fredley

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What color is your name?(synesthesia.me)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
I'm only interested in friend's parties. Most friends know I'm not on Facebook now, and invite me separately (using WhatsApp, but that's another kettle of fish...). However it has forced me to be more engaged with my fri
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by fredley 7y ago
It'd be possible, I think. You'd need to run WhatsApp web, which is an Electron app. Get into the dev tools and set it up directly from the JS console.
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by fredley 7y ago
Facebook and Insta I can (and do!) live without. Whatsapp though, is the main method of communication, and particularly group communication for all of my friends. It's almost impossible to leave.
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by fredley 7y ago
Straight out of the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back [0] which is 7 years old. [SPOILERS] In the episode the episode, the main character uses a service to reconstruct a chat bot (and eventually a lifelike avatar) built from her dead pa
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by fredley 7y ago
tldr has a better name.
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by fredley 7y ago
> distillation is only good if the boiling point of a given chemical is higher than that of water What about fractional distillation?
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by fredley 7y ago
If you're in London, the Barbican has a 'Beethoven Weekender' coming up: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/beethoven-we...
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by fredley 7y ago
Fundamentally because they're on the same contiental plate, and had exposure to the same germs, having been infected by the same or similar animals. The decimation of the Americas was largely due to the fact that the ships that arrived
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by fredley 7y ago
Also I don't know why they put a save icon in that list /s
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by fredley 7y ago
Often referred to as a 'Plastic Mac' (extra confusing during the early noughties era). See also: 'Mac in a Sac': https://www.macinasac.com/
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by fredley 7y ago
Doesn't mention in the article that the 'reason' the name Macintosh was chosen was that it's simply after a variety of Apple (McIntosh).
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by fredley 7y ago
Google cares very much about its customers. Its customers are advertisers. Like any good business, it puts its customers first, and anything beneficial it offers anyone else is just to serve its customers, ultimately.
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by fredley 7y ago
I have a Garmin 235. Battery lasts a week, all monitoring is on the device, it'll work completely disconnected from bluetooth and sync up later. Newer models may be better.
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How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life(theguardian.com)
3 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
We try and get back to everyone. I wasn't involved with last month's HN post but I'll make sure someone gets in touch. Alternatively feel free to reach out to me directly.
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by fredley 7y ago
Citymapper | Full-time, VISA and Remote (for experienced candidates), London I am a Lead Engineer for Citymapper - we make cities usable, helping people move through our urban spaces, getting people from A to B. Join us and work on a daily
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by fredley 7y ago
This kind of thing always reminds me of the 'Doctors' entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/d/694485
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by fredley 7y ago
The whole industry of advertising as we understand it today was created by those who had done propaganda during the first and second world war, and realised they could apply their skills in the field of business. To learn the history of pro
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by fredley 7y ago
How about the leak where they were debating killing it off?
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by fredley 7y ago
Well this is one way to kill your cloud business. Even a hint that execs were considering or debating this move is enough to kill any serious company's interest in GCP. Why would you ever consider GCP over AWS/Azure knowing that t
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Eric Wastl – Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes(youtu.be)
1 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
You need both technical and non-technical management skills, and if you can't get both in the same person (likely!), you need the people from each side in a relationship that's based on trust and recognition of each other's e
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Headphones as a Service(nuraphone.com)
1 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
It's all the dark machinations of big paper straw.
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Firefox Flashback(twitter.com)
2 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
And yet here you are. I'm interested how you would perceive something that might supercede the internet by being better (than a boiling toilet fueled by greed), ignoring network effects?
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by fredley 7y ago
How do you differentiate from https://ko-fi.com/ ? My partner has been using this for a year or so, and hasn't had much revenue.
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Rental Scams(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
3 points by fredley 7y ago|0 comments
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by fredley 7y ago
Exceptional Atwood's Law example. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

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