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by bkanber 5y ago
I had an aerodynamics / rocket science professor in grad school who used to say 'planes are as reliable as toasters', and the reason for that is the literal 40 million flights per year. Planes can explode just as easily as ro
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Show HN: WritePhobia donates $1 to charity each time you miss a writing goal(writephobia.com)
4 points by bkanber 5y ago|0 comments
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by bkanber 6y ago
Each time Wikipedia does a donation drive they have a thing that says "If everyone who used Wikipedia donated $1, we'd be done in 10 minutes!" (or similar). Yet these drives go on for months . The problem is that only a vani
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by bkanber 6y ago
For the last 10 years or so I've been running a free-to-use Morse Code online radio thing. It has cost me about $1000 to host so far, and has a couple of hundred DAUs. The users are not shy about feature requests, and they're not
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by bkanber 6y ago
Steam's Proton lets most of the popular win games run on linux. I've been playing New Vegas lately.
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by bkanber 6y ago
The Staten Island Ferry (from SI to Manhattan) uses these. I had always wondered how the ferry does some of the maneuvers it does, without having all sorts of maneuvering thrusters. The Voith Schneider was the answer. The downside of these
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by bkanber 6y ago
I use gather.town on Firefox/Ubuntu all the time FWIW. Seems to be perfectly supported.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I always have fun with gather.town. Pictionary in particular is a blast.
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by bkanber 6y ago
Yes, you say the same thing everyone else said before looking at the site! I'd point out that the site also lets you target areas for stretches , which for me is awesome.
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by bkanber 6y ago
Yes, valued... on the market... as a company... whose goal is to make money. Ask any IT pro if they've heard of Boston Dynamics: yes! Do you own any Boston Dynamics products? No. Ask a normal person if they've heard of Boston Dyna
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by bkanber 6y ago
Down. Desktop app doesn't load, webapp hangs
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by bkanber 6y ago
The best(?) part of the article is this: > In the award ceramony [sic], the Bell Labs researcher presenting the award explicitly said he doesn't understand how InstaHide is secure, but, and I quote, “it works nonetheless”. No! It do
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by bkanber 6y ago
I've built a few electron apps lately. That's an advantage, but another important one is that you can use node APIs in what is otherwise basically a webapp. The app I'm working on now is an SSH server monitoring thing, which
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by bkanber 6y ago
There's one on the Features page -- the first shot https://scrumsheet.app/images/scrumsheet-spreadsheet.png
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by bkanber 6y ago
I made this app because I'm very interested in using Google Sheets as a database. But as I was dogfooding the app it turns out that I really love it, and am moving my own team to it away from asana.
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Show HN: Scrumsheet turns a Google Sheet into a scrum project(scrumsheet.app)
2 points by bkanber 6y ago|4 comments
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by bkanber 6y ago
How do you feel about desktop apps that sync to google drive? I just made scrumsheet.app and a friend mentioned that I should do the same for a personal CRM. Do you trust Google with the data or do you really prefer it to be offline-only?
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by bkanber 6y ago
Man, this thing and the TeenySERV are awesome. Good for you, hn_expanscape. I have no practical purpose for either of these, but I love them. You mentioned elsewhere that you have a four-monitor variant... any public page for that? And what
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by bkanber 6y ago
I would say one in three of the burgers I consume is plant- based, I do it to reduce meat consumption. If I find myself at BK, for instance, I always get the impossible whopper. Same at home--1 lb beyond beef for every 2 lb ground beef. Eve
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by bkanber 6y ago
Considering they're sold out now, I'd say yes, this kind of marketing works.
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by bkanber 6y ago
The "salt" in salty licorice isn't table salt like you'd use on popcorn, FYI. It's ammonium chloride. Literally tastes like ammonia. I'm sure it's an acquired taste (I had my first experience with it early
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by bkanber 6y ago
If you're in a certain industry, you're typically looking at the median in that industry and not the national median. USD $100k is ~4 year experience software engineer salary.
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by bkanber 6y ago
ctags (which is the way I used to do it) was always sort of hit or miss for me. JetBrains OTOH just works . Apparently there's a new way of doing it though, which I should look into.
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by bkanber 6y ago
This was the first thing I looked for too. Perhaps one is planned or perhaps they're counting on the community to write one using their API. TBH the only feature I truly use JetBrains for is their Cmd+Click to jump to definition, other
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by bkanber 6y ago
I was describing deflation on purpose, because deflation [is supposed to] happens after solid infrastructure investment. My last sentence was misleading because I said "this is one of the various modes of inflation", but what I re
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by bkanber 6y ago
There's a reason commit and push are two separate actions. That said, most people commit+push in the same keystroke. git revert is my best friend.
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by bkanber 6y ago
You and your friends are probably programmers (or similar) and have been touch typing for decades. It's always easy to forget the selection bias of self-organizing groups.
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by bkanber 6y ago
Investing in an economy increases production. If productivity increases, but currency circulation remains the same (or at least doesn't outpace productivity), the value of the currency will increase. This is only one of the various mod
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by bkanber 6y ago
> you will see that every GDP in the region rose dramatically over the period of a few years in the early 2000s. This increase in GDP in the region was not caused by turkey's investment in infrastructure, it was caused by foreign in
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by bkanber 6y ago
The Turkish Lira experienced runaway inflation in the period 1990-2005; in 1990, one USD = 2500 TL. In 2005, one USD = 1,350,000 TL. A loaf of bread cost 200,000 TL or so. Erdogan became PM in 2003; in 2005 the Turkish government introduced

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