lazyjones

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by lazyjones 12y ago
There are massive cities out there that are basically uninhabited, mostly in China: http://realtybiznews.com/3516/9873516/ (estimated 64-70 million homes). All you would have to do is convince people to live there
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I'm surprised that neither the article, nor the people here have mentioned http://www.wurmonline.com as the probably most successful implementation of the sandbox concept, where one player's actions affect the virtual
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by lazyjones 12y ago
It will be funny when websites stop working left and right because essential remotely hosted JS files disappear from various free CDN URLs. Perhaps we'll add more cruft to browsers to compensate (i.e. recognize dead CDN URLs and use a
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> I'm sure you've been told before, but just in case: consider exposing yourself to more sunlight if possible. Yup, that was exactly the problem - and it's not easy to change habits radically to facilitate that to the po
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I had my blood analyzed and discovered a severe Vitamin D deficiency - so I take supplements. I also bought a treadmill and try to watch TV only while running or at least walking on the treadmill. It's less boring that way and gives me
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Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming?
78 points by lazyjones 12y ago|46 comments
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Meh, it's a decent and properly commented implementation, but the interesting stuff is done by Redis, not in Go. I wrote a similar service (JS+Go) 2 years or so ago using only the Go standard library (specifically the excellent index&#
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> Yeah, it's not so much a left-wing government as it is an anti-EU government Syriza is pro-EU, but the EU officials and the Troika have been acting anti-EU towards Greece for years. If the EU had acted earlier instead of watchin
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I see no point in carrying around a little stick to use as a computer but not as storage. Plenty of flash-based local storage would be easy to add (with locally encrypted backups to the cloud if needed) and turn the privacy-impaired ChromeO
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> Google has 50,000. By contrast, Microsoft has 128,000, HP has 300,000, IBM has almost 400,000, and DEC had about 300,000 at its peak. How many of those were really engineers, rather than managers, marketing people, consultants, suppo
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Certainly we can do better, but 20 carefully researched one-liners aren't nearly as technologically advanced, elaborate and useful as a well-crafted, intuitive UI with a more maintainable end result.
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site But it's still a lot worse than the simple web page builders (using a web-based UI) that have been around for 15 years or so. Why not just use about.me or s
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by lazyjones 12y ago
They (NSA, GCHQ) stole many SIM card authentication keys, so they can probably eavesdrop on UMTS conversations with them: http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2015/02/nsa-and-gchq-steal...
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Apart from that, it's also not really a bad idea to write your own virtual memory management layer if you know you can do a better job than the OS because you know much more about the expected access patterns, or because you know that
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> Our tech folk hero Jobs is a perfect example. Their power and salaries inspire at best fear and at worst resentment and contempt Jobs' annual salary was $1 from 1997 until his death. Just saying ...
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I get some spam too (which passes both pobox.com's and fastmail's filtering), but it's much less than I previously had with gmail and I assume that spam has become more elaborate these days. Also, with gmail I had more false
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Exactly, I don't really see the problem in the article. I have a $40/year (15GB) account and apart from my fastmail and my forwarded pobox.com address, I also receive mail for and host DNS records and web pages for 2 other virtual
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I like the present (older) output because it's absolutely unambiguous. If I have to read a textual description to understand whether it's a default argument, whether it takes an optional parameter, or how precisely it is used, it&
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> You don't believe ISIS would kill as many innocents as possible? It is practically their mission statement. It's pointless to argue about statements containing words with highly subjective and arbitrary meanings like "
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Wow, I didn't expect to find such shameless propaganda on HN. Every single sentence is factually wrong and insulting to readers' intelligence here. If it's not obvious to someone: just read some actual interviews with radical
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by lazyjones 12y ago
I was a bit disappointed not to find any thoughts about the proliferation of smaller, affordable drones and their potential uses in assassinating people (by criminals) in the article. It's not hard to imagine this happening sooner or l
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> Command line editing makes this trivial. I'm lazy, so I typically do this (2nd step) to avoid the extra key strokes necessary for editing: $ grep -i "blooey" $(!!) Also very useful for avoiding editing in order
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by lazyjones 12y ago
It amazes me how blind people who consider the web browser a great platform for simple, fun teaching software are to the fact that the browser itself and typical operating systems aren't simple and fun at all and cannot be easily hidde
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> Think about it. Eighty dollars just to get less than you had before (with the 11-inch Air) or: $70-odd additional margin for Apple that people will be happy to pay once they notice they need it regularly. Clever.
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Indeed, this already exists. It's like sending a 3D model to a 3D printing shop and getting a (pricey) result, instead of having a 3D printer at home. Different uses, appeal to different people. For example, an athlete interested in mo
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Privacy, no need to mail tests around and wait for days, test price not dictated by 1 entity.
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Idea: a personal blood testing device for use at home (to test for many parameters including vitamin levels). It would be beneficial to be able to test at least monthly in order to avoid risks associated with various deficiencies, to detect
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by lazyjones 12y ago
> If you can tolerate occasional pauses of 400-500 milliseconds, then the GC wouldn't be a problem. You might want to spend some time optimizing allocations ( http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs for some i
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by lazyjones 12y ago
Since we're talking about good programming here, I have to mention this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat
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by lazyjones 12y ago
In my only ever job interview in the US, I was told beforehand to dress casually for my visit to their office. I'd expect that kind of preparation to be routine for professional HR people. The attitude displayed by startups seems indic

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