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Ask HN: Does HN move too fast for 'Ask HN'?
51 points by J-dawg 11y ago|11 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Looks awesome, unfortunately it's not residential. The cost of a place like this plus accomodation in Barcelona would be too much for me. Something like this but with basic accomodation included would be amazing. I'm not sure whet
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Ok, I know it's not exactly the same thing but anyone who was a nerdy kid in the UK in the 90s will remember Gamesmaster. What an awesome show! Thanks for the nostalgia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster
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Ask HN: Co-working spaces in Europe suitable for a short stay?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|2 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I've noticed an improvement in my vision if I pull outwards on the skin next to my eyes, which I think is the effect you're talking about. I don't know how you could make it permanent though.
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The Apple letter to customers couldn't happen under proposed UK law(privacyinternational.org)
471 points by J-dawg 11y ago|102 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Anyone know why Medium do that / what the identifier is for?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Fun typeface fact: Stanley Kubrick's favourite was Futura Extra Bold, it was used on the posters for Eyes Wide Shut and 2001 Source: ( http://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/mar/27/features.weekend ) Th
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by J-dawg 11y ago
When I was a kid I HATED being short-sighted, and I got into reading about the Bates method and other "natural vision improvement" techniques. I tried all the exercises, read all the books. I just eventually realised that these pe
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This has my bullshit detector ringing loud and clear, sorry.
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I could be wrong, but I think the implants used to correct myopia are normally fixed-focus, and sit in front of the eye's natural lens rather then replacing it, so you don't lose the natural ability to focus close up (accommodatio
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Myopia has a large genetic component, but genetics cannot explain the recent rapid increase in myopia, so there must be a pretty strong environmental component as well. But we're only just beginning to understand what that environmenta
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by J-dawg 11y ago
If the synthetic eyeballs don't arrive, I wonder if by 2050 we'll have more options for correcting myopia. Right now we basically have 4 options, and they're all imperfect: 1. Suspend a lens in front of the eye (glasses). Dra
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by J-dawg 11y ago
It's an absolute joke, or at least it would be if it wasn't so frightening. I hadn't heard about the Anime case before, how is that even possible in a (supposedly) free, civilised country? British people tend to take on a sup
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Before I clicked, I thought "I bet this is in the UK". This is the country where you can be prosecuted for possessing porn featuring a 'tiger' which is actually a man in a tiger suit. [0] This is also the country where y
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Pilot posts detailed MS Flight Sim video of how to land Boeing 737(theregister.co.uk)
75 points by J-dawg 11y ago|28 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Can anyone recommend a really basic intro to microprocessors? For someone who hasn't done a CS degree or studied hardware at all. This article seems very readable, but I feel like I'm missing the basics.
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Ask HN: Finding a mentor
4 points by J-dawg 11y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This is also why we get those bullshit articles about the "shortage" of web developers or STEM graduates or "coders" or whatever the media buzzword du jour is. The only shortage is of people willing to work for below-mar
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This attitude is standard in the UK. The comment from dfraser992 in this thread explains it well, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987237 I'm starting to realise that the only way to make decent money as
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Developers being treated as a cost centre rather than an essential part of the business. To be streamlined and offshored wherever possible. This attitude is widespread in the corporation I work for. Race to the bottom is an apt description,
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Thanks for the link. So was the Sende project one of these abandoned villages? I'm curious about what you get for less than $10k, did your house need a lot of renovation or was it ready to live in? Did you buy it through the Sende peop
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by J-dawg 11y ago
> I will suggest that most women are as bad about wanting men who are tall and moneyed as men are typically bad about wanting someone younger and hot looking Agreed, although there seems to be a big difference in the social acceptabilit
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This place looks interesting! Are you running a business from there / living there full time? Also, you bought a house, outright, for under $10k? I know Spanish property values have taken a hit but that sounds insane!
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by J-dawg 11y ago
+1 for Tarifa (as long as you don't mind the wind!). I spent some time there about 10 years ago (can't believe it's been that long!). I remember meeting a few 'digital nomads', although I don't think the term w
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Thanks, this is helpful. I'm not sure yet how involved I want to be. Can you give an example of the kind of custom stuff you can do in Woocommerce that wouldn't be possible in Shopify?
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Ask HN: Building an e-commerce site in 2016
3 points by J-dawg 11y ago|3 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I'm only guessing here, but I assume that any SaaS that offers a "white-label" service would need to be a domain registrar. Survey Monkey, for example, does this on the platinum pricing plan.
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Ugh, that article is so sad. I really wanted to believe the hype about Hampton Creek. It seemed like they were doing something truly revolutionary with the potential to drastically reduce human consumption of eggs. (This can only be a good
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I made a similar comment elsewhere in the thread before reading yours. I think the evolution of self-driving cars will be through the gradual improvement of auto-pilot cars until the human just has to sit there and do nothing 99% of the tim

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