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by goblin89 10y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience! Doubly interesting to me since I’m thinking of performing as well. The kind of performance I’m considering, though, would be of a more obscure style and requiring some electronic gear (worth $xxxx), so
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by goblin89 10y ago
The earnings surprised me. I know a decent software engineer whose effective hourly rate is embarrassingly close to the lower limit of Steve’s reported $15–50 range. On the other hand, that’s busking in SF.
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by goblin89 10y ago
> Why do we even need domain names? Let’s assume that we retain the level of indirection by assigning UUIDs instead of domain names. If you used Tor, you may have caught a glimpse of how randomly looking domain names feel. How nice would
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by goblin89 10y ago
That’d be the end to staying in touch through mobile FB in w3m on an EC2 instance SSH’d into from China. (Not that it’s that convenient… Gotta say though, impressed with both FB being able to work in w3m, and with w3m being able to handle
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TMSU: a tool born out of frustration with the hierarchical nature of filesystems(tmsu.org)
237 points by goblin89 10y ago|128 comments
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Is Pro-Business Reform Pro-Growth?(evansoltas.com)
1 points by goblin89 10y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 11y ago
substack’s studio[0] deserves a mention! Quite minimalist but full of gems (if you can find them)[1]. [0] http://studio.substack.net [1] http://studio.substack.net/-/recent
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Crofflr: paid service delivering articles to Kindle from Pocket and other services(crofflr.com)
1 points by goblin89 11y ago|0 comments
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Archillect: an AI sharing inspiring visuals over social media(archillect.com)
3 points by goblin89 11y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 11y ago
I observed downtime(s) on Pinboard (frustrating when you can’t save a bookmark). It was a while ago and I stopped using it soon after.
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Sketch Simplification: Fully Convolutional Networks for Rough Sketch Cleanup(creativeai.net)
92 points by goblin89 11y ago|9 comments
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by goblin89 11y ago
Messenger Platform docs happen to showcase very specific acceptable examples of what bots are expected to do[0]. An app like this doesn’t look likely to be approved to be publicly accessible. Does anyone have experience getting FB’s approva
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ShareThis and IBM Watson’s AlchemyAPI(ibm.com)
9 points by goblin89 11y ago|1 comments
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The Merchant: Stock Trading Platform(vimeo.com)
1 points by goblin89 11y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 11y ago
According to grandfather’s sibling[0], it may be that the crossing onto the other land became a subject of an adverse possession. Apparently in such a case you’re supposed to have a clear notice[1] on the property in question if you don’t w
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by goblin89 11y ago
> There was this piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo > http://i.imgur.com/6uVRUff.jpg > It shows 100 years of days with someone's life highlighted. I wonder what do the darker-colored days stand for.
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by goblin89 11y ago
Anecdotally, during a couple of more intense episodes, a bit of basic cardio (mild jogging in place, a few limp jumping jacks, not trying too hard) helped me reduce perceived ‘bad’ beat frequency, and yeah, felt nice, warmer, etc.
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by goblin89 11y ago
Cardiio app on iOS—measures heart rate via camera covered by your finger—seems to reliably graph my arrhythmia. It doesn’t save the graph though, have to screenshot the result screen after finishing. You can see the out-of-order beats, shou
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by goblin89 11y ago
> I think that suicide could have some evolutionary advantage in a group. Sounds like archives of Sarah Perry’s The View from Hell [0] may be something you’d interested in checking out. She touches upon a range of suicide-related topics
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by goblin89 11y ago
Whenever Django documentation quality comes up I like to recommend the related series of posts by Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It details much of the underlying reasoning that made Django docs so good, but it’s written as general documentation-writin
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by goblin89 11y ago
I did go to school, and while I wouldn’t prefer having been homeschooled by my parents, I however think the school did harm my mental health (from bullying, for one example) and I would’ve benefitted from. Note: not in US, but from what I c
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by goblin89 11y ago
If we’re talking recording, it doesn’t matter that much how exactly you arrive at some fixed audio sequence. Indeed, use loops or goats, borrow $xxxxx gear from friends, pull multi-terabyte libraries of perfectly sampled cello—as long as it
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by goblin89 11y ago
Created https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001029 , probably hit the dead time on HN though.
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Poll: Do you have 20% time?
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by goblin89 11y ago
Yes
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by goblin89 11y ago
No
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A Dent in the Universe(ribbonfarm.com)
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by goblin89 11y ago
Honest question: how does one buy currency with gold even under current circumstances? Let’s even forget the doomsday for a moment. OP mentions gold as safe non-crazy way to protect savings against long-term inflation and depressions. Howev
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by goblin89 11y ago
I liked Distributed Systems and the End of the API [0] by Chas Emerick. It discusses how HTTP (and other network-related) APIs are ill-suited for complex distributed systems and what can be done about that. The article talks mostly about C
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by goblin89 11y ago
> While riding a motorcycle for 100 kilometers is 10 micromorts, and is slightly more dangerous. Which country? Time of day? How are the roads, traffic? Did you consume any alcohol recently? In what condition is your motorcycle? Are you

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