Hacker News: ukdm

New comment by ukdm in "Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?"

ukdm — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:52:50 +0000

I've been on a low carb diet for 5 years now. The key I found to "sucker for sweets" desire is you take one day a week off. I find sugar is like salt now... if you give it up for a while and go back it's really really sweet and after a day of enjoying sugar I'm ready to stop eating it again for 6 days. If you haven't tried the one day a week off I recommend it next time you do your 3 months.

New comment by ukdm in "Ask HN: Laptop that doesn't suck"

ukdm — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:23:28 +0000

XPS 13 or 15 are worth looking at

New comment by ukdm in "Ask HN: Any advice for switching from self-employment back to employee?"

ukdm — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:33:50 +0000

Two things I noticed when going from employed to self employed is:

1. You gain a lot of time back due to zero travel 2. You can earn less to earn the same as you were when employed. This is true because I removed the transport and time cost.

It's worth keeping in mind these will be reversed if you situation is similar to mine. You'll have much less time available, and your salary will need to be higher than you earned being self employed to achieve the same end-of-month income.

Good luck.

New comment by ukdm in "Sketch goes subscription-based"

ukdm — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:22:03 +0000

Is this a subscription?

No. Once your license has expired you can still use the app for as long as you want. We will not force you to pay again to use it. You don’t have to renew your license if you don’t want to.

New comment by ukdm in "Ask HN: Best linux laptop right now?"

ukdm — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:22:50 +0000

Not the Apollo, but Linux Voice did a review of their Proteus. Worth a read (PDF) https://www.linuxvoice.com/issues/011/laptop.pdf

New comment by ukdm in "Cerberus – 18L mATX case"

ukdm — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:35:03 +0000

It launches on Indiegogo in March. You can sign up to be informed exactly when at the bottom of the page.

New comment by ukdm in "Bitwalking"

ukdm — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 23:54:38 +0000

They covered it on the BBC's click show. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34872563

New comment by ukdm in "Enpass Password Manager"

ukdm — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:44:54 +0000

"Pay once, use forever. No monthly or yearly subscription is required to use Enpass. You just need to upgrade the trial version only once for life time usage."

I don't see any pricing listed, if it is, it's not obvious. Wish services would stop hiding prices.

New comment by ukdm in "Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution"

ukdm — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:56:00 +0000

from the article "The facilities will be replaced by four gas-fired stations with capacity to supply 2.6 times more electricity than the coal plants."

New comment by ukdm in "Bitrig 1.0 Released – OpenBSD fork"

ukdm — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:13:48 +0000

Why did you fork OpenBSD?

OpenBSD is an amazing project and has some of the best code around but some of us are of the opinion that it could use a bit of modernization. OpenBSD is a very security conscious project and, correspondingly, has to be more conservative with features. We want to be less restrictive with the codebase when it comes to experimenting with features.

https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/wiki/Faq

New comment by ukdm in "Ruby Warrior"

ukdm — Fri, 09 May 2014 18:14:53 +0000

It's very annoying when a website blasts out music without user consent as soon as it loads. This is a case in point.

New comment by ukdm in "Empty Me, a simple HTML5 game"

ukdm — Sun, 04 May 2014 11:50:47 +0000

I think there are two click mechanics going on -> visual and non visual. Depending on the level, not every click gives you visual feedback of the liquid decreasing, however, you get audio feedback for every click. Would be better if the clicks were always registered visually, though, and should be easy for the developer to implement.

New comment by ukdm in "Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season"

ukdm — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 18:18:51 +0000

Today's race was the first time we got to see just how fast the Mercedes is on low fuel with new tires. This innovation is worth 2 seconds per lap, which is massive in this sport. The championship is theirs to lose this year. Teams don't make up such a time gap over a season, and Mercedes won't stop developing.

New comment by ukdm in "Nerdalize: warm house, cheap datacenter"

ukdm — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:01:57 +0000

http://vimeo.com/68294884

New comment by ukdm in "Why I Canceled Amazon Prime"

ukdm — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:31:43 +0000

In the UK Amazon has its own parcel delivery service that is used to deliver the majority of the larger parcels in my area. But it's not great. Some of the drivers decide they don't have time, or it's near the end of their shift, and log deliveries as no one home. I've had this confirmed by some of the drivers that do bother delivering.

So while I've been home all day, I get an email (usually around 6pm) claiming no one was in when they attempted the delivery.

This is frustrating when it happens once, but it has now become a regular occurrence and complaints just end in a free month of Prime being added to my account (had 4 extensions this year so far).

New comment by ukdm in "How I Make A Living Using GameMaker"

ukdm — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:22:40 +0000

I don't believe that to be the case, at least not any more. The lead devs are quite active on Twitter, they have a bug reporting system all users can take advantage of, the documentations is growing, and the DRM you speak of is no longer in place and they admitted it was a bad decision (after the skulls incident).

It's becoming a very solid toolset that can produce games for most platforms and does not require a plug-in for web games. The recent roll out of v1.2 has also made it much faster.

Mike Dailly, head of development at YoYo recently did an AMA on Reddit. There's some good information in there on the state of GM and its future.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamemaker/comments/1lsz0o/im_mike_da...

New comment by ukdm in "German government warns Windows 8 is a security risk"

ukdm — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:31:06 +0000

Translated version: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&pre...

New comment by ukdm in "BioWare writer quits after death threats to family"

ukdm — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:23:18 +0000

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-...

New comment by ukdm in "Google confirms Nexus Q not supported in latest version of Play Music"

ukdm — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:44:35 +0000

From the comments:

"I reached out to play support via email, and here is the response I got: "We're aware of a streaming issue with the Google Play All Access app and the Nexus Q and are working on a fix""

Supreme Court Rules That First Sale Doctrine Not Limited by Geography

ukdm — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:54:15 +0000

Article URL: http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/19/supreme-court-rules-first-sale-doctrine-not-limited-geography#.UUjefFf9UhQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403865

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