awendt

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by awendt 8mo ago
This! People need to get a life. I wouldn't have any trouble keeping myself busy after retirement. I do not have nearly enough time for the things I really WANT to do beside work.
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by awendt 9y ago
This is a great idea but I'm not sure it will work out. Numbers are touched up all the time, both in politics (e.g. few governments will admit to lowering the employment rate, if things are not working, usually a new way of counting th
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by awendt 9y ago
It may be readable by them but their life (as a business) does not depend on the content of your conversations. That's a big difference.
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by awendt 10y ago
I'm wondering if they'd make more money with very cheap subscriptions (a.k.a. "long tail") and no legal department.
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by awendt 10y ago
> Don't panic. > Users sometimes post bad content on websites > that are normally safe.
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Ask HN: Why do large tech companies still fail to encode my name correctly?
6 points by awendt 11y ago|1 comments
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by awendt 11y ago
Someone came up with http://unmaintained.tech/ for exactly this reason. You can add a badge to your README.
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by awendt 11y ago
Note: Most of these links have "Man does X" in the original headline. In only two cases, the "man" part has been added by the HN submitter.
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by awendt 11y ago
My thoughts exactly. This "Woman does X" is unnecessary and might turn the discussion in the wrong direction.
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by awendt 11y ago
same here
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by awendt 11y ago
Compare this statement: > "Interns get a lot of experience," says Ahmad Fawzi, head of the UN's information service in Geneva. "First-hand knowledge about how the international system works: it's invaluable for t
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by awendt 11y ago
OP here. If you already have a working Ruby environment, it's not a lot. If you have to start by installing Ruby, then yes, don't bother. BTW, this does more than "cat", it supports editing and toggling parts of your con
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Show HN: Split your ssh_config into separate files(github.com)
3 points by awendt 11y ago|4 comments
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by awendt 11y ago
In an age where everybody talks about cloud infrastructure, I find it a very interesting decision to spend $30k on servers up front. Apart from reducing operating costs, I never thought about servers as assets. Essentially, using things lik
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by awendt 11y ago
Given that the owner originally wanted $100k, $33k seems like a steal.
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by awendt 12y ago
You get sent an OTP that expires after half an hour. So in order to attack someone, you need to gain access to your victim's e-mail account beforehand. Which is quite hard if if the victim has MFA activated. If you gain access to your
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by awendt 12y ago
> This is still nothing more than a password No, it's an OTP. And that's so much more than a password...
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by awendt 12y ago
Yes, this. Excellent point. Also: This is the same Apple that put the Stocks app on everyone's iPhone.
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by awendt 12y ago
I'm not saying I don't want both :) All I'm saying: If budget is the issue, I'm all for kindergarten. If it's not an issue, make everything free.
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by awendt 12y ago
I'm surprised no one brought up the bigger picture of which types of education Germans pay for and which they don't. While going to university has been free for a long time in Germany (and will be again according to this article),
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by awendt 12y ago
OMG, are you serious? Ok, let's play a game then: Here's a group of 100 people. Your assignment: 1. Find 10 women who already track their cycle because it's important to them. 2. Find 10 people who already track their poop be
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by awendt 12y ago
> None of these women had children or had to worry about pay discrepancies. Every woman has to worry about pay discrepancies. In every industry, at every job level. That's what this whole "gender pay gap" is all about, y
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by awendt 12y ago
This is now fixed.
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by awendt 12y ago
The score depends on how fast you can get from 1 to x. A stopwatch is started when you tap 1 and stopped when you tap the last number. If you improve in each level and remain a constant rate, you get more points in higher levels. Suppose yo
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by awendt 12y ago
No, it's not. Should I start the clock right when the new level is displayed instead?
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by awendt 12y ago
I saw this game in an exhibition about monkeys, and it stopped at 9 numbers. The limit is arbitrary and could be increased. But at some point, the algorithm drawing the numbers may run out of screen estate. You can take any time you need to
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by awendt 12y ago
The very first lines in the video refers to intelligence: > The scientists […] have devised intelligence tests for chimps. One test is for what's called working memory.
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by awendt 12y ago
Thanks. However, I'm having layout troubles with that. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8329031 for details.
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by awendt 12y ago
Thank you for reporting this, I've create an issue: https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/issues/1 . To explain why I do this: There's one write to localStorage, to persist your personal best across
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by awendt 12y ago
Y'all need to help me with the next levels I have planned: The numbers will only appear for a limited time... From http://www.livescience.com/7444-chimps-numbers-humans.html : > However, they discovered the three you

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