hellotoby

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by hellotoby 4y ago
To quote Dawkins: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see th
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by hellotoby 4y ago
I guess this is being downvoted because HN isn't really a place where existential nihilists hang out. But in all honesty, isn't it incredible that anything happens at all! That gives me more hope and encouragement than anything el
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by hellotoby 4y ago
Once you can accept that your own life is insignificant and essentially meaningless, you can stop worrying about how many weeks, days, months or minutes you'll be here for and just appreciate the moment in which you are living. Perhaps
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by hellotoby 4y ago
Location: Sydney, Australia Remote: Open to it Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Team management, Strategic planning, Solution design and architecture, Full stack (mostly Javascript these days), AWS Résumé/CV: https://ww
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by hellotoby 4y ago
Most tickets I buy these days seem to be through Humanitix ( https://humanitix.com/au ). The shift seems to have happened fairly recently though.
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by hellotoby 4y ago
"Be kind to yourself" - My grandfather.
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by hellotoby 4y ago
https://feedbin.com/
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by hellotoby 5y ago
https://render.com/
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by hellotoby 5y ago
I'm always interested in other alternate Internets. If you're feeling over the existing web there's always Gemini or DAT to conjure up those warm fuzzies of the early net. - https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by hellotoby 6y ago
As a team we play a game of Geoguessr ( https://www.geoguessr.com/ ) on Friday afternoons. It's fun to have some friendly rivalry and banter and de-compress together after a week of work.
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by hellotoby 7y ago
You may like the Temporary Container add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
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by hellotoby 11y ago
I made a quick VR version of the panorama* (using aframe.io) if anyone's interested. http://tobyvervaart.com.au/moon/ * caveats: probably not to the correct scale
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by hellotoby 13y ago
I see new ad/paywall hybrids springing up, whereby adblock users are detected and presented with a paywall / donation / nag screen and regular users are shown display ads.
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by hellotoby 13y ago
I use Notes app which comes bundled with OS X Mountain Lion, in which I keep lists of books I'd like to read. For articles which I'd like to read later, I use Instapaper.
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by hellotoby 13y ago
Just listened to this. If you like this kind of ambient music then I recommend you take a look at the works by Geotic. http://www.angelfire.com/indie/postfoetus/geotic.html
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by hellotoby 14y ago
If I knew that the world would end in 2 years the last thing I would be doing is working. I would spend that time with family and loved ones.
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by hellotoby 14y ago
Hi. Firstly, it sounds like you have manic depression (extreme highs and extreme lows), however I am not a doctor, so please talk to someone about how you're feeling so they can make a diagnosis. Secondly, no matter how alone you may feel r
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by hellotoby 14y ago
It's possible that these things could happen. It's also possible that you are paranoid.
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by hellotoby 15y ago
You can also add these stylesheets to Safari using the User CSS plugin, found here: http://code.grid.in.th/
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by hellotoby 15y ago
Perhaps you should see Bipolar / Manic Depressive disorder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder There are many forms of depression as well as Major Depressive Disorder.
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by hellotoby 15y ago
Great! Thank you.
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by hellotoby 15y ago
I hadn't heard of Ban.jo. Looks great. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Public Social Media APIs with geolocation data
2 points by hellotoby 15y ago|5 comments
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by hellotoby 15y ago
Thanks for the heads up on Jason. I work with a lot of web apis and this looks like a great tool for browsing json responses.
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by hellotoby 15y ago
I feel this way too just not about Apple products, but about HTML. These surely are great days to be a web developer. HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript coupled with great browser support. It feels like there is so much that can be achieved!
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by hellotoby 15y ago
http://www.myfivesevenfive.com/ A community for people to write Haiku poetry Rather unloved at the moment. My schedule has been crazy ever since I launched it :(
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by hellotoby 15y ago
http://www.myfivesevenfive.com/ A Haiku (poetry) community. Currently trying to solve the chicken egg problem (slowly).
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by hellotoby 15y ago
Clickable link here: http://www.myfivesevenfive.com/
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Show HN: Five.Seven.Five. - A Haiku (Poetry) Community
10 points by hellotoby 15y ago|4 comments
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by hellotoby 15y ago
When I see stuff like this I immediately think of an ARG (Alternate Reality Gaming). Check out http://www.argn.com/ for more info on ARGs.

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