?" I think this kind of strength is still a great value for general quality of life. You don't need a specific reason or goal for this to be good for you.

Looking good/feeling good are nice side-effects as well, and there's no better medicine than diet and exercise (for most people) for long-term better health over a sedentary life style.

That being said this article has been written before: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou...

Edit - I should also add I am not trying to get huge, just maintain general strength and flexibility - currently squat 220, bench 175, press 105, row 170, deadlift 265. Body weight 180.

Although, I guess there is nothing to stop me from running servers on Linode and continuing to use RS for Cloud Files/Akamai -- except for network speed of course. Linode can deploy to Dallas though, where I use RS so maybe the network speed won't be a big problem.

Couldn't agree with this more. I cringe at laugh tracks that literally get set off after each line of dialogue in many exchanges, especially when it is not even a joke and not funny.

Compared to that, SV is much much better in my opinion. I can't even watch BBT because the laugh track is so grating and don't get me started about "Bazinga", the most trite manufactured catch-phrase ever created.

Rackspace cloud customer here… These Linode upgrades are very tempting to entice me to switch.

I get I might not be their target market (small business with about $1000/month on IaaS spending) but there are a couple things preventing me from doing so: 1) $10/month size suitable for a dev instance. 2) Some kind of scalable file storage solution with CDN integration – like RS CloudFiles/Akamai or AWS S3/Cloudfront or block storage to attach to an individual server.

I guess you get what you pay for… infrastructure components and flexibility AWS > RS > Linode > DO which roughly matches the price point.

Yep, I was just hassling our billing SaaS provider about this, but then I looked into their SSL vendor heartbleed post, and their customers mention this in the comments:

http://blog.digicert.com/2014/04/heartbleed-openssl-fix/

Excerpt: "Also, Busy IT Guy is right; it's a little disheartening to be listed as Unsafe after having done all the right things, just because the issue date didn’t get updated."

Not really sure how it's possible to hang out on HN and not know who patio11/Patrick/Kalzumeus is...

What you probably want is to re-key your cert, do not revoke it. Revoking with some CA's (such as GoDaddy) means to essentially cancel the remainder of the valid date forever and requires purchasing a new cert to secure the same domain. You are forfeiting the rest of its value.

When you re-key, it will automatically deactivate the previous cert and is free. It also gives you the opportunity to update to SHA-2 or increase the key to 2048 bit, which you should do unless you have unusual and extreme legacy support needs (and must keep SHA-1 a while longer).

Pretty much, except for the whole $79 additional cost of prime membership. =)

Yeah, this. The other thing the $.99 item with $5.99 shipping does is allow refund scams - you would of course be able to return this item, but only if you paid return shipping costs and then you only get refunded the $.99 item price meaning you would generally lose money on a refund.

Building shipping into the cost like Prime however, might do the reverse and expose a seller to over-refund issues where they would lose more on a refund if it must include the total item price without shipping. (When shipping is "free" and built in to the item price.)

I like the Rackspace cloud offering a lot too. We use it exclusively for our business. I see Rackspace as being in the middle of the spectrum if DO is at the bottom and AWS is at the top in terms of more features/higher price.

Also the VPS up-time we have experienced on over 20 nodes for the past 3 years on Rackspace cloud has been pretty great, all things considered.

I bought something from Target in this window with a credit card (Wells Fargo).

I called them up to proactively report it stolen - the problem is they will immediately deactivate your current card and it takes 7-10 business days for the new one to show up. It is not possible to get a 2nd card number without deactivating the first (to avoid a no-card for 2 weeks situation). Or you can have them overnight it to you for $16.

Kind of annoying to pay $16 for a merchant error, or to not have your primary card for 2 weeks during the holiday season (and also the card you use to pay all service bills like cable tv, internet, city/trash/water etc).

Ultimately I decided to do nothing and just keep a close eye on account activity until January when it is less inconvenient to wait for the new one.

Thanks for the easy-to-understand take on the leader key. Not using the leader key is one of my known vim weaknesses I've been meaning to fix. I found your explanation and usage a great push into actually putting it in my .vimrc

Here is the list of domains from the original doctor beets post linked in the this story to block on your router to stop this:

ad.lgappstv.com

yumenetworks.com

smartclip.net

smartclip.com

smartshare.lgtvsdp.com

ibis.lgappstv.com

I tried my hand at a couple affiliate marketing style blogs thinking the same thing - I'm a web dev. Never made more than a couple hundred dollars over the course of months of occasional fiddling.

You have to love writing, what you are writing about, self/product promotion and project management like outsourcing tedious SEO things for cheap otherwise it will rarely amount to much.

If you are a developer and love these things, then sure it would be great if you could spend an extra hour or two for some months to make $36k in addition to a regular income, but I would say the kind of effort and results achieved by OP is an outlier. YMMV even if you have all the skills.

One major thing no one ever seems to mention or realize about CFL bulbs is that if you read the fine print on the packaging, the life expectancy is based on leaving the bulb on for long periods of time like 3 hours per day continuous.

They have warnings along the lines of that damp environments like bathrooms, and turning them off quickly (less than 20-30 minutes on) significantly decreases the life of the bulb.

So if you plan to use CFLs that will be turned on and off quickly like bedrooms, bathrooms, hall lights, etc - basically everywhere except the living room / reading light that you plan to have on for hours at a time - CFLs will die faster than an incandescent - within 12-18 months of light use. You basically get punished for being good at turning off lights when not in use.

and if you do need a dynamic pattern, this is what preg_quote() is for.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php

I know you are just making a point with the circular saw metaphor, but for those wondering here is some good info on how to use a circular saw as safely as possible:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/87338746/CIRCULAR-SAW-SAFETY-AND...

http://carpenterbooks.com/userFiles/556/frame_table_mw_pdf_2...

Even still, as the safety guide states, "Be careful, making one small mistake with a circular saw could be the last thing you ever do in your life"

Let Adecco know how you feel in their contact form too should you feel so inspired (keep it civil though)

https://www.adeccowaytowork.com/en/contact

I just put one through, feels good.

Wow yeah, firefox here on a desktop - they moved the browser's scroll bar from the far right to the right of their content (the middle of a 1920px wide browser). I was clicking where the scroll bar would be to try to scroll - and what that did was for every click I made (on a blank background), when I clicked "back" to get back to HN after I read it, it cycled me through as many different stories as erroneous clicks I made before allowing me to back all the way to HN. (basically spamming 3 different stories I didn't want to read instead of "back" button functionality)

Terrible UX.

Edit: additional paranthetical

Yeah this.

SEO/internet marketers who want to go create a bunch of spammy backlinks through user profiles / blog comments on forum sites and blogs (anything that allows account creation and user generated content) to target affiliate marketing sites they own have pretty great automated tools to do this that integrate with the commercial captcha solving services.

The captcha solving aspect is around $1 - $1.50 per 1000.

You can't really prevent this and it really doesn't matter how effective the captcha is because outsourcing the human required to solve it is so ridiculously cheap.

The need to print in B&W is more about b&w laser vs color ink jets at the consumer level. Quality and TOC is so much better on a B&W laser than paying so much for color ink tanks if you do mostly info doc print outs.