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by elsen 5y ago
Hi there HN'ers, I've been working remotely for a few years now, for various companies and clients. One itch I needed to sratch is timezone conversion. It's always a mental effort to figure out when someone in your team will
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Show HN: The most Intuitive Timezones Viewer for remote teams(whena.re)
4 points by elsen 5y ago|1 comments
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Why Care About Blockchain? (No Speculation)(medium.com)
7 points by elsen 9y ago|0 comments
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by elsen 9y ago
tl;dr: governance is hard, there's no silver bullet, every system may be tricked. "good blockchain governance" would rely on gathering the result of multiple "coordination flags" like a user vote, a coin vote, core
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by elsen 9y ago
Since I couldn't find any explanation on the article: > Snaps are containerised software packages that are simple to create and install. They auto-update and are safe to run. And because they bundle their dependencies, they work on
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by elsen 9y ago
Interesting "we must learn/accept/fight to cohabit" view, It's super American - Westerners centric though, what happens if decentralised currencies take off in emerging countries?
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by elsen 9y ago
I like the idea, I'm miss one thing: the minute someone says "I'd buy 100NIL for X ETH", the IFO becomes an ICO no? We just added an extra-step.
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by elsen 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'm curious to see these circles lighten depending on project activity (releases, conferences, etc).
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by elsen 9y ago
I want a similar platform with reproducibility built in: your paper gets in the blockchain, if and only if, its results can be reproduced by other members ("Proof Of Reproducibility").
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by elsen 9y ago
Exactly my cliché of the Clojure community: a discussion about simple things like testing and tooling becomes a place to brag about some random features of Clojure. Insulting my patience (or the original author) on the way is a new one. You
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by elsen 9y ago
You mean complex is easy, simple is hard?
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by elsen 9y ago
His experience matches most of mine: I've been learning & trying to use clojure(script) for ~2 years now. A few things I miss in every other languages: - The REPL: I usually don't need a debugger, - Figwheel: that makes fronte
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by elsen 10y ago
You may not know: on Unity you can saturate / desaturate the windows. I set them almost black and white and increase the saturation when I need it (shift + brigthness up / down). I have no idea if it provide health benefits simila
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by elsen 10y ago
You miss the point, they want you to do more mental maths :)
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by elsen 10y ago
I'd love to get a thoughtful explanation for mid-2012, I understand it as a rewrite + removing "wrong" design decisions made in 2009.
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by elsen 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13104807 Click on the eye icon. You won't be able to run the notebook code, which would be a surprising thing to allow without some sort of authentication.
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by elsen 10y ago
Unread status is managed remotely (sync'd between devices), so you should be able to query it with an API like https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history I wouldn't want such a distraction on screen at al
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by elsen 10y ago
> CPUs turn watts into performance. A 45W CPU will deliver 3x the performance of a 15W CPU. Can you provide a reference for this? I'm pretty sure a CPU turns watts into HEAT and PERFORMANCE, The 15W you're talking about is the
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by elsen 10y ago
Actually some kinda does: "Garbage collection is simulating a computer with an infinite amount of memory". https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100809-00/?p=... We both agree, I'm just usi
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by elsen 10y ago
I can't speak for the others, but I did install Ubuntu on my 2014 MBP, to ease the transition to a future non-Apple machine.
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Iskn created the new Slate in 7 months (and moved production to China)(iskn.co)
1 points by elsen 10y ago|0 comments
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by elsen 10y ago
They took 95% ownership of Aldebaran Robotic a while ago, and it's a huge success in Japan. I'm no expert but isn't that building a vertical? AFAIR the robots are running on Intel Atom, but well... embedded... ARM... (not say
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by elsen 10y ago
[0] could be an XKCD joke. Ho wait... it is: http://xkcd.com/1700/ In the last Windows 10 update, if your username contains nadella, the spying services are disabled and your machine gets 10% faster.
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by elsen 10y ago
I've spend 5+min on both and couldn't figure out which countries are covered.
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by elsen 10y ago
Tor Browser... You mean Loki?
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by elsen 10y ago
Sooooo, it's Quora/StackOverflow with anonymous mode by default and the wording "search" instead of "ask" and no gamification system? I like it anyway, any idea how it's supposed to scale? I mean we'v
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by elsen 10y ago
Nope, you've seen it all. There's a link in the coming soon to a talk schedule by some guy. If like me you're not particularly into Scala, just curious about it, you just wasted a click.
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by elsen 10y ago
These guys: http://www.iskn.co/ Have a similar product that is compatible with any notebook and any pen. Not sure how the Moleskine works but this one is an "active system": you need a device gathering the data wh
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by elsen 10y ago
I was expecting a left-padding robot as a demo.
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by elsen 11y ago
Nice, the help image could be smaller to fit on the screen.

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