Random links & images: syyskuuta 2015

Was hoping to buy a 4GB RAM 32GB/SSD "mini pc" set-top box to decode/play media files. SO many options but many look good on paper but actually suck. It's almost impossible to buy a good one (here's my eBay seach) without an expert opinion. Ultimately, I'd love something that can run Ubuntu or Mint (or even dual boot between that and Android). Anyone have any recommendations? The hardware out there is ridiculous, and even if you get the best specs, you might be stuck without updates and no firmwares, etc. Any help appreciated.

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Simple sentiment analysis in python using AFINN

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Fancy two letters commands

I recently met two fancy two letters long but very powerful commands i.e. tc and ss

I'm wondering what other short but strong commands do you know?

Cheers

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sunnuntai 20. syyskuuta 2015

Kernel Algorithms in TempleOS (Fixed, LOL)

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perjantai 18. syyskuuta 2015

80% of deaths of children under age five are preventable.

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torstai 17. syyskuuta 2015

Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was A Shitty New Boss

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Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company.

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keskiviikko 16. syyskuuta 2015

Juha Sipilän puhe

Avointa keskustelua

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Calculus Fennicus – 1040 sivua yliopistomatikkkaa perusteista alkaen (pdf)

submitted by Sampo to Suomi
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tiistai 15. syyskuuta 2015

Poll: What file system do you use on your Linux machines?

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maanantai 14. syyskuuta 2015

Java REPL with JShell and Bazel

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Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur

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Let’s Encrypt passed another major milestone by issuing our first certificate.

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Lodash: 10 Javascript utility functions that you should probably stop rewriting

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Torvalds Says Hello to Linux 4.3 RC1 and Goodbye to EXT3

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The Motivation for a Monolithic Codebase: Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

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"The XPS 13 Developer Edition is not just a laptop that can run Linux, it is a Linux Laptop."

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Apotti on terveydenhuollon vaarantava Titanic-hanke ja sen kurssi täytyy kääntää nyt

submitted by Sampo to Suomi
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sunnuntai 13. syyskuuta 2015

Skrolli | Kolumni: Kiinnostu kaikesta

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perjantai 11. syyskuuta 2015

I am the CEO of an indie game development company facing bankruptcy after having their game featured by both Google and Apple. AMA!

My Short Bio: I'm the CEO of an indie game development team 6 (3 on a salary) man strong, located in Finland. I've been in this business for close to 4 years now. I've put my heart and soul into this, survived through panic attacks and constant disappointment. I did this because I wanted to be passionate about something again, after not knowing what I wanted to do for 7 years while studying something I had no passion for.

We jumped into this together with my brother, just the two of us. We didn't know much about developing games when we started, my brother had coded a couple of simple ones using Flash in his spare time. I myself had no experience what so ever. We were gamers, we thought we could be great game developers.

For the past two years we have been working on a game series called Battlestation and our second Kickstarter is about to fail once again. Our newest mobile release Battlestation: Harbinger Google Play (Battlestation: Harbinger Apple App Store) was a huge success for us in a sense that the game was featured by both Apple and Google as "Best new games" and "New&updated" respectively. Still the sales are not enough to cover the development expenses.

I know a lot of the industry, ask me anything!

My Proof: Battlestation Twitter

Update: Oh wow this is blowing up! Our home pages can't sustain the traffic! I'm so humbled by all of your questions. I will do my best to answer all of them!

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How we cracked millions of Ashley Madison bcrypt hashes efficiently

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Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine 'just in case'. Despite not having 'reserved' a copy of Windows 10, he had found that the ~BT folder, which has been the home of images of the new operating system since before rollout began, had appeared on his system.

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Asked to pay $22,000 by popular YouTuber for our game to be featured.

Hi all, Ben Tester here from indie game devs, Wales Interactive (developers of Soul Axiom, Master Reboot and Infinity Runner)

On one of my normal PR rounds I received an email from a very popular YouTuber with a few million subscribers offering to have one of our games featured on their YouTube channel for a rate of either $17,600 for 2-3 talking points or $22,000 for 2-3 talking points AND a description link.

Upon reading this my jaw dropped. Is this real? Are there developers out there that pay that sort of money to have their game featured in one video?

OK, so it's obvious that receiving a LP'er or YT star feature your game is great promotion and will certainly help spread the news. It will also no doubt have some sort of effect on your sales, right?

An interesting Tweet I saw from SteamSpy this afternoon claims there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between number of Steam sales a game has after it's been covered by a popular YTer (in this example, they used TotalBiscuit and up to a period of 20 days after the feature of an indie game on YouTube).

EDIT: Since this was posted, SteamSpy have Tweeted that there is some correlation between the two. This can be found here

So my questions are...

Are there any devs out there that have paid to be featured on YouTube? If so, was it worth it? or do you regret the decision?
Are there any devs out there that have noticed a correlation between their sales and a popular YouTube feature?

If you have any other comments on the matter, please feel free to join in!

Cheers all, Ben.

EDIT: I must stress that I emailed the YTer first to ask if they would like to receive a free code for our game to play for their channel. The YTer did NOT mention anything about making a 'positive' promotion nor was this a scam from a fake YTer. Finally I'd like to state that I refused the offer.

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Microsoft has confirmed that they are downloading Windows 10 to users machines without their consent

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torstai 10. syyskuuta 2015

Apottitöitä: 20 projektipäällikköä HUS-Tietohallinto Järjestelmät

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Linus Torvalds: People who implement new and improved interfaces always seem to get that wrong.

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The internals of Turbo Pascal

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keskiviikko 9. syyskuuta 2015

HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web.

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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written

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tiistai 8. syyskuuta 2015

Please share your resources about posing models

The internet is full of information about almost all aspects of photography, but I'm still having difficulty with finding information about posing models. I don't really know where to start and I never know how to pose my subjects.

I've learned a lot about classical poses from this video. Do any of you have links to more videos like this or any other tutorial-type stuff about posing? Please share!

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