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Fender 1957 Deluxe tube amp clone. Built the box, soldered the components (from a kit and a diagram), then upholstered it with tweed. Super fun and satisfying project, looks like a new (old) amp you’d buy at a store.
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notdan on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Am moving on to a new role. Have 10,000 vested options at $2 strike price which is the same as the last FMV. Company estimates current value at $10. Distant future exit is likely in the lower half of 1-5x current value.I don’t really want to take the risk on buying these myself nor do I really have the cash to invest if I wanted to. Didn’t know if there was any other option to let someone else...
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notdan on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.
My wife has a shopify store, does about $1k per month and less than half of that goes through paypal. Out of nowhere today they disabled her account for 'violating user agreement'. She didn't do anything out of the ordinary or suspicious, just getting paid for some shopify orders. Doesn't have any complains or issues or chargebacks or anything I can see that looks suspicious. There doesn't seem...
Is there a good programming language and environment for kids? I started learning coding in my own around 10 yrs old with qbasic. Scratch is super aawesome, but what is the next level up from that that is actually typing the code out instead of moving puzzle pieces?
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notdan on Thursday December 09, 2021 @01:15PM
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notdan on Friday September 10, 2021 @10:12AM
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Yes this is true. They often lose money on the premiums, actually, and then make money on the float. A very simplified example: You pay $1,000 per year for 10 years on home insurance. Then a hail storm ruins your roof and it costs about $10k to replace. So they end up paying out the $10k in premium they collected over 10 years, but were able to make money on the interest they made while they held it.
I need something like this to let non-programmers create some basic JavaScript scripts/flows in an app I have. Obviously would need to be some level of power user but hopefully doesnt require them to know how to code. Has anyone tried this or any of the related projects and have an opinion or experience on what works best for a “normal” user?
If you want to do the lite version of this there is a book called “From NAND to Tetris” that is an instructional book for a similar class and walks through doing much of the same thing. It helped me connect the dots between “I know how a transistor works” and “I know how assembly language works” that I have never learned otherwise. Even if you just skim the book without doing the project you will likely learn some things.
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262640686/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yH...
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notdan on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:42PM
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notdan on Sunday December 31, 2017 @10:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm starting to do some consulting targeting businesses with $10 million+ revenue for $15k+ engagements. Do you think it makes more sense to market myself as my name (e.g., johndoe.com) or a brand name (e.g., superconsulting.com)?
It's fine, it really is. Just stick to what you are being productive with and enjoy actually building something useful.
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notdan on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:06AM
from the medium.com dept.
The YouTube slowdown is just using the YouTube API. For mp3, it is using the html5 file and audio Apis, and a JavaScript port of the sound touch library. Everything is done in client side javascript, there is currently no application server, just a static site.
Since you are using youtube to learn songs on guitar, you might try this out (I made it):
http://tunetranscriber.com
Let's you do marks and loops as well as using the playback controls.
If you are interested in guitars/music and HTML5, I wrote a transcribing tool (looper, slow downer, etc) that runs in a browser and uses the Audio APIs. Wasn't sure if it would be possible, but was able to do quite a bit:
http://www.tunetranscriber.com/
I made this all with Javascript and some of the HTML5 apis. It is a static site and everything runs client side in the browser (i.e., no server or flash components). I wasn't sure if it would be possible but it seems to work on most current, non-IE, desktop browsers.
Posted by
notdan on Friday August 15, 2014 @10:17AM
from the show-hn dept.
Get rid of 'beta' on the site header, there is no need for that and just makes you look cheap. I also dislike ratings on 1-10 scale (instead of 1-5, for example). What's the difference between a 2 and a 3, for example, or 8 and 9? It take too much thought.
This is very subjective, but I think your resume would look better if you made the background white and set the line-height to about 1.5em on the whole body. You might even play with removing the list bullets and padding (list-style:none, padding-left:0px). If you try this, I would be interested to hear if you think it looks better or worse.
Not free, but I've found that
http://photodune.net has good stock photos that aren't too expensive ($1-$5 per image and usually the $1 or $2 image is large enough for a website). They are much cheaper than istockphoto, and they are priced in dollars, not credits, and they allow you to buy a single photo without subscribing to a monthly plan, buying lots of credits in bulk, etc.
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notdan on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @11:04PM
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notdan on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:45PM
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