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by sjm 10y ago
It's a pity when newer typefaces don't have lighter weights — they look far better on high resolution displays than normal/regular weights, which look almost bold. My favourite example and what I use daily, Office Code Pro Li
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by sjm 10y ago
Another interesting podcast on concrete from "Surprisingly Awesome": https://gimletmedia.com/episode/3-concrete/
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by sjm 10y ago
Also the desire to own your house, rather than rent as is more common in for example, Berlin.
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by sjm 10y ago
I don't have kids but I'm from Australia (Perth to be precise), and our suburbs are like this too - generally far from the center and all the cafes, restaurants and nightlife that go with it, and very spread out. It's common
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by sjm 10y ago
I rented Airbnb apartments in each city I visited (Tokyo a couple times, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima and Kyoto), which was pretty painless and not too expensive. Definitely better value for money outside of Tokyo -- probably Osaka or Kobe was th
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by sjm 10y ago
More than one person I met in Japan told me a story of someone accidentally leaving their wallet on the seat of a train, only for another passenger to chase after them to hand it to them as they left.
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by sjm 10y ago
Totally agree. Japan is also incredibly safe. I've just spent a couple months there (now in Seoul), and you get the sense that people really trust each other there. It's not uncommon to see people leave their bags, phones, wallets
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by sjm 10y ago
I'd guess it will be a harder sell to get software developers in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. to move to the US.
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by sjm 10y ago
"You" won four years of someone completely inexperienced in politics and foreign affairs to represent your country on the world stage. The rest of the world is cringing. I would love to know what you actually agree with Trump on,
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by sjm 10y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback, and they're totally valid points. I think you're right about the web app -- I've already built the "web-app" worldwide preview, meant to tease you into getting the app, but
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by sjm 10y ago
Yeah, to be honest I did contemplate getting the android version ready before launching, but honestly felt like there's already so much chance involved in whether it gets to the critical mass required for it to really work that it made
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by sjm 10y ago
Hey guys. I've been working on this as a side project on and off this year, and decided to finally polish it into a real product and share it publicly. It originally started as a way to explore Elixir & Phoenix. Would really apprec
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Show HN: Local real-time chat in dynamic areas, worldwide to your neighborhood(hoody.im)
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by sjm 10y ago
Mitsuharu is amazing and have to agree that if you’re on macOS you should definitely be using his port. He’s actually already added some support for the new MacBook Pro touch bar. I've been using his port directly off his "work&qu
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by sjm 10y ago
There might be some useful things in the Xcode set, but anything that can't be done with a shortcut already? I find Cmd+<key> far easier to hit than reaching up to the F-keys. I imagine more-so if that action now has no tactility
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by sjm 10y ago
Funny that you mention this, as I've literally just submitted this exact app to Apple and should hopefully be launching in the next few days. The app is called hoody ( https://hoody.im ) and I can't wait to post it to HN
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by sjm 10y ago
Agreed! I used to have a Nikon D7000, which isn't even that big when it comes to DSLRs, but it was too heavy and too big and I ended up basically never taking it out, sometimes even while traveling. About two years ago I got a Fuji X-T
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by sjm 10y ago
I think he's saying he'd rather use Emacs for Java dev, but IntelliJ is a necessary evil. For Rust, there's https://github.com/racer-rust/emacs-racer which seems pretty solid. P.S. Regarding Java dev on
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by sjm 10y ago
Interestingly, I've noticed Square is quite popular here now. On my last visit it was much more difficult to pay for food with credit cards.
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by sjm 10y ago
Norwegian's receive huge benefits when buying an electric car as far as I recall — tax breaks, free parking, free pass through road tolls, etc.
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by sjm 10y ago
With the emacs-mac-port by Mitsuharu Yamamoto (available on railwaycat's homebrew tap) you can set this in Emacs with (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta).
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by sjm 10y ago
Very cool! Font rendering still seems to be a very under appreciated aspect of UI/UX considerations, and with higher-resolution displays rendering performance is definitely more important today than it otherwise has been. Is the aim to
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by sjm 10y ago
Also worth checking out is Sam Aaron's current project, Sonic-Pi: http://sonic-pi.net
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by sjm 10y ago
CS was based on the QW engine, but had a lot of netcode changes attempting to make it better for very high pings, but came with some frustrating adverse effects. These changes were the source of a lot of "registration" issues wi
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by sjm 10y ago
Ahh how much I'd love to play QW on LAN again! Hope you have a blast. The easiest method would be to install nQuake: http://www.nquake.com . You'll need to find pak1.pak from a full Quake install to have all the origina
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by sjm 10y ago
QuakeWorld revolutionised online FPS. I believe — and yes I'm biased — that it still has the best netcode of any online FPS game. My fondest memories in front of a computer are of playing QW on a dialup modem, then eventually on LAN, w
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by sjm 10y ago
Have you tried http://orgmode.org ? There are plenty of tutorials online and videos from conferences introducing it and showcasing its abilities.
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by sjm 10y ago
Similarly, I use engine-mode ( https://github.com/hrs/engine-mode ) with Emacs, which allows you to set up basically any search engine. I use Google (on C-c / g) and Github (on C-c / h), but the engine-mode rea
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by sjm 10y ago
The emacs-mac on homebrew ( https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport ) by Yamamoto Mitsuharu has smooth scrolling and a bunch of other OS X niceties.
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by sjm 11y ago
I'm the perfect target for this kind of service — I've been living as a "digital nomad" since July last year, primarily using Airbnb for accomodation, working in cafes and coworking spaces. The website seems really light

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