xzion

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by xzion 8y ago
The Nexus Trilogy, by Ramez Naam. Rereading it at the moment, my favourite modern sci-fi series by far.
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by xzion 8y ago
There's a subreddit with the same name that calls out these kind of techniques if you're hungry for more examples. https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/
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by xzion 9y ago
Easy onboarding, thanks! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xzion
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by xzion 10y ago
I just can't agree with the recommendation to read the comments before articles you find online. Critical thinking is such an important skill for everyone, not just engineers, and this habit all but eliminates it. You go into an articl
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by xzion 10y ago
Looking forward to a followup talk of him gloating now this bug has been reported
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by xzion 10y ago
I don't understand how your suggestion enforces non-transferability. If the scalper pay $100 for a ticket and the ticket holder receives a $50 rebate at the event, the scalper just adds $50 to the price they resell at. Like I said, I u
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by xzion 10y ago
I understand that this is an economics problem; the ($5b?) market exists because there is significantly more demand than supply and ticket prices are not adjusted to accommodate this imbalance. Why that's the case I'm not sure. Pe
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by xzion 10y ago
Any tips/examples on trying to sell a product that provides ethical/moral benefits but very little/nothing financially? Some friends and I were throwing around ideas on how to eliminate scalping, a practice we get bitten by.
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by xzion 10y ago
Is the post title referring to "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, or something else?
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by xzion 10y ago
Awesome, had been planning to make something like this myself to keep track of all the gigs I get to. Nice simple UI, does exactly what I want it to. Keep it up! Edit: Ok, two minor annoyances. Firstly, if gig details aren't found or l
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by xzion 10y ago
I work at a medical device consultancy, but we're mostly developing custom Class B/C devices at the bare metal level. It sounds like you'll be developing a Class A device and cost isn't a huge issue so I'd probably
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Ask HN: What's your preferred toolset for developing desktop GUI applications?
5 points by xzion 10y ago|3 comments
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by xzion 11y ago
I was really hope they refresh the R-Pi compute module at a pricepoint like this.
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by xzion 11y ago
Mouse doesn't seem to work correctly on win64, left click just selects the window and right click gives standard minimize/maximize/close options. Also there's two scroll bars on the right hand side, where there should be
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by xzion 12y ago
this was infuriating