paulasmuth
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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
>> Well, yeah. That's 28,108.80 a month
If you can't (or don't want to!) afford that kind of money for data analytics, please consider giving the FOSS alternative EventQL [0] a try some time.
It's super simple to set up and tries to be efficient on commodity hardware, so you can run large clusters (>100TB scale) for a couple hundred dollars a month.
DISC: I'm one of the EventQL authors
Comment · 10 years ago
>> For example in germany FF is still the widest used desktop browser.
Do you have any references to back that up? I'm asking because I suspect your assumption is completely wrong.
(Based on a bunch of analytics data that I have access to, which might not be representative but still contains some very large german web properties, chrome has more than twice the market share compared to FF in germany).
Comment · 10 years ago
It's not an entirely new art form. The demoscene [0] has been going strong far longer than most of us have even been coding. So apparently some people _will_ execute interactive art.
Also, you can still listen to their music on soundcloud [1] if you don't want to review the code. It's open source after all, which can't be said for most demos...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene -- Check this video for a neat example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AUpZNq2vSQ
Comment · 10 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
BTW I do actually enjoy the linked music (allthough I have to admit I'm listening on soundcloud)!
Comment · 10 years ago
Speaking for myself: Berlin has a special kind of poor-is-sexy culture and this would not be too unusual. Lived there for 4yrs, most of them without a smartphone (had a 20eur burner phone for communication and to receive monitoring alerts). Had an absolute blast and didn't feel like I was missing a thing.
Or just use the web platform: JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas API, WebGL, all of that. I think it's pretty close in terms of getting a pretty (motivating) result quickly without much prior experience.
(Unrelated, but I can also remember writing the first lines of code of my life in qbasic on a dos machine in ~1998; the blue screen definitely invokes childhood memories!)