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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
Someone invited me to use signal. I thought "It's a trap!"
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
How long should a CV be for New Zealand companies? A friend in Wellington (Andrew Amesbury) recommended that I rewrite mine with more details, even though it's now 7 pages instead of 2. I worked at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare in Auc
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
Right now I'm still just sorting out the comics (with dialogue) from memes (without). If I transcribe them, I could build a chatbot like you describe. I'd rather just hand them over to friends who could translate them. HowardInter
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
When I was 15, I repaired a class set of iBooks and sold them to friends, and I was a moderator on the iPodLinux forums. (side note: I wish ArchiveOS had iPodLinux and Rockbox). Classmates were coding in ASM on our Ti84+ calculators. I wish
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
My guilty pleasure is 9gag. It's blocked in the office (thankfully), so I spend way too much time on it when I'm not at work. I used to read a lot of webcomics (XKCD, Joy of Tech, Pon and Zi, QuestionableContent, Poorly Drawn Line
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
+1 It's not the lure of wealth, but the infighting (relational politics) within academia that push people out.
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by peterburkimsher 8y ago
It's a long, but exhilarating read. My grandpa told stories of his wartime flying experience, including stealing a plane to go to a party at another RAF base where Clark Gable was attending. Some things sound exaggerated, but it's
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned foreigners or children. As an immigrant, it's not possible for me to get a credit card, only a debit card. When I was under 18, it was also very difficult to do online shopping (I just made Chri
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Stadia maps is a good replacement for Google Maps in the cloud. I use Galileo Offline Maps on my iPhone, and my own localhost browser-based map viewer on Mac that can read SQLite tile stores and let me put address queries on the map, and dr
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Backups are opt-in. Encryption is opt-out. Users will just go for the easy, cheap, default option, and lose their data. That is not ok. I had to recover data for a friend whose MacBook Air failed halfway through the macOS update that reform
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
If it makes it any better, there's a comic about this from almost 10 years ago. http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_impossible/
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
I made a map of the Taiwanese train network using my own implmentation of Logo. The distance between each station corresponds to the time it takes a local train to travel that leg. http://peterburk.github.io/tra/ I tri
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
I think the real problem is the terse coding style. Why does the for loop always use "i"? When I write code, I don't use "i" or other single-letter variable names. I write long names, like "currentItem", &
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
I made a program to add spaces into Chinese text, which requires a lot of string comparisons. https://pingtype.github.io The algorithm works as follows: Read 5 characters. Is that in the dictionary? No. What about the first 4? N
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Suppose the article is correct, and all but one or two of the top tech companies will underperform over the next decade. What about the companies that fail? Some will be bought out, others will liquidate. Business entities will cease to exi
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
"steal" implies ownership. Their translations aren't officially licensed. They refuse to share it because they don't want to be sued for making illegal translations. But that also means I can't sing along with them,
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Yes, Canada's Express Entry is one of my top-two preferences. The problem is if I then leave for more than 2 years, I lose PR. So it's not really "Permanent". I'd have to stay for 4 years and become a citizen. But t
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Yes, that's correct. That's one major reason I'm not planning to move to Switzerland, Austria, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, or Israel. The choice of other countries (EU, Canada, Australia, NZ) is more flexible, and mostly
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Children born overseas (e.g. France, Taiwan) can't be British. Children born in the UK from me can be British, I think. I was in the UK for university and a Christian volunteer group, over a period of 5 years. I emailed the Home Office
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Your log is very helpful, thank you! I've done a lot of research and made a lot of life choices to plan this. MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering from a UK university satisfies the education requirement from a Washington Accord coun
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Marriage doesn't help! "Partnership" is recognised by immigration, and that requires living together, sharing the same address and bank account for a year. This is because of a cultural shift in the meaning of marriage. It us
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
The government gives food stamps to poor people (good). The stamps are replaced by an electronic debit card system (good). The government outsources the food stamp/debit card management to a private contractor, Conduent (not inherently
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Dual citizenship in Japan(features.japantimes.co.jp)
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
I'm not stateless. I have a work visa. The article explains the pressure of living on a work visa (shut up, get in line, or lose your job, visa, and country). Taiwan is not "home" because I can't start a family here. Eve
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
"Home" is a place I can settle, start a family, go back to and live in. I grew up near Geneva. My parents bought a house in France because it was cheaper. My dad crossed the border every day to work at CERN and take me to internat
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
"inhumane quasi-slavery visa situation that we do to our friends who happen to be born somewhere else" - thank you so much for this rant. I've spent the last 3 years in Taiwan sitting tight and waiting until I have enough wor
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Interesting! Researchers have successfully listened in to VGA signals using professional equipment [1]. Could the same be done with rtl-sdr receivers? One application I can imagine is to build an osmo-fl2k transmitter that looks like a USB
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
What data are you worried about them selling? I made a model of Facebook Likes data, but it passed unnoticed. I guess there's no market for it. https://github.com/peterburk/sortlikes
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Show HN: SortLikes – Group your Facebook interests(github.com)
3 points by peterburkimsher 9y ago|0 comments
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by peterburkimsher 9y ago
Using YouTube to generate the timestamps is a really good idea! I'm manually recording timestamps while I read/listen to the Bible, verse by verse. Every time I click pause in Pingtype's Media Viewer, it logs the time. It&#x2

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