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by eswat 8y ago
I still hang around one channel for an Unreal Tournament (then Half-Life 2) mod. 15 years at this point and some great people are still in there (and been interesting to see how everyones lives have changed after meeting )
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by eswat 9y ago
I’m reminded of the benefits of cash whenever I go certain parts of SEA, like the Philippines, where using cash is actually more convenient than using a card (less time dealing with receipts and signatures, don’t have to hope their credit c
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by eswat 9y ago
As a compromise I’ve used PodSync[1] to feed specific channels into Pocket Casts so I can avoid having to go to YouTube. [1] https://podsync.net/
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by eswat 9y ago
> I wonder why more places just don't employ this as a tactic? Because they want to run a cafe, not a networking hub. Your typical owner isn’t going to be aware of turnkey solutions for this and would rather not spend money on a man
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by eswat 9y ago
You probably think the other patrons are more interested on what you are doing there than they actually care. I can understand feeling this with a cafe that has explicit rules about laptop use, otherwise what anyone dose in a cafe is their
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by eswat 9y ago
Reminded me of CBC’s piece on Duterte from earlier this year (many of the people in the Bloomberg article are represented here). Most of the comments on the video are critical of Leila de Lima, the CBC and the reporter. https://w
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The Collapse of Visceral's Ambitious Star Wars Game(kotaku.com)
2 points by eswat 9y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 9y ago
health insurance problems (yay 🇺🇸, home of the brave, land of the shit health system) Not sure about other countries with universal healthcare, but seeking therapy for depression in Canada isn’t exactly that much better. Such treatments …
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by eswat 9y ago
Indeed. Was hoping for more discussion on this topic. You have a vigilante shorter that roams around markets “identifying fraud and terminal business models” and using strawman arguments with little research to improve his position. This is
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by eswat 9y ago
Despite that he has an audience. He’s also shorted Nvidia, claiming it to be a “casino stock” and the price followed accordingly. Crazy how prices can be manipulated by these people so easily.
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by eswat 9y ago
But unlike a PC - though they’re getting there - phones and the ecosystems on them are becoming more fine-tuned to extract more money from you. App suggestions, Apple Pay, IAPs and who knows what they will come up with in the next few years
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Save Your Sanity. Downgrade Your Life(nytimes.com)
3 points by eswat 9y ago|0 comments
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by eswat 9y ago
Tell that to the bitcoin remit startups in the developing world.
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by eswat 9y ago
> Gold is often used as a comparison, but gold doesn't generate anything either. And gold will generally lose value compared to an investment in a productive asset. And I don’t understand why we have this gold comparison. Compared t
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by eswat 9y ago
One problem is that the correct contract to fund an ICO might even change during the ICO (as it has happened with EOS) and the current way these “businesses” are communicating these contract changes is pretty poor. So yeah, we definitely ne
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by eswat 9y ago
Other than Bitcoin Core most of the popular alt coins have come down in price during this rally so many traders are just exchanging one cryptocurrency for another.
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by eswat 9y ago
I worked part-time for half of 2015 and most of 2016. Most of those gigs were with a small number of clients that couldn’t justify hiring a designer/developer unicorn full-time but were not cash-strapped either. They were mostly Americ
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by eswat 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. While the OP is awesome over pgadmin I had been looking for a good polyglot DB tool for a while.
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by eswat 9y ago
https://mail.google.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ http://www.allgamesdelta.net/ and I can only think of a fourth, which is my web IRC client which then feeds me links for the rest of t
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by eswat 9y ago
You’d have to do some legwork. Find a local hacker/co-working space and ask if you can host a paid workshop there.
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by eswat 9y ago
Wow, great to hear this from you. I’ve been doing remote consulting for the past three years - product design & development - but over the last several months I decided to bump up my work rate from the usual 2-3 days per week I had. Rea
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by eswat 9y ago
Product Designer/Developer Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision
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by eswat 9y ago
Why does that matter? The OP sparked off an interesting thought in the parent and it’s relevant - highly relevant too - enough to share it.
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by eswat 9y ago
Wish we would get out of this red ocean of competing messaging platforms and head towards something more open, like XMPP (at least Slack works dandy with that) or even how email and the internet in general works. I have five messaging appli
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by eswat 9y ago
1Password 6 for Windows is subscription only. You’d need 1Password 4 to work with local/Dropbox vaults. Funny enough, 1P6 worked fine with my local/Dropbox vault during beta, then the app stopped letting me update my vault when it
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by eswat 9y ago
IMHO I think one problem is ecommerce in general creating more convenient ways for us to spend money, first by optimizing our purchases on the web (Amazon 1-Click), bringing this optimizations back to brick & mortar (Amazon Go) and who
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by eswat 9y ago
One reason: portability. If you use multiple devices but aren’t using Chrome on all of them then you can still access your data through the web front-end.
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by eswat 9y ago
In the artbook they mention how they wanted to emphasize how pervasive augmented reality had become in their world. I guess giving the solograms - what they call them - a lot of airtime is one way to do that if you don’t want to explain why
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by eswat 9y ago
One way to look at it is if you're getting any wisdom from books or video games that you can apply to real life, potentially getting more value from the experience and offsetting cost of acquisition.
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by eswat 9y ago
The low wage isn’t surprising given the typical take-home pay in the Philippines. But it’s a force multiplier in depressing work when they have to filter through a lot of material that’s potentially traumatizing to a moderate Filipino that’

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