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by xavi 11y ago
Instead of subsidizing green power, I think it would make more sense that producers of non-green power would pay for the real cost of their power, including the environmental cost, through a carbon tax for example (also suggested by others,
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by xavi 11y ago
Anki has many features but I found it too complicated and I didn't like the UI, nor having to sync across devices. So I decided to develop a basic, simpler alternative, a web app that can also be installed in the home screen of an iOS
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by xavi 11y ago
I just pushed a new version that uses the Jaro–Winkler algorithm instead of Levenshtein, which gets much better completions with very few keystrokes, while retaining misspelling tolerance. Check it out!
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by xavi 11y ago
Yes, I realize that Levenshtein, the scoring algorithm used by default, can actually be worse than a simple `startsWith` if there are no misspellings. In the case of United States, if typed without misspellings, with Levenshtein, it only sh
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Show HN: MissPlete – Misspelling-tolerant autocomplete in 200 lines of ES6(xavi.github.io)
6 points by xavi 11y ago|3 comments
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by xavi 11y ago
ClojureScript with Enfocus ( https://github.com/ckirkendall/enfocus/ ) in the front-end, and Clojure with Enlive ( https://github.com/cgrand/enlive ) in the backend. It's not a SPA. I starte
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Show HN: Omnimemory – Simple multi-device flashcards(omnimemory.com)
9 points by xavi 11y ago|2 comments
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Hands-On with the Collapsible Magnetic 'TextBlade' Keyboard for iOS Devices(macrumors.com)
4 points by xavi 12y ago|0 comments
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Websites Will Soon Start Pushing App-Style Notifications(technologyreview.com)
3 points by xavi 12y ago|0 comments
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by xavi 13y ago
I get an error when trying to sign up.
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by xavi 13y ago
The government could serve as the temporal bridge between a selling owner and the future buyer. At the least it could simply stop collecting the tax once the owner stops using it even if a buyer hasn't been found yet. The government co
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by xavi 13y ago
Yes, it seems so. However, my argument is not that basic income would not have desirable consequences, but that I think it's not sustainable. I try to look at the whole system, and I don't see how it would work.
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by xavi 13y ago
If the tax is also based on improvements and use of the land, then it's not "Georgist": "Many municipal governments of the USA depend on real property tax as their main source of revenue, although such taxes are not &quo
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by xavi 13y ago
This means that you would structure the land value tax so that enough money could be collected to pay a basic income for everyone? That's certainly an option, although I'm not sure if I would vote for that, I guess that it would d
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by xavi 13y ago
I don't understand any of your arguments! How is a single tax on land value taxing on income? Can you put an example? I understand the tax would be on the value of the land, not on its size (from your comment I'm not sure if you u
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by xavi 13y ago
Frickin' everyone? I look at the evolution of unemployment rates ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unemployment_rate_United_s... ) and I see a clear trend that I think is not going to change. Besides, among the
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by xavi 13y ago
I am all for more fair wealth distribution, but I don't see how this would be sustainable. With a basic income so high and higher taxes on the rich, what's the incentive to work for money? Hence, who would pay this? I think Georgi
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Georgism(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by xavi 13y ago|0 comments
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Renzo Piano's self-sufficient micro house(vitra.com)
1 points by xavi 13y ago|0 comments
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by xavi 13y ago
SEEKING WORK ― Barcelona ― Remote I've been working in software startups for more than 15 years, some of which I founded or co-founded. As an entrepreneur I'm a generalist, yet specializing in full-stack web and mobile development with Ruby
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by xavi 13y ago
I do not understand your comment. Do you know of any salary whose amount depends on how pleasant/unpleasant the job is? The idea here is that unpleasant jobs, i.e. jobs that most of the people do not want to do, are paid more. I don't think
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by xavi 13y ago
About rewarding grunt work more, that's also the idea on which the work is distributed in the utopian community described in Skinner's Walden Two: "About four labor credits are required per day, which translates to anywhere from two to six
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by xavi 14y ago
Only for sequence diagrams, but you may like http://www.websequencediagrams.com
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by xavi 14y ago
Here's a complete authentication web app that uses Clojure https://github.com/xavi/noir-auth-app It generates HTML using Enlive (for complete separation of code and markup), it talks to a MongoDB database (using CongoMongo). It also has a
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Fast, simple, powerful templating in Clojure(gist.github.com)
2 points by xavi 14y ago|0 comments
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by xavi 14y ago
From what I understand, Chrome doesn't prefetch HTTPS URLs https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender but Firefox does https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Link_prefetching_FA... So, using HTTPS could be a way to avo
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by xavi 14y ago
Thanks, and sorry but I don't understand what you mean about ensureIndex, which is actually used by calling CongoMongo's add-index! in https://github.com/xavi/noir-auth-app/blob/master/src/noir_a... which in turn calls ensureIndex in the
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by xavi 14y ago
You're probably right. I'll change that. Apart from the REST argument, the best single reason I can come up with to justify changing these to use POST is that otherwise it's possible to cancel an email change or resend a confirmation of a l
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Complete authentication app based on Clojure, Noir and MongoDB(github.com)
43 points by xavi 14y ago|11 comments
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by xavi 15y ago
I enjoyed this essay very much, but I think that presenting Apple as a hardware company ("the company that creates the next wave of hardware...", "If a new company led boldly into the future of hardware...") won't help to find the next Stev

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