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by jvdh 14y ago
Seriously? Some poorly described problem with Ubuntu with irrelevant banter about wiping Windows 8 is making the front-page of Hacker News ? Half of the top comments then become a mix of wild guesses towards a solution, and the other half b
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by jvdh 14y ago
If you really want to improve your presentations, just get "Presenting to win"[0]. It's a very good book, provides decent advice on how to craft your presentation, to captivate the audience and to think about what exactly it is that you wan
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by jvdh 14y ago
If you include visuals in your slides, you should do so sparingly. The whole purpose of a slide is to support your presentation, not to be the presentation. The focus should always be on you, only briefly on the slides and then almost i
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No, not everything is your fault. A short amount of therapy has taught me that I was always searching myself to blame for everything. This is inherent to very insecure people. I felt very much happier when I realized that some things really
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"Human beings aren't cattle." Approaching an airport security control a while back where security agents where shouting "Remove your shoes, belts and jackets, and move along!" repeatedly gave me the distinct impression that the TSA strongly
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by jvdh 14y ago
How is performing faster on a tedious task related to self-control? Shouldn't that be "improve focus" or "improve concentration"?
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by jvdh 14y ago
A very sane analysis of the privacy problem and the government. I would pose that the biggest privacy problems are not with the government, it's with corporations.
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Scroll down to the end of the article, or search for "Another Alternative".
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by jvdh 14y ago
I thought the same thing. Radiobuttons convey much better that there is a single choice to be made among a list of options. Especially if you have a list of multi-word options, you really really should not be using those radio buttons. For
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by jvdh 14y ago
This is easily the biggest databreach that I have ever seen. I sincerely hope no one noticed this before, this has the potential to have a severe impact on so many lives in New Zealand.
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Pro tip: make sure you have enough processing power and bandwidth available before you post things on HN :) 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
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This reminds me a lot of some of the Culture things that Iain M Banks has described, also in his latest novel Surface Detail which also describes the open spaces with weightlessness. The ringed worlds were already described earlier in the s
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by jvdh 14y ago
Wow, that's some bit of linkbaiting in that article, pointing to other techcrunch articles and a lot of pointing towards skift.com, nytimes and some other sites. The entire article talks about three different websites, and it contains 0 lin
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Really, Comic Sans to promote your website authoring tool, really?
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At AMS[0] you can opt-out, I've done so every time I went through there. They will look at you funny, ask you why, and you will be patted down, but they will allow you to fly. [0]: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
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by jvdh 14y ago
Things get even worse when you know something is broken but nobody else seems to care. At the cafetaria here I pay with my bankcard, if I put the card in too soon, the payment never works. I know that the payment device software is clearly
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by jvdh 14y ago
The full article is also available on Arxiv.org: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.3909v1.pdf
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by jvdh 14y ago
Why such hatred against phone calls?
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by jvdh 14y ago
It does give you exactly what you want: easy access to old email, a simple way of writing new email, and a scheduled time for getting new mail.
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by jvdh 14y ago
I live in the Netherlands, and bikes here are omnipresent. They also get stolen. A lot. Which is why most bikes you see in cities tend to be not too great looking. About 10 years ago in the city of Utrecht the bike stealing was a really big
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by jvdh 14y ago
> It doesn't make sense to have multiple iTunes accounts, and it would be good if Apple would let your merge them. This is impossible. Apple does not let you merge accounts, no matter how high you jump or how much money you're willing
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by jvdh 14y ago
It might be my bad quality headphones, but the song for me was so distorted on the 128kbps that I heard the difference in less than a second.
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by jvdh 14y ago
It is not surprising that printers just accept (possibly malformed) requests just from anywhere?
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That's true, but they're obviously using a multi-tier solution, with about a 90 day buffer before things go to tape: In addition, there is a pro-rated charge of $0.033 per gigabyte for items deleted prior to 90 days. So it may just b
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by jvdh 14y ago
If these are a reasonably soundproof, they would be awesome in airports.
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Hopefully this will open up some breathing space for serious open-source mail client alternatives. I'm hoping for a revival of Letters.app ( https://github.com/ccgus/letters )
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by jvdh 14y ago
The Mail.app searching now is so fast, it's bordering the incredible. It's made me rethink the way I archive e-mail. I really no longer need to sort everything into monthly folders in order to find things. The 9000 ways of searching things
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by jvdh 14y ago
Thunderbird is stuck to one device (desktop). Technically you can have Thunderbird across a lot of computers by using IMAP instead of POP3 but that slows down and cancels out a lot of your speed benefits. You're still using POP3? Yo
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True, but Hipmunk searches all airlines almost all over the world, and allows all destinations all over the world. 15 seconds is not a lot when comparing it to other flight planning websites.
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What's even more incredible is that their IOS app is more useable than the regular website.

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