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Illegal Skyway: Chinese Homeowner Bridges 2 Highrise Condos(weburbanist.com)
1 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Agreed. The site now... looks more like every other site. But why's that a good thing? Old design had a more unique personality -- new one looks very much like a Bootstrap deploy with tweaked colours.
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The Tears of 'Semiconductor Children'(huffingtonpost.com)
10 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Nach – The supercharged to-do list app(nachapp.com)
3 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Minecraft is tricky because it gives that long-term feeling of accomplishment (the same you get by creating a real-world artwork, or developing a software project), but it's not immediately obvious to some how untransferrable that time
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Something that can really help with this is getting out of the mindset of identifying yourself by your achievements. You talked about stoicism and being in the present, but it sounds like you're very preoccupied and anxious over how o
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
I realise there are others that likely have much more severe manifestations of the symptoms than me, but I don't think it's quite as black and white as you're making out. Surely the line you describe as "full-blown clin
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
This is pretty much the same approach I took to largely overcome ADHD-like symptoms. I happen to believe that, if you've fallen into a routine, it's time to re-evaluate, anyway - so the tactic of engineering a more stimulating env
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Nice to see someone else viewing pledges as a potential solution. Something I think would make this even better, is if the pledges were standardised, so they followed some mutually agreeable guidelines. I had a go at doing this here: http
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
"Ads or subscription-based" is a false dichotomy though. There are many other options ( https://gist.github.com/ndarville/4295324 ) which don't require excluding those who can't pay, and don't,
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
I think you'd find that would make it better, because the top results would no longer be ads belonging to the highest bidders, but would actually be the most useful and relevant links. Yes, you can avoid this by having an adblocker ins
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Well, agreed that they don't directly work on those problems, but as far as I'm aware, these companies make no profits from "products, open source work, and research" - it's practically all from the advertising whic
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
That's only really the case in mature fields (e.g. compsci), but the article pointed out several newly emerged fields, where yes, you could well create a significant discovery just by sitting and thinking about it (providing you have a
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
I presumed it was a reference to employees of Facebook/Google/etc? I.e. some of the most talented engineers aspire to work for companies whose purpose is to become the dominant ad distribution network.
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Peter Thiel on Creativity: Asperger’s Promotes It, Business School Crushes It(businessweek.com)
1 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Yeah, LTS is quite different from the others. It's the only one which can't be retracted, btw. A startup should only commit to LTS if they're willing to keep the funds aside to keep the service running for existing users fo
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
If a company didn't have a sustainable business model yet and was losing money, then yeah, it wouldn't make sense to pledge for Long-term support. It's kind of a stamp of "Yup, we've our cashflow under control, hap
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Ask HN: Pledges for SaaS startups valuing sustainability and ethics; any interest?
6 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|5 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Well yeah with smartphones really short release cycles are "the rule" - because Google/Apple dominate the industry and set the rules - that's what I'm complaining about. There's no fundamental reason a 2 year o
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
The Galaxy Nexus was released only 3 years ago. Since when was that beyond the expected lifespan of a flagship product from one of the world's largest tech companies? Don't think I've ever owned anything with such a serious
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
Same situation here. I could put up with outdated Android version, gradually deteriorating performance, and bloating of apps leading to very little free space, but it's very disappointing to find out that even to remain secure, we&#x2
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
That makes sense with your example - but I really don't think suicide can be seen as a symptom of lack of lithium in the same way as sickness from a lack of iodine. What is there to show that "this same story holds for any vitamin
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
No, mine wasn't an "uninformed, knee jerk reaction" - it's was the informed conclusion I came to after some research (prior to this article) into prescription doses of lithium. Becoming docile, turning into a soulless r
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
And what suggests that we aren't "in the middle" already? With your hand moisture analogy - for the majority of the population, natural levels of moisture are perfectly fine, and no intervention is required. Perhaps natural
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
But if the only reason decreased suicide rates are observed is that the members of society become slightly more docile (obviously to a much lesser degree than those on prescription doses), it makes it a lot more questionable whether this is
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
https://nachapp.com Personal goal-setting / task management platform which is more in-depth and feautre rich than the typical to-do list app. Unlimited hierarchies, analytics, email/SMS reminders, etc.
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This is Schizophrenia(imgur.com)
18 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
I'm working on a platform which does just that. Don't really want to detract from the thread (as I appreciate the simplicity of this app in just focusing on one aspect), but the link is in my profile if you're interested.
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A Branded Future for Bitcoin(jamesisaac.me)
1 points by jamesisaac 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesisaac 12y ago
This is something I started working on around a year ago to scratch a personal itch - none of the goal setting / task management tools I could find really felt like they were aimed at power users. It's been a big help for me in o

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