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by thomasfl 10y ago
The narrator on this video is Alain de Botton. It doesn't say so in the video nor the description on the youtube page. It's a shame really, since all his books are great reads.
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Ugly architecture to blame for housing crisis(youtube.com)
2 points by thomasfl 10y ago|2 comments
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I simply can't see why there shouldn't be possible to create large scale artificial cities in the western world. Especially young people do not want to live in suburbs. When reading about San Francisco's problems with booming
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by thomasfl 10y ago
I use my simple little command line tool filewatcher to autorun tests. You supply it with file patterns and shell commands to be run when files matching the patterns is updated, added or deleted. It's available via gem install filewatc
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by thomasfl 10y ago
Totally agree. A standard format format for messages sendt from bots that covered the different Call-To-Action buttons FB Messenger has, would make it much easier to create alternative chat clients. Like for instance embedable web clients.
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by thomasfl 10y ago
There really should be some standards that specified how chat bubbles can have the same set of functionality as FB Messenger, WeChat, Kik, Google's Allo and others. It's becoming more common to have "interactive" chat me
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by thomasfl 10y ago
So the originators name Satoshi Nakamoto hasn't inspired more bitcoin adoption in Japan than elsewhere?
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by thomasfl 10y ago
The tyranny of art history can be seen in scandinavian architecture. All new buildings are designed to look modern because we now live in modern times. Art history was never intended to give directions on how buildings should look, just to
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by thomasfl 10y ago
Let's create a walled garden that embraces facebook's walled garden. A new social network that displays your facebook timeline and other items. BTW. I'm Norwegian.
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by thomasfl 10y ago
I particularly liked this part: "The days of having a polished user interface, colour scheme or branding to separate form from function will in some cases no longer exist. Developing a conversational experience will centre around how s
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Humanising UX using Conversation(kijo.co)
2 points by thomasfl 10y ago|1 comments
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There's been some talk about digital preservation of games and other software. I wonder if there are ant international projects on digital preservations.
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Yes, there will be a day when nobody is using iPhones anymore. Hopefully our ancestor will still be able to run some of the apps in the future. Social media apps are off course thin clients.
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by thomasfl 10y ago
If apple would allow hackintosh, then they would probably face competition from companies producing hackintosh laptops. It would be like rolex started allowing fake watches.
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by thomasfl 10y ago
It's an excellent idea to have a calendar that can be zoomed without steps. You just got to think of a way to make it easier for user to know how to scroll and zoom. Maybe two finger swipe should be scrolling and one finger swipe zoom?
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by thomasfl 11y ago
The situation is very similar in Norway's capital city Oslo. Single family homes all a round a small downtown. Crammed between the fjord on side and the great woods protected by politicians, it's runninh out of free space.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
This sounds like a good title for a crime novel. Interesting read about problems they have with democracy and free speech in eastern europe.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
As a Norwegian, redistribution of wealth through free education and free healthcare seems obvious. That so many US citizens seems to disagree on that, is really hard for me to understand.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
Google seems to know that when I am searching for ruby, I want it to rank the programming language first. In due time it will know that by crystal I mean the programming language.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
If I had to optimize parts of a ruby project, I think it would be much better to port the code to crystal than C or Go.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
The banner is ruby red, so why not.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
An article that are sceptic to VC's and startups could be interesting to discuss here on HN.
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How platform coops can beat death stars like Uber to create a sharing economy(commonstransition.org)
1 points by thomasfl 11y ago|1 comments
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by thomasfl 11y ago
As soon as I've learned bayes theorem myself, I'll go on and teach my 9 year old daughter.
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176 lines of pure disruptive code
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Wow. I've always wondered how a combination safe works.
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This confirms the findings described in the book "The China Study". It describes a massive long term survey done in china. Animal proteins is harming.
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by thomasfl 11y ago
Now that you have revealed the secret, Hacker News will be banned in russia forever.
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Thank's for sharing this inside info. It's hard to imagine a better example to explain the importance of rest and sleep even if people are motived to keep on working.
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It even create reflux stores and actions. Like +1

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