I think it is quite funny they call it the Humble Freedom Bundle considering this: "Bitcoin payments have been disabled for the Humble Freedom Bundle."
5 was me being somewhat sarcastic. I see so many people on bitcoin forums saying something like "Wow, the price has really gone up, it's going to the moon now, I just spent my retirement betting everything on bitcoin with 25x leverage on some shady chinese exchange.
Then a week later they're on suicide watch because the price went down 5-10% and they lost everything.
On some level, it's just common sense. A bitcoin is a bitcoin. If bitcoins didn't suddenly become more valuable for some obvious reason, then if the price has doubled in a few weeks, then that makes it a worse time to buy, not a better one.
I will never understand why people suddenly want to buy something after the price has gone up a bunch, because the price has gone up. You want to buy it before. Obviously if the price went up because the reward halved or, i dunno, citibank started taking bitcoin deposits, that's a different story, but just jumping in because of FOMO is stupid. (I saw the same thing with Nvidia, and warned people out of buying it and sold most of mine to lock in profits after the hype train started getting out of control in the past few weeks.)
I agree with you. But it's ironic because what you are saying (educating people when you have already figured out a pattern that you could exploit) doesn't seem to be in your best interest. And sure the actual harm is nominal (people reading you HN comment) but...
I knew the housing market was going to crash, but I had no clue when. That's enough not to buy into a bubble, but not enough to make money from a bubble.
Not really. Knowing that it's going to crash is different from knowing why it's going up or down.
In particular, knowing that it's going to crash is just a standard observation about markets in general: If you buy because it's going up, you're already too late, and you're likely to lose your shirt.
Number 5 is a recurring pattern on financial markets. But it tells you nothing about timing, and there's always the "this time is different" risk that although low can easily eat all of your money.
Or, in other words, #5 is a recurring pattern on financial markets. If you rely on it alone for investing your money, you are crazy.
I just look at my commit times
But my workflow is kinda weird, i change code and I commit which then pushes it to my development server. I do it this way because I always use different computers throughout the day/week. So that way I always have the latest version of my development code.
Then when I finnish a feature I push it from my dev repository to the test repository where I use git like it should be used. But because I have this development git repository it is easy to see my work times. I still want to automate it though, now i'm just starting up qgit and do the manual lookup for a week and bill that to my clients.
I do all my projects this way.
Also recently started using this:
https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
It gives quite awesome data, and most of my workflow is known, so maybe I could hack something together that logs things it considers work (but since I change pc so often I don't know if that will really work). Should have a procrastination/work/documentation list for your browser though to make it more effective.
I agree it is stupid that data you enter into a service, which you cannot know if it will remain (and that means every service), you can't extract to do with it what you want (log it yourself). It just gives me a better feeling if I can extract my netflix watching habbits and ratings for my own usage instead of relying on their ways (but their way isn't bad).
Also I just recently tried Mopidy again, a year ago it would crash a lot and time outs and stuff, but now I have it running as my main MPD with MPDroid on my phone and also Mopidy-Spotify. It is really awesome! I can just use my own keyboard shortcuts again to prev/play/pause/next again which I always found a burden in the spotify client.
I'm with you on that Spotify C library, it would suck so much if they would EOL it without replacement.
They might get some flack for suddenly being less open about data. Adding a [download my ratings] button on the account page seems much less ambitious than maintaining an API so that might be on the table in the future.
I believe the idea is that people get in by invitation; if a member ends up being a problem (i.e. gets down-voted too often or something) then not only are they booted but so is the person who invited them.
This being the case, people need to exercise some care before sending an invite since that person's behavior will be reflected back on them.
It's an interesting approach to growing a community.
> then not only are they booted but so is the person who invited them.
I understand why this was put in place there but that's the reason I don't really invite others. I have no way of knowing whether he or she will be down-voted.
Still, it's better to get kicked out and know that, than being shadow-banned and not knowing what attracted that.
I actually bookmarked your post on vi mode in bash a couple of months ago. That'll do as proof you're worthy. :-)
My email address is listed in my profile. Ping me for an invite.
Actually if you really like the vim keybindings you can set your bash to vi mode. That way with escape shift+i you get to the start of the line.
Or if you like to keep the emacs keybindings in your terminal (yep emacs). you could always do ctrl+x e this opens op your $EDITOR with the current text of the command line. Exit the editor and the text will be piped to bash. (Maybe not the correct terminology, but it gets executed by bash)
Ah yes, these can be quite useful. For most use-cases, however, I prefer the emacs keybindings as that's just how I learned (and the lack of a NORMAL-INSERT-VISUAL mode indicator can be a bit confusing).
You can also add this line to .inputrc which will give you vim keybindings in everything that uses the readline library (for instance, ghci, ipython or gdb). However, I found that it breaks a few things in gdb though.
Oh how I love freedom.