mkeung

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by mkeung 9y ago
I live in a studio with 8 lights, 2 over my desk, 4 over my living room, 2 over my bed (how I setup the place). The two light switches are wired to 4 and 4. Alexa + light control lets me group them into desk, living room, common area (desk
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by mkeung 11y ago
http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/ I didn't have any issues using the above. You still need some sort of server (i've used rails, ex: https://github.com/rpush/
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by mkeung 13y ago
but in a large building / campus, they can't possibly monitor electricity usage per individual or company occupying the space without upgrading the infrastructure significantly.
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by mkeung 13y ago
From my understanding, scrypt ASICs have been held back by the cost of memory hardware as scrypt requires more memory usage. There has been talk of forking existing scrypt currencies to require even more memory to counter ASICs further but
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by mkeung 13y ago
I don't see why not, custom-built just means grabbing consumer grade gpus, with the "best" one currently the R9 270, which is ~$200 usd each. I don't think you need a huge budget so for academic reasons, why not. Plus, t
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by mkeung 13y ago
If cryptocurrencies become mainstream, this will be a bigger problem I think. Even things like "free" electricity are attractive for mining purposes, ex: universities, businesses, etc. If every student setup mining, it adds up (at
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by mkeung 13y ago
bookmarked, will keep an eye on it.
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by mkeung 13y ago
we just wanted to get feedback on the site, like any other show hn. wasn't trying to provide novel or insightful information, other than a guide simple enough that my parents could follow.
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by mkeung 13y ago
I haven't run any numbers (great analysis by the way). Other sources I can think of: -conversion from other currency holdings (LTC, BTC), which some people have openly said they did -recent run up / down of the value caused a lot
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by mkeung 13y ago
there is a big tipping culture in the community, especially on reddit. in addition to karma upvotes, people can use a tipbot to send doge to each other. the /r/dogecoin subreddit has 40k+ subscribers, with lots of tipping in each
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by mkeung 13y ago
what? there is no sign up. copy paste into the wrong thread?
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by mkeung 13y ago
keep it up! it's def a pain point with the currency
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by mkeung 13y ago
Thanks, i'll update the content today
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by mkeung 13y ago
I mentioned in the wallet section that you can download most of the block chain in a file here: http://doge.rstreefland.com/ Hope that helps!
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by mkeung 13y ago
Hmmmm, you may be right...i'm not super knowledgeable on this type of thing though. I'll update the picture, but can you give me a explanation I can use?
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by mkeung 13y ago
thanks...I don't know what I was thinking haha
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by mkeung 13y ago
co creator of the guide here, it is on my to do list. the guide in its current form isn't even close to complete yet, we just thought it was good enough to start getting feedback and be useful to the average person (who probably doesn&
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by mkeung 13y ago
Look into getting a fatigue mat. I had the exact same issue when I started, and standing on the mat helps reduce the soreness. edit: I used http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... to get a standing d
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by mkeung 13y ago
My interpretation: this is just saying your success is likely to be higher if you work with what you are familiar with. If you deal with enterprise problems and enterprise software, go for it. If you haven't ever dealt with enterprise
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by mkeung 13y ago
like help get better video drivers to linux faster
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by mkeung 13y ago
It's nice you can import your posterous site (taken from the signup page)
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by mkeung 13y ago
"The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it." Not completely true, Disney has their own dev team and they licensed Temple Run to make their own versions. Stil
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by mkeung 13y ago
Playing with it now, it's simple and straight forward. I'll see if it'll convince me to get more sleep. A couple things that I found odd: 1. What does the password color rectangle thing on signup mean? I know it had to do with password stre
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by mkeung 13y ago
Fixed
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by mkeung 13y ago
Not yet but it's in the plans.
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by mkeung 13y ago
We do plan on making a mobile app. We just didn't agree with the direction the existing services were headed, we have a bigger vision for Thryv..this is just our initial release. One hint at where we are headed is the support for connecting
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by mkeung 13y ago
We think we fixed it
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by mkeung 13y ago
So it's free for personal use, with the paid accounts in the works. As far as FB connect, it's in the plans. BTW, hijacking this post to say we're having sign up issues right now.
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by mkeung 13y ago
We plan to charge professional services you connect to. It will be always be free for personal use.
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by mkeung 13y ago
we're looking into this

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