vivan

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by vivan 9y ago
One nitpick here - they refer to Angular as AngularJS - these are actually two different things. I don't quite remember but did the survey itself distinguish between the two? If not then this will skew the numbers upwards.
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by vivan 9y ago
Spring of 2012. I ate a ketogenic diet and went to the gym (cardio) for half an hour daily. Lost weight, felt great and was able to breeze through studies. Haven't been able to recreate it, as it was only possible due to being at unive
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by vivan 9y ago
Well, with custom domain email addresses this is always true regardless of service provider. If you ever abandon the domain, someone else could come along and buy the domain and create the same email address. They could then receive any mai
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by vivan 9y ago
I love this, I'm actually working on something very similar (accepting donations via Stripe/PayPal, but for a completely different niche), and someone (@czue) pointed me to buymeacoffee for inspiration. There are a few weird littl
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by vivan 9y ago
One issue I have with FastMail is the reuse of email addresses. It is possible to "hack" accounts on websites which were registered to expired email addresses by simply registering that email address anew and doing a password rese
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by vivan 9y ago
Yes, you can make virtualenvs with different Python interpreters.
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by vivan 9y ago
I live in London and I'd love to cycle to work, but the infrastructure (for my route) just isn't there. And for people who aren't experienced cyclists, it is even worse as lack of confidence actually leads to more accidents.
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by vivan 9y ago
The private tracker world is in decline too though - these communities are dying off faster than new ones can be founded.
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by vivan 9y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up that claim? All of the data I've seen suggests that the average fees are still $8-10.
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by vivan 9y ago
I say this unironically: this is good for Bitcoin. In my opinion, the best time for Bitcoin was when it was sitting at around ~$1000, where fees were low, transaction times were low and acceptance was high. Bitcoin was a great currency for
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by vivan 9y ago
I am subscribed to the HN RSS feed, so I go through that daily. I click through on the stuff that looks interesting, but never see the same un-interesting stuff again. Occasionally I'll actually visit the website if I'm really bor
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by vivan 9y ago
In financial markets this is called a pump and dump scheme. It is illegal for regulated assets (see Wolf of Wall Street). However as Bitcoin is unregulated there is nothing stopping this from happening (yet).
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by vivan 9y ago
According to http://status.evernote.com/ "We are actively investigating an issue that is impacting the availability of our service."
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by vivan 9y ago
Nothing fancy, just threw this together to help IT support get hold of a user's IP addresse without having to deal with command prompt.
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Show HN: Get your local IP address in the browser(localip.io)
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by vivan 9y ago
Reminds me of an anecdote from The Pragmatic Programmer: Andy once worked on a large graphics application. Nearing release, the testers reported that the application crashed every time they painted a stroke with a particular brush. The prog