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by hoggle 13y ago
The pre 90s exuberance for computing in general keeps me going to this day. I tremendously enjoyed Ian McNaught-Davis appearances on "The Computer Programme" - the "Computer Chronicles" are also very much worth watching
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On bad code(mehdi-khalili.com)
2 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Video of the presentation at the Quantified Self Show & Tell NY: Getting Outdoors, Taking Photos, and Collecting Data Along the Way https://vimeo.com/85797403
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Thoughts on two years of exercise data(mikemcdearmon.com)
6 points by hoggle 13y ago|2 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Austr.* markov chain? Kangaroo ebücher? ;)
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by hoggle 13y ago
Raunzt scho wie a echter Wiener! :)
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by hoggle 13y ago
Like many typical Austrians/Viennese I've got a love/hate relationship with Austria/Vienna. On the one hand it's very gemütlich (cosy/comfy -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemütlichke
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by hoggle 13y ago
As a quacking/ducking web developer, results often are more relevant than with google these days. If I'm not happy with what I find through duckduckgo I just add a quick !g and skim the google results - best of both worlds.
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by hoggle 13y ago
Cash is also great for when you want to lose that debt addiction. A good practice is to approximate your cash needs for a week and withdraw the according amount. If you really spend everything before the week is over, you will feel it. I
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by hoggle 13y ago
I often really like long sentences, also when reading. This constant trend towards conformance is one of the more annoying trends of our times.
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by hoggle 13y ago
Isn't it the case with Bitcoin that the official implementation amounts to its specification? Maybe implementing the protocol themselves was a good idea from a theoretical standpoint but in reality amounts to over-engineering? I certai
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by hoggle 13y ago
Bitcoin isn't only about transferring money though. It's also a decentralized system for minting money, potentially rendering obsolete central banking. Out of Satoshi Nakamoto's paper: By convention, the first transaction
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C++ Cypherpunk Toolkit for Democratization of Finance(opentransactions.org)
5 points by hoggle 13y ago|1 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
Democrati[z|s]ation to democrati[z|s]e: • make (something) accessible to everyone: mass production has not democratized fashion. Finance: the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies: [ as modifi
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Indie game developer - On Success(mikebithell.tumblr.com)
1 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
The problem with "documentaries" is that they tend to be really simplistic these days with a lot of bad music (emotions!) and manipulative editing. As you stated yourself things often go so wrong that it's probably not worth
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by hoggle 13y ago
I'm also thankful for non existing information on non existing technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin#Uses https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions-old/wiki...
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Stallman: Stalling Democracy(youtube.com)
3 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
True we aren't at Apple II level, open hardware would be great but as I said the whole culture surrounding it as well as the documentation which exists is really good. It's still a very cool project which succeed to get this ball
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by hoggle 13y ago
Could it be that you were exited about fiddling with rpi yourself? I don't have children but I guess it's difficult to deliberately not help them (too much) solving problems which are inherently interesting to you (grumpy neckbear
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by hoggle 13y ago
There seems to be an unfounded fear of gastroscopy here in Austria so people often choose to get fluoroscopy during barium swallows (euphemistically called "stomach x-ray") for check-up on common issues like gastritis, ulcers, etc
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by hoggle 13y ago
Fred Wilson is right: "Regulate at the edges, but don't regulate the system itself"
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by hoggle 13y ago
To be fair, Youtube could have been so much more. For example they recently removed the video response feature while claiming the click-through rate was abysmal - it probably was because the focus of Youtube is more like "Newtube"
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by hoggle 13y ago
The price seems quite low, goes to show how bad most technologists are at bargaining.
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by hoggle 13y ago
Oh my I love this, open source hardware is the future. Come to think of how Red Hat is doing great even though they are an open source company. Why can't this work for hardware as well?
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by hoggle 13y ago
The best way to get into Bitcoin is reading Satoshi Nakamoto's paper that started everything: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Generally http://bitcoin.org is the de-facto resource to bootstrap your cryptocur
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How Oculus VR will eat Hollywood(medium.com)
3 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
This is as recent as 2010 - not much of what you are claiming here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19731132 "Most of the participants had acquired the necessary skills of how to deal with the exposure to porno
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by hoggle 13y ago
It seems to me as if HN has been taken over by deceptive shills supporting the surveillance state. "Creeping normality refers to the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed incremen
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by hoggle 13y ago
You are wrong. This is an opt-out filter and therefore "obfuscated" censorship.

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