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by vagab0nd 8y ago
This reminds me of a story I read from some operating system book: Guys working on an early OS profiled the system and found that one particular routine is taking a lot of CPU time. They worked hard optimizing it but found it didn't im
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Ask HN: How much can you multi-task?
2 points by vagab0nd 8y ago|1 comments
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
I started playing the piano around 4 but gave up around 12. I can play by ear pretty easily, meaning listening to a song and just play the main rhythm. It always feels natural to me, so I guess I didn't feel anything special about it.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
The list got me thinking, why aren't there more biotech startups in Silicon Valley? Not to discount the importance of other things but I'd really love to see we put more resources into improving the human body. Maybe US regulation
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I would say that for the first use case, unless the "memorizing" feature is built in to the dictionary app, it's hard to do it automatically. You could use the OS's "Share" feature to
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
It's a very simple App which helps you memorize and learn items using Spaced Repetition. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nerfsoftwa...
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
I used to think that making money was extremely easy. You can make an App, a website, a YouTube channel, etc. How absolutely naive I was. Turns out it's very hard to convince people to pay you. I adopted a different strategy later on.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Understanding risk vs reward, and maybe some math behind it. It sounds simple on the surface, but once I deeply understood it, it just keeps showing up again and again in life: financial investing, trading, playing poker, taking risks in li
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Maybe OT but, how would the 40m likely be used by the SEC?
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Before I fully understood bitcoin's Lightning Network, I had the same doubt. For people who are familiar with the Futex concept in operating systems, I can draw an analogy with the Lightning Network. If the transaction doesn't nee
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
The problem is, how does the saas prove to you that you own the data and privacy is not violated? I see no way of doing it unless the customer owns the server.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
I completely agree on the Maps experience. These days I'm constantly annoyed by it. When I search for a place the map jumps around like crazy, causing me to lose track of my current focus area and my points of interest from previous se
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Most of the music recommendation services I know of are based on meta data of the songs (artist, genre, etc.). Is there anyone out there working on recommendation systems purely based on the music itself, now that we have deep learning? I&#
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Jenny Everywhere is an open-source, freely licensed character(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by vagab0nd 8y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Sometimes I wonder, how confident were our ancestors when they thought fire was an element, or when the Egyptians made mummies and hoped they would come back to life. Did they have the same level of confidence as we do today? That the &quot
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
I'm a little confused by the replies here. From the source article from Google [0], it sounds like they are planning on merging Inbox features back into Gmail and focusing on one product instead of two. They even put out a transition g
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Same here. I don't necessarily hate the comic style. But for some reason this particular style makes it very hard to read and understand.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
This Radiolab episode is highly relevant: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Once after a conversation with a QA coworker, I tried cornering a Roomba with the walls and my feet, hoping it would stop operating. I watched it continuously bumping into the walls and my feet, for 5 minutes. I let go of it eventually.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
For people who are not familiar, there are 12 steps in an octave. The frequency of the note doubles for each octave. Thus, each "step" increase the frequency of the note by 2^(1/12) times. So you have the frequencies of each
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
I'm curious, how can they inject their data if https is used?
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Serious question: What harm does microplastics do to human body?
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Thank you. Explains why I like the name so much! Not to mention that it abbreviates to "SSS". I quickly looked up the D&D player's handbook and sure enough: Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion[0] [0] http:/&#x2F
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
If I don't eat meat for a couple days, I start feeling tired and hungry all the time. So for me the problem is not the taste of the meat, but rather how it makes my body functional. I haven't tried the Impossible Burger. Does it s
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
The biggest problem for me is the delay between when the tax is incurred and when it is filed. As a home owner, for instance, every year I have to remember how much I paid for property tax, mortgage interests, etc (or at least save the rece
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Would you consider the writing to be on the wall today?
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
> Shutting mic, camera and sensor data off for idle/background apps is neat, though I'm shocked that wasn't an option before. What do I do now if I want a skype or wechat voice call in the background while using the phone
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Came here to say this, which is the first thing I thought of after reading the title of this article. Incidentally, I first read the Chinese version of "A Study in Scarlet". And I remember vividly (because I read it many times) wh
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Looks like the videos were taken down. This would be a perfect use case for peertube.
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Ask HN: Why are we still not able to debug our bodies?
1 points by vagab0nd 8y ago|1 comments

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