xeniak | 9 years ago | on: High-Speed Traders Are Taking Over Bitcoin
High-speed trading on a "market" that allows ~10 transactions/second max?
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xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Contracts for doing software consulting?
The Contract Killer by Andy Clarke gets some good feedback:
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Don’t Mess with The Google
Regulate a free service?
I wonder if any G Suite customers had their accounts closed.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: What does Unsplash cost to run?
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522661
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Top 7 Digital Marketing Skills That Are in High Demand
Blog spam
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Jakarta's Aeromovel – mass transit powered by pressurized air [video]
> generated by electric blowers
Is the electricity generation clean? Unlikely in SEA.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extension?
Papier looks interesting.
I've been using a blank new-tab:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extension?
Auto Copy: Automatically copy selected text to the clipboard. Has options for copying as plain text; including the URL in the copied text; etc.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-copy/bijpdibk...
Tab Snooze: Close unnecessary tabs and make them magically reappear when you need them.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia...
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles
> initially appears to be a normal pair of sunglasses
While it's less offensive than Google Glasses, this doesn't look like "normal" glasses.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Web development as a hack of hacks (in reply to a HN thread)
This is in response to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12477190
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
Sometimes I think these guys know something obscure, and then post a question about it just to answer it themselves.
SO actually allows this, Q and A from the same account. Some people use sock-puppets though.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Born to Rest
I don't think this is true, or at least not always true.
A good example is the armed forces, where recruits are forced into a very regimented routine.
My father was in the marines, and by his description they turned him from someone who lacked discipline and was not fit into the exact opposite.
When he retired, he kept up his routines: rising early, keeping fit. He's tried to instill the same discipline in his daughters - it's not as effective when it's not mandatory however.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: The Fastest FizzBuzz in the West
Dustin seems to take offence at the idea that FizzBuzz would be used in a technical interview to screen job candidates.
Jeff Atwood on the other hand thinks it's a great way to filter out "developers" who can't program their way out of a wet paper bag:
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Browser Bloat (1996)
This is well juxtaposed with Cast being added natively into Chrome: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383367
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: My @JFK Twitter account “has been suspended and will not be restored”
> I can’t help feeling like I’m getting the death penalty for a parking violation
I think our obsession with short/cool handles is strange, and even stranger is people building their "empire" on something that can be taken from you so arbitrarily.
It's the same as people expecting to get free-speech on Twitter/FB/Tumblr.
Even domains, which can't be taken from you on a whim, can be made far less "valuable" with the introduction on new TLDs.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
The best contributions you can make on GitHub are legitimate ones: start using various libraries etc. and when you find bugs or missing documentation, open an issue or try and provide a PR.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are open vacation policies a scam?
While 28 days is at the high end, almost all developed countries (UK, AU, FR, etc.) require employers to provide 4+ weeks per year paid holiday leave.
Bigger companies will even force you to take it once you've accrued a number of hours, as it can be a liability on the books (as unused holidays roll over indefinitely).
The US is an outlier in this regard.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: Earn points for every hour of active browsing with Microsoft Edge
Things like three months of advertisement-free Outlook, and Amazon/Starbucks gift cards.
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race
So the line is most accurate towards the end of a lap, and probably quite inaccurate at the start (given how much speed you gain during a coming out of a turn).
xeniak | 9 years ago | on: All Olympic gold medal winners in the 100m sprint compared in one race
> based on linear time difference
No point being animated then, as it's unlikely to be accurate.
I always wonder how accurate the WR line is for swimming events... is it linear, base on splits, or more granular?
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