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Re:Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game on Sunday March 05, 2023 @05:10PM (#35034626)
Fun game! After climbing to 1 million feet, it took over 500,000 more to finally reverse direction with the ship pointed down and the engines firing.

  Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth

  Score: 869.4 point crash
  Speed: 7757.3mph
  Angle: 62.2°
  Time: 1319 seconds
  Flips: 0
  Max speed: 7757.3mph
  Max height: 1549465ft
  Engine used: 11 times
  Boosters used: 351 times
  https://ehmorris.com/lander/
Re:Organizing a Group Buy of Flour on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:19PM (#22879578)
This seems a bit expensive. I recently bought a 25lb bag of flour from Sams club and it was 6.50, or about 26 cents a pound. They also had plenty in stock. Costco also has it for a similar price. Last time I bought yeast there it's also cheap - about 5 or 6 bucks for something like 2lbs(which is a ridiculous amount of baking yeast). Baking a lot can make this practically worth the cost of the membership.
Re:Atlassian's new terms forbid benchmarking on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:10AM (#18104410)
Pivotal's project management software

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/

Re:In-N-Out managers earn triple the industry average on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @11:47AM (#16214940)
What's the name of the place in Denver? I always like finding good local places.
Are you referring to Digital Object Identifiers? If so, they are still being used. I've only seen it be utilized for scientific research data though - check out datacite.org
Re:Firefox marketshare revisited on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:08PM (#14809069)
I think they must have recently fixed this, in Win 10 Pro at least. I installed Win 10 Pro yesterday, then Chrome and it did not automatically pin itself. Actually, if I remember correctly it even had a message at one point during the install describing how to pin it.
Re:It is as if you were doing work on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @01:31PM (#14704430)
I was doing the same until I couldn't get the calendar widget to work. Opened up the dev console and noticed you can just call 'updateWorkUnits(x)' with x being any number. Instant promotion. You top out at CTO though.
This can apply to online purchases as well. A charge from buying something from ebay, for instance, can be charged back if you end up not getting the item, broken, etc. It's probably harder to get your money back in a case like that with a debit card.
Re:Introducing code reviews to a team – Part 1 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:26PM (#12984344)
We use Bitbucket at work and were able to configure it such that when this happens Bitbucket automatically unapproves the pull request. This seems to work pretty well and allows code reviews changes to be seamless, e.g. the extra commits can be squashed. I would think github/gitlab etc probably have similar features.
Re:The IPv6 Numeric IP Format Is a Usability Problem on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:50PM (#11138711)
It looks just like yours on Win 10 under Chrome. I was curious and tried in Edge and it renders fine.

Also, the settings in Win 10 allow you to turn off a lot of the phone home type stuff. Other than that, my opinion is that 10 mostly feels like a more polished 7.

Re:A Linux-powered microwave oven on Thursday February 18, 2016 @04:14PM (#11129373)
If I remember correctly, I think it was this one

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Laser-Phaser-Working-Projects/dp...

Re:Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack on Thursday January 21, 2016 @07:29PM (#10949775)
I'll put a second vote for Spring Boot. You're right that when the magic fails it can get a little complicated. However, I've found Spring documentation to be very good. Also, once you understand a little of how it's put together it becomes pretty easy to selectively replace whatever piece of the magic with your own custom version.
Re:A Student Loan System Stacked Against the Borrower on Sunday October 11, 2015 @08:25PM (#10371805)
I was extremely annoyed after graduating and consolidating my loans. After a lot of pressure from the financial aid department about consolidating being a good idea, once it was all said and done they just picked the highest interest rate of all the consolidated loans and applied it to the new one. I guess I should have seen that coming but it was a surprise after it felt like the financial aid dept touting it as a good thing.

However, I never had trouble regarding the loans being sold to different services. I had mine switch three times and got multiple emails and physical letters. It was a little shocking the first time I logged into my account and my loan was "paid off", but it quickly became apparent what had happened.

Re:Steam Hardware pre-order on Friday June 05, 2015 @12:01AM (#9663833)
Also https://www.gog.com . Their titles are all DRM free and they regularly have some good sales.
Re:How We Use Make on Saturday April 04, 2015 @10:46AM (#9320962)
This is similar to how it was done on a project I recently worked on. It worked well enough on a project that built about 300 libraries and 200 executable. It also made it really easy to add new things.
Re:How to Make Your Own Smart AC on Monday December 01, 2014 @12:14AM (#8679628)
You could use outlets that have USB chargers built in. That would provide you with a hopefully steady 5v source to use. They claim 3.6A charging, so that should provide plenty of power for something like a small microcontroller or even a rPi.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-Decora-15-Amp-Combination...

It's neat, but Earth is 3 pixels wide and Venus is 4 pixels wide. Last I checked Nasa claims Venus is about 95% the size of Earth.
Good ole' sfcave. I've been playing that game since the palm pilot days. I remember upgrading my to a newer palm pilot and finding out that the game wasn't actually running full speed on my old greyscale palm. The android version is still fun.
Re:Seven Years Is Too Long on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @09:21PM (#7148703)
That's easy enough to overcome though. Just have mock interviews. Do it with friends, coworkers, or people from tech meetups. I actually find it much more embarrassing to interview with friends than with strangers also, so that helps with the "jitters" too.
Re:Obscure C++ Features on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:32PM (#6889042)
Any good ones that you recommend? Is Stroustup's new version of the C++PL worth reading through or is that more of a reference book?
Re:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:22PM (#6888948)
It's been necessary to pay for RHEL for a while now. When you pay your subscription, you do get support from RHEL as well. However, if you just want to try the OS, you can go get CentOS. Since RHEL is open source, the CentOS team removes the RHEL name from everywhere and recompiles it.

One market that it seems to be strong in is the defense world, since RHEL is one of the few OS' that get various certifications for safety and security.

Re:A beginner's cheat sheet for web development on Friday September 20, 2013 @07:37PM (#6421209)
Very cool. Like the site. The one thing I noticed is that you put "Codeacademy" but they really spell it "Codecademy", with no leading "A" in academy.

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