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doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: So you want to abolish time zones

I'm thinking that clocks to time would be more like GPS to maps. You could just simply ask what position is the sun in a particular location, at a fingers touch. So it would be too much of a big deal for most people. But it would make programmers and things that deal with logical time much easier.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: We're all communication hoarders

Interestingly, I think that keeping everything can actually give us a much more fuller account of our lives. If were are able to create an AI that will help with the augmentation of all the data. I can really see something like: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/?ref_=ttep_ep1

Which is what Gordon Bell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits) and Microsoft Research have been looking into.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Insurance Company Pays People to Stay Fit

I'm really curious to see what people think of this. I think this combined with bitcoin can open up some cool possibilities.

Meaning I would love to come up with an algorithm that works while you workout. Then the hash rate is timed to number of steps or kilometers taken to release a block of bitcoin. Which I think could open up even more fitness incentives.

You could even have "races" to see who can find a hash before the others in your group.

Of course people could try and cheat, but that would be where the secret sauce is... kinda like reCAPTCHA but for bio-metrics.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: A Formula for the Number of Days in Each Month

There was a Hacker News article about why August has 31 days, breaking the 30/31 alternating days. I can't find it but here's an article about it.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/history-of-august.html

It just makes it a more interesting formula because of that!

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Landing on a Comet, 317M Miles from Home

I'm thinking the same thing, and adding that they launched it 10 years ago... and had to avoid planets and other space junk while doing a crazy orbit until it could fling of to meet the comet at a precise location... But I wonder if engineers can change things a bait after launch with thrusters?

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Mark Cuban's Plan for Limiting Scope of Discovery in Lawsuits

Were they trying to be ironic, by providing screenshots of the application? For which the messages should have disappeared? I guess there were no obvious identifying cues from the app. But a person could make them in the message sent back. So this suffers from the same problems as other "ephemeral" apps, the "screenshot", right?

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: DNA from hagfish being used to synthesize bulletproof slime

Speaking of plastics, one of the disadvantages of it is that it doesn't bio-degrade. Do you think the closer we get to natural fibers, the more they will bio-degrade easier?

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: What Does It Really Cost to Live in San Francisco?

Detroit is above San Diego on the chart in the article. Can someone explain that to me? I just read how Detroit is an "emerging market", and San Diego is often cited as a very expensive city.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Brain changes are associated with casual marijuana use in young adults

I'm naive here, but won't some brain changes have to happen when becoming addicted to nicotine when smoking cigarettes?

Would it be safe to say that, any drug that alters your state of mind will cause a brain change? (Legal or illegal)

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com

> ... avoid network effects in the beginning if at all possible. It's a whole other level of pain...

Can you explain what you mean by that? I thought network effects were good. No?

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Android Wear apps would you like to see?

Something that lets me scan a NoSQL database, like in the movie "Disclosure"

A clip for those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go

Interesting concept. Are you planning on adding a system where you can write plug-ins in Javascript or Python for example? I saw in the blog post you were looking to adding a way to extend the editor.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Posty – A comprehensive, modern Postfix and Dovecot administration tool

Exactly. This makes it a bit easier to run your own stable mail server.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Posty – A comprehensive, modern Postfix and Dovecot administration tool

postfix is a really old, but very stable email server. This puts a modern API on top of it.

I really like it. I was doing a one-time email type of service that had to manually create and destroy 100's of email addresses a day. This would have helped out a lot when getting started. I had to write/hack custom tools that barely worked. I would have loved this.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Google killer-robots.txt

Apparently Google is not the only one on the internet fighting against killer robots. I found this a few years back...

http://developer.appcelerator.com/robots.txt

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: BitAuth for Decentralized Authentication

I agree. I don't see where this is significantly better. You can add data to signed certs as well, so you can get the SIN functionality that way if I'm not mistaken.

I also didn't see if this touched the blockchain at all. They made note about the SIN being public (then again, so is a Public Key), so I'm looking for the SIN to be in a blockchain somewhere.

doragcoder | 11 years ago | on: Go Hercule

FYI:

   for i, v := range array

will give you the indexes and values. If you just want the values then use "_" in place of i to "throwaway" the index.

http://play.golang.org/p/JZZ40FMOMz