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by ukoki 11y ago
Aren't there multiple rings for the South Pole solution? There's the solution where you head south, circle the pole once, and head back north; then there's also the one (starting slightly further south) where you head south,
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by ukoki 11y ago
Looks like it's been taken off HN. Any know why? Because of the NSFW content?
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by ukoki 11y ago
Hi Noio, thanks for letting me know about the bug. fingers-crossed it's fixed now.
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by ukoki 11y ago
doh! Trying to fix this now...
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Show HN: Touch-Typing Game with Victorian Erotic Fiction (NSFW Text)(gentletouch.peterellisjones.com)
7 points by ukoki 11y ago|12 comments
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by ukoki 12y ago
Nice! I made something similar a long time ago — create your own Mondrian painting through the medium of Tetris (warning: sound you can't turn off and bad graphics): http://www.kongregate.com/games/pete205/mon
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by ukoki 13y ago
One discovery method could be the "free upgrade". You feel good that they upgraded you to "premium" granola and when you run out, it's an easy upsell since you can just scan the box. They might even be able to get a
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by ukoki 13y ago
Streak is a dead simple way for managing "things with workflows/pipelines". It lives in gmail so the overhead pretty low. http://www.streak.com/
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by ukoki 13y ago
This also applies for the job market — if you got an offer with few interviews and little negotiation, you should've asked for more / applied for something more challenging.
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by ukoki 13y ago
Check out Meteor ( https://www.meteor.com ). I'm a Ruby on Rails developer by trade, but recently tried it and even after just a few hours of playing around with it, found my 'getting stuff done' speed was beating t
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by ukoki 13y ago
True — I didn't mean to slight Ayn Rand or her books. But if there ever was an airline where the passenger's success (super-cheap flight versus being horrifically screwed over) is the direct measure of his or her individual skill,
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by ukoki 13y ago
I love Ryanair — it's like Ayn Rand created an airline. Every flight is a battle of wits between the me, doing my best to _only_ pay the insanely low ticket price, and the airline, attempting to trap me at every turn, using every scumb
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by ukoki 13y ago
10% for administrative costs is huge - how much costs per user can you possibly incur? surely at most about a couple of percent per user? Furthermore, you state "I worry the donation isn't going to charity as advertised." is
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by ukoki 13y ago
oops thanks. Updating the instructions now.
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by ukoki 13y ago
Interesting! If anyone wants to give it a go, I just made a quick Dual-N-back app a couple of days ago, after reading Gwern's (who else?) excellent FAQ on the subject. My web app: http://nnback.ukoki.com Gwern's FAQ:
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by ukoki 13y ago
For a couple more examples of "beating the system", This American Life did a great episode on loopholes last year: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/473/l...
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by ukoki 13y ago
I'm building general-purpose spaced-repetition (flashcard) software for the browser: http://cardflashapp.com It started with me wanting to learn Chinese characters and being annoyed at Anki's UI/UX (Oddly I also &
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by ukoki 13y ago
They should have put up a Chinese wall.
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by ukoki 13y ago
Hi evjan, just saw your reply. Here's a few ways I want to improve on Anki: - "just works" deck importing from various formats (including Anki) - Card formatting with Markdown - Better deck sharing, forking and subscribing. C
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by ukoki 13y ago
Simple spaced repetition software in the browser. Made using Meteor. http://cardflashapp.com
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by ukoki 13y ago
If anyone wants to try this method, check out http://cardflashapp.com/ which I hope to make into a simpler alternative to ANKI (still very much a work in progress though)
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by ukoki 13y ago
me too! http://cardflashapp.com/
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by ukoki 13y ago
Online Spaced Repetition software that actually looks and feels good: http://cardflashapp.com (or at least that's the plan)
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by ukoki 13y ago
Nice! Also if anyone wants to learn the world capitals, I'm working on user-friendly spaced repetition software to do just that: http://cardflashapp.com It's still very alpha, but I was able to learn all the world and
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Guess which wikipedia article has the higher Flesch-Kincaid Readability Level(wikiread.ukoki.com)
1 points by ukoki 13y ago|0 comments
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by ukoki 13y ago
When Ford made the model T should we have cared about the catastrophic loss of employment facing blacksmiths, horse-breeders, stablehands, and carriage-makers? It's true that digital communication has obliterated industries. And that's awes
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by ukoki 14y ago
AWS comes into its own for these kinds of use cases - make a lightweight autoscaling events API on Elastic Beanstalk pumping events into DynamoDB coupled with a bunch of workers running at the EC2 spot price sorting and processing these int
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Game: Guess the Readability of Random Wikipedia Articles(wikiread.herokuapp.com)
1 points by ukoki 14y ago|0 comments
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by ukoki 14y ago
"There's no money in 3D printing" I'm skeptical. For example, developing seeds is another industry potentially vulnerable to the "customers could become the producers" dilemma but Monsanto is doing pretty well. Similarly you can use Microso
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Analysing Wikipedia Edits as a Trading Strategy(ukoki.com)
4 points by ukoki 14y ago|0 comments

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