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Guess 2/3 of the Average(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aboutruby 8y ago
I'm not sure what open recs means in this context: - open requirements - open recommendations - open requisites - open offers I'm not really expecting an answer so I asked on stackexchange: https://english.stackexchange
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Looks like it costs $3,381 off-the-shelf: https://www.avadirect.com/256GB-4-x-64GB-Quad-Rank-DDR4-2666...
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by aboutruby 8y ago
The more time passes, the more it looks like they released an SE by mistake, still be best phone ever made IMHO but doesn't fit the strategy of upselling as much as possible.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Oh I see, sorry, didn't look closely enough at the examples. Great project! Maybe this could be upstreamed in Rails?
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by aboutruby 8y ago
# Paisa.format / Paisa.format_with_sym This can be done with Rails's number_to_currency helper: https://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/NumberHelper/nu... # Paisa.words There is number_to_
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Last time I went to the US, I got a phone number from MetroPCS (e.g. T-Mobile reseller). I didn't give it to anybody and started receiving 3-4 spam calls a day. They are obviously reselling the phone numbers directly, which is illegal
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Only available in the US though, I have one but it's not easy for anybody outside the US to get one. Just a few things: - It does filter out all the spam (I get maybe a random call once a year and a random text once every 6 months) - T
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by aboutruby 8y ago
I never realized an IPv6 likely contains the MAC address of the host, how did people not realized how terrible this design is.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
> Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more That's probably the countries where they can hire remotely. It would seems in my experience with other companies that even
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by aboutruby 8y ago
There is a public dashboard: https://malcolm.cloudflare.com
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by aboutruby 8y ago
You can always find people to help you. I'm not a node + express specialist but I do a fair share of JS, you can contact me at localhostdotdev@protonmail.com if you want.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
AngelList actually does this, they mostly recruit previous founders.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
> It also felt like it was constraining the absolute amount of impact I had for the world. It's refreshing to see people thinking like this. Maximizing impact is undervalued. For instance a lot of companies restrict themselves to on
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Just installed ruby-head (ruby 2.7.0dev (2019-03-18 trunk 67296)) and it works very well!
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by aboutruby 8y ago
I had an iPad mini, used duolingo, memrise, and watched videos on it while in the subway. The battery lasted forever. It was great but definitely not a necessity.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
One good security feature would be to not give the user's email address by default to apps you connect Slack to. (And then have them disclose it to every user...)
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Seems more of an meta-APIs library: - bitcoinfees.earn.com for the fees - bitpay.com (then blockchain.info if bitpay fails) for the rates - bitpay / smartbit.com / blockchain for balance and transactions - And then a lot of functi
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by aboutruby 8y ago
The few times I emailed hn@ycombinator.com I didn't get any responses. Anyway, I just wanted to see if others thought Hacker News was being astroturfed, I never said those are sure case of astroturfing. For example this one: https:&#x
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by aboutruby 8y ago
I didn't want to point at specific examples to see if other people recognized the pattern but here is a few of them (actually could only recall one... I will flag when I see them, but not sure it will get recognized as it's a seri
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Thanks, been using Hacker News for many years and didn't know that's how you flag comments.
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Ask HN: Is Hacker News Being Astroturfed?
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Reminds me of "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others"
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by aboutruby 8y ago
So adding an extra space between every sentence all the time, just for vim's "deleting sentence" to work? (not even by default, and that's a very specific command). And the command breaks because there is a . in the sent
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Ok, I edited a file in a meaningful way and tried to decipher the process (actually it become more of a normal workflow more than editing a file). The thing is I switch all the time between vim and my terminal (it's complicated by let&
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by aboutruby 8y ago
Not sure if you are directing this comment at me, but I know most of these already. Didn't know about the older terminal emulator issues with arrow keys though.
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by aboutruby 8y ago
> ... But if you're like me, and your mind is constantly racing, you need to be fast to get your ideas out before they're gone/replaced. I write extremely fast and use arrow keys (and all kinds of vim shortcuts). > it&#
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by aboutruby 8y ago
> Moving one line at a time I either go down with arrows (I know it's controversial), beginning of file with :1, end of file with G, line number with :[line number] or search with /. I usually don't have large files so thi
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by aboutruby 8y ago
menu and menu-item are Firefox-only https://caniuse.com/#search=contextmenu
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by aboutruby 8y ago
I wouldn't feel confortable putting my secrets in a remote server with a public IP (IPv6 might be a better idea as it's less guessable). Also seems a bit over-engineered, I would just ssh into a server and do everything from there

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