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   by roryisok 9y ago

   Let's all try this HN!
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   David McWilliams knows a lot more about the economy than I do, and maybe I'm missing something, but he doesn't mention that there's quite a disproportionate tax on alcohol in Ireland which probably makes the pint index a litt
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I learned the term 'St Elmos fire' about 15 minutes ago on a different HN story, and here it is again. I know this is a common phenomenon but I've never had it happen so fast
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   If you read most of it in 2017 I say it still counts. Nice to see some fiction on here, these lists are almost always non fiction and make me feel uneducated because I read almost exclusively fiction
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   What an odd question. Like a few others I believe in a clutter free work environment. However, life doesn't, and my desk is a mess. I clear it once a month, but after a week it's piled high with junk. Right now, USB cables, batter
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   > deck of cards for prototype game Do tell
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   I got a new job with much better pay and benefits. In the process I learned how much I'm worth in the jobs market. I also learned how to write good cover letters and cvs and how to sell myself in interviews.
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   My goals: do everything in this thread :) But seriously, nothing major. I just want to incrementally improve my writing, coding and health and reading.
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   by roryisok 9y ago

   His last comment about demoting it to Windows only is very telling. All the hackintosh issues go away the moment you switch to Windows or Linux. He's really complaining about how hard it is to try to do a hard thing. Hackintosh is, as
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Porting FlatNote, my text/md based OneNote/ evernote alternative to mac. Notes are stored in dropbox as plain text files. The app itself is basically just a markdown editor with a file tree, autosave and a list of recent files. I&
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Just when I think we can't possibly make any more amazingly stupid decisions on this planet, there we go again
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Those ideals of productivity sound amazing but in practice I can see problems. A floating, non corporeal keyboard with no feedback would be tough to type on for starters.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I really wish this had existed back when I still coded apps in .NET.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Downvoted for correcting my own mistake??
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Lo and behold, oops
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Same here! I remember waiting for a lift where my friends mother worked, a car rental place. I told her I could hear a TV on somewhere, and she insisted there was no TV nearby. I persisted, it was driving me nuts. Finally, she remembered th
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I've read this seven times now and I just can't understand it. Can you elaborate?
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Gog is great, but my favourite way of getting these is to buy the originals on ebay, then you get the cool box to put on your shelf :)
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    *Dosbox, in case anyone decides to go searching
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Thanks! The gun smuggling story was really interesting. Shows how quotas can so often have a negative effect
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I think there's more to it than that.
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    You also have to account for dealing with traffic and pedestrian crossings, lights, planning etc. The Dublin tram was a new line across existing streets. This funicular probably doesn't cross any roads. Also things take longer and cost
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    EU directives are like the rule 42 of bureaucracy. If it exists, there's an EU directive about it
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Probably just me, but economist articles never load properly (windows phone, so there's that). Page keeps popping me back up to the top of the article, happened 4 times and then the text disappeared. Oh well. At least I can infer from
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    > After Photopea.com is loaded, you can disconnect from the internet and keep using it, open and save your local files. You should open source it then. A browser based photoshop that people can self host or drop in to another website wou
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I finally used Photopea this morning and I'm blown away. It's like full photoshop in the browser. It's much more useable (for someone coming from a photoshop background) than Gimp and actually outperforms it at some tasks. I
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    Why not? It's a great text editor. People code all the time in vim or emacs and nobody complains
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    > works on every device Doesn't work on my windows phone, but I didn't expect it to. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow on the laptop, I literally just spent an hour downloading a trial of PhotoShop elements 2018 just to
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    That's a hell of a good word
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    by roryisok 9y ago

    I don't think so. Firefly is no more offensive than Guardians of the Galaxy, that's a Disney property