lostbit's comments

lostbit | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: Wordle style games are not dead. I collected 314 and looking for more

My girl plays Termo and Letroso everyday, as a dessert from lunch. :-) Just submitted letroso.com which was not there, BTW.

lostbit | 9 years ago | on: Successful First Observations of Galactic Centre with GRAVITY

I've been right in front of ESO VLT, during a long motorcycle ride. A remarkable place, rough and peaceful at the same time.

lostbit | 10 years ago | on: Unix Toolbox

It was on my bookmarks for a long time. I thought it would be nice to share with you guys.

There are so many times I do searches on HN to recall about some nice things I've seen oh the web... Quite often, the comments are the gems!

lostbit | 10 years ago | on: NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98

True. We know our current offset from UTC (or legacy 'GMT'). I always use the real offset at that time. Thus, I just inform my clock saying UTC-3 (or UTC-2 when we are in daylight savings time).

lostbit | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you get people to pay you back? Tools?

I used http://tricount.com/ It can be web only or a mobile app.

I remember looking for the word "iou", meaning "I owe you" and found some apps regarding splitting the bills, but I ended up with Tricount.

lostbit | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos

Nice! I will set it on my room TV as an ambient attaction while talking with friends. let's see how it goes.

This reminds me that project Hyperlapse.js on http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/. They used to have a working site where you could make your own (quick) hyperlapse using Street View's content.

lostbit | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What project management tool do you love?

If you are more focused on tasks than chats you might like trello.com or even just workflowy.com. I wouldn't say they are Project Management tools, but they can help the processes go forward.

lostbit | 11 years ago | on: The cubicle gym: How I used science to make my work day freakishly healthy

This matches some of the concepts I've got from the book "The 4-Hour Body" from Tim Ferriss. The fast-exercise stimulation also tells your body not to store energy into fat, which is one of the principles of the Slow Carb Diet.

lostbit | 11 years ago | on: A Call for a Low-Carb Diet

I've started Tim Ferriss diet on May/2013 and went strictly on it (no supplements, aka, PAGG) up to September/13 when I reached my goal (97->82kg). I did a body check-up (mostly on blood and urine tests) on November/13 and everything was fine. I never came back on milk+bread on breakfast and I got used to go low-fat 6 days a week. I'm not so strict on Tim's diet anymore but I'm still low-fat-oriented. I'm turning 40 this month. So far, this diet worked greatly for me. BTW: I got to know about Tim's book here in HN.

I must recall that the low-carb diet from Tim is focused on food with low glycemic index. The idea is to avoid the conversion of the carbs you eat into fat stored in your body.

lostbit | 11 years ago | on: Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse

It's probably the same reason why we just get bigger hard-drives instead of cleaning stuff we store in our current storage capacity.

lostbit | 12 years ago | on: 3D printing tiny human livers

I didn't have associated the idea of "printing" to a "human organ" yet. Very interesting. I wonder if, in the future, printing an organ would be easier than making it grow somehow until it gets functional for transplant.

lostbit | 13 years ago | on: Is LinkedIn down?

It was on maintenance with a neat parking page (Sit tight).

lostbit | 13 years ago | on: Genius use of Pinterest by UNIQLO. Keep scrolling down.

Some images are 192x8228 pixels. This is probably scrolling in the shop monitors (if there are any). It has a catchy effect.

lostbit | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: DueProps, my employee motivation startup after selling Hashrocket

This fits very well in with the article discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042931. I've just told my company's HR to please evaluate DueProps. It seems to be very nice for this goal of recongition made fun.

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000

I remember watching "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" some time ago. It was nice to see the battles between Gates and Jobs in the beginning of the PC era. That movie ended even before Apple's re-birth.

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Automatically add beards, mustaches, monocles, and more to any face

A little bit in the topic. Trustworthiness of Beards: http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/2355_infographic.jpg

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my chatroom web app

Clickable: http://www.rapportapp.com

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts

I guess you haven't been on http://www.hnsearch.com/apps. It has not everything but is a good summary.

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Automatoon.com, an Online HTML5 Animation Tool (we finally launched :-)

Congratulations! I have no skills and could do something. I guess this will help designers to add something different in their pages. I think a kid can play with it and make something nice too.

lostbit | 14 years ago | on: Kind of Screwed

I was thinking about this. A 'famous' work nowadays is something that is extensively copied, remixed, rebuilt and virally spread. Many previous century minds think they have to gain something by their re-crafted work being in the spotlight again. They should be satisfied with a citation and happy they were remembered.

I believe today's works are more complacent about this. The artists understand that their work is supposed to pay them one time, that is, they receive their payment as agreed before starting it. If their work suddenly goes far beyond its initial goal, they will get bonuses of fame but rarely direct payments of their work showing up everywhere. Not-artist people usually don't even care.