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by zarify 10y ago
I've been saved most of the time by having lots of similar sounding people in my address book. The other night I was lying in bed and was setting a reminder and it almost called one of my coworkers (or someone I trained with a few year
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by zarify 10y ago
It was interesting that in the announcement of this by Australia Post they cited the example of using drones for 'last mile' stuff in rural properties where the driver goes to the gate and then uses the drone to deliver to a prope
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by zarify 10y ago
So I looked for a random photo on my phone and fed it a picture of a spot my leg that I'm keeping an eye on. Close-up of a cat apparently. Damn these hairy legs.
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by zarify 10y ago
I'd love a search engine built around something like this idea. Of course, how would you pay for something that discouraged the idea of advertising?
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by zarify 10y ago
I haven't used Instapaper much since Marco sold it, but if the underlying service is much the same, does this mean that saved articles (minus ads) will then be served in newsletter form with Instapaper's sponsor's ads thrown
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by zarify 11y ago
This was my problem. One of the later updates to 1Blocker killed comments in HN for me.
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by zarify 11y ago
Why on earth would anyone make a unibody car? Who wants to replace the entire car body for a ding in the door?
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by zarify 11y ago
Fascinating idea. To what degree would a company need to exist outside national boundaries (physical and legal) before something like this could become a reality? The idea of a giant Apple logo beaming down at us from the moon is mildly ter
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by zarify 11y ago
Not much help if the device giving you the error is also your primary means of looking up error codes. Would much rather the "more details" pattern where you have a link/button at the bottom of the error which actually explai
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by zarify 11y ago
Nice advert. Shame it's just more SaaS. Not sure if it's just because I'm in .au and have laggier connections to all the fancy tools in the US, but I just don't find web tools that fulfilling. I've been having a gre
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by zarify 11y ago
Their $1 per week only says that they won't serve ads to you as well, it says nothing about all of the other rubbish that still tracks you but doesn't display ads.
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by zarify 11y ago
Not sure how this can be levelled at the congestion argument. Presumably Verizon's video service is running from their data centres over their internal pipes, rather than external networks where bandwidth is considerably more expensive
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by zarify 11y ago
To give more consideration to that argument than it's worth for a second, is there no government funded medical research into these medical issues in the US then? Add to the fact that you'd be talking about prevention, not cure fo
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by zarify 11y ago
As a teacher, I guess I'd agree. But I think that the bit about girls tending to have better attitudes toward school is the key point. It's much easier to be err on the side of giving marks (not awarding marks for incorrectness, b
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by zarify 11y ago
I'm with you on the price setting and App Store stuff, but it was my impression that they had gotten much better about the NDA issue over the last couple of years. I would love to see the 3.5mm jack disappear though. I have mixed feeli
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by zarify 11y ago
Well, my idea about this is actually that we're so used to our eyes going to the top of the screen when we hear the word "menu" and regular people don't have the same associations. I think if I went to a platform that fo
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by zarify 11y ago
Planet Money did a series of podcast episodes on this which were quite interesting (there were some low points there too, but on the whole I think the series of episodes came out at a net positive). First in the series: http://ww
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Western Australia proposal to unify ride sharing, taxi licensing(abc.net.au)
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by zarify 11y ago
As a classroom teacher I always saw these as just a minor nuisance. Interesting seeing some of the business side of things.
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by zarify 11y ago
Given their first link 404's and the DSGL list has an exemption for basic research and stuff in the public domain, I'm hoping that this is just misinterpretation or FUD. http://www.defence.gov.au/deco/DSGL.asp
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by zarify 11y ago
Loved this. Some really interesting design ideas there - I quite liked the icon-driven one with the week's worth of timelines. Since I don't lead a very busy life (at least with regards to events) I think something like that would
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by zarify 12y ago
I am curious as to whether this is just supposed to be sarcastic humor or whether it's thought that the snarky list is actually supposed to be helpful in some way. It reads very much as "something I think without saying anything a
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by zarify 12y ago
RSS would be nice as well. Trawling through older or less popular links is better without having to click on paging links. One of the things I like about HN is having easy access to both the link and the comments link via the feed.
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by zarify 12y ago
I found martial arts a more bearable way to get more exercise and not get bored. Started out with karate and then picked up Brazilian Ju Jitsu, which is a lot more full on and arguably less structured. Both did wonders for how I felt about
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by zarify 12y ago
I found out about this method last week and it's my new favorite after having to fix up a couple of weird situations caused by someone joining their laptop to the school domain, and someone locking themself out of their only admin acco
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by zarify 12y ago
One of the really nice things I found about MUDs was how surprisingly accessible they were for creating your own content. I taught myself to program on an LPMUD, and the multi user nature of MUDs taught me a fair bit about optimising code,
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by zarify 12y ago
Been having a play and it looks good, although the way that variable assignment is referred to in some of the problems feels inconsistent and is sometimes confusing. In some problems you talk about the variable first and the value second, a
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by zarify 12y ago
I might just not have played with it enough at the beginning of 2014, but kivy had some serious weirdness when it came to the way in which it approached its layouts, which I feel was down to the way in which it tried to approach being multi
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by zarify 12y ago
One of the issues I've had using Python to teach in the last few years has been the glacial transition to Python 3 for some packages, often with some annoying cross platform inconsistencies (trying to keep up with two or three differen
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by zarify 12y ago
As an educator the whole power of expectation thing probably was more interesting to me than things like the echolocation aspect. I mean yes, we know that students perform better when you expect more of them, but some of the aspects of how

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