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I could recommend taiko (Japanese) drums as an adult hobby. You very quickly get off the ground in terms of making wonderful music together with a group.

It’s a cool shell. I used it for a half a year. And then it started crashing on me every ten minutes or so. That’s when I came to appreciate how important the stability of such a tool is.

Maybe you’re not a native English speaker? “Getting robbed” can also mean not getting something you are justly deserved.

What amount of money do you think you'd have to pay them in order for them to say "Yeah, that's enough. I'm not going to use my position to my advantage."?

Point #2 was the reason we made our todo app. It was amazing how many apps had due dates but not do dates. Today you should see the tasks that you WANT to do, and not ALL your tasks, and definitely not just the tasks that MUST be done by today.

The rest of the points are solid as well. Dealing with the downward spiral is the most challenging and interesting. I personally always solved this by putting my head in my wife's lap and talking through it. This is not scalable, so our solution is a "procrastination wizard" that walks you through getting started when you're in a downward spiral. We've gotten good feedback that it's helped people recover from spiraling, so there's definitely hope for solving this with a tool, and I think an LLM could be a good solution here!

This may be the standard approach, but the question is how else it could have happened other than some GoF procedure. Any idea what the odds are of this ratio happening by chance?

Posted last week here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29723433

TL;DW Guy thinks information should be free. Thinks an informed society is important. Thinks journalistic freedom is necessary for that. Thinks Julian Assange should be free.

Video is about the circumstances around the foiling of the plot to get Julian Assange out of the country by means of becoming an Ecuador diplomat. There was a meeting between JA and an Ecuadorian diplomat during the final stages of the plan (end of 2017 I think). This was high priority for US intelligence. One company inspected the fire extinguishers just before the meeting. The fire extinguisher was later found to be bugged. Each day around the time of the meeting there was a Ford Focus or a police car parked in front of the building allegedly collecting signals from the bugs and being ready to rock if necessary (often there were multiple dudes in the car, once 8 cups of coffee were brought to a police car). High quality surveillance of one such car reveals a dude holding case notes mentioning what to do in case the video surveillance goes out and JA tries to leave the building, including shooting out tires. Mentions operation kudo (meaning has something to do with “friend”), which the presenter suspects to be a joint operation between the CIA and the London metropolitan police since it used MS7 (something like that) and MET acronyms. This would all be very much a breach of inviolability of diplomatic missions from Vienna convention. Lawsuits are underway apparently. In the end Ecuador gave up on this plan due to diplomatic pressure from US.

Presenter was himself surveilled on behalf of the CIA but things have calmed down since a yahoo news article last year described some of the circumstances above, though he said it was also filled with some misinformation.

Might not be 100% accurate. I was distracted.

Guy thinks information should be free. Thinks an informed society is important. Thinks journalistic freedom is necessary for that. Thinks Julian Assange should be free.

Video is about the circumstances around the foiling of the plot to get Julian Assange out of the country by means of becoming an Ecuador diplomat. There was a meeting between JA and an Ecuadorian diplomat during the final stages of the plan (end of 2017 I think). This was high priority for US intelligence. One company inspected the fire extinguishers just before the meeting. The fire extinguisher was later found to be bugged. Each day around the time of the meeting there was a Ford Focus or a police car parked in front of the building allegedly collecting signals from the bugs and being ready to rock if necessary (often there were multiple dudes in the car, once 8 cups of coffee were brought to a police car). High quality surveillance of one such car reveals a dude holding case notes mentioning what to do in case the video surveillance goes out and JA tries to leave the building, including shooting out tires. Mentions operation kudo (meaning has something to do with “friend”), which the presenter suspects to be a joint operation between the CIA and the London metropolitan police since it used MS7 (something like that) and MET acronyms. This would all be very much a breach of inviolability of diplomatic missions from Vienna convention. Lawsuits are underway apparently. In the end Ecuador gave up on this plan due to diplomatic pressure from US.

Presenter was himself surveilled on behalf of the CIA but things have calmed down since a yahoo news article last year described some of the circumstances above, though he said it was also filled with some misinformation.

Might not be 100% accurate. I was distracted.

I've heard people say good things about dominos in Switzerland in France but I have zero interest in trying it to compare with my experience in the USA.

For me (on Catalina), it's May 10, 2005.

Maybe you had a recent exposure?

I don't have any opinion about "made in Switzerland" for software (other than that it does make a good impression for my customers), but anecdotally (at least when shopping within Switzerland) I have noticed that the "made in Switzerland" stuff at the store is better quality. And sure it's more expensive, but all the crap products are expensive too.

Kevin Wayne is one of the authors of Algorithms 4th ed. by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne and he has a github repository called "algs4". Pearson sent github a DMCA notice for this repository and another. I'm not sure exactly what content he hosted in "algs4".

I have a small b2c business and one of our key differentiators is the customizability. Users LOVE to turn stuff on and off and customize fonts, colors, and every bit to their liking. Sure it makes bugs and some users post ugly screenshots, but there’s definitely still value there that users recognize.

I’ve also noticed that surprisingly many of my friends have changed their Gmail theme.

2.8e7 records ;)

What laptop stand is that?

Facebook has major platform lock-in for me, though, since that's where all my friends are. The proper solution is to vote with your ad-blocker.

https://amazingmarvin.com/ has been my side project since 2016 (wow!). I will finally quit my job at the end of the year to go full-time on it (co-founder is already full-time). I worried a lot about doing something that had already been done 1000 times (a productivity tool), but now that it's working out I realized there's always room for a better mousetrap! Another surprising learning: it's still possible to have a product that people will pay for in 2019 with a mediocre phone app.

My wife recently bought a macbook pro and I hate the keyboard (her comment was "you get used to it"). My 2015 MBP is running real slow and I didn't want to wait for next year's refreshed keyboard so I just ordered an oryx pro with ridiculous specs for less than I would have spent on a MBP (although probably the screen is worse and definitely the battery too - we'll see about the rest of the hardware). Really curious to see how it will feel to back to linux.

6 months in I rewrote my meteor app in react for a startup. At the time I was worried it was one of those developer procrastination moments, but it ended up as a HUGE win for us. Our customers are amazed at how fast we can implement features and fix problems, which I credit to react and doing things client-side as much as possible (i.e. pouchdb).

Alas, there's a login.