bluemetal

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Show HN: How many seasons does Melbourne (VIC) have?
1 points by bluemetal 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bluemetal 4y ago
FYI if anyone wants to pick up the kindle version of this book from Amazon, don't bother. It is an incredibly poor quality scan of a physical book, compiled horizontally and full of pencil markings. I can't for the life of me see
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by bluemetal 6y ago
FYI using the terms ADHD/ADD when not talking about the actual disorder is often offensive to people who have ADHD. It fails to acknowledge that the condition is more complicated than just getting bored quickly, especially when your st
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by bluemetal 11y ago
Often you need to preserve some state that is lost when using bookmarks (e.g. scroll position, a confirmation message that will be lost on refresh, a paused game/video etc.)
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by bluemetal 13y ago
This extension works really well. Feature request: I would like to be able to use some kind of wildcard/regex system to select which websites or domains it works on.
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by bluemetal 13y ago
For number 115: by moving the bigger piece side to side you spin the two wheels. Each wheel spins the same amount but in opposite directions. Shafts attached to those wheels can be used to drive components that need to move equally but in d
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by bluemetal 13y ago
To anyone suffering significant hand, arm, neck & shoulder pain, I suggest you consider asking your doctor about Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic_outlet_syndrome ) I was diagnosed wi
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by bluemetal 13y ago
You cannot cure ADD or ADHD. Not with our current drugs, and not with any known cognitive therapy. The article (and particularly its title) belittles those with the disorder, perhaps without meaning to do so, but it does it all the same. I
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by bluemetal 13y ago
Would the number of professionals which only use a Mac really be at all significant compared to the number of workers in almost every business and field which use MS Office running on Windows machines?
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by bluemetal 15y ago
I'm working and unable to spend a lot of time find the papers (for which you would need access to the journals to read) I do have this transcript of a talk which does a much better job than I can. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9991388/2200_7-bar
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by bluemetal 15y ago
What do you mean by mind boosting? Do you mean that the effects of the drug when used by people with ADHD are no different then when used by an NT person, and that everyone is just being "boosted"? (if so, this is not correct, responses to
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by bluemetal 15y ago
That is a broken argument. Are you trying to suggest ADHD doesn't exist? Not being able to sit still is only one of multiple symptoms (from only one of the two categories - inattentive and hyperactive) used to diagnose people with one of se
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by bluemetal 15y ago
Pretty sure he didn't imply that cancer drives evolution. wikipedia on cancer: "A large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invad
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by bluemetal 15y ago
I'm not sure of the exact definition of immortality, but I wouldn't really count this. Without diving too far into philosophy of self: if I right now I turned into a newborn child (with my DNA and made from my current mass), I would be dead
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by bluemetal 15y ago
"1.OOP (Object Oriented Programming) Objects can access the data members and the functions of any class. She is the object , your house is the class, members are your family and functions are the chores." The hell is this? Flagged.
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by bluemetal 15y ago
Oh wow, I used this as source material for some coursework in a distributed systems class. Leslie Lamport has a couple of things named after him I think. Logical clocks were my favourite take-away from this.
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by bluemetal 16y ago
Running Chrome on OSX, latest update did not enable password sync for me automatically. Had to do it myself. (I did already have sync setup for my bookmarks and some other stuff at the time of the update)
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by bluemetal 16y ago
Ending my 2nd year of a CS degree and I have enough technical knowledge to begin coding up websites and services like many of the other people here on HN. I was wondering whether or not it would be better to run ads on these sites, or to ju
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by bluemetal 16y ago
I've been using a slightly different version of that gridding method to multiply numbers since I was in grade 5. Some guy came into school and showed us some "novel math", and it just clicked for me where long multiplication never really ha
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by bluemetal 16y ago
It might stabilize with enough of a community around it, you might even see some sort of hotelling's beach situation between the leading meals. If it or anything similar takes off, it would be interesting to watch any memes develop.
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by bluemetal 16y ago
Could you explain your position a little more? This place doesn't seem so bad. In fact, some aspects of it are downright clever. A quick browse of the 4foods website gives a picture of a fast food company that might actually be able to serv
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by bluemetal 16y ago
this is kinda interesting stuff. "...Here’s how it works: I create a burger, call it “The Bits Burger” and broadcast it to Twitter or Facebook. Each time someone orders my special creation, I get 25 cents credit in the restaurant and my bur
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by bluemetal 16y ago
If this digital data didn't have to be put away somewhere, I would make the most of intelligence. Put someone in charge, with the skills to transfer the data the newer mediums as they become popular and to ensure that the copies are not cor
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by bluemetal 16y ago
I've got a chrome extension called "hckr news". It shows you which comments on a HN thread that are new since the last time you visited that page. So far I'm liking it
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by bluemetal 16y ago
I am a big fan of the older nokia phones, especially the ones with only two screen colours. I accidentally flung them across rooms, dropped them on sidewalks and even put one through a dryer once. They always still worked and I have only ev
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by bluemetal 16y ago
Personally I find that being comfortable in my location really helps. As in I can be one charming man when I am at home, or at this coffee shop I always visit - but less so in new places. Another thing I've noticed is how much easier it is
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Ask HN: Trying to get a copy of Hacker Monthly (in Aus)
1 points by bluemetal 16y ago|1 comments
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by bluemetal 16y ago
I find cutting off sub-vocalizing does not help at all, instead it totally messes with how much I comprehend or remember the material I'm reading. Instead I make that little voice in my head go as fast as I can, and it works. Try practicing
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by bluemetal 16y ago
I use 'Better HN' chrome extension, so often I just flick between the comments and the content, settling on one of them (usually the comments) when the other is lacking. Also great for adding value to pages you find through means other than
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by bluemetal 16y ago
Where did you get it done? And costs/aftercare? And any particular reason you chose that finger? I've wanted to get it done since I found out about them a year or so ago. Love the idea of adding another whole sense to my collection, even if

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