hilko

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by hilko 8y ago
No link, as this is a scratch my own itch thing for now, but I'm working on a personal 'hub' web app that is part UX/UI experiment, and part a way to integrate various tools I've created over the years to ease vario
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by hilko 13y ago
I'd argue very few people make their own path. While anecdotal, looking at those around me, most 'paths' people go down are a result of external forces that have been internalized over time. Hell, even look at myself, very fe
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by hilko 13y ago
To my embarrassment, I didn't really know much about Doug Engelbart until Brett Victor brought him up in one of his excellent talks (Inventing on Principle). I quite like his eulogy: http://worrydream.com/Engelbart&#x2F
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by hilko 13y ago
I'd say it's akin to me building a high-speed car that randomly stops braking, severely endangering whoever uses it. As long as it's just me and other high-speed car enthusiasts playing around with it, that's fine. But i
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by hilko 13y ago
Wow. It's quite possible to make more than 60K in Berlin (in Euro's) while paying around 400-500 for an apartment. Crazy how much difference there is between cities.
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by hilko 13y ago
Interesting that depression is more common in rural areas. Do you have a link (or links) to studies that support this? I expected much the opposite.
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by hilko 13y ago
And keyboard shortcuts!
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by hilko 13y ago
I'm curious... at a rate of $29, do you only get HNers that work from outside Western Europe or the US? In Holland I gather the 'average' rate is 50 euro, and that's for 'simple' front-end work. RoR or Drupal w
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by hilko 13y ago
I travel between Amsterdam and Berlin quite frequently and I've all but stopped flying. Yes, it's a bit faster, but it's much less comfortable.
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by hilko 13y ago
Think that's it. I just looked at Yoleo Reader ( https://yoleoreader.com/ ) and realized that the clean look of that is exactly what I want/need, and what I miss with NewsBlur. I got a premium NewsBlur account prima
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by hilko 13y ago
Same here. There's something 'off' about it, compared to google reader, that I can't put my finger on, but it's good enough for my needs.
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by hilko 13y ago
It's not, and that's a good point. But it sounds more logical to me. Could you give some reasons why people with 'mental illness' would gravitate towards centers? (mind, I'm asking this with the assumption that ment
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by hilko 13y ago
You can live in a nice one-room apartment in Berlin for about 390 euro a month, 15 mins away from the hip boroughs by great public transport, and 10 mins by bike. What's the price like in Paris (honest question)?
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by hilko 13y ago
Well, how much easier is it to 'connect' in other settings? Do you connect more significantly with colleagues? random people you meet at clubs, bars, or other types of social events? I'd say the 'connection' problem
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by hilko 13y ago
I think the hacker problem is that we're too damn happy to solve a problem successfully, no matter if it is a problem of consequence or not.
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by hilko 13y ago
Oh indeed </Omar>! I've always straddled the line between both worlds. Obsessively programming as a kid/teenager, then studying communications and psychology, and now a web developer. And there is so much space, general
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by hilko 13y ago
Perhaps hackers tend to be a little more structured and in-crowd, or downright strangers to most of the world. I'm not sure. Or perhaps hackers can easily be distracted by any type of problem, no matter how trivial, no how much it bene
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by hilko 13y ago
In my experience most 'hackers' I meet fall in two camps concerning 'moral causes': 1) too shy / world-strange to even find a cause to fight for, or 2) too obsessed with and paralyzed by a kind of perfection that ke
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by hilko 13y ago
Berlin also needs RoR developers. In fact, I think my place of work is looking.
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by hilko 13y ago
How does this compare to Compund.js ( http://compoundjs.com/ )? I've only given it a cursory glance but it seems to be under active development, and similar in it's inspiration, no?
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by hilko 13y ago
A site such as bitcoin-24.com allows you to create an account with no personal identification. It also allows you to send cash money (converted from bitcoin, usually) to an address. And if you want to avoid the address issue, you can (curre
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by hilko 13y ago
Or that enough services, project and uses have sprung up to keep Bitcoin valuable enough to remain somewhat mainstream and not fade away.
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by hilko 13y ago
Very well put. I think past experiences are definitely reason to be cautious, but too often it seems that analysis neglects to even consider the fact that there is no direct equivalent to Bitcoin. It remains to be seen if Bitcoin is 'worth'
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by hilko 13y ago
wouldn't it be possible to link the BTC price to the going rate at MtGox, so that it always translates to around $35?
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by hilko 13y ago
And the cycle of media attention, adoption, and more media attention.
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by hilko 13y ago
Maybe you're right, but there are plenty of 'luminaries' where you could argue it was their stable family life that made it possible. At the very least it shouldn't be an excuse ;-).
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by hilko 13y ago
I'm still trying to figure this one out, and should probably dive into the literature on the subject for some more enlightenment (or perhaps someone with more knowledge can share something?) Here's the thing. I consider my huge lack of form
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by hilko 13y ago
Interesting. I can see how architecture plays a role in this. My experiences were mostly in large towns and cities, where the architecture was sufficiently 'open' and 'organic' to perhaps make the areas safer than the ones you mean (even de
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by hilko 13y ago
Are public spaces really that unsafe though? Or, at least, less safe than they have been in the past? Honest question. I've read a bunch of articles (that I cannot look up right now) that argue that this decrease in safety is mostly percept
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by hilko 14y ago
I've been reading up a lot on functional programming, and by know I think I get most of the principles and techniques. What I'm mostly struggling with is how to structure my code within this paradigm. While this struggle is not limited to F

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