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by hoggle 13y ago
I always thought of the UK as highly educated and less gullible. This is the entry point for a world as described by fellow UK citizen George Orwell. It's a shame that people's honest hopes & beliefs in conservative "lead
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by hoggle 13y ago
I'm a full-stack duct-tape programmer decided on going all-in on the global Bitcoin experiment in 2014. I have many ideas but no specific product goal yet. If you would describe yourself as enthusiastic and idealistic I would like to h
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by hoggle 13y ago
IIRC Puritanism connected being "unlucky" with being a sinner/touched by the devil so everybody tried to work as hard as possible and consequently those who didn't were seen as infectious. Couldn't this still play a
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by hoggle 13y ago
Bitbucket would be great too!
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by hoggle 13y ago
I can't express how grateful I am for each and every whistleblower. They often take tremendous risks and with their actions show us that we should act responsibly and humanely whenever we can ourselves.
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by hoggle 13y ago
I've been a vocal supporter of most of Apple's policies over the years but they really are on the wrong side of history with this one. Apple should embrace change (think different!) by accepting bitcoins themselves and let related
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by hoggle 13y ago
You are likely underestimating the "third world" of 2013. There are lots of companies embracing the constraints of SMS alone as almost everybody has a mobile phone in Kenya. Think about all the things you could do with a Twilio ac
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by hoggle 13y ago
Helping out, Motherfucker - Are you doing it? <3
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by hoggle 13y ago
Have you ever seen him talk? I love this video where he is debunking a lot of which is holy on HN - at BubbleConf 2012 "Peddling Luck": https://vimeo.com/53494258
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by hoggle 13y ago
For those who don't really need a Mac (no last minute Adobe pixel/vector pushing front-end work nor Mac/iOS dev works needed) where can one find reliable info on 100% Ubuntu/general GNU/Linux distros compatibility
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by hoggle 13y ago
FYI this entry was just still among the top 30 stories on HN and is currently listed at #169. Can somebody explain this please?
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by hoggle 13y ago
I have both run and worked in food & beverage businesses and that is exactly the problem. Even here in Austria where service personnel usually gets paid much fairer wages there is still the problem of simply not being able to pay them t
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by hoggle 13y ago
"National security officials worried by rapid loss of Arctic summer sea ice overlook threat of permanent global food shortages" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/may...
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by hoggle 13y ago
Well this comes to mind, the US economical dependence on military and war: "This is a very significant power group. And it is a power group that is not just at the top of the White House. It is not just a few generals. Rather it is all
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by hoggle 13y ago
When you have approximately 1/3 of the population being somewhat dependent on that stream of income, is it still feasible to "go back"? Economically it's also far less risky to be the bully as long as you can. It would b
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by hoggle 13y ago
That is exactly the kind of common sense most politicians try to fight, constantly. Ron Paul has been speaking about this for many years now, most prominently during the 2008 elections. It might have cost him quite some votes though, the tr
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by hoggle 13y ago
There is an awful lot of populist policies coming out of the UK for the last couple of years. Is the current state of the economy really that bad? Usually that's when politicians concentrate on less demanding, more emotional issues. Al
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Encrypted S3 Storage Filesystems(snikt.net)
1 points by hoggle 13y ago|0 comments
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by hoggle 13y ago
As the Joseph Conrad story implies, there doesn't seem to be a viable alternative and as with all beliefs, all things really - fundamentalism and extremes can become harmful pretty quickly. So my fellow believers in progress, don'
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by hoggle 13y ago
That closing remark was obviously tongue-in-cheek! :)
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by hoggle 13y ago
I've got tremendous respect for this man - honestly identifying what's important and then changing direction so fundamentally is very hard. It takes a lot of courage to do all of that, we need more loving people for sure.
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by hoggle 13y ago
I've never been couchsurfing myself but some years ago when I was only doing part time work my girlfriend and I welcomed an American couchsurfer into our home. He was working for the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe and wanted to check ou
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by hoggle 13y ago
I know it's only movies and TV but these were still interesting to watch on all things data retention and surveillance state and are related to the topic: The Listening - 2006 (specifically on Echelon) http://www.imdb.com&#x
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by hoggle 13y ago
True, some institutions shouldn't be privatized at all even though it might look like it's cheaper or more efficient to do so. It's not always about money, at least not here in Austria. I'm glad we have a baseline level of wealth. Do we alw
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by hoggle 14y ago
Lord British is back, that alone is enough for me. I love that man, he is always willing to push the boundaries - a very rare in prohibitively nowadays expensive game dev world. Why should he risk his kingdom when he can assess interest ver
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by hoggle 14y ago
I think so too, this is truly a genius idea for both freelancing as well as product people. That I found this site after checking out a developers particularly good answer->profile->blog ( http://peterlyons.com/problog/2013/03/airp
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AirPair - Connecting Startups With Expert Developers(airpair.co)
2 points by hoggle 14y ago|2 comments
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by hoggle 14y ago
This is an opinion: Go get http://eloquentjavascript.net and build something useful in plain Javascript/HTML5 (no jQuery yet, it might harm your successful picking up of the language!). The fun part is that you can get started immediately
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by hoggle 14y ago
https://hall.com also supports WebRTC based video chatting and private channels. GitHub hooks have been implemented but as of yet there isn't a proper web API available. It definitely seems interesting though. Edit: if something slick on
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by hoggle 14y ago
If you don't have a GitHub account yet then get one and find projects that interest you ("explore"). This tool here helps you to stay on course by sending you emails regularly: http://www.codetriage.com

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