PieterH

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by PieterH 10y ago
OK, so I reinstalled Materialistic and checked the problem is still there (it is), and then sent a Feedback about "Deep linking", that you should see.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Downvoting a comment you disagree with is not polite. I've actually lived and worked in Africa for much of my life. I'm married to a Congolese and have been surrounded for a dozen years by that culture. My family has worked and wo
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by PieterH 10y ago
That's an excellent suggestion. I've done it. Thank you! :)
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by PieterH 10y ago
No single local action can increase the standard of living in any measurable way. To even think in those terms is to utterly misunderstand the scale and depth of the problems that face Africans as they work to construct a functioning econom
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by PieterH 10y ago
I found it very useful and really liked it, just these problems were so irritating I dropped it again. I'm hoping you can fix this, because I have trouble with reading HN on a browser, with its tiny font size. I suspect you've got
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by PieterH 10y ago
Given the "gift in one hand, gun in the other" history of western actions in Kenya and other African countries over the last centuries, it's hardly surprising there's going to be the random pocket of paranoid skepticism,
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by PieterH 10y ago
Just installed it, used it for a few hours, loved it, and deinstalled it. Here's why. First, no downvote action. We need this to push down trolls and sockpuppets. Second, voting is inside a menu, yet this is a really common action. Thi
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by PieterH 10y ago
Because speculation tends to be wrong.
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Ask HN: can we fix the tiny HN font size?
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by PieterH 10y ago
Fish is shit, was a slogan my friend Jan Husar and me came up with. Fake fish is a real health threat. Farmed fish from SE Asia often contains liver fluke eggs. If you eat these raw you can get cancer of the bike duct. See http:/&#x2F
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by PieterH 10y ago
The model is simple, each version 'expires' and falls into free software domain after some specific time. If you stop making useful new releases your users fork the last good release. That's it, no need for more complex mecha
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by PieterH 10y ago
Can someone explain the reasons why there is such resistance to micro apartments from city councils? Fear of increased population density? Neighbours complaining?
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by PieterH 10y ago
Proposed by MySQL's Monty some time ago under moniker "Business Source”.
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by PieterH 10y ago
Yes, but I think the Ox changes the economics, if it really works as presented. I've family in Congo DRC. We could buy four of these and some spare parts for 50,000 USD and start a bush taxi business for one high value route. The incom
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by PieterH 10y ago
The real cost hits over years of use. These things will effectively last forever, as each part can be replaced as needed. There is plenty of money in developing countries, just poorly distributed. You can easily see how the Ox would pay for
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by PieterH 10y ago
I can't offer that insight so instead, my analysis of what actually happened at github. May enlighten to why this article exists at all, and is so thin. http://hintjens.com/blog:111
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by PieterH 10y ago
Using traditional headsets is a great idea. You should also IMO look into a software-only solution, i.e. a music player that streams its output to other smartphones via bluetooth or wifi. Because if your idea takes off, this is IMO what wil
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by PieterH 10y ago
Yes, being able to listen to the same music while walking together, for example, is really pleasant. I used to do this with my daughter using a simple audio splitter, it's just clumsy. Having extra things to charge and carry and lose i
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by PieterH 10y ago
That text does not mention hate, and the physical pain I'm referring to is mostly low level discomfort. It can still drive some people to extreme behaviour.
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by PieterH 10y ago
It would be really useful to have an actual concrete argument of how and why, rather than vague "your amateurish book proves how bad your book is" statements. Edit: ah, checked your comment history, you've been trolling for
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by PieterH 10y ago
Yes, we tend to discount emotions, our own and others'. It is amazing in retrospect given how important these are in driving us. What I learned with groups was to explicitly ask people, "how do you feel?" and then to insist u
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by PieterH 10y ago
Yeah, sorry about the sucking in effect... :-) Sometimes I go back and start reading my stuff and get lost for hours again.
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by PieterH 10y ago
I'm sorry to say it's mostly original research, though I did do a lot of research into the studies people have done on the various emotions and particularly their physical manifestations. I did not keep references because I was la
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by PieterH 10y ago
Many people dislike EP intensely (and have attacked its developers, such as Steven Pinker) because they are passionate (I'd say fanatical) believers that culture is what defines us, not biology. So yes, you can find a lot of hate for
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by PieterH 10y ago
Sure, I've written a book "Social Architecture" on this, and many articles. You can read the book freely at https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/social-architecture/de... . It's also in pr
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by PieterH 10y ago
This is really major news. You drop Chumak into your Erlang application and you can talk to any other ZeroMQ stack on your network. The other native implementations are libzmq (C++), NetMQ (C#), JeroMQ (Java), libzmtp (C). Disclaimer: I&#x2
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by PieterH 10y ago
It is incredibly infuriating and yet ye
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by PieterH 10y ago
There is a profound difference between magical thinking and science. Once you build scientific frameworks (such as EP is part of), you can move much faster in interesting and useful directions that may seem unrelated and yet all connect tog
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by PieterH 10y ago
It's a well known problem with some journalists, they simply can't finish their
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by PieterH 10y ago
As if our brains magically emerged from a billion years of evolution with complex mechanisms that did not help us survive... :) I tried (like a good nerd) to reverse engineer all our emotions in my book "The Psychopath Code." Lo

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