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by marc0 11y ago
yes but what if my location is not determined correctly by the browser (eg when connected via a VPN with entry point in another city/country)? I must be able to specify my location manually.
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by marc0 11y ago
It seems that the site requires location information and cannot cope with location blocking. Also, I get an error "Location information is unavailable."
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by marc0 12y ago
Sorry, but that's a total overshoot. I definitivly won't sit next to my pan, monitoring its temperature on my smartphone to find the "perfect" moment when to stir the chopped onions. I would, maybe, if I did some extreme
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by marc0 12y ago
Lucky guy who got a baby who respects schedules. I admit it's really tempting: carry around a sleeping baby while doing some programming work. From my own experience, it IS possible, but one must be very flexible. I.e.: work whenever t
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by marc0 12y ago
I'm a customer of a local bank in the village where I grew up (in Germany). They offer of course online banking etc like any decent bank, but the really good thing is: they know me and my familiy quite well and vice versa. So, when tra
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by marc0 12y ago
Keep it simple! Moving from academics to industry can be difficult. My experience: several of my applications were rejected even though I considered me as a perfect match. I analyzed my resume and suspected, there was too much academical st
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by marc0 12y ago
and where's UberROCKETS where I can offer rides on my private space ship??
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by marc0 12y ago
hmmm ... I'd say: have something to show
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by marc0 12y ago
My personal experience in the Middle East: expect everyone to be at least half an hour late (you're stuck in a huge traffic jam anyway), don't be surprised if someone is 2 hours late, and don't view 11pm as an unusual time fo
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by marc0 12y ago
Wonderful article, and quite insightful. While reading I was asking myself if it wouldn't be a good idea to provide tools to enlarge our possibilities of time perception: The dominant time perception in North-America / EU is linea
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by marc0 12y ago
... and I did think SF is expensive ... average semidetached house with small garden in a suburb of Munich, Germany (1h commuting): 950k USD, quite an average price here. And the salaries are lower than in SF while cost of living is higher.
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by marc0 12y ago
Scientist here who managed to get out of the science trap: Prof Katz is totally right. I started a great career as string theorist, postoc at several elite universities, international lectures and talks, wrote a book, appeared on TV etc etc
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by marc0 12y ago
When I was still working in science I got into this state regularly (I called it "the Flow" since I felt like surfing on some kind of mental wave). When I joined a company I lost that experience at first, until I got to work on so
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by marc0 13y ago
We live in a globalized world, and especially for internet aficionados there seem to exist no borders. But one should always remember that the world is not homogeneous mass of minds. Quite the opposite is true: if you deal with a customer b
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Remember diversity: International Mother Language Day(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by marc0 13y ago|1 comments
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by marc0 13y ago
I consider it an enormously antiquated idea to bind nations to a piece of land. We should try to arrive at a more abstract definition. And yes, of such nations we need many more.
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Ask HN: What's a hacker's setup for home automation in an Internet of things?
6 points by marc0 13y ago|2 comments
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by marc0 13y ago
The "art of summing up divergent series" is a well established technique in quantum field theory (not only in string theory). Briefly, the underlying mathematical description of quantum field theory produces singularities. The lat
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by marc0 13y ago
I see quite some discussion about UIs and whether they should be audio based or rather visually oriented etc. For a really futuristic intelligent device (call it OS, robot ...) I would drop the idea of "the UI" at all. Rather I w
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by marc0 13y ago
I'd say most of the predictions are sound. No 10 goes a bit too far though. Anyway, what I can't understand is why this rumor of bitcoin being anonymous (No 4) is so persistent (maybe wishful thinking?). What's necessary here
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by marc0 13y ago
I must say I find this fascinating, esp two aspects: First, great idea to train on number sequences instead of single characters. That's certainly a lesson which is applicable in many other situation, too. Second, 11 levels and deep le
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by marc0 13y ago
http://www.yandex.com is a real competitor
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by marc0 13y ago
I'd say you should shift your point of view. You say: you made an app and now you need the community for it. That's the wrong order. In your case, the community is the most important thing, and the app is secondary. So, go and fin
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by marc0 13y ago
Interesting to see the tools used to make the book. It wouldn't come to my mind using anything but LaTeX.
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by marc0 13y ago
Maybe I should expand about why LaTeX is so important to me. I use it as my main text processor, not only because it produces nice maths. It allows to abstractly structure a document (e.g. by defining environments that give meaning to a par
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by marc0 13y ago
Great tool which solves several practical problems. Especially I like the ability to edit documents offline. After looking at it briefly I came up with these points: - I'd like to have an easy integration of multiple accounts, like a &
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by marc0 13y ago
Actually, let me add that I would like to see another development which is something like a compromise on the unconditional income: Sabatticals. Sabatticals or semi-sabbaticals should be mandatory. Just imagine what a powerful motivation it
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by marc0 13y ago
Just imagine what one could do with one's life, backed by an unconditional income! One could strip off parts of the daily worries; one could try out more things; one could develop ideas, big ideas, without having to fear that a possibl
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by marc0 13y ago
I would be interested in how this perfoms compared to the web server implemented in Go
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by marc0 13y ago
I always wondered why there are no mainstream mail clients which use encryption by default. With "by default" I do not mean that it's an option that may be turned on or not. Rather, as soon as an e-mail address is entered whe

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