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Re:The Case for Filth on Sunday December 08, 2013 @11:35PM (#6872831)
> Does money buy happiness? I don't know, but it definitely buys time to pursue happiness more efficiently.

Money buys time. The more you are willing to spend to quickly solve some of life's problems, the more time you will have to do what matters to you, whether that be seeking happiness, money or knowledge.

Money also takes away distractions. I started using a wash and hold service in NYC. About once a week, on my way to work, I drop off my clothes, on the way home I pick them up washed and folded. Something so simple only saves me ~1 hour a week, but not having to think about and planning to allocate time is worth so much more.

Re:Poll: Where do you stream your music from? on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:51AM (#6855399)
I use Google play music, it's $8/month but I think it's worth it.
Re:Exploring canvas drawing techniques on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @12:17AM (#6845171)
Wow, somehow I completely missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Re:Exploring canvas drawing techniques on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @11:31PM (#6845054)
This is the most educating thing I have seen on HN in a while.

I went through the code for each, starting with the simplest and working my way up to the much more interesting and complex.

The only thing missing is a way to edit the JS and see the result. Looks like it's easy to use an embedded jsfiddle[0], but I have not tried it myself.

[0] http://doc.jsfiddle.net/use/embedding.html

Slight bug, it treats param 3 as a map, so you can't put --render without the map.

You should also mention somewhere what no-standard libraries are needed (e.g. RestrictedPython). Maybe provide a requirements.txt

Otherwise, this is really cool. I especially love the game render. Great job!

Re:WTF is happening? - Digital attack map - on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:16PM (#6641262)
Geographical information from D3 and topojson libraries are used to create the map used in this data visualization.

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/faq/

Re:Show HN: Bit of News on Saturday October 05, 2013 @01:01AM (#6499476)
Maybe it uses your IP to guess at a location?
Re:Cue is Shutting Down on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:15AM (#6487320)
Agree, would love to see a post-mortem blog post. I would also be interesting in finding out what they will do with the technology they created, it would be great if they open sourced it!
Re:iMessage for Android on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @05:00PM (#6440722)
Any idea why it was taken down?
Re:Sensors on Google Glass on Wednesday May 08, 2013 @09:04AM (#5673888)
One sensor that I have not seen mentioned anywhere is GPS. The pair I tried a few weeks ago had GPS built in and it worked when glass was not connected to a phone or WiFi.
Re:Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:35PM (#5523072)
Budget VM has really good plans if you need disk space. A warning though, the support sucks. I used the 2GB plan for while, it has okay performance but for $10 bucks it was perfect for the analysis I had to do.

http://www.budgetvm.com/linux-vps.php

Re:Tell HN: My Web App has 13 Users on Sunday March 17, 2013 @10:33AM (#5389290)
After 16 hours, you must have gotten a lot of users? Will you share the total user count now?
Re:Evernote hacked on Saturday March 02, 2013 @11:52AM (#5310058)
And email

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