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Re:Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.” on Monday July 06, 2015 @05:03AM (#9837736)
This is the time to show solidarity by activating our resources and bootstrap a new economy.

The banks together with our rampant financial illiteracy all need to go, are we still not able to scale blockchain transactions? Is there a secure "libbitcoin" written in Rust yet? Do we have super secure and crypto currency focused "micro" operating systems / servers on open hardware?

Where are the people working on this? As a global economy - and civilization - we need to stick together and show some love and ingenuity.

Re:Resurrecting the SuperH architecture on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @12:20PM (#9813012)
I always had high admiration for the SuperH architecture and now to read about its potential to fuel the much-needed open hardware movement is fantastic news.
Re:Just Wear Headphones on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:31AM (#9758556)
Have you ever considered working remotely?
Re:Just Wear Headphones on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:29AM (#9758532)
At age 32 my hearing is apparently at the level of a 66 year old. I'm not much of a concert attender nor drug user so the only real explanation the doctor could give for my disappointing audiogram was my habit of regularly working with headphones on (I always took care of moderate volume, mind you).

I wasn't expecting this result at all, I actually thought my hearing was perfect but hearing loss starts at the highest frequencies and continues to the lower frequencies exponentially. The route towards "Sorry, what did you say?" doesn't take as long as you might suspect.

Re:Shenmue 3, the Largest Kickstarter Project Ever? on Monday June 15, 2015 @11:32PM (#9723656)
$1,000,000 in about an hour is certainly impressive.
Re:How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor on Monday June 15, 2015 @01:15PM (#9720668)
Thank you very much for sharing that, I'll probably get a Kinesis (still would like to at least try the Twiddler - might make sense with VR etc).
Re:How a keyboard changed what I look for in an editor on Sunday June 14, 2015 @12:49PM (#9715512)
I've been interested in Kinesis keyboards for a while now but am still undecided because the more I think about the whole problem of HCI from a programmer's perspective the more I question my own assumptions. I'm wondering if something far out like the Twiddler could really work for somebody living in a text editor with vim bindings most of the day. If anybody had to share their experience with it I would be very interested to hear it (e.g. experience working with your legs up).

http://twiddler.tekgear.com

Yes and please do blog about it regularly if you feel like it - this whole thread on legacy systems is the most interesting read on HN for a long time IMHO.
Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love React on Saturday May 16, 2015 @12:54PM (#9556773)
I'm very interested in more modular, simpler alternatives to react / flux. Essentially I'm looking for reactive "isomorphic" component based, virtual dom solutions like react - mainly to integrate with a node.js workflow.

I was wondering if anyone had tried both Mithril as well as Deku(https://github.com/segmentio/deku) who would like to share their experience?

Re:Walking New York on Friday April 24, 2015 @01:38AM (#9431616)
I simply love NYC, seldom felt so much energy - a lot of startups and a vibrant developer community too. IMHO San Francisco is kind of boring in comparison and the weather actually isn't that much better either ;)
Re:Building Better Node.js Applications with RethinkDB on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @12:49AM (#9412337)
I'm probably forever spoiled by Rails' ActiveRecord - has anybody here used http://thinky.io with Node/RethinkDB? I really like to define my objects in an OOP fashion with class/instance methods included and would prefer a convenience "ORM" library for that purpose.
Thanks, I will give it a try - even though I have been very happy with kue.
Did anybody here use the corresponding worker module too? How does it compare with kue (in production)?
Re:Why Young Men Go to War on Friday April 17, 2015 @10:34AM (#9394511)
I'm a US fan myself - I love the culture - but its people are being misled continously by the powers that be (military industrial complex tag-teaming with a handful of media moguls).

As so often the case it's about money and power (e.g. oil). Where was the police during the Rwanda and Dafur genocides? Even the UN kept relatively silent in contrast to how horrible those were.

Re:Bhutan's dark secret to happiness on Friday April 17, 2015 @09:49AM (#9394244)
I wonder why that is an issue? Controlling the message? Feels like a PRC measure - as a UK citizen that'd make me feel very wary about public news.
Thanks a lot - I'll definitely be checking out alleyNY! Currently working at harlemgarage - a nice and very comfortable place too imho.

Ask HN: Cool developer and/or startup meetups/co-working spaces in NYC?

Hi HN-NYC I'm a node/rails/ios freelance developer from Austria and it's my first time in this great city - I'd love to meet and/or work with interesting devs/product people over the next couple of weeks.I already checked meetup.com but was wondering if working at any of the many co-working spaces wouldn't even make more sense (also I'd reckon not every gathering is listed on meetup.com).I...

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Re:Statements about the Mobile Web on Friday February 20, 2015 @11:01PM (#9084625)
The introduction alone just made my day, thanks for sharing.

It's about time that we take history more seriously.

Re:How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? on Saturday January 31, 2015 @01:41AM (#8976097)
I had to buy this in an instant, very much looking forward to play it. Thanks for the recommendation - local co-op is the best kind of multiplayer!

http://brothersthegame.com

Re:How much do indie PC devs make, anyways? on Saturday January 31, 2015 @01:23AM (#8976071)
What's holding you back?
Yes, I was also hoping he'd be ranting over HFS+ bit-rot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7876217
Re:Can't you just turn up the volume? on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:45PM (#8854371)
Be aware that many prescription medications are ototoxic (e.g. Aspirin). I recently had a routine check-up of my hearing and at 31 my actual "hearing age" is supposedly 66 for higher frequencies - permanent hearing loss most likely brought on by Wellbutrin which I took for some weeks only (I've never been exposed to loud noises and never was much of a headphones user). Just putting it out there, be wary with prescriptions of Wellbutrin especially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ototoxicity

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