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by hmart 2y ago
In The Aleph, Borges predicts the internet : "... Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it “interesting,” and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern man. “I view him,” he said with a certain unaccountable excitem
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'Lots of companies are going to get vaporized”(businessinsider.com)
4 points by hmart 4y ago|0 comments
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by hmart 5y ago
South American countries are not doing well. The region is one of the places with more inequality "Of the 20 most economically unequal countries in the world, eight are in Latin America"[1]. So maybe the rich in latinamerica are d
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by hmart 5y ago
Before I opened the link I was 99% that the article was about an Afro American and ... Bingo!. Sad.
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by hmart 5y ago
I remember ultra edit have that awesome column selection feature.
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Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video](bbc.com)
235 points by hmart 6y ago|143 comments
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by hmart 6y ago
Also had a Kindle some years ago and walked the Calibre road : Problems wity text flow, TOC, that are not Calibre problems but poorly formated books even from high end publishing houses.
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by hmart 6y ago
I vow for open standards and used to upload epub files to Google Play Books and read in my devices (Kindle Fire 8 - with Google Play sideloaded, iPhone, iPad) with decent Sync. In december I got a Kobo Aura 2, my eyes are more comfortable h
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by hmart 6y ago
Thanks!
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by hmart 6y ago
Thank you!
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by hmart 6y ago
I live in a 3rd world country, worked the last 20 years as systems administrator. Recently lost my job and while looking for a new remote job I have been touched by the hard reality: The world changed and I was full of self leniency, years
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Something is quietly pushing us into the next Great Depression(medium.com)
2 points by hmart 6y ago|0 comments
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Caffeine enhances activity of common antidepressants in forced swim test in mice(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
102 points by hmart 7y ago|66 comments
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by hmart 7y ago
Jet Brains is another example that OpenSource doesn’t kill industries or companies. JB won over Eclipse and Netbeans with great products, great customer service and fair licensing options and prices.
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by hmart 7y ago
Thank you
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by hmart 7y ago
Teachers qualify too?
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by hmart 7y ago
There will not be another Dropbox.
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by hmart 7y ago
That's what I thought, also fear to losing control in the audit or approval process.
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by hmart 7y ago
I feel Ionic is more engaged into open web than big companies trying to enforce their own standards. The question is when Appple and Google will start blocking (outside of walled garden app stores) hybrid apps?
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by hmart 7y ago
Open web to the rescue.
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by hmart 7y ago
I have my important VPSs on Linode since 2008, good experience, almost zero downtime in 10+ years, very reliable, great customer support. They have a $5/mo Nanode 1CPU, 1 GB Ram.
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by hmart 7y ago
How did you learn JS?
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by hmart 7y ago
I still have that old rocketmail account
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Explosion at Russian lab known for housing deadly smallpox(cnn.com)
7 points by hmart 7y ago|0 comments
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by hmart 7y ago
I love Linode support. There are cheaper places but I have my Key VPSs there.
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by hmart 7y ago
Better Call Louis (Rossman)
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by hmart 8y ago
The initial HN submission had the same press release title: "All-new iPad Air and iPad mini deliver dramatic power and capability". May be a moderator changed it.
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by hmart 8y ago
+1 Apple doesn't need HN to recite their flambouyant and misleading headline. Look that it's a device in an old chasis, with an old charger and only compatible with an old pencil.
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by hmart 8y ago
From Dan Abramov Twitter timeline: "-watches Mad Men: woah, they were so backwards in 60s -looks at the tech industry: oh no"
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by hmart 8y ago
Another pitfall on the Apple Store at least is that you as developer or agency creating apps for customers have to create an account for each entitiy (customer, company). Another $99, another excruciating approval process.

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