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by tapanjk 7y ago
I consider this problem to be similar to moving homes. When you move, you discover a bunch of stuff that you are no longer using and this presents an opportunity to get rid of those things. You also discover things that you have not been
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by tapanjk 7y ago
This is why I appreciate reader mode in browsers that support it.
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Bezos: A CEO Who Can Write (2018)(mondaynote.com)
112 points by tapanjk 7y ago|41 comments
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by tapanjk 7y ago
> and indeed, some ad-blockers actually track users! Can someone please explain this?
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> Programs like these break down mystique, fill gaps in experience and provide the relaxed, necessary assurance that failure is an option, and growth and bravery are more important than looking cool — a lesson that’s arguably just as app
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'Practice makes progress' is the name of the game(seattletimes.com)
2 points by tapanjk 7y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 7y ago
Here's one book that presents evidence: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14537326-waterlogged
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For Years, Alcohol Was My Only Comfort. Then It Nearly Killed Me(nytimes.com)
10 points by tapanjk 7y ago|13 comments
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by tapanjk 7y ago
Can you elaborate? What are the downsides of built-in ports that would make it preferable to carrying dongle(s)?
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To my mind, what matters here is that there is a viable option for all those who care. This may not shut down the the big social media, and I do not think that is the goal here. What matters is that there are alternatives that let users o
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by tapanjk 7y ago
> 5G wireless networking, [...] has pretty much nothing to do with mobile phones. It has to do with replacing every other kind of data network with 5G wireless. No more land lines, no more cable systems, no more wires. Going all-wireless
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Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken(twitter.com)
3 points by tapanjk 7y ago|0 comments
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Slow Runners Come Out Ahead (2015)(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by tapanjk 7y ago
> because everything these days needs to support emojis Not the onion.
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Niksen: The Case for Doing Nothing(nytimes.com)
2 points by tapanjk 7y ago|0 comments
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by tapanjk 7y ago
This helped me discover Firefox's Content Blocking setting, which is set to Standard by default, but now I set it to Strict. Works better than an ad block! Preferences > Privacy and Security > Strict
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by tapanjk 8y ago
> India’s aviation sector is an investment conundrum: it’s the world’s fastest-growing aviation market that has seen 54 consecutive months of double-digit percentage passenger growth and yet it’s notoriously difficult to make money in. T
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Two Grounded Airlines in a Decade Cast Doubt on India Boom(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tapanjk 8y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 8y ago
Same experience but in a hotel swimming pool with continuous recycling. After sitting next to the pool for an hour or more, with no one in the pool, I would dive in and find the chlorine too high and end up with eyes red.
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by tapanjk 8y ago
> The only solution is to pee in the pool, then at least you think it's your own......... This caught my eye in the comments at the bottom of the article. It answers the question that we all asked (sometimes of ourselves): Why woul
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by tapanjk 8y ago
+1 I think the power comes from knowing something -- _anything_ -- well. I feel the same about vim and common unix tools (bash, sed, awk etc). If you can use these effectively, these can be very effective productivity tools. The learning
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by tapanjk 8y ago
I use DejaVu Sans Mono because it brings me joy, and is freely available. This applies whether I am on my work computer (MacBook Pro), or one of my personal computers running some Linux distro. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by tapanjk 8y ago
Is it fair to assume that one cannot just eat more of something without changing anything else? If yes, eating more fruit and veg can be accomplished by eating less of something else and/or increasing caloric requirement through increa
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by tapanjk 8y ago
> Writing every day kept ideas top of mind. When I finished writing, I’d carry the puzzles to my commute or the shower, and I’d talk to people about them. My ideas were always nearby, making it easy to jump back in. This sounds like the
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by tapanjk 8y ago
This is not to undermine what the article says, but I think I am lucky that my kids have access to a nice environment that allows playtime the way we think it should be. I live in a condo in Bangalore, and one thing that is very common in c
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by tapanjk 8y ago
I keep track of creative thoughts in a journal [ http://jrnl.sh ] I keep track of tasks with taskwarrier [ https://taskwarrior.org/ ] For both of the above, I use Dropbox to share data on multiple devices. The only
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by tapanjk 8y ago
I too went to school at a time when fountain pens were the only permissible writing instrument. Now I use a fountain pen mostly to write my daily journal, and have pampered myself by buying a nice (at least relatively) fountain pen and a co
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by tapanjk 8y ago
> But was your choice to learn Java somehow related to it being popular in industry? Yes, but only partly. I had evaluated becoming one of Java, C++, or Oracle programmer (I know the last one is not the same thing, but was a career opti
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by tapanjk 8y ago
Java programs are portable. Java is popular. It feels like the article implies causality, but I fail to see it. My first programming language was Java (version 1.2) and it was the easiest programming language to start with because it had
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Ask HN: To what extent does Unix philosophy apply to distributed applications?
1 points by tapanjk 8y ago|0 comments

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