ivanmaeder

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   Banks use your deposits to loan money to fossil-fuel, emissions-heavy firms(wired.com)

   13 points by ivanmaeder 3y ago|4 comments
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   Phineas Gage(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by ivanmaeder 3y ago|0 comments
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   RNA molecule uracil found in asteroid Ryugu samples(phys.org)

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   The Lisa Was Apple's Best Failure(spectrum.ieee.org)

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   The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences(oeis.org)

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   Uncontacted Peoples(en.wikipedia.org)

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   Magic Cards(github.com)

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   Ask HN: What associations or non-profits are you involved with?

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   Ask HN: What associations or non-profits are you involved with?

   1 points by ivanmaeder 4y ago|0 comments
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    I use the same setting but with the "three finger drag" option. It's similar but doesn't need a click to start the drag and another to end it. You just grab things with three fingers and move them; lift when done. It als
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    Great question, I will come back to see what ideas people have. Thanks for the Turing book suggestion too. I have read lots of non-fiction books about programmers and engineers that have been very inspiring, they're just not technical:
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    The bot's recommendations are good, although maybe not inspiring. "Programming Pearls" might be an exception—there are some great real-life stories and problems to think through in that. Maybe also "The Art of Computer P
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    This might be relevant, it depends on the kind of project you’re building: https://handmade.network/
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    NASA's Perseverance rover sees solar eclipse on Mars [video](youtube.com)

    5 points by ivanmaeder 4y ago|0 comments
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    For speed I'd look at Ruby on Rails. The way it's been explained to me, Rails packages (gems) are like prefab bathrooms and kitchens. Compared to e.g., Node.js packages which provide things like "sink" and "tap&quot
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    by ivanmaeder 4y ago

    Been working on a tool for creators that care about sustainability. It measures a website's carbon emissions and automatically removes them. The tricky and interesting bit is figuring out actual emissions (vs applying a rule that 1 vis
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    I built a very similar product 10 years ago and even back then we heard feedback like this. And I believe the situation may be more pronounced today. There seem to be markets (or large enough organizations?) where coding job ads get a tonne
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    Thanks! Appreciate it :)
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    Hi HN, My friend Ricardo and I feel very strongly about climate change, so we've built a service that makes websites carbon neutral. To get an idea of the impact of the internet on climate change, if the internet were a country, it wou
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    Show HN: Backspace – make your website carbon neutral(beta.backspace.eco)

    13 points by ivanmaeder 5y ago|6 comments
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    These Truths (Jill Lepore)
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    Are USB keyboards slower than PS/2 keyboards? [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by ivanmaeder 5y ago|0 comments
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    YoHa: A practical hand tracking engine(github.com)

    2 points by ivanmaeder 5y ago|1 comments
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    Berlin’s Car Ban Campaign(theguardian.com)

    3 points by ivanmaeder 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing the article. He has a nice way of framing things: > My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take respons
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    Here are some very small tools I made for things I do over and over again… A button to create new files inside macOS Finder (`touch` without the terminal). https://github.com/ivanmaeder/finder-touch/ (⌘ + Shift +
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    Here's a version of a piece in just intonation— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i68ifRkitA —and "modern" equal temperament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo As much as people desc
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    On the subject of sustainability, I'd always heard the story of eating local, presumably to avoid the environmental impact of transporting food over long distances. It seems that that's insignificant compared to the type of food w
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    100 Years of Solitude?
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    by ivanmaeder 5y ago

    And repetitive! https://www.chenalexander.com/Bach It's not for everyone and that's fine. I have some suggestions to try though. BWV 999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4FrGcRAIs Goldberg Variat