brianbarker's comments

I was coming to add this exact thought! A solution like the umbrella could be activated and easily deactivated at will, since it's a physical object that could change positions.

The other solutions, such as putting chemicals into the sky or sea, cannot be reversed. Better hope they work correctly the first time!

Why is this getting downvoted? Iceland did roll out a crypto-currency, the article did claim this other to be the first. Seems logicalman is being just that ;).

A flip phone doesn't really stop surveillance. They still track where you are, who you call. Sure, maybe no app data, but since you don't use Facebook and such that data wouldn't be there anyway.

The mentioned novels seem cool, but an even better reference is Feed. Published in 2002 before MySpace was a household name, it pretty much hits the nail on the head in terms of surveillance, marketing and connectedness.

Integrate a tissue on the nose pad and you're ready for any season!

'tis a noble idea, but I don't see this project going very far. I think operating systems suck in general, but I can't just sit down with a couple of buddies and write a new one that competes on all the practical levels it would need to in order to become mainstream.

Well, have fun kids!

I won, too. HN could remove all the undeserved downvotes I get ;).

In the end you can't have both. If you work all the time your interpersonal relationships with suffer. The original post is asking for advice in a situation where he is unable to spend enough time away from work and appears to want to keep a lady friend.

I would also add that perhaps it's time to reconsider your goals. If you're working a ton, or on a startup or side project or whatever, maybe that's not going to give you what you want and maybe it's time to let go. It's hard, but you can do it.

First, I wouldn't get relationship advice from HN, or any pool of nerds. There's a reason our relationships suffer or are few and far between: nerd personalities will spend more time coding at work, trying to build a side project, watch TV or play games than being a healthy, balanced human being.

I work 40 hours a week. If I have work shit poking into my life beyond that on a regular basis, it's time to talk to my manager.

Don't lose your life to sitting on a computer coding. You can write software (or whatever you do) until you die, but you can't get back time lost, moments, relationships, friends and family.

As hokey as it may sound, and as often as I had people around me warning me about this, it took me awhile to figure it out. Sadly, it will take many nerds a long time to figure out and I'm convinced most never do.

When I die, I don't want my only memories to be coding on my laptop at home. There's so much more to try out and discover. Art, music, people, cooking, travel, whatever. IDK. Find some stuff and do more of it.

Well, there are some people who think this way. Likely there are many of them on HN. However, watch any presidential race in the US and see the rant about people who mooch off society by not "working hard enough." I come from a red state and that's what I hear around here all the time--terms like "welfare state," "freeloaders," etc. and beyond.

I do appreciate the hope that more and more people are coming around! That's all we can hope for.

Star Trek society. That's what can happen, but only if we progress into a mindset that those who don't work for money are not slackers nor taking away from the success of the wealthy.

When I had LinkedIn I got endorsements for Copy & Paste.

no-helmeters??

Of course something like that exists. Of course there's a group of people up in arms over helmet use.

Of course. Fuck me, nothing should surprise me anymore.

"compulsory bicycle helmet laws reduce the overall quality of life"

So...compulsory seat belt laws reduce the overall quality of life? Say what?

Yeah I can see how that would be a problem. Maybe it'd be better to clarify that JQuery and Angular work great together; however, JQuery plugins (which may have all kinds of selectors, state, DOM manipulation) cannot be guaranteed to do what you want inside of Angular.

But again, is your plugin being called from an angular module, or are you running them separately on the same nodes? That's typically the problem, and it makes sense. If any two frameworks are messing with the same page content, you're bound to see issues.

Edit: see comment above as well about JQuery plugins.

Since when do Angular and JQuery not play nicely? Angular uses "JQLite" which gets replaced with JQuery if it's already loaded.

I guess if you're trying direct dom manipulation on the same elements from outside of Angular with JQuery and with Angular it could get messy. The community would just say "you're not doing it the Angular way." You're not. You can use the JQuery inside a directive and controller and be fine.

https://docs.angularjs.org/misc/faq

You can share snippets on any platform using either github snippets or an html/js code formatter like https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/downloads/lis....

Rather than host your own, I prefer just going with tumblr or something slick. I do like tumblr for its social connectedness, easy sharing and liking. Whatever floats your boat, though.

Put "show HN" on it. After they added the special feed for that the other day, everyone was hacking that and there were about 7 on the front page for awhile.

Ironically, this post is sticking on the front page :). Maybe that says something about negativity in the nerd world. Then again, maybe not.

I do have to say, though, that only a true nerd would feel some sort of failure by not getting to the HN front page. Jesus still loves you.