haraball

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by haraball 12y ago
I guess the top/bottom (or left/right) diversion comes from home team / away team. In the world cup this doesn't make that much sense, but that's what people are used to.
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by haraball 12y ago
An alternative that claims to be secure with end-to-end encryption is Threema: https://threema.ch/en/
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by haraball 12y ago
Ryanair flies to Frankfurt-Hahn which is 1.5 hour with bus outside of Frankfurt. Lots of budget airlines also fly to Cologne/Bonn which is 1 hour away with train.
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by haraball 12y ago
Check out the Corderoy project from Bengler: http://bengler.no/chorder It's still just prototypes, but sounds like someone is working on just what you ask about.
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by haraball 12y ago
Norway has Post-in-shops, which is basically the opposite of what you describe here. You can do your post duties while shopping groceries, with the benefit of more flexible opening times, usually no queue and no need to go to a separate bui
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by haraball 12y ago
Somewhat related solution in Finland, bus-on-demand: http://www.goodnewsfinland.com/archive/news/call-a-bus-to-yo...
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by haraball 12y ago
Here's some computer generated art from the 50s: http://translab.burundi.sk/code/vzx/index.htm
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by haraball 13y ago
What were your conclusions?
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by haraball 13y ago
Japanese has it's own word for this: Tsundoku - the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%A9%8D%E3%82%93%E8%AA%AD
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by haraball 13y ago
I share the same concerns as you. This looks like a great product, but it needs a big amount of trust and commitment to get any value from it. Usually these kind of services launches with a boom, start giving huge discounts shortly after an
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by haraball 13y ago
Very nice! Is it inspired by the Joy Division album cover? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures
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by haraball 13y ago
This sounds like how I use Twitter, by following people that links to stuff I'm interested in.
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by haraball 13y ago
He quit school and have now built "Virtual Brailler, a device that converts digital text from Roman to Braille in real time to give tactile braille feedback to the tracked finger of a visually challenged person.".
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by haraball 13y ago
On the about page it says that it's powered by pyteaser, which can be found here: https://github.com/xiaoxu193/PyTeaser
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by haraball 13y ago
Medium Maker ( http://benjaminhawkyard.co.uk/medium/ ) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6645925
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by haraball 13y ago
You can add the sentence "Find something to read, watch, play or learn when you are bored" to the landing page.
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by haraball 13y ago
My guess is that it gives you something to read/watch/play/learn when you are bored.
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by haraball 13y ago
Found in the zip file: This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
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by haraball 13y ago
I'm not sure where I read this, but one theory is that as long as two of the three "work pillars" are satisfied, you're ok in your current position. The three pillars are colleagues, salary and working tasks.
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by haraball 13y ago
Has working for him in any way helped you landing contracts later?
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by haraball 13y ago
O'Reilly is having sale and discounts so often that I avoid buying books at the full price while waiting for a coupon. This often ends with me forgetting about the book and not buying it at all.
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by haraball 13y ago
Great initiative! I'm a big fan of starting with books when I'm learning something new as they usually have a better narrative and deeper explanation than the docs and 'getting started' guides do. Maybe this could be wri
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by haraball 13y ago
Sounds similar to the McDonald's theory: "I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees
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Show HN: Potluck.it wants to start conversations based on links(potluck.it)
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by haraball 13y ago
A good advice I got when delegating, was to accept the result of the task given if it was >80% of how you would have done it yourself and acceptable, without picking at the differences. That way the delegatee would feel ownership and re
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by haraball 13y ago
Path seems like a company which is doing everything wrong these days. My peeve with them is that I signed up and used it happily for a long time because it should be possible to get my data exported later. Now they have removed that from th
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by haraball 14y ago
John Cleese's lecture on creativity [1] was really helpful for me and is something I'm using to get into the flow state myself. The 5 factors Cleese says you need to get creative is nicely summed up in Brainpicking's blog post [2]. Highly r
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by haraball 14y ago
Here's another relevant project by Seb Lee-Delisle: http://seb.ly/2011/09/pixelphones-a-huge-display-made-with-s...
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by haraball 14y ago
Another related one is http://interior.substance.io/ , an "open platform for collaborative composition and sharing of digital documents."
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by haraball 14y ago
Seems like Punch supports blog posts now: https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog

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