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by ibz 9y ago
Comments are made of words, which one can search for. How is "#this #text #more #searchable"? Less readable, that's for sure. I never understood why one would use hashtags, except as a joke. #lol #wedontneednohashtagz
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by ibz 9y ago
Helene Grimaud's interpretation [1] of Busoni's transcription for piano is also pretty amazing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw9DlMNnpPM
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by ibz 9y ago
Who puts regulations in place about how many deer it is "fair" for a wolf to kill? And yet, the system has been running for longer than we are around to know about it. It is however when the humans tried to "regulate" th
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by ibz 9y ago
I don't care much about spammers. The filter at FastMail is good enough. What I care about mostly is to make automatically correlating my identity between different websites harder.
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by ibz 9y ago
Yeah, the + trick is not that great, because it is quite obvious what your real email is. This way, not so much. One could of course still guess that you are using this trick when they see that your email matches their domain name. If you&#
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by ibz 9y ago
Neither nor. I have my own domain. Every website gets <website>@mydomain. Every email @mydomain gets forwarded to my primary email. As simple as that.
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by ibz 9y ago
Indeed! And they are made up of humans in the same way that biological bodies are made up of living cells.
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by ibz 9y ago
Of course this could be done all over Europe, as cheap farm houses abound. It's more a matter of having the patience to restore the thing. That is a very time and resource consuming task.
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by ibz 9y ago
SW Romania :)
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by ibz 9y ago
Yes, also satellite. Here's what I am using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooway (from a local reseller) Never understood this Netflix thing. Guess because I'm not into TV series and the movies I watch are l
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by ibz 9y ago
Python. Data processing and such. I like doing pretty much anything that is not UI. Been in the field (programming, that is) for ~15 years. Currently working for a failed startup that got acquired by another startup. :) Did this satisfy you
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by ibz 9y ago
Yup, I'm on trustroots as well. Indeed, it looks like a nicer alternative, now that CS is becoming more and more commercial. Not that many people on trustroots yet though.
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by ibz 9y ago
Sure! Email me at hn <at> myusername <dot> me and let's keep in touch! There are very cheap flights from Berlin to here if you're flexible. :) Cheers!
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by ibz 9y ago
I've got a satellite connection. Unlimited traffic for 100EUR / month. Much more than I would pay for internet in a city, but hey... And yes, it is reliable and quite fast bandwidth wise. The ping time is not that great though (wh
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by ibz 9y ago
5+ years here. Definitely not looking back to go to an office. After doing the DN thing in Asia for a year, I bought a farm house in my home country in Europe and moved over here. Being able to live in nature instead of in a city is an amaz
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by ibz 9y ago
> "Cuisine" is a general noun so it does not change, even if it ends with a "e". There are not a masculine or feminine cuisine, it's just a cuisine :). "cuisine" is definitely a feminine noun. There is
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by ibz 9y ago
I am paying for FastMail for a few years now. It's a very good alternative, and it's really not expensive. Also, I know that my money goes into building an alternative with a viable business model. Plus, GMail isn't free. You
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by ibz 9y ago
Color http://mashable.com/2012/10/17/color-shuts-down/ I never quite figured out what that app was supposed to be or how to use it.
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by ibz 12y ago
Whenever I leave home I lock the door and hide the key somewhere. If I leave for more than a day, I give the key to my neighbor. That can come in handy, like once I forgot the passport at home, and the neighbor could get it and send it to m
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by ibz 12y ago
I always mark Amazon mail as spam. Could it be that if a lot of people mark a certain kind of email as spam, Google just treats it as spam?
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by ibz 12y ago
Good point - I clicked because it sounded a bit like wow...
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by ibz 12y ago
Not to minimize Lenovo's guilt for pre-installing adware and not to say MITMing HTTPS fine - it is not! But... I'd rather have a laptop that injects ads in my Google searches than one that sends all my data to some three-letter a
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by ibz 12y ago
I get water from my well, have a septic tank in my backyard and use a 3G connection (there is no landline connection available where I chose to live). Getting off the electric grid would be nice, not to mention it would be cheaper too!
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by ibz 12y ago
For the girlfriend?
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by ibz 12y ago
Please do. Not an easy read, but totally worth it.
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by ibz 12y ago
You can fly them anywhere if you're the US.
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by ibz 12y ago
This is spot on, except I would take it a bit further. You can only accomplish X things in a week. Now, what do you choose to do with your life? If you are writing code ask yourself what is the purpose of that? What is the goal of that app?
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by ibz 12y ago
Ishmael (from Wikipedia) Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It examines the mythological thinking at the heart of modern civilization, its effect on ethics, and how this relates to sustainability and societal collapse on
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Ask HN: is a satellite connection good enough for working from home?
1 points by ibz 13y ago|1 comments
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by ibz 13y ago
I was traveling in Laos last year and I fell while riding a scooter through the jungle and my iPhone cracked. As I reached Cambodia, I walked in a random phone repair shop in Phnom Penh and had my screen completely replaced in 10 minutes fo

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