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Re:Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video] on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:28PM (#34732584)
There are show notes open for PRs for folks to add too. See if someone does over the next few days: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide-and-friends/blob/mast...
I second this one. This was a great book.

There are some follow ups to the final project I like

Compile to WASM so you can run on the web: <https://hands-on-rust.com/2021/11/06/run-your-rust-games-in-...>

Port to the Bevy ECS: <https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/learn_bevy_ecs_by_ripping_o...>

Looks great!
2 out of 10 voters use machines that don't have a paper trail like you suggest.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/paperless-pennsylvania-c...

Re:IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol on Monday April 06, 2015 @11:09AM (#9328430)
It wasn't, but you could have had multiple issuers of currency. Not that it ever got big enough to flex that part of the protocol.
Re:DDoS Attack Against Default DNS System v2 on Monday December 08, 2014 @11:18AM (#8717185)
This would be made easier in Namecheap offered Secondary nameserver support. For example, DNS host at Namecheap, but use Linnode as a secondary.
Re:How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice on Saturday May 10, 2014 @08:50AM (#7725214)
What the heck is up with the URL?
Re:Ask HN: Is Sublime Text dead? on Thursday April 10, 2014 @10:03AM (#7566124)
May I suggest adding a link to the http://platform.qbix.com in your README.md
Re:The Next Mission on Thursday April 03, 2014 @08:39PM (#7528309)
Here's my question: What was the board thinking to put him in place? It's not as if Eich won a contest just by inventing one of the most widely distributed programming languages, there were folks who decided he was the best to lead Mozilla forward. How did they go so wrong?
Re:Libsass – C implementation of a Sass compiler on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @12:04AM (#6799262)
I agree about fitting in well with HAML and CoffeeScript. You might also consider Slim as a less noisy HTML shortcut language.

This covers why I like Slim over HAML

http://me.phillipoertel.com/articles/2013/02/03/why-i-like-t...

Re:Comcast announces placing data caps on Friday November 08, 2013 @02:21PM (#6698488)
I suspect it was selectively enforced. I had a similar usage pattern and did get a notice.
Re:Comcast announces placing data caps on Friday November 08, 2013 @10:31AM (#6696600)
At least they are offering more bandwidth at a price. Before it was a hard cap at 250GB with no way to buy more.

But still, it makes me want to up and move to Chattanooga.

http://chattanoogagig.com/

Re:Did these guys just reinvent the Web? on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:30AM (#6566010)
I found "The Making of Fastbook: An HTML5 Love Story" illuminating after hearing about Facebook moving away from HTML5.

http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-l...

Re:What's your honest opinion on Ingolingo? on Thursday June 28, 2007 @04:16PM (#31452)
There is another language learning program that uses a similar method: RosettaStone http://www.rosettastone.com/

[disclaimer: I work for RosettaStone but do not represent them]