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Re:Dropbox Encryption with Vivvo on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:59PM (#4866758)
Not affiliated with them, just looking for some HN feedback. To be honest I was surprised this didn't come up on hnews before - or at least my googling wasn't turning up anything. There's also secretsync which I believe is the precursor to this.
Re:My standing desk experiment on Sunday September 30, 2012 @02:38PM (#4593627)
One piece of advice to all using standing desk setups. Make sure your display is at or slightly below eye level and keyboard/mouse at elbow level. This makes a huge difference - particularly not having to stare down at a screen which puts undue strain on the neck.

And while you're at it - get rid of that useless caps lock key and remap it to a control key - lot more ergonomically friendly.

This comment made my day :) one of the liveliest I've seen on hn
Re:Show HN: Script Excel with Python on Saturday June 09, 2012 @06:14PM (#4089483)
XLRD and XLRT look awesome - esp. for us *nix minded folks who prefer to interact with xls files from a shell, http://www.python-excel.org/