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by oskarth 9y ago
> Stripe The opposite. They specifically moved to US, presumably because it was so much better than EU. https://patrickcollison.com/post/stripe-ireland
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by oskarth 9y ago
I also recommend people check out the author's website: https://johan-nordberg.com/ - it has quite a neat realtime chat interface.
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by oskarth 9y ago
Interesting example. Do you have a link to more info? In general, where do you read such analysis? Seems like the kind of thing that would be discussed on a HN for finance people.
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by oskarth 9y ago
> take a 40 minute tube journey twice a day Having lived in London for a year and hearing daily talks about delayed and cancelled (not to mention full) trains from coworkers, this sounds dreamily optimistic, as if coming from a real esta
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Breaking Up the NSA (2014)(schneier.com)
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by oskarth 9y ago
When you say non-fiction, do you mean pop science books? I'd be very surprised if you grokked a math, hard science or programming book after just reading the first third introducing the subject.
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How to make direction advice better(oskarth.com)
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Not a bootcamp(recurse.com)
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by oskarth 9y ago
Thanks for the great feedback! Description: Still working on the one line summary. Candidates: Siri for Walking directions , Your walking buddy . Ideas welcome! Localized screenshots: good idea, will look into it. Video: Agreed. I made a
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by oskarth 9y ago
Shameless plug: I made Code Cards ( https://codecards.me/ ), which helps you remember programming concepts by active spaced repetition. Think of it as Anki but made with code specifically in mind. In the interest of full tran
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Find the tools to get lost(oskarth.com)
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by oskarth 9y ago
OP here. Whisper Walk is an app for iOS that allows you to explore and walk freely while a voice whispers in your ear roughly which direction to walk. Write up about why I created it here: https://www.oskarth.com/find-the-to
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Show HN: Whisper Walk – Siri for Walking(whisperwalk.io)
10 points by oskarth 9y ago|8 comments
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Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)(joelonsoftware.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
I really like that this is an example from the real world. In the real world, people have skin in the game and their decisions matter. In the military field, of the boots on the ground variety, this distinction is crystal clear. People can
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by oskarth 10y ago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a slightly lighter (fiction, but reality-based) version of Gulag Archipelago, also by Solzhenitsyn. Might be a good entry if the length of Gulag Archipelago scares you away.
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by oskarth 10y ago
An interesting exercise is to run RescueTime for a few weeks and see what your daily average is. I'm reminded by this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208818 I certainly believe people can be extremely prod
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by oskarth 10y ago
I grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and used to live there until a few years ago. There are plenty of homeless people in Stockholm nowadays. There's one outside almost every grocery store in the city center. For comparison, I'm current
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by oskarth 10y ago
Are you planning on building a nuclear reactor as your next side project by any chance?
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Promises on Point(blog.minut.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
It would be no exaggeration to say that Caddy, an up-and-coming HTTP/2 server written in Go that's been gaining a lot of traction, is outright witchcraft. Out of the box, it just works. With HTTPS. With very little configuration.
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by oskarth 10y ago
Hear hear! At Recurse Center this is an explicit (lightweight) social rule: NO BACK-SEAT DRIVING. If you overhear people working through a problem, you shouldn't intermittently lob advice across the room. This can lead to the "to
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Seven steps to remarkable customer service (2007)(joelonsoftware.com)
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The Life and Times of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Their Exploits(rand.org)
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by oskarth 10y ago
Life wasn't that different in 1917, 1817 or even year 17. I started writing a reply but realized Nassim Taleb does a better job at explaining this than I could. Here's an excerpt from The Future will no be cool http:/&#x2F
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by oskarth 10y ago
> "wow, I piped grep, had I done this by hand in C this would have taken me days" Exacly. Pipes and grep functionality are great abstractions that have saved people countless hours.
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by oskarth 10y ago
Not to mention that taking the train between London and Paris is actually very pleasant, unlike taking a flight. When I worked in London I often used to go to Paris over the weekend, and it felt so luxurious to be able to wake up in Paris o
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Flight ban on laptops 'sparked by IS threat'(bbc.com)
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by oskarth 10y ago
Apples and oranges. Might as well compare Go with the Universe and call it a day. The right way to measure the skill required for a game is how many tiers you can construct where each tier reliably beats the one below it. I.e. ELO or someth
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by oskarth 10y ago
> you can just press v to open up vi with a temp file containing that command, edit it using the full-screen view and power of vi, then save the file and it runs automatically. FWIW you can do this with ctrl-x ctrl-e in normal (emacs-lik

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