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by roryisok 10y ago
I browse HN, take a lot of photos and make notes on OneNote. But to be honest I've often been tempted. The camera is probably the thing I'd most miss - I take a lot of photos of my kids and a feature phone camera won't cut th
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by roryisok 10y ago
I'm typing this on a 925, and I'll use it for as long as it works. I've come to see the ecosystem problem as a blessing in disguise. The promise of windows phone in the early adverts was that you would get in and out quickly,
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by roryisok 10y ago
+1. This is literally the only site I visit every day. Some days I don't even google stuff
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by roryisok 10y ago
That little B makes it so easy. "Jeff Bezos Is Just $5,000,000,000 Away from Being the World's Richest Person" reads slightly differently
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by roryisok 10y ago
"just" $5B.
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by roryisok 10y ago
Well, number 4 sounds like more of an OS problem really =/ I guess there's no app that could have fixed that for you. Is it better on the iphone? I tried to switch a while back but didn't do my homework, bought an iphone 4 an
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by roryisok 10y ago
Perfect opportunity to build your own podcast app. Out of interest, what did you dislike about the built in one and the alternatives?
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by roryisok 10y ago
You don't need SASS, you can just use CSS. But SASS would make your life a little easier if you hand the time
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Ask HN: How many of you are using windows phone?
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by roryisok 10y ago
Oh dear. Is that the new benchmark for "old" now? Are there people here who don't remember that??
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by roryisok 10y ago
> OS X and iOS are the least annoying desktop and mobile operating systems I assume you're not including Windows Phone in that, because its surely less annoying than either iOS or Android (apart from lack of apps, which I consider t
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by roryisok 10y ago
When you mentioned Frank Sinatra it made me wonder what would this AI make of uploading singing instead of speaking?
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by roryisok 10y ago
There was an advert on TV in the UK and Ireland for an insurance company called MoreThan. They had a Morgan Freeman impersonator who ended the ad by saying "I'm Morethan Freeman". I seem to recall a legal kerfuffle but I can&
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by roryisok 10y ago
Just invent your own drinking game for it. With vampire diaries (or VD as it became known in our house) we drank when Caroline organised a party, Damon did eyebrow acting or Stefan started a sentence with "I've been alive for 120
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by roryisok 10y ago
Surely your wife, kid, friends and job wouldn't begrudge you taking 2-3 days off? Go do it! I do nanowrimo every year, and it means setting my family a little less for November. You give them the rest of your life, you're allowed
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by roryisok 10y ago
There can't be many professional poets in the world. I would bet most of them have another job. You can still do that one
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by roryisok 10y ago
Since having kids I've had to let games go. The last thing I played was skyrim when it came out. I miss them sometimes. On the other hand there are more books on my to read list than I'll ever have time for in life. If I left my j
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by roryisok 10y ago
Interesting. Can I ask what field are you in now, and did that come after the souring of faith?
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by roryisok 10y ago
Same here. I've wanted to be a lot of things growing up, but writer and programmer are really the only two that have stayed the course of time. Here's some advice toward that: Don't combine your hobby and job like I did and b
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by roryisok 10y ago
I wear foam flip flops at a standing desk, for comfort. Don't know the name but they're cheap ones I've had for at least 15 years.
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by roryisok 10y ago
there's a spin off called the originals which is even worse, currently suffering through that. and then something called riverdale .
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by roryisok 10y ago
YES!! Very good show
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by roryisok 10y ago
I did take it back
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by roryisok 10y ago
Replying to my own comment. Ok lets face it, we all waste our time, and that is essentially what this thread is about. Most pastimes can be made to sound silly, and just because I don't share your interests doesn't mean they&#x2
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by roryisok 10y ago
Sometimes I just imagine I'm slowly tuning a radio, catching snippets of conversations as a hop frequencies. Rarely a complete sentence. When you're not actively trying to imagine things your subconscious seems to take over and pr
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by roryisok 10y ago
You had me until Superbowl. I don't understand why people waste time watching other people throw a ball around for money, but hey its your time to waste I guess. I'll just crawl into my downvote bomb shelter now and watch some peo
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by roryisok 10y ago
Except it was asked on hacker news on a weekend, so OP is one of us
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by roryisok 10y ago
Could you not just buy a months supply of new socks in advance? Seems like it would be cheaper. Also as a first adopter you'd have socks made from hard plastic resin. It would bring new meaning to the term bleeding edge
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by roryisok 10y ago
End of the day for me is when the kids are in bed, chores done, usually around 8pm. I sit on the couch with my wife, we put something on tv and I code. The code sucks, I'm not some kind of uber programmer, but I find it relaxing, bizar
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I fall asleep by randomizing my thoughts but it only takes a couple of minutes

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