curuinor

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by curuinor 11y ago
Hmm. I did do that for myself, sort of manually. That's a good idea! Although I don't think I will profit much, and looking at my EC2 box right now it seems pretty centralized to me.
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by curuinor 11y ago
I initially put in weighting and priority values for each friend, but my contacting style is pretty exhausting if I contact one friend 10x that of others. But that's me, and I've been asked this by two other people before, so on i
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by curuinor 11y ago
I wanted to learn http basic auth and not have to deal with cookies, and it is sort of the pattern for usage that you never have to deal with this thing more than once every few weeks. But I guess I could add cookies or localstorage or some
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by curuinor 11y ago
I quit fb and blocked it on my hosts 3 years ago, so I imagine that answers that question (to be clear, all you need is an email address). I think HN is the newest social network I use?
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by curuinor 11y ago
OK, what the cronjob does is to email you, if you were wondering if you needed to install anything. This the final incarnation of a fairly elaborate cronjob system that has entirely replaced facebook for me. I had consistent hashing of frie
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Show HN: Diogenes - a cronjob in a webapp to remind you to talk to your friends(diogenes.co)
10 points by curuinor 11y ago|9 comments
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by curuinor 11y ago
i liked poking about think-aloud protocols ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_aloud_protocol ) - jeff shrager always said to wait until they're swearing while they're doing whatever it is you're having
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Do You Know What Your Users are Doing? A Guide to Understanding Search Behavior(blog.constructor.io)
23 points by curuinor 11y ago|4 comments
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by curuinor 11y ago
The speech itself was recorded May 15, but the recording is now publicly available because the radio broadcast went out: this is why it's posted now.
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The 2015 Stanford Symbolics Systems Distinguished Speaker Is Edward Snowden
11 points by curuinor 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Sample DB logfile datasets
2 points by curuinor 11y ago|1 comments
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by curuinor 12y ago
We did this in the Stanford salon: the procedure was for interpersonal intimacy, so some parts you can pluck out and try for friendships: we matched people pretty randomly-ish, and it was a fairly good result. This is the experimental proto
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Show HN: Bak Tang Wiesenfeld text generation(github.com)
5 points by curuinor 12y ago|0 comments
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by curuinor 13y ago
It must be noted that most Korean people can read the Latin alphabet, because they get taught English. Now, it is not necessarily the case that they _learn_ English, but they get taught English. Also, the orthography is not perfectly regula
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by curuinor 13y ago
metafilter.com To elaborate on this answer, it's one of the coolest general communities on the Internet. It has a good, developed culture. Peruse the wiki for a bit... http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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by curuinor 13y ago
This is all a bit silly. Here's an advertisement for a bunch of full meal replacements for people of normal health or crappier: http://www.abbottnutrition.ca/static/cms_workspace/en_CA/con... As you can
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by curuinor 13y ago
Soylent is $65 for 21 meals Jevity is $40 for a case of 24 cans http://www.amazon.com/Jevity-1-2-Cal-8-oz-case/dp/B002HQMBZM...
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by curuinor 13y ago
I recall reading about this idea in the science-fiction role-playing game Shadowrun. It's set in 2060-2080, so technology is better in nearly all ways: including a printer design as described here. Very interesting, in the shadow of th