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by djhworld 9y ago
Making phone calls "unnannounced" has always been a struggle of mine, mainly because I start to think "am I bothering them?" and then negative thoughts start to flood in. I do have anxiety issues which I go to therapy fo
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by djhworld 9y ago
Seems a bit overkill for personal use. I use Twilio with a small bit of code to call their APIs when I receive a voicemail, and send me an SMS transcription of the content of the audio. Costs much less than $1 a call!
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I think it depends when you were born. In the 70s/80s/90s it was very common to get phone calls (on landline phones) at all times of the day from family members or friends. I remember being on the phone to friends from school for
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I wonder if it's an introvert/extrovert thing. You see typically extroverted people having no problems with being on the phone all the time, probably because they call equally extroverted people who do the same. Look at sales peop
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by djhworld 9y ago
I subscribe to "Hacker Noon" RSS feed, it sometimes throws up some interesting posts, but I swear most days 90% of them seem to be about bitcoin or other cryptocurrency. Is there any content curation on hackernoon at all?
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I mostly consume my RSS feeds on the London Underground, where 70% of the time you don't have cellphone or WiFi signal. While my preferred RSS reader NewsBlur can download everything up front, for offline use, I tend to find a lot of s
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Can't recommend PocketCasts enough, it's really all you need. One of the nice things about it is it will sync episode progress across devices, so if you pause on one app, you can resume playback on another.
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Has there been any studies on this? I'm under the impression that opoids are much stronger than cannabis, would people who take them be able to wean off them onto cannabis based products?
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by djhworld 9y ago
I really enjoyed reading this essay, I've had this uneasy feeling for a few years too. Most of my browsing habits these days centralise around HN and Reddit, with a sprinkling of RSS feeds via NewsBlur (although most RSS feeds are crap
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by djhworld 9y ago
Is anyone else getting chat service fatigue? Looking at my dock I have Discord, Slack, Textual (IRC), WhatsApp Web open. I wish there was a service that just amalgamated all these together into one thing, with a rough set of common features
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It's a hard sell in countries that don't get that much sun (e.g. UK)
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I guess the main issue is the media will drum up some moral panic about undesirables using devices like this, to record clips of children or whatever. I've often thought about a device that would catalogue my life, what I did, be intel
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I was reading this yesterday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/its_four_in_the_m... about people who wake up at 4am The yoga teacher baffled me the most, only taking 4 hours or so of sleep a night. I
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by djhworld 9y ago
> After being contacted by The Times, Mr. Mayweather deleted his Instagram and Facebook posts endorsing Centra, though he left up a Twitter post. > Ms. Hilton deleted the post after Forbes reporters uncovered the checkered legal pa
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by djhworld 9y ago
RT know how to troll. Anyone who's visited, or is a resident of London recently might have noticed these ads on the tube or in the stations http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rt-adverts-london-mout...
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by djhworld 9y ago
My motivation for (and lack of ideas for) side projects has dwindled over the years. Most of my "side projects" are throwaway pieces of code or scripts that do silly things, or ironically are solutions to "cracking the coding
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Don't think it's a paywall, I just signed into my account and could read the story EDIT: just noticed that I have "2" stories remaining to read. Didn't realise! It has this message "Hanna Brooks Olsen locked th
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Confidence mainly, if you're an extrovert who exudes confidence, people will listen.
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I've just given boostnote a quick tour, as a Quiver user I'm not so sure boostnotes is quite there yet, at least on feature parity. There seems to be some UI slowdown on my machine too, whereas Quiver doesn't seem to suffer f
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I'm fairly similar to you but not as maybe not as meticulous One thing that wasn't working for me was storing TODO style things and "X I want to watch/read/learn/play/do" items in my notes. Eventually
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> but it's not exactly what makes them qualified for it. No, which is why the interview should be testing on more interesting stuff like system design, team based skills, other technical minutae that might be relevant to the job. I
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> It's not understood well enough to say "this is the way to do this thing". Thus all the bike shedding. Most of the "reverse a binary tree" and "write a linked list" and other problems that use common
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I'm starting to wonder if software engineering as a discipline needs to become one of the professions. All of the big companies have roughly the same interview process, and ask roughly the same sort of questions. It seems like a huge w
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They did an O'Reilly books sale a few months ago that was like 6 or so books for £12, which I felt was a pretty good deal. But yeah in terms of games the last bundle I bought was probably more than 2 years ago
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Whenever I visit the US I find it insane how much advertising for drugs is shown on TV, with the usual "ask your doctor about..." disclaimer at the end. Why aren't more American's up in arms about this?
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I don't think there's another site out there that really encapsulates what HN offers, maybe lobste.rs
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I remember using a rubber band to tie the thumbstick of my Xbox controller in a forward position when playing Morrowind. This made your character run into a wall, but keep running on the spot, thus levelling up your "athletics" st
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This is cool. I wonder how effective it is though these days, I'd say 70% of my RSS feeds are either truncated forms of a full article (with a 'click here to continue reading!' link), or just summaries.
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Will there be a baseline GPU requirement for Firefox to enable this feature? For video games you often see minimum/recommended hardware specifications to run a game.
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This is fantastic (for me) I'd largely forgotten what pixel shaders actually were, so it was nice to get a high level understanding through this article, especially with the drawings!

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