kalonis

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Show HN: MD Serve – Serve a directory of Markdown files as rendered HTML(github.com)
2 points by kalonis 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kalonis 2y ago
I have created Bartib a time tracker for the command line: https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib . I needed something to track my activities at work. All other solutions that I tried out where too complicated as they ofte
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Show HN: Bartib – a simple time tracker for the command line(github.com)
4 points by kalonis 4y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Bartib – a time tracker for the command line(github.com)
3 points by kalonis 5y ago|1 comments
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by kalonis 5y ago
I pretended to often that I had figured everything out and didn't need any help. Although this worked out ok, I would have surely learnt more if I had more often admitted that I was stuck and asked for some input.
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by kalonis 5y ago
This is his personal website with some of his caricatures: http://www.arnofunke.de/
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by kalonis 5y ago
They had both, but some new hire confused them.
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by kalonis 6y ago
A good read. In case anyone is wondering where they have hidden their rss feed, it's: https://plus.maths.org/content/rss.xml
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by kalonis 6y ago
This article sounds convincing but I don't find it really hard to refute these weak man arguments: “I hate people who frivolously diagnose themselves with autism without knowing anything about the disorder. They should stop thinking t
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by kalonis 6y ago
There is a subpage with examples from various shows: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Flanderization/LiveAc... It discusses each main character from friends (and Gunther of course) in regards to this.
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Games people play with cash flow(commoncog.com)
389 points by kalonis 6y ago|141 comments
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Neoliberalism and Liberal Nihilism(jacobinmag.com)
2 points by kalonis 6y ago|0 comments
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by kalonis 6y ago
The Jacobin - jacobinmag.com/ - for the socialist perspective and analysis.
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by kalonis 6y ago
That is not human nature. That is avarice. Your intuition that "everybody does it" does not make it right.
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by kalonis 6y ago
The sum they pay for the citizenship. Just look at some of the Caribbean islands. Selling citizenship can be quite lucrative.
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by kalonis 6y ago
No, it won't. It will incentivize governments to help rich people from all over the world avoid taxes.
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by kalonis 6y ago
> You sort of inherently act differently if you were bought up rich. Its hard to describe exactly but you tend to be more (blindly) self-confident and just behave a bit differently compared if you were brought up in a lower class family.
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by kalonis 6y ago
I really agree to all the points in the article. But I would add another one: Today it is so much easier to find someone online to speak to in your target language. There are many facebook groups (and certainly other ways) to find people in
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by kalonis 6y ago
Judging generative art on how complicated the code is that it is generated by misses the point. For the "art" aspect the code is just a tool. It can get quite complicated but it does not have to. Other aspects as "controlled
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by kalonis 6y ago
Just watching someone doing the real thing is one of the most prominent strategies to avoid doing the real thing. It is not enough to watch someone very skilled do the real thing. You have to imitate them: Reading a lot of great novels will
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by kalonis 6y ago
I am really looking forward to read the blog post "design software like it is 20s" where someone found my commits from this year and (hopefully) comes to the same conclusion.
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by kalonis 6y ago
In my experience this is not only true for memorizing theoretical knowledge but for physical skills too. For example, if you learn the piano simply playing pieces you know won't make you a better piano player. To get better practicing
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by kalonis 6y ago
There are no adults in the room ( https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/08/12/there-are-no-a... ) During my career I was always looking for some senior developer to guide me in my work. I was hoping someone h
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by kalonis 6y ago
(I am so glad the title is not "Userdir URLs considered harmful".)
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German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist(apnews.com)
40 points by kalonis 7y ago|49 comments
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by kalonis 8y ago
Could we sink the trees in the ocean? The water would prevent them both from rotting and burning.
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by kalonis 8y ago
As I used Anki to learn a lot of math and computer science related topics one of the most valuable features has been its integration of latex and the possibility to type formulars. The thing I missed the most about anki was any possibility
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by kalonis 8y ago
I use anki for around seven years now and it has proven to be the best learning technique for me so far. When I went to university I still believed that understanding is everything and learning will happen en passant. I read many books, pon
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by kalonis 8y ago
Many of the comments relate this adage to situations where the rules explicitly prohibit some behaviour. I always assumed it is meant for situations where the rules are not settled yet or unclear. If I ask in such a situation for permission
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by kalonis 8y ago
Another tip for finding business ideas: be good at ms excel and offer people with a non technical background your help with their existing spreadsheets. As far as I see it seven out of ten spreadsheets contain at least one idea for a simple

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