slinkyavenger

Sunset Over Imdahl is one of the best RPGMaker games, in my opinion. Despite being short, it has a solid story. It also does an amazing job breaking away from the traditional tile-based look of all the other RPGMaker games.

I'm assuming there will be some sort of 3d construct that you can manipulate with the mouse. The 3d effect isn't like the Nintendo 3ds, it's more like Apple's parallax effect on their homescreen.

That would make sense, especially with all the truecrypted drives in evidence lockers and whatnot - in other words, things that can't be properly upgraded.

You would have to also engineer an evolutionary advantage - something that would make them likelier to survive in the wild than their non-engineered counterparts. Building in a 'kill switch' by its very nature gives engineered bacteria a huge disadvantage, meaning there'd have to be something else making them more likely to reproduce.

It would probably be a better use of time engineering the bacteria to be harmless to humans, negating the need for a course of drugs to kill it off.

Regarding #6: please cite your sources on Mir being postponed indefinitely. I can't find anything except that it's now scheduled for 16.04.

Furthermore, Ubuntu mobile will have Mir as part of its stack, so I can't see why they'd postpone it.

Everyone's already covered how this is absolutely wrong, but I wanted to add that a second query is not appropriate, either.

You'd want your query to be something like

SELECT password_hash = {password_hash} AS authenticated FROM accounts WHERE email = {email}

That way you'd be able to tell based on your result set whether the user exists, and if so if their password is valid. All with one query.

But, again, you shouldn't do this.

Why is this relevant to the discussion?

This article is incomplete, as well as the submission title.

The article says he was arrested for having a firearm along with schedule I&II drugs, which is a big no-no (Please, save your opinions about the legality of the drug war for another topic). Unfortunately, it goes into no further detail about whether he was in possession of them while making the video, or if they were at his house, etc.

This submission's headline completely ignores that aspect of the story, sensationalizing it to make it seem like the video by itself was enough for a police raid.

Asking my local police department about anything like that is a good way to get harassed and ticketed.

It's been around even before 2009(the date of this article). Back in 2007 Jeff Atwood posted pretty much the same thing [1].

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/10/a-visual-explanatio...

Check your local craigslist, check your local pawn shops. Make sure you know what you want, and how to haggle. Everyone asks for too much, but there should be a flood of used laptops on the market since it's in between semesters.

Otherwise, your best bet would be a chromebook running chrubuntu(not crouton), however, there are some caveats:

1. There won't be a backlit keyboard

2. You won't be able to get a great processor, but it'll be able to handle ubuntu just fine. You may want to consider a slimmer desktop manager than unity.

3. You'll be limited on browser tabs before your memory runs too low and things slow to a crawl. Extensions like The Great Suspender for Chrome[1] allow you to work around this somewhat. It requires some manual tab management, but the alternative is maintaining a bookmarks folder so you can close the tabs and come back to them later.

4. I was able to get an IDE(PyCharm) running, and it worked pretty well, except being slow in code completion.

5. Inkscape runs, though not well. I'd suggest you running the app by itself if you need to use it.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

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That's a tired point to make, especially since it's not relevant anymore. Ubuntu ditched the brown a while back, and the orange definitely makes it stand out compared to its competitors.

I'm sure it has to do with a perception of 'sunk cost.' Everyone there knows PHP. They've developed tons of PHP libraries. They've set up their servers to run PHP. They have probably also ported some of the more complex code to PHP extensions.

They probably should've moved to a different language a while back, but those kinds of changes require a lot of effort that don't seem economically expedient at the time.

Where is this contract available online?

Yeah, I posted Veekun's thing.

Low overhead for deployment and ubiquitous availability are definite advantages for the beginning of a project. Unfortunately, those two advantages disappear when your site becomes successful. For a large user base, there's more overhead involved in keeping a PHP webapp running smoothly, and by that time you won't need ubiquitous availability because you'll be, hopefully, running and configuring your own servers.

I wouldn't want to go back to programming PHP due to its many issues[1]. I especially wouldn't want to work somewhere that spends development energy on BobX[2] to make PHP easier to work with. That means I have to use two technologies that won't give me any way to advance in the industry, and will most likely hinder me at this point.

[1] http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... [2] http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx

I don't think the author is talking about the spacebar being disabled entirely, at least that hasn't been my experience. What I've observed is that the space bar fails to act as a complete page-down - it only moves the page by lines.

LinkedIn also keeps track of what profiles you've viewed, and uses that to guess people you've known. I believe it may also build a potential connections list based on the IP address as well.

Force them to remote into a slow machine on a slow network connection running Windows 98

Constantly change the requirements for a project.

Insist that they stop work on project A to work on B, C, D, then ask why they haven't made good progress on A.

And tomorrow it'll be a cumulative $200, and in a few months it'll be a cumulative $450,371, until the next day when it's only been $2.17.

Ok, that's mostly hyperbole, but I have to ask, does that figure include the amount the bitcoins were worth at the time of transfer?

The rest of his staff will one day refer to him as "that guy who really seems to like McDonalds"

The only HTTP suite that comes to mind is Indy, or WinShoes back then

I'm confused as to whether this webapp implements its own search box, or if it is somehow intercepting input into the browser's search box. Could someone shed some light?

This isn't funny or original. Please keep comments like these off of HN.

I didn't know horribly-written opinion pieces like this could make it to the top of HN.

Not so fast, that term was coined in a SomethingAwful thread about bitcoins.

No it doesn't. It's value is completely tied to the market, with very few exceptions, as evidenced by the USD charge for a good or service being relatively static, while the bitcoin price fluctuates, according to the market, to maintain parity.

Quite obvious that it has to do with trademark infringement.

Uhh Yeah Dude

I'm glad you've never had to do a charge-back, or dispute a charge to your account. Unfortunately, not everyone's had such a pleasant experience.

Your other two points are laughable. First, you employ the whole 'Buyer Beware' mantra, except not all scams come with such dead giveaways. What happens, for example, when an up-til-now reputable seller takes a ton of order money and bails(a pump-and-dump scam)? Second, you go right back to that faulty reputation argument, even going as far as to say that it's the seller who's more trustworthy than the buyer. Why is that? I've never seen anything to back that up.

All of your points put so much control in the hands of businesses. It's almost like you want to absolve them by default if the consumer gets screwed over. Where do they go for help? Bitcourt?

As a fun aside, there actually was a 'bitcourt' of sorts. It was a pretty screwed up system, and only survived up until the point where the judges ruled against the creator of the 'court.' Then he shuttered the entire thing.