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by octaveguin 12y ago
I recently applied for an Estonian e-residency. Heres what I did: The first thing to know is that you have to physically be there to apply. I went to Estonia and applied at the local police station. I know that sounds weird but thats how yo
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by octaveguin 12y ago
Gates actually addressed this[0]. The upshot is that as countries get richer, fertility rates decrease. Allowing these poorer countries to lead better lives will paradoxically lower the population increase. If you look at the western world,
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by octaveguin 12y ago
I love the idea that we can make web apps just as successful as native apps, but the reality seems to be the opposite. Mobile web usage went from 20% to 14% according to flurry from 2013 to 2014. That trend could be reversed with a new move
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Fleksy – Android keyboard holding the world record in typing speed(fleksy.com)
3 points by octaveguin 12y ago|0 comments
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by octaveguin 12y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. The stock android keyboard is super terrible so I'd been looking for a better one. This is by far the best I've found. Most require a large learning curving. This one feels like the iOS one but it's
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Those cute web apps tend to be changing the way business and consumption is handled on a day to day basis for almost every level and every facet of the economy. The only Ponzi scheme argument is one that includes the entire western economy.
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by octaveguin 13y ago
This seems like it will suffer from a very large uncanny alley of sorts where photographs and videos don't because they aren't trying to be realistic. When machine interaction gets 'her'-like, this kind of thing might be
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Americans are ranked as one of if not the most generous nation by numerous stats [0]. Americans donate more of their money as a percentage of their total income than any other citizens on earth. Now, there's a lot one could say about w
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by octaveguin 13y ago
It may teach more about pandering to an audience. But that is super important too, sometimes.
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I feel the same way about MOOCs and I suspect most of the audience does. I'm curious why these organizations are pushing a sort of virtual class model at all. Wouldn't it be more useful to provide lecture series on topics alone? P
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Scraping data of engineers not looking for jobs with the purpose of recruiter spam? Sounds like that dating site that scraped facebook and called it their userbase: http://www.wired.com/business/2011/02/facebo
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I like the list. I'm thinking/hoping that sandbox games with generated content will becomes a larger part of the core game market. Mostly, we see success in the indie 2D world: Don't starve - http://www.youtube.com
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Xtend: CoffeeScript for Java - a better alternative than Scala?(eclipse.org)
1 points by octaveguin 13y ago|1 comments
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Maybe I missed something but it sounds like a rant from a company that wishes they were bought but weren't. There doesn't seem to be any insight into how google is 'doing it wrong' other than a kind of 'they don&#x2
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I'd like some citation to the 'less than 10%'. The best I can do is find some browser stats - in this case, mobile seems to be making up 17% of the browser user agents as of July. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Things they actually tested (or at least, a sample): http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/Education%20and%20Skills_onli... I was surprised by the quality. These seem like really good tests of general competence. This gi
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Even as a windows user, I don't need/want silverlight. But it looks like the videos are also on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIswMnWfkI
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I don't know where the parent's source is but the kinsey institute has super interesting stats on similar questions. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#frequency
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Awesome idea: Let's make it pleasant and fun to understand how your congress reps really vote! Historically, these kinds of things don't get much interest because of the lack of money that can be generated. That's why crowd f
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I use libraries as other use coworking spaces - especially university libraries and especially in Europe. Libraries offer a quiet place to get stuff done. That's not going to change. In fact, a refocus on libraries as common work/
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by octaveguin 13y ago
Diablo 2 was arguably terribly designed similarly - character builds required external information to progress to the harder difficulties. Not to mention what I'm sure the designers weren't intending at first - repeat farming over
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by octaveguin 13y ago
All platforms can be thought of as positioning themselves for rent seeking - that is app stores, linkedin, and yeah airbnb. Things that require a network effect, after they get it, are in a super leveraged position that they can cash in. Th
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by octaveguin 13y ago
I'm in Finland now, going back down to Estonia. I'd like to meet an Estonian developer - I'm quite curious about the tech scene there. You don't have an email address but mine is hn at stroyvale.com . Please write me.
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Ask HN: Tech Community in Finland?
1 points by octaveguin 13y ago|1 comments
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by octaveguin 14y ago
App stores seem like an even bigger 'sharecropper'. Giving 30% for what? The biggest point is advertisement - or was. Now that the app stores are saturated, you absolutely need to market your app independently. Its as if you have a website
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by octaveguin 14y ago
That and the transportation. Otherwise, Seattle is probably the place I like to live in the states the most. The traffic and lack of good public transport options is a serious negative :(
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by octaveguin 14y ago
The parent's complaint is valid. You may have given a talk with more detail but the slides are what you submitted. Honestly, I'm a little tired of these marketing posts that have no new information and only serve to market the author's prod
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by octaveguin 14y ago
I don't know if these things work or not but the premise that improving people's abilities is somehow unethical is dangerous. One could argue that giving good education to students gives them an unfair advantage to those without such an edu
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Ask HN: Recommendations for hacker hostels in the bay area?
4 points by octaveguin 14y ago|4 comments
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by octaveguin 14y ago
You might try a third party reseller. For some reason, ebay seems like the place to get new thinkpads. I guess they also have a large refurbish market there, too. I just bought a t430 off of a reseller there - needless to say, it wasn't cus

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