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Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Monday June 17, 2019 @02:47AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have a 5 year old kid who loves playing the odd puzzle/logic games on my iPad (thinkrolls) and is already doing lego for kids twice his age. I'm thinking about getting a Nintendo Switch for him to play games such as Yoshi / Captain toad which require some creative puzzle solving to advance levels. However I'm concerned about him being too young and the effect on his brain development. He is...
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:17PM
from the ask-hn dept.
We've been strict regarding TV with our 2.5 year old, none before age 2 and 20 mins per day since then. I recently installed an educational app on my phone to experiment and he went crazy, learning colours, shapes and numbers overnight. The potential for learning seems undeniable especially given the fun factor.However I'm scared about addiction and us caving in to giving him more time on the...
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Would be helpful to know which products you see this replacing (as you mention in your copy that you see it replacing several products costing over $200 combined).
Any idea on the number of attendees? i.e. is this expected to be just a very small local meetup? Interested but would need to make extensive travel arrangements asap.
I'm surprised Malta hasn't been discussed (tiny island in the mediterranean, just south of Sicily). I arrived here 5 years ago thinking it would be a paradise (its not). Below are my generalisations:
Upside = Best weather in Europe, English speaking, 100Mb/s fiber, cheap ryanair flights to most of Europe, cheap rent compared to Northern Europe - luxury 3 bed flat around 800 Euro.
Downside = Extremely conservative and religious state run by the church (abortion is illegal even if mothers life is at risk - WTF). 10 year prison sentences for possession of Marijauana. Extremely narrow minded people. Ugly, very dry, dirty polluted beaches, lots of rock and very little green. Very poor standard of food at restaurants and even supermarkets.
I'm leaving for the Netherlands, can't wait!
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @11:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I work from home doing mostly devops and for everyday computing (browsing, mail, vlc, skype etc) I find Windows 7 to be fast and stable (unlike most of the Linux desktop distro's I've experimented with over the last few years). However, for development I need the GNU toolchain and for that I use virtual machines (virtual + vagrant). For remote sysadmin tasks I also run an Ubuntu virtual machine...
Primarily because I want to move to OSX and I'm looking for something more portable than the beastly W500 (+- 30% heavier than rMBP)
Just remember that with the lower end dedicated servers you are dealing with desktop class hardware. With the last server I received from them one of the HD's in a raid1 was dead and although they replaced it quickly I was required to reconfigure it wasting quite a bit of time.
Actually no, the tiny island of Malta where i'm currently stationed has only recently seen it's first retail Apple store (not official Apple store) and they lock the laptops down for security reasons such that you cannot pick them up to test how they feel and weigh in the hand. Crazy, I know.
Because the W500 doesn't support more than 8GB ram and uses the old Sata 3Gb/s interface which I believe would be a bottleneck with the latest SSD's.
During what activities do you miss processor power on the Air? or is it just a general lack of responsiveness when booting, opening apps etc. and what is your processor?
No, the W500 is limited to 8GB. The W510 can take 16GB and the W520+ 32GB
Thanks, I already have the server capacity available and paid for so I wouldn't incur any additional cost. You may be right about that resolution though, I've never seen it. Thanks for the advice.
Thanks prody, thats really helpful. I've also got an awful habit of consuming media content on my laptop whilst lying back in bed and on the sofa etc. Do you ever do this and find the 15" cumbersome or heavy in these situations?
Thanks, I remember that article too. For Windows development it wouldn't work well but I do envy that battery life!
Pinging my existing Hetzner servers is around 45ms which is acceptable latency for me. Reliability from Hetzner hasn't been great for our servers but for what I need it for it is reliable enough.
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Sunday January 06, 2013 @07:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.
As a developer I need to test code on multiple versions of Windows and for this I have 4 virtual machines running on a Lenovo W500/8GB/256GB laptop plugged into a 24" monitor. For convenience I often have all four running concurrently. However with 8GB ram I often run out of memory and I'm low on disk space, hence my motivation to upgrade. I'm just about to purchase the new retina Macbook...
We recently provisioned a new 32GB server from Hetzer. The server was delivered with only one of the two raid1 drives working. When I complained they said it would take a few hours to replace and then it was up to me to figure out how to rebuild the 2nd drive as part of the array. All I expected was a working server from the start, anything that went wrong after that I would have been happy to resolve myself. Very poor service, we've already moved to uk2.net. Also don't forget that Hetzner uses desktop class hardware in most of their servers.
I'm getting a 'Error 503 Service Unavailable'
I'd like to see some more upfront differentiating factors between this and asana, producteev, podio etc.
No pricing, no interested.
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @11:21AM
from the ivpn.net dept.
Buying up second hand books in bulk (think 5k+) and selling them individually on the Amazon marketplace. Incredible markups. Need lots of storage space though.
He forgot good ole Directory Opus!
I agree, its a pain point and will loose you signups. Swallow the bullet and implement a simple pricing scheme.
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:27AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.
FWIW, I'd have paid $50 p.a, I don't have many notifications setup but those that I do are important enough to actually prefer to pay for the service. Thanks team Notifo!
Anyone know of anything similar that works with Android?
Posted by
fHbjKlf6 on Thursday July 07, 2011 @01:39PM
from the self-post dept.
We're designing our web site and I'm in disagreement with my partner over how best to best represent the products benefits and features on the homepage.I believe that the homepage shouldn't contain too much information, a brief sentence or two about each benefit with a link to another page with more info about the related feature - see wireframe - http://goo.gl/Bqj2BHe believes in more...