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by paulvs 10y ago
Good old common sense is lacking all throughout this farce. It's one thing to build a company on an existing technology, like Jobs did, but promise to implement it better. It's another to come up with a wouldn't it be nice i
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by paulvs 10y ago
https://wit.ai is good for making conversational bots.
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by paulvs 10y ago
I'm using this on mobile and the scroll is very sluggish, you could add this you your scrollable div: -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
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by paulvs 10y ago
Could someone please explain what this project is about? I gather it's a new implementation of the Swift language without using Xcode's compiler and Swift standard library, but I find the full readme very undescriptive of what thi
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by paulvs 10y ago
"Flight-proven" as opposed to those inferior non-flight-proven rockets we're so used to. In a few years, perhaps flying your cargo on an un-flight-proven rocket will be the risky option. I applaud SES for being the early ado
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by paulvs 10y ago
I remember reading this a while back on HN, for those interested in the discussion, here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125523
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by paulvs 10y ago
To get better closeup pictures, if possible, aim the probe for the planet and live stream picture home all the way to impact. Although I'm not sure these probes are at all steerable, either autonomously or remotely.
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by paulvs 10y ago
Maybe the three word code is localize to the Mongol language (the article mentioned what3words adding support for the language). I'm also curious about how many nomadic people have smartphones with a data plan to be able to generate
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by paulvs 10y ago
> limitless choice debilitates far more than it liberates This, is one of the main sources of time waste and stress in everyday life. Take choosing a car insurance policy, each insurer will provide many options with only minor or irrelev
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by paulvs 10y ago
It's ludicrous that someone would risk their reputation and their company's future for a mere 32 more loans on the company growth report. I can't imagine how these loans made a significant difference to these reports. These r
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Show HN: Multi-Criteria Who Is Hiring Search for iOS Safari
3 points by paulvs 10y ago|0 comments
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by paulvs 10y ago
I agree, I can imagine NASA became complacent, stopped embracing risk, prioritised perfection over practicability and became similar to many public sector departments.
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by paulvs 10y ago
On a side note: In the photo given of 10^100 - 999...(99 9s) = 1, there should be 100 9s, not 99 9s, for the result to be 1.
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by paulvs 10y ago
Some would argue that going to space has much more to do with human survival than our current reproduction problem, which is actually an overpopulation problem rather than an underpopulation one.
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by paulvs 10y ago
One Apollo astronaut when criticised by a commentator that the NASA moon budget would be better spent on other humanitarian causes such as feeding the poor in Africa, his response was along the lines of: The money spent annually on cosmetic
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by paulvs 10y ago
My opinions so far: Gaia's Children - 5 stars Reflection - 4 stars Mean and Clean - 2 stars
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by paulvs 10y ago
Just read Gaia's Children (~35min) - a great piece. I actually listened to it in the car on the way to work using iOS's text-to-speech, which was very good quality.
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by paulvs 11y ago
As I see it, the 350ms delay was added to support zooming via double-tap. What I don't understand is why double-tap zooming is necessary when we have pinch-to-zoom? Can't zoom via double-tap be sacrificed for instant clicks and ev
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by paulvs 11y ago
We as a civilisation are evolving from human labour to automated labour, these are the growing pains of that transition. It is reasonable to expect that within a century, human physical labour for reward will be considered such a backward p
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by paulvs 11y ago
Looking for jobs with e.g. "php" and "javascript"? Try this chrome plugin for searching for jobs on this thread: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-whos-hiring-job...
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Decentralized autonomous organization(en.m.wikipedia.org)
2 points by paulvs 11y ago|0 comments
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by paulvs 11y ago
Brisbane, Australia -> Asunción, Paraguay I finished uni in Austalia and moved here to Paraguay a few years ago for a sea change. My father's family are here so I was not absolutely lost. I loved learning a new culture and language.
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by paulvs 11y ago
I applied for Embedded Systems Engineer, but since I'm looking for remote work, and I'm not sure if this position is remote, I'm going to apply for other positions as well (I have solid experience with web development on mobi
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by paulvs 11y ago
I made a Chrome plugin for multi-keyword search for jobs here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-whos-hiring-job...
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by paulvs 11y ago
What's the difference between a simulation and the real thing? It reminded me a little of Permutation City by Greg Egan.
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by paulvs 11y ago
To be precise, light can travel through a medium in a straight line, but it bends when it passes from one material to another. The light bounces off the inner walls of the fiber in a zig-zag fashion as it propagates, so it cannot possibly
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by paulvs 11y ago
Search for jobs on this thread using multiple keywords: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-whos-hiring-job...
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Show HN: Who Is Hiring Multi-Word Search(chrome.google.com)
1 points by paulvs 11y ago|0 comments
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by paulvs 11y ago
The second plugin I wrote, please feel free to test it out/give feedback.
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by paulvs 11y ago
This is a Chrome plugin I wrote to search for jobs using multiple keywords on Who is Hiring: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-whos-hiring-job...

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