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by AJRF 8y ago
Unrelated: Chrome extension that changes the sentence "If you are not paying you are the product and not the client" to white space.
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by AJRF 8y ago
I integrated it in a top-100 app in the app store in less than a day and it works perfectly for us. If you don't know the iOS or Android build chains I would imagine that its confusing and troublesome, but unless you are doing some fai
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by AJRF 8y ago
I've gone from Windows -> macOS -> Fedora running i3wm. Totally agree that Windows is the worst of the bunch and its still a huge problem on macOS. On Fedora+i3wm, when my desktop opens from the login it is "immediately&quot
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Ask HN: How to build companies that last
2 points by AJRF 8y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
Thanks, I threw together a little nodejs+express API using Readability and wow its very powerful
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by AJRF 8y ago
I recently moved from Pocket to Instapaper because of the way Pocket seems to be adding all these things to get in your way. I dislike Instapaper too because of the whole GDPR thing. I should engineer a solution I like, but could do with so
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by AJRF 8y ago
Extension source code -> https://github.com/worldbrain/Memex
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Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history(worldbrain.io)
229 points by AJRF 8y ago|69 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
TL;DR: The "algorithm" is spaced repetition. God this was a frustrating article to read. Spaced repetition does work though, I used a tool called Anki which has a free online sync service and free apps for every platform (bar iOS,
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by AJRF 8y ago
Read-it-later software seems surprisingly hard to monetize given how few are in the space. Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard seem to be the only valid players. The ability to facilitate "archiving a webpage" seems to be simple, but
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Ask HN: Am I anti-fun for not liking Nerf guns
12 points by AJRF 8y ago|8 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
It's funny that the solution to people's fears about commercialism interfering with the real world is to go out and buy another phone rather than use some self control over the stuff they already own.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Does this make something like Monzo seem trivial? Like it seems like everything Monzo has done as easy to replicate (not to do, im sure a lot of time and effort went into the guys at Stripe making this).
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by AJRF 8y ago
How do I re-learn math up to a level just before say a US undergrad in Math? I hated math when I was in secondary-school, but loved computers so did a computer science course which was heavy-ish math in its final year. Passed that course an
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by AJRF 8y ago
get a grip, of course its not.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Inflation in Venezula is about to hit 1 million percent.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Oh yes Dollars, how could I forget! You forgot to mention the other upsides; they are subject to taxes when converting from crypto, you can literally have them lose value in your pocket via deflationary monetary policy, the work only with t
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by AJRF 8y ago
The fee would be paid at the point of converting your crypto to the 'Credits'(which users would happily pay, they already do when converting to Fiat). Your not using the blockchain anymore when you buy something with 'Credits
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by AJRF 8y ago
I did mention that in the very next sentence: >through some form of incentivisation (i.e no processing fees, like there are with CC and Debit cards)
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by AJRF 8y ago
Couldn't someone create a 'Credits' card that converts crypto to 'Credits' and get the top 100 stores on board, through some form of incentivisation (i.e no processing fees, like there are with CC and Debit cards) t
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by AJRF 8y ago
>> I told him that I had tried CBD in coffee > Not the author's fault there... these substances are very opposite. Well depends on the strain, right? Sativa + Coffee probably has a enhanced little buzz.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Hes in London, do you mean to smuggle him to another embassy of a South American state in London?
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by AJRF 8y ago
Along with this being tremendously sad due to what I perceive to be a service provided for the privacy conscious people of the world (validation that, yes governments were unjustly spying on people in their own country and abroad), it makes
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by AJRF 8y ago
I just started developing a Python app with a GUI and the faff around getting in running on other developer machines was crazy! "Install PyQT and QT Framework, no not that version, no not that one? Your on Fedora? Oh okay, add this rpm
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by AJRF 8y ago
Labelling the sides as Red versus Blue is convenient (as in; people know what you mean) but boy is it damaging to simplify like this. It's not the authors fault at all, he's simply using the nomenclature of the time, but it makes
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NHS data breach affects 150,000 patients(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by AJRF 8y ago|0 comments
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by AJRF 8y ago
I feel like there are some parralels between understanding how you lose weight and how you retain money / stop yourself living paycheck to paycheck. The Calories in / Calories out dichotomy is similar to the double accounting Asse
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by AJRF 8y ago
Benedict Evans has the ability to say the least amount of valuable content in the most amount of words.
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by AJRF 8y ago
Twitter seem to have an institutional blindess towards the importance of APIs. Their execs need to be sat down and have it drummed into them that breeding this much bad “karma” (for lack of a better term) is going to come back and bite them
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by AJRF 8y ago
When I was a computer science undergrad, this is the one video that made algorithmic complexity stick in my head, hopefully someone else finds it as useful as I did; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbu-K4tlQg

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