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by austinjp 9y ago
Gosh, no replies? I guess this either (a) isn't interesting, (b) is a solved problem for most and not worth engaging with, (c) got buried. If anyone out there has anything they'd care to share, I'd be very grateful.
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by austinjp 9y ago
Never heard of LogDog, looks very interesting, thanks. Are you planning a web-only service, or must it be a native app? Some relatives of mine don't have smartphones but do use plenty of online services. Are there other web-based servi
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by austinjp 9y ago
I don't think it would be hugely useful, since each piece of code exists in a unique ecosystem. Think about libraries, dependencies, OS versions, etc. Therefore no guarantees would be possible, therefore there would be arguments over p
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Ask HN: What's your ubiquitous media solution?
2 points by austinjp 9y ago|1 comments
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by austinjp 9y ago
Yeah the one major issue is comparison shopping: you can't open multiple tabs/windows and flick between them. Then again, "focus" might mean reading one review at a time. Or instead waiting until you're at a desktop
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by austinjp 9y ago
Maybe. I think it's difficult painting these things as having a net value. There's good and bad, and they co-exist, one doesn't come without the other.
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by austinjp 9y ago
By that token, every single activity of anyone, anywhere, any time has been a success.
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by austinjp 9y ago
Two-by-two grids are almost ubiquitous in management circles. They go by many names: BC grids after Boston Consultancy Group, decision matrices, and so on. They crop up in Covey's 7 Habits. They're extremely useful for concisely a
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by austinjp 9y ago
And then there's Firefox Focus which has no tabs and no other new instance capability. One single window. "Focus" indeed. It still makes me twitchy, but is so far completely usable. Could do with a "fetch as desktop&quot
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by austinjp 9y ago
> there and back is a five hour drive. During that drive, you could fall asleep and run off the road; have local fauna run out in front of your car; get head-on crashed by drunken drivers, and so on. > there are risks like tunnels col
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by austinjp 9y ago
Indeed. And having or gaining those requirements is itself a lottery.
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by austinjp 9y ago
I've noticed several minified JavaScripts that have the variables spell words like the i s o g r a m here. Haven't bookmarked any so I can't find an immediate example. I thought it was just a curiosity, but I think the freque
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by austinjp 9y ago
The economical collapse of small countries that rely on sweatshop labour is a genuine and serious problem here. I can only hope that whoever solves the technical problems that are hindering automated clothing production are mindful of this,
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Ask HN: Where are the clothing industry disruptors?
1 points by austinjp 9y ago|3 comments
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by austinjp 9y ago
If I understand correctly, you're suggesting a startup in this position would buy access via a broker who might offer a single API which can be used to access all upstream business-critical APIs..? True... although it feels a little li
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Ask HN: How to plan for breakage of critical upstream APIs?
1 points by austinjp 9y ago|5 comments
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by austinjp 9y ago
In the UK (no idea about elsewhere) it's a requirement of planning law that certain changes to your property are advertised publicly. This means laminated A4 printouts are cable-tied to lampposts if your neighbour is planning building
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by austinjp 9y ago
People very much have beliefs akin to this. "Wear and tear" of joints, for example, is just not that simple. And avoidance of exercise or any movement in persistent back pain is common.
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by austinjp 10y ago
Nope :)
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by austinjp 10y ago
Simpler, perhaps, is to print the two images (or documents, or whatever), each one on a separate piece of paper. Put the two pieces of paper on top of each other, hold them up to the or a bright light, and look at them. The differences sho
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Ask HN: How was this ad targeted to me?
122 points by austinjp 10y ago|87 comments
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by austinjp 10y ago
Although this is itself a form of advertising..?
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by austinjp 10y ago
Just to chime in.... I'd love to get structured data out, from messy calendar free text, with structured or NL querying. Show me all the appointments I had with Joe Blow in 2016, exported as , for example.
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by austinjp 10y ago
> competition in the marketplace is ultimately great for the consumer Not necessarily. History is replete with monopolies that arise through competition; cabals, sweetheart deals and other secret arrangements designed to fool the
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by austinjp 10y ago
You're right about distillation and research debt. Additionally, though, the lag from research to clinical practice is a major issue in medicine, so speed has to be a factor in any solutions. This is complex, since it's not just a
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by austinjp 10y ago
Welp, looks legit to me. Someone who knows what they're talking about tell us noobs any major gotchas with this sort of approach, please :)
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by austinjp 10y ago
If people generally do X but you prefer Y, perhaps you could seek to understand the reasons behind X, rather than declare Y to be better.
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by austinjp 10y ago
Ah come off it, this is a disappointing response. You may be right but nobody reading this would have any reason to believe so. At the most basic level, if you believe that diet change beats supplementation or fixes the problems claimed, yo
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by austinjp 10y ago
Mary supposedly illustrates the difference between knowing (or modelling) and experiencing.
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by austinjp 10y ago
Also qualia and the knowledge argument: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

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